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Built by David Spangler, Revision Division, The RE Store, Winter 2018
This beauty started as an ugly formica dresser. A new paint job and a bit of love turned it into a work of art.
Here's a barn sporting board-and-batt siding from Max Wood Lumber. We also offer other lumber products.
Salvo's tent.
Held on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th July 2004, this was the first Salvo Fair to be held at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire. It was a two day event with 31 exhibitors and 1,800 visitors.
For info on the latest Salvo Fair see
Renovators about to work on a church in Santa Fe, NM, had made a great effort to pile their scaffolding and work materials in an organised way, allowing me to have fun with the camera.
ALPOLIC Highlight Chevrolet Dealership in Illinois Fabricated by TFC Canopy And Are Used As The Standard For Chevrolet Dealerships Designs Nationwide
Panel Manufacturer: ALPOLIC
Architect: Lingle Design Group; Lena, IL
Location: Stockton, Illinois
Completion: 2010
images courtesy of © TFC Canopy
ALPOLIC Furthers Its Presence In The Automotive Industry With Ford Dealership In Oakville, Ontario Fabricated and Installed by Flexx Corporation, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Panel Manufacturer: ALPOLIC
Architect: RH Carter Architects Inc.; Toronto, ON
Location: Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Completion: August 2011
image courtesy of © Flexx Corporation
HISP 655 Vernacular Architecture students meet at Bostwick House for an 'outside the classroom' session
Building materials week. Brick is HEAVILY used in Bogota, so it's not hard to find some interesting arrangements of it.
Attendees at the Panel of Past TMS Presidents, held on Monday, February 15 as a part of the Transforming the Diversity Landscape symposium at TMS2016.
Renaissance loggias built in 1486 and 1498 by renowned architect Francesco di Giorgio Martiniin.
Palazzo della Signoria, Cortile del Sansovino
3:31 PM on October 21
Canon EOS 20D, 15 mm | ¹⁄₂₀ sec at f/4.5 at ISO 400
© Mark Gillespie | File:2A_051021_013
This new series complements my recently published guidebook, Milwaukee in Stone and Clay: A Guide to the Cream City's Architectural Geology. Henceforth I'll just call it MSC.
The MSC section and page references for the building featured here: 5.11; pp. 74-76.
Gazing up at a portion of the E. Wisconsin Avenue facade (northern elevation).
For a view of this building in its entirety, and for a discussion of the geology of its modular, cast-iron exterior, see Part 1.
It still amazes me that this gorgeous Venetian Renaissance exterior was manufactured in New York City, that town of some cultural attainments we should probably honor as the Milwaukee of the East.
But when it came to shipping massive iron objects like these modular sections 900 mi (1,448 km) into the still-remote continental interior, without benefit of connecting rail lines or interstate highways, our forebears certainly were no slouches. They always found a way to move building materials anywhere they really wanted them, just as the Romans and Egyptians had before them.
The fact that the site's exterior has been painted should come as no surprise, given its metal's love of combining with free oxygen and rusting when not sealed with a primer or protective oil.
The second most common metallic element in the Earth's crust, iron in geologic settings is most often found in its oxidized state. Examples of this are easy to come by; they include Banded Iron Formations, Lake Superior Brownstones, and Triassic red beds of the American West.
Here, the iron has been cast into a multitude of harmonious architectural elements: Corinthian columns, surfaces mimicking rusticated stone ashlar, fancily festooned arches, lions' heads, and vermiculated panels. We'll take a closer look at some of these conceits in the posts that follow in this series.
This site and many others in Milwaukee County are discussed at greater length in Milwaukee in Stone and Clay (NIU Imprint of Cornell University Press).
The other photos and discussions in this series can be found in my "Milwaukee in Stone and Clay" Companion album. Also, while you're at it, check out my Architectural Geology of Milwaukee album, too. It contains quite a few photos and descriptions of Cream City sites highlighted in other series of mine.
Sophia Al-Maria: Taraxos
“ * - Every asterisk a star. Every star a clock. Every clock a chime. Every chime a warning. Waking a cell, then a seed, then the germ of a weed getting ready to flower. – Sophia Al-Maria
Sophia Al-Maria considers the dandelion an emblem of freedom and resistance, as each seed has the potential to become an agent of resilience and change. Inspired by the life cycle and geometry of the dandelion (taraxacum officinale), the sculpture taraxos is a model for understanding and listening to the world.
Taraxos is a meditative place for anyone to slow down time for themselves. Visitors can sit beneath and stand amongst a constellation of 12 metal achenes, which take the form of futuristic dandelion ‘seeds’, and listen to the sculpture. Activated by the wind, the sculpture can also be played by touching the stems which are covered in copper, a material selected for its antimicrobial qualities.
At the top of each achene the asterisk* appears as shorthand symbolising a dandelion seed’s bracts, below it is inscribed into the ground in reference to the navigational tool of a meteorological wind rose. The punctuation mark of the asterisk* is a motif in Al-Maria’s work which emerged from her screenwriting practice in which the asterisk indicates rewriting and revision. The central node of taraxos is a piece of reclaimed titanium from an airplane. This durable yet light material, ideal for air and space travel mirrors that of the seemingly fragile airborne dandelion seed.
The Serpentine x Modern Forms Sculpture Commission focuses on Serpentine’s immediate environment as a space for artists to engage with the landscape of the park.
Sophia Al-Maria was selected for this new public sculpture commission by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Melissa Blanchflower, Curator, Exhibitions and Public Art, Serpentine and Nick Hackworth, Director, Modern Forms.”
Text © The Serpentine Gallery 2021-22
Main train station in Graz with it's glass shopping center. - 11:44 AM, October 18, 2005; Hauptbahnhof-Graz
Camera: Canon EOS 20D, 15 mm, ¹⁄₅₀₀ sec at f/7.1 at 15mm;
© 2005 Mark Gillespie
Children building replicas of the inuk shuk with small, coloured blocks of ice at the Winterlude Festival in Ottawa.
The Canadian Museum of Human Rights was truly spectacular. I believe it is the biggest privately run museum in Canada. Walking outside taking photos of each side was relaxing. Other than a few skateboarders at the skatepark next to the museum and the occasional security guard I was the only person taking photos. This was the last thing I did in Winnipeg before returning to Ottawa. The walkways, like this one, from one level to the next were interesting to look at.
What I liked: I guess it's the combination of the green bush with the white stone wall, but the lines contrasted with the round shapes of the bush, or maybe even the two texture contrasts between stone and bush. I'm not sure. It just appeals to me.
Crossroads Mall, Bellevue, Washington
A sandwich of treated soft timber on the left and non-structural hardwood plywood to the right.
Materials for my maintenance project.
Wolfgang Buttress's UK pavilion for the World Expo 2015 in Milan, relocated to Kew Gardens in June 2019