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The Nasir al-Mulk Mosque is a traditional mosque in Shiraz, Iran, and is famous for its use of colored glass in its facade. Photo taken on July 31, 2008.
Random child clashes with the carefully thought-out rainbow stairs. An interesting mix of colours, textures and building materials is presented to those who are entering this performance venue in Brisbane's Southbank.
World-traveling exhibition of several separately designed pavilions offering glimpses of future building materials and design.
Philadelphia, chosen as the only N. American stop!
Phila., PA
My 18 sec. long exposure capture.
I Photographed Conrad Yelvington CYXX Number 2108 and Conrad Yelvington CYDZ Number 239 in a Siding parallel to the main CSX Track just South of the CSX Yard in Wildwood, Florida.
CYXX 2108 is an EMD GP30M (aka: Rebuilt GP30), which was Built for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in November 1962.
It's Heritage is as follows: Conrad Yelvington #2108, ex CSXT #6931, exx Alabama & Gulf Coast Railroad (aka: AGR), nee: B&O #6931.
CYDZ 239 is an ALCO S2m, which was Built in June 1946 as Ontario Northland #1202. It's Heritage is as follows: Conrad Yelvington #239, ex IMC-Agrico #202, nee: Ontario Northland #1202.
There is a Wye here, which connects to the CSX Track which crosses Main Street (aka: US Route 301) on a CSX Track which went West to was used to go West towards Leesburg (Paralleling Sumter County Road 44A) where Surplus Freight cars were stored during the last Real Estate Recession. That Spur Track was later removed and now ends near Phillips Lane in Wildwood.
Processing the work from this shoot right now, going back for more, when the light's right.
© Blue Perez 2008 all rights reserved.
location | leach pottery, st. ives, cornwall
photography | blue
processing | not analog
blogged | here
prints | available
Kiln is one of many in a terracotta brick and tile factory in Sa Dec, Vietnam. The hopper above the access door contains rice husks - fuel for the fire.
Bruno Kaiser / 10000 Jahre Schaffen und Forschen
- ein kulturgeschichtliches Volksbuch mit 266 Holzschnitten von Paul Boesch
> Illustration: Eisenbeton
Pestalozzi-Verlag Kaiser & Co. AG
(Bern / Schweiz; 1940)
ex libris MTP
This is a wall made of local brick. The aloe vera plant spreads naturally in Tucson's Sonoran Desert environment
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Iran's Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque is an architectural masterpiece of Safavid architecture. Its construction started in 1603 and was finished in 1618.
Photo taken on August 23, 2007 in Isfahan, Iran.
An advert from the 1934 edition of "Specification", issued annually by the Architectural Press and containing an index of building and construction subjects, relevant specifications along with allied contractors and materials. I do love the fact that the company name is so wonderfully specific - not only giving the town but also the county and the main product! In truth I suspect that the "Middlesex" was there to distinguish it from the other 'Enfield' brick company who were based in another heartland of red brick manufacturing, Accrington in Lancashire.
Enfield, as the diagram shows, was on the fringes of London and even today as one of the outer London Boroughs it is, to the north, still mainly open land thanks to the Green Belt legislation of the post-war era. However - southwards was during the Victorian and into the 20th Century prime building land for the massive expansion of the Metropolis and the Enfield Brick Company would have been well placed to exploit both the clay beds in this part of Middlesex and Essex as well as the growing market for bricks. As well as the standard 'Reds' the company made a 'Roman' brick with a distinctive bench-marked facing.
A bit closer shot of the grocery store construction. Materials for the project are seen at the left. A chain link fence top was the point of view.. An amazing cloudscape frames the shot.
An interesting book produced in 1922 at a time when the post-WW1 slogan "Homes for Heroes" was still valid and many schemes for the more economic construction of houses, either by size, scale or construction methodolgy were being proposed. This was also the time when many municipal authorities were first seriously involved in the provision of social or council housing. This book, with a foreword by Sir Charles Ruthen, Director-General of Housing in the Ministry of Health, has a series of articles both on types and plans of 'modern cottages' but also looks at various contemporary construction methodology including 'modern methods of building' that involved either a decree of prefabrication or the use of 'labour' and cost saving materials such as concrete blocks. and the production of concrete. Many of these methods, similar to those considered in similar post-WW2 years, where not widely adopted and properties using such novel methods often displayed defects. In many ways the 'traditional' construction methods of brick and wet trades won out.
The book also has many pages of adverts for builders and suppliers, many of which allude to the construction methods discussed in the articles. In 1922 asbestos was being touted as one of the wonder materials of the age - fireproof, damp and rot proof and lightweight, in the form of asbestos cement sheets that could be pre-formed by moulding or cut to shape it was seen as both an external and internal material. The advert was issued by Bell's United Asbestos Co Ltd who described themselves as the 'pioneers of the world's asbestos industry', a claim that I suspect rankled with industry giant's Turner Bros of Rochdale as Bell had been an early partner with Samuel Turner in around 1880 when the spinning of asbestos fibre was being 'perfected'.
Bell set his own company up in 1888 and merged with the United Company in 1909 before the concern and product range was acquired by Turner's in 1928 - the 'Poilite' brand name was used for many years. At the time of acquisition Bell's had factories in Harefield, Erith and Widnes.
Iran's Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque is an architectural masterpiece of Safavid architecture. Its construction started in 1603 and was finished in 1618.
Photo taken on August 23, 2007 in Isfahan, Iran.
Petrified wood, from trees covered by oceans 110 million years ago, in Middle Cretaceous Period, when dinosaurs roamed
The oldest and most impressive cement plant in Poland. It's the world's 5th cement plant, build in 1857. Production was finished in July 1979. Now factory is abandoned and partially demolished.
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Widok z góry Dorotka na cementownię Grodziec w Będzinie. Krajobraz grodzieckiej cementowni jest jednym z najciekawszych, ale i również najsmutniejszych przemysłowych widoków w Polsce. Przepiękne, monumentalne budynki cementowni wznoszą się ponad tą dzielnicą Będzina od 1857 roku. Cementownia ta była pierwszą w Polsce i piątą na świecie! Wytwarzano tutaj bardzo potrzebny gospodarce cement portlandzki, z którego zbudowano między innymi budowle, wchodzące w skład Obszaru Warownego Śląsk. Założycielem i właścicielem cementowni był Jan Ciechanowski, a pierwszym dyrektorem był Emil Konaszewski, pełniący tą funkcję blisko 30 lat. Cementownia jak dotąd dysponuje 3 piecami szybowymi do wypalania wapna, pracującymi w sposób ciągły, 12 piecami okresowymi do wypału klinkieru oraz zespołem maszyn kruszących i mielących, czyli biegunów oraz żarn. W 1882 roku zmarł założyciel cementowni Jan, a zakład przejął jego syn Stanisław. W 1910 roku uruchomiono pierwszy piec obrotowy, którego wydajność sięgała 150 ton klinkieru cementowego na dobę. W tym samym roku wprowadzono do ruchu młyny kulowe, zastępujące żarna, a energia elektryczna była czerpana z elektrowni, zlokalizowanej w pobliskiej kopalni węgla kamiennego. Odtąd cementownia pracowała w oparciu o metodę mokrą, która w późniejszych latach była podstawową metodą produkcji klinkieru cementowego we wszystkich cementowniach w Polsce. W 1912 roku do cementowni dostarczano surowiec przy pomocy parowej kolei wąskotorowej, kursującej z kamieniołomu Kijowa. Oprócz niego, drugim źródłem surowca był kamieniołom Grodziec. W 1923 belgijski koncern Solvay wydzierżawił zakład, po czym w 1925 roku został przez niego zakupiony. Rozpoczęła się zakrojona na szeroką skalę przebudowa zakładu w oparciu o urządzenia duńskiej firmy F.L. Smidth. W 1937 roku zakład wzbogacił się o trzecie źródło surowca, czyli kamieniołom Góra we wsi Strzyżowice. Przed wojną, w 1938 roku oddano do użytku piąty już piec obrotowy. W latach 1945 - 1950 nastąpiła powojenna odbudowa zakładu. W 1955 roku w miejscowości Rogoźnik, położonej na północny wschód od cementowni, uruchomiono kamieniołom, z którego od 1959 roku transportowano surowiec kolejką linową. W 1977 roku zezwolono na eksploatację przez kopalnię Grodziec filaru ochronnego, ulokowanego pod cementownią. Jego wyeksploatowanie przyniosło negatywne skutki, objawiające się pękaniem i stopniowym niszczeniem obiektów zakładu, wynikającymi z osiadania gruntu. Po ekspertyzach postanowiono z dniem 11 lipca 1979 roku zatrzymać produkcję w cementowni z powodu wymienionych zagrożeń i braku opłacalności remontowania istniejących urządzeń. Część urządzeń zdemontowano i wywieziono do pobliskiej Cementowni Saturn. Po zaprzestaniu produkcji cementownia sukcesywnie ulega degradacji po dzień dzisiejszy. Niestety, obecnie cementownia jest symbolem braku jakiejkolwiek dbałości o dziedzictwo przemysłowe, techniczne i historyczne i wyraźnie wskazuje brak zainteresowania władz obiektami. Nie da się ukryć, że te budowle mogłyby wspaniale uzupełnić Szlak Zabytków Techniki i bez problemu przynosić profity z tytułu turystyki. Nad cementownią widać kościół pw. Św. Antoniego Padewskiego w Wojkowicach oraz ledwie widoczne są obiekty Zakładu Górniczego "Piekary" (dawnej Kopalni Węgla Kamiennego "Julian"). Na horyzoncie widoczny jest komin ciepłowni w Radzionkowie. Po lewej stronie wyłaniają się bloki osiedla Powstańców Śląskich w Piekarach Śląskich.
An advert from the 1934 edition of "Specification", issued annually by the Architectural Press and containing an index of building and construction subjects, relevant specifications along with allied contractors and materials. This bold advert, part of a four page supplement, is issued by the industry giant, the London Brick Company & Forders.
LBC were formed in the late Victorian period to exploit brickworks and clay beds in the Peterborough and Bedforshire areas of the east of England. The predominant clays found there, used to manufacture what are generically known as Flettons, have an inherent advantage in that it contains high levels of carbonaceous materials that make for more economic firing thus making the bricks highly competative. In 1923 the Company acquired competitors Forders and indeed, over the decades, went on acquire many other smaller companies. For many years the main base was at Stewartby in Bedfordshire, the town designed and constructed on garden city principles for the workforce by the company.
Phorpres, one of their main trademarked brands got its name from being pressed four times during moulding that gave a more constistent density and strength.
BRICK YARDS, HOBART, IND.
Date: Circa 1910
Source Type: Postcard
Printer, Publisher, Photographer: M. L. Photo (#11)
Postmark: None
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Copyright 2015. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook.
An advert from the 1934 edition of "Specification", issued annually by the Architectural Press and containing an index of building and construction subjects, relevant specifications along with allied contractors and materials. This rather smartly set out advert is for the Dorking Brick Co Ltd of North Holmwood in Surrey and is a reminder that the area of Surrey had extensive brickworks that supplied brick to many areas of the south east and London.
The advert lists many types of product ranging from kiln-fired facings through to hand made and sand faced bricks in both reds and purples. It also sternly notes that their bricks are all kiln fired and to avoid clamp fired ones! The advert is mostly set in what was then a relatively modern typeface, the German Kabel or anglicised Cable typeface - apart from the extensive list of briquettes to the left that somewhat clashes! The briquettes came in many sizes and shapes to be used in such decorative constructions as fireplaces and mantles.
Widok na zespół szybowych pieców wapiennych od strony południowo - wschodniej. Dwa spośród trzech pieców zostały zabudowane na planie sześciokąta. Wielokątne, foremne kształty pieców są najczęściej spotykanie w rejonie Opolszczyzny. Pośród typologii pieców wapiennych w Polsce można spotkać wiele ich kształtów, począwszy od pieców z trzonem zabudowanym w formie kwadratu, przez sześciokątne, aż po okrągłe. Niektóre piece posiadają kilka szybów, zabudowanych w jednym trzonie, jak np. Wapiennik Bordowicza (tutaj: www.flickr.com/photos/145729545@N04/51140081208/in/datepo... ). U dołu pieców widoczne są otwory, poprzez które wybierany było wypalone wapno.
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View of lime kilns from southeast. Two of three lime kilns were build on hexagonal shaped base. The holes on the base of kilns are a lime out.
Renovation works at the temple. Looks like their building a buddhist dining hall.
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