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Some historical background is in order: Congo was a colony of Belgium during the 19th century, and for the last 12 years has been in civil war. Almost four million people have died during the fighting. They just had elections, though.
I love the way the slight curvature of the windows has magnified and dissected various details of the reflected building. The reflection is of the Allen County Courthouse, Ft. Wayne, IN.
Images from the 2014 Victorian Hot Rod Show in the magnificent Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton Gardens
Both buildings in this photo are replicas of 19th century buildings that were torn down in the 1920s. These buildings were built in the 1950s of vintage logs
CALLE DE LA PAZ, 1868
En las intervenciones de reforma interior de la ciudad, la calle de la Paz ocupa un lugar relevante por sintetizar el espÃritu del tránsito del s. XIX al XX y es sin duda el enclave urbano que mas admiración suscita por su singular calidad ambiental. Su primitiva concepción se produjo en 1868, aprovechando la oportunidad de los derribos de los conventos de San Cristóbal y Santa Tecla, para conectar de forma más adecuada el puente del Mar con el Mercado al aprobarse la propuesta de apertura de calle, bautizada entonces de la Revolución, de 14 m. de ancho y una longitud de 414 m. que debÃa de abrirse paso a través de la compleja trama de las callejuelas existentes. El proceso de apertura se desarrolló muy lentamente, con grandes dificultades y con la generalizada oposición de los vecinos. En el año 1883, con un completo expediente se aprobaba el Proyecto de regularización de la plaza de la Reyna (sic) y apertura de la calle de la Paz con la reforma de las vÃas relacionadas con ésta de los arquitectos Luis Ferreres y JoaquÃn Mª Arnau con el que se retomó la primitiva idea, consiguiéndose finalmente lograr la apertura completa de la calle en el año 1902. Importante vÃa de penetración al centro de la ciudad, su mayor esplendor corresponde a las primeras décadas del s. XX cuando se erige en el centro del lujo de la ciudad con modernas tiendas restaurantes y hoteles, y con importantes edificios residenciales.
Texto extraido de la "Guia de Arquitectura de Valencia" CTAV 2007.
Under the roof of Norwich railway station.
"Norwich railway station provides the scene for the opening of a ‘Swallows and Amazons‘ novel, and features in Joseph Losey‘s 1971 film version of LP Hartley‘s ‘The Go-Between‘. The station, which sees about two-and-a-half million passengers pass through it every year, has managed to retain its essential Victorian character, and is the only remaining one of the three which once served the city. Standing close to the River Wensum, across the Foundry Bridge from the city, it is a Grade II listed building, and acts as a terminus for trains from London Liverpool Street, as well as Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Sheringham, Ely and the city of Liverpool.
The present building
The present building opened in 1886, built to a design by John Wilson. It is constructed of red brick and stucco, in a classic style, with an ironwork and glass concourse. "
It doesn't have a blue sign like John Lennon's because you have to be dead or 100 years old to get one.
Kingston is a historically interesting city and has a unique three downtown layout. Confusingly, Uptown, rather than the "downtown" Rondout waterfront, is where the county courthouse and most significant downtown buildings are located. Uptown is also the oldest of the three and was originally part of a Dutch stockade. On this Saturday, the streets were closed off for a farmers market.
Dilapidated buildings now scheduled for demolition. Formerly a maltings and then an engineering workshop, they will be replaced by another bland supermarket extension and car park. Another bit of history gone!
Went for a walk around London with two mini projects. Numbers and a second project to capture ‘old London’. Buildings such as pubs, old warehouses, factories, churches etc, that although their function may have changed, probably haven’t physically changed much since they were built.
McCain PV signals installed at the intersection of Rideau Street and Sussex Drive in downtown Ottawa.
Roman Wroxeter, near the end of the Watling Street Roman road that ran across England from Dubris (Dover), was a key frontier position lying on the bank of the Severn river whose valley penetrated deep into Wales, and also on a route to the south leading to the Wye valley.
Archaeology has shown that the site of the later city first was established about ad 55 as a frontier post for a Thracian legionary cohort located at a fort near the Severn river crossing.[1] A few years later a legionary fortress (castrum) was built within the site of the later city for the Legio XIV Gemina during their invasion of Wales.
The local British tribe of the Cornovii had their original capital (also thought to have been named *Uiroconion) at the hillfort on the Wrekin. When the Cornovii were eventually subdued their capital was moved to Wroxeter and given its Roman name.
This legion XIV Gemina was later replaced by the Legio XX Valeria Victrix which in turn relocated to Chester around ad 88. As the military abandoned the fortress the site was taken over by the Cornovians' civilian settlement.
The name of the settlement, meaning "Viroconium of the Cornovians", preserves a native Brittonic name that has been reconstructed as *Uiroconion ("[the city] of *Uirokū"), where *Uiro-ku (lit. "man"-"wolf") is believed to have been a masculine given name meaning "werewolf".[2][3]
The ruins of Viroconium's public baths at Wroxeter
Viroconium prospered over the next century, with the construction of many public buildings, including thermae and a colonnaded forum. At its peak, it is thought to have been the 4th-largest settlement in Roman Britain, with a population of more than 15,000.[4]
The Roman city is first documented in Ptolemy's 2nd century Geography as one of the cities of the Cornovii tribe, along side Chester (Deva Victrix).
Following the Roman withdrawal from Britain around ad 410, the Cornovians seem to have divided into Pengwern and Powys. The minor Magonsæte sub-kingdom also emerged in the area in the interlude between Powysian and Mercian rule. Viroconium may have served as the early post-Roman capital of Powys prior to its removal to Mathrafal sometime before 717, following famine and plague in the area. The city has been variously identified with the Cair Urnarc[5] and Cair Guricon[6] which appeared in the 9th-century History of the Britons’s list of the 28 cities of Britain.[7]
N.J. Higham proposes that Wroxeter became the eponymous capital of an early sub-Roman kingdom known as the Wrocensaete, which he asserts was the successor territorial unit to Cornovia. The literal meaning of Wrocensaete is 'those dwelling at Wrocen', which Higham interprets as Wroxeter. It may refer quite specifically to the royal court itself, in the first instance, and only by extension to the territory administered from the court.[8]
The Roman city was rediscovered in 1859 when workmen began excavating the baths complex.[9][13] A replica Roman villa was constructed in 2010 for a Channel 4 television programme called Rome Wasn't Built in a Day and was opened to the public on 19 February 2011.[14]