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In black & white too! This, along with Rochdale Bus Station is due to be demolished within the next couple of years or so as the town is undergoing refurbishment.
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Another look at the beautiful Guardian Building, in downtown Detroit.
The wall reads: "Founded on principles of faith and understanding, this building is erected for the purpose of maintaining and continuing the ideals of financial service which prompted the organization of this institution."
Mesmerising stained-glass skylight at the Palau de la Música Catalana, translated as Palace of Catalan Music. Designed by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner in the early 20th century.
Olympus OM-D E-M5
Olympus M.Zuiko 12-50mm Kit
Appartment buildings in the city of Kecskemet, Hungary. I took these pictures on my way home from a conference in April 2013.
Érdekes stílusú lakóházak a Rákóczi úton Kecskeméten. A MESZ konferencia után hazafelé készítettem ezeket a képeket 2013. április 24-én.
New UOW Sciences Teaching Building on the Main Campus.State of the art teaching facility for students.
Today, the columns on one of the 2 story houses were installed. Not much else looks different on the exterior due to the fact that most of the work recently has been inside (plumbing, electrical, framing items).
The Hogan-Allnoch Dry Goods Co. Building was completed in 1923. It housed one of the city's oldest and largest companies. The building is part of the last intact block of historic structures leading to Union Station and Minute Maid Park. Harris County Commissioners were hoping to get the green light in 2007 to demolish the building and replace it with a parking lot.
In 2007, the building went to auction twice. Once at a price of 3.25 million and later in September at a price of 1.98 million. There were no buyers. The building would cost $150,000 to demolish, but as much as $5 million to restore. County commissioners don't want the cost of demolition to be at the hands of any taxpayers...
Thus the never ending battle, some 5 years later, as to whether it will be preserved for historical reasons or demolished for yet another parking lot, rage on.
The Lion Grove Garden (狮子林园) is a garden located at 23 Yuanlin Road in the Pingjiang District, Gusu, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. The garden is famous for the large and labyrinthine grotto of taihu rocks at its center. The name of the garden is derived from the shape of these rocks, which are said to resemble lions. The garden is recognized with other classical gardens in Suzhou as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Lion Grove Garden was built in 1342 during the Yuan Dynasty by a Zen Buddhist monk, Wen Tianru, in memory of his teacher Abbot Zhongfeng. At that time the garden was part of the Bodhi Orthodox Monastery (菩提正宗). The name of the garden is derived from the lion-shaped taihu rocks, which in turn were built as a reference to the symbolic lion in the Lion's Roar Sutra. The name also refers to the Lion Peak of Mount Tianmu in Lin'an City, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, where Abbot Zhongfeng attained nirvana. At that time, the garden was 6,670 square meters and was covered in rock and bamboo. After Wen Tianru's death, the garden fell into disrepair, but in 1589 another Buddhist monk, Mingxing, rebuilt the garden. The magistrate of Hengzhou bought the garden, and his son Huang Xi rebuilt the garden in 1771. The garden's name was then changed to the 'Garden of Five Pines.' Starting in 1850, the garden fell into disrepair once again. In 1917, Bei Runsheng purchased the garden and finished the restoration in 1926. Many buildings and rocks in the garden have been preserved since the restoration. According to official signs posted in the garden, the Bei family "donated" the garden to the Chinese government in 1949. This words on the signs seem curious because all private property was nationalized by the Communist Party in the same year. The garden was not opened to the public until 1956.
Information from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Grove_Garden
Building III, the only building still visible, is situated south-east of the Heraion, below the archaic and classical levels of the temple. it is an apsidal structure oriented north-south. The surviving lower course of the walls is of irregular stone, while the upper part of the walls was probably of perishable materials. Pottery finds date the building to the end of the early Helladic III period (2150-2000 bc) and indicate contacts with the Cetina culture in the Dalmatian coast. These apsidal buildings, together with the prehistoric tumulus inside the pelopion, are the oldest surviving structures in the sanctuary at Olympia.