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Cluny Abbey, dedicated to St Peter, is a former Benedictine monastery built in the Romanesque style, with three churches built in succession from the 4th to the early 12th centuries. The earliest basilica was the world's largest church until the St. Peter's Basilica construction began in Rome. Cluny was founded by William I, Duke of Aquitaine in 910. The abbey was notable for its stricter adherence to the Rule of St. Benedict, whereby Cluny became acknowledged as the leader of western monasticism. The establishment of the Benedictine Order was a keystone to the stability of European society that was achieved in the 11th century. In 1790 during the French Revolution, the abbey was sacked and mostly destroyed, with only a small part of the Abbey surviving. The political and religious wars of the 16th century weakened the abbey's status in Christendom. For instance with the Concordat of Bologna in 1516 overseen by Antoine Duprat, Francis I, the king of France, gained the power to appoint the abbot of Cluny from Pope Leo X. Over the next 250 years, the abbey never regained its power or position within European Christianity. Seen as an example of the excesses of the Ancien Régime, the monastic buildings and most of the church were destroyed in the French Revolution. Its extensive library and archives were burned in 1793 and the church was given up to plundering. The abbey's estate was sold in 1798 and over the next twenty years the Abbey's immense walls were quarried for stone that was used in rebuilding the town. Although it was the largest church in Christendom until the completion of Rome's St. Peter's Basilica in the early 17th Century, little remains of the original buildings. In total the surviving parts amount to about 10% of the original floor space of Cluny III. These include the southern transept and its bell-tower. In 1928, the site was excavated by the American archaeologist Kenneth J. Conant with the backing of the Medieval Academy of America. Ruined bases of columns convey the size of the former church and monastery.
The Stager-Beckwith Mansion is the oldest remaining easily recognizable mansion on the former Millionaire's Row along Euclid Avenue in Midtown Cleveland. Constructed in 1866, it was built Anson Stager, a general superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Thomas Beckwith bought the house in 1874, after making a fortune running the Beckwith Sterling Company further down Euclid Avenue in Downtown Cleveland. Though Beckwith died within a few years of moving into the mansion, his family continued to reside there until his widow died in 1900, and it was sold to Charles Brush, whom lived in and kept up the structure in order to ensure it wasn't lost to the increasing commercialization of the corridor. In 1913, the house was sold and converted into the University Club, a private organization that remained in the building until 2002, greatly expanding the structure to the rear, adding a large wing with a large dining room, ballroom, squash courts, and tennis courts. In 2017, the Children's Museum of Cleveland moved into the building, renovating and restoring the structure in order to house their exhibits and programs.
These Norman Revival-style houses, built in 1929-30, are located in the Forest Hill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, and are the remnants of a failed upscale housing development that fell through due to the Great Depression. This area was originally home to the Forest Hill Estate, the site of the Rockefeller Family's summer home. It was intended to become a large, upscale, Norman-style development known as Forest Hill; however, it instead saw only a small number of buildings constructed to the original plan. Designed by Andrew J. Thomas, only the Heights Rockefeller Building, the street grid, and 81 Norman-style houses of the planned 500+ houses, an inn, apartments, and other commercial structures were built, leaving the area rather sparsely populated throughout its early years. The land intended to become the development's country club, over 200 acres west of Lee Road and straddling the border with East Cleveland, were donated by John Rockefeller, Jr. in 1939, becoming Forest Hill Park, owned by the City of Cleveland Heights. In 1948, the undeveloped lots were sold to George A. Roose, who developed the area as a more typical suburb, abandoning the aesthetic direction of the original plan, and constructing a series of more modest and less ornate houses on the lots. Today, the Heights Rockefeller Building and the remaining original houses, as well as the street grid, are the legacy of a big dream that, unfortunately, did not pan out due to the Great Depression.
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#WoZoCo (woon-zorgcombinatie). Apartments for the elderly in Amsterdam by #Mvrdv architects.
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Not the greatest framing in the world, I was part-way through getting it set up right when the tripod police arrived.
Well, as I was being moved on for the 'crime' of using a tripod in Cabot Square, and I 'accidentally' pressed the shutter button whilst talking to the guy.
Oops ;O))
In 1960 we went to live in Queen Street, Burton and my sixth school, was Uxbridge Street Junior. The building is still there - its a temple now, I think. I spent one year at the annex in Bond Street, my seventh school building, which has since been demolished. My last year at junior school was back here at Uxbridge Street, my eighth school so to speak, after which I moved to the grammar school in September 1963.
Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia (Carrère and Hastings : 1920).
Aoyama family residence & bunkhouse, Historical Village of Hokkaido, Sapporo, July 2014: with herring storage shed behind it
"This house is one of the oldest in Great Britain and is listed amongst the historic buildings of Anglesey. It was built about 1400."
Information taken from the sign above the black and white door of the estate agents.
Completed in 2008, the Woodcrest Retirement Residence provides 59 units of senior housing through rehabilitation of a former nuns’ residence on the campus of the Felician Sisters Convent and School in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, a suburban community outside of Pittsburgh. The project was redeveloped using green building techniques, including day lighting strategies, right-sized ventilation systems, and super insulation. In addition, the use of low volatile organic compounds in carpeting, resilient flooring, glue, foam furniture, paints, and other materials was intended to improve air quality for seniors who may have respiratory or allergy problems. The project received a LEED Gold rating. Services at the residence include optional meals, library/computer area, craft room, hair salon, fitness center, multi-purpose room, and van service. A covered bridge connects the residence to a high school, promoting intergenerational activities and access to the school’s facilities. An internal rent subsidy ensures affordability for qualified tenants.
"Here, late C19 ot C20 buildings of progressively lower quality, have replaced the originals" says the Pevsner guide to Pembrokeshire. Quite hard to disagree with that.
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TOMADO DE DOCOMOMO IBÉRICO
Este recinto ocupa la totalidad de una manzana rectangular de 10.000 metros cuadrados situada en los terrenos vecinos del barrio del Congrés de Barcelona, un barrio de nueva planta planificado con ocasión del Congreso Eucarístico de 1952. El canódromo se compone de un edificio para las apuestas, que está situado en el lado más largo de la manzana, y una pista de carreras. El edificio consta de dos plantas, la planta baja se ha planteado como una prolongación del terreno y la planta superior como un objeto completamente separado del suelo que sirve de mirador.
La estructura de acero proporciona una imagen mucho más esbelta y ligera del conjunto que si fuera de hormigón. El edificio tiene la planta lenticular y es muy transparente, lo que le da al conjunto la imagen de unas alas de avión y un aspecto muy dinámico. El techo de la planta baja está equipado con gradas en el centro y terrazas laterales con buena visibilidad, mientras que el forjado de la cubierta soporta una estructura colgante con lamas de protección solar, a modo de brise soleil. La cubierta está soportada por unos tirantes que atan las jácenas al forjado inferior y evitan el balanceo. El brise soleil hace de contrapeso. Xavier Llobet i Ribeiro FUENTE DOCOMOMO IBÉRICO.
As reported in the Leicester Mercury to-day these buildings are likely to be demolished under plans by the owners to build apartments on the site. They may not look much at first glance but like a lot of places around this area have a long and interesting history. These particular buildings were built in the 19th century and were associated with the leather trade for over 100 years.
I wish I had got a photo of the courtyard which is behind those (rather battered) double doors, as it's very interesting. Maybe I'll get another chance when they start knocking it down!
Too many interesting buildings have been demolished in this area in the last 30 years and while I love some of the new buildings around here I wish that developers would have a bit more imagination and at least try and incorporate some of these buildings into new plans.
We interrupt scenic New Zealand photos to bring you this crappy cellphone pic update on the assembly of a dinosaur in its new enclosure at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
If I'd taken the picture a few seconds earlier, there would have been cool welding sparks. Ah well.
Kis cipész üzlet a Hunyadi utcában Makón.
A small shoe repair shop in Mako, Hungary. We had our corporate outing here in October 2013 and had three options for the afternoon program - I took this unique sightseeing ride in a nice city that was always so close and yet we never got to know it.
Városnézés Makón, ahol 2013. októberében a vállalati szakmai napunkat tartottuk. Délután a három szabadidős programból én a lovaskocsis városnézést választottam, hogy megismerjem ezt a szép kisvárost, ami bár közel van hozzánk, mégsem jártam itt eddig igazán.