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Here's another from the Ogwen Valley in North Wales, but from last year. Those who have climbed Tryfan by the North Ridge or the Heather Terrace are bound to recognise this ladder stile at the base of the Milestone Buttress. It affords a grand view down the valley to Y Garn and Foel Goch, but it also leads to the rock climbers playground of the buttress itself.
Cabot Tower a historical landmark located on Signal Hill a National Historic site in the City of St. John's on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador Canada
Cabot Tower is a tower in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, situated on Signal Hill. Construction of the tower began in 1898 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of John Cabot's discovery of Newfoundland, and Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
In 1901, Guglielmo Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic wireless message at a position near the tower, the letter "S" in Morse Code sent from Poldhu, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Cabot Tower is now the centre of the Signal Hill National Historic Site of Canada,] with walking trails and an interpretation centre.
Located at the highest point of Signal Hill, overlooking the city and the ocean, Cabot Tower is an example of late-Gothic Revival style. Built of irregularly coursed red sandstone, it is composed of a two-story, 30 foot, square structure with a three-story, 50 foot octagonal tower that stands on the southeast corner of the building. The corners are buttressed at the first floor level and further emphasized through the use of heavier blocks of stone. On the main body of the building, at the top of the second storey level, is a line of repeating pattern like an exaggerated dentil row or inverted crenelations. The attached tower, which houses the main entrance, is very plain with a double string course marking the divisions between second and third storeys and heavy corbel tables marking the eight corners of the turret at the flared upper level. The windows on both the corner turret and the body of the tower proper are rectangular and set under heavy stone lintels.
The architect of Cabot Tower, William Howe Greene, was a prominent St. John's architect and an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Wikipedia
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Building Buttress ornamental design on a Government building in a nearby town showing some of the color in it's design..
The Parish Church of Saint Germain
The Wiggenhall's are a set of villages in West Norfolk straddling the River Great Ouse, between Kings Lynn and Downham Market.
The parish church of St Germain sits on the bank of the River Great Ouse and has a Early English west tower which is heavily buttressed at the base to support its weight in the soft fen land soil, the aisles travel the length of the nave and chancel, there is a 15th century clerestory and a 16th century brick south porch.
The Fenlands of south-east Lincolnshire, west Norfolk and north Cambridgeshire are rich in medieval ecclesiastical architecture, because of this the area is sometimes referred to as the "Holy Land of the English".
The cathedral valley in Capitol Reef National Park contains a multitude of formations that resemble their namesake. The erosion of the buttes and monoliths result in steep narrow ridges resembling buttresses of a cathedral, as seen here on Cathedral Mountain.
A few years back I witnessed one of the largest assemblages of elk I'd ever seen, in the upper part of Cathedral Valley. The animals were transiting from their summer range in the mountains to the west (left here) to the winter range in Cathedral Valley. There were several thousand elk of various sizes moving down the valleys on both sides of this butte- an amazing sight.
Stave churches of the Møre type all had buttresses called skore to prevent them from falling apart a building technique dating back to Viking Times and probably beyond
...of Beinn Eighe....with the frozen Lochan....(Loch Coire Mhic Fhearchair)....
www.walkhighlands.co.uk/torridon/profiles/coire-mhic-fhea...
A tree with its lower part of the trunk covered in bright green moss, accentuated its elegant leaning posture and contrasted nicely with all the other trees in the vicinity.
European settlers of the nearby town of Fairhaven, MN once harnessed the power of a small river's waterfall to power a grain mill. The mill is long shut down and the land and waterways have been transformed into a tidy little county park. The waterfall has been replaced with a concrete buttress dam to prevent recreational boaters from a sudden, heart-stopping airborne experience.
The Crooked River meanders slowly beneath the jagged Phoenix Buttress illuminated by the early morning sun. Several features indicate the fiery volcanic history of this region. To the right is a portion of the shadowed Red Wall, an igneous intrusion (rhyolite dike) into the older volcanic sediments deposited during a massive eruption 29.5 million years ago. Another recent volcanic feature, a volcanic cone, one of many across the Cascade Range, is visible through the gap in the rock in the center right portion of the photo.
at the high point of Stanage, High Neb has superb climbing in a majestic location above the surrounding moorland.
Quietus (E2, 5c) goes across the obvious roof....
The Crooked River flow below the jagged volcanic spires known as the Phoenix Buttress at Smith Rock State Park in central Oregon. The park is a mecca to rock climbers seeking challenging climbs with relatively easy access.
The walls and spires of Smith Rock SP were formed 29.5 million years ago when a massive volcanic eruption occurred, the largest within the present boundaries of Oregon. Subsequent basaltic flows and deposition covered up the rocks from the older eruption around 500,000 years ago. Erosion from the Crooked River has re-exposed the older more resistant rock from the ancient eruption.
Back in June 2005 I met two Canadian backpackers who seemed like nice guys, and indeed they were. They had never been to a sub-tropical rainforest, so I helped them fill that gap in their life experience. This shot shows one of the guys climbing in the buttress roots of a Strangler Fig tree in the rainforest.
The magnificent Coire Mhic Fhearchair and the towering Triple Buttress of Beinn Eighe's Coinneach Mhor, Torridon.
This is a photo of an architectural buttress supporting a roof overhang on the old train station in Musquodoboit Harbour.
Supporting Arnhem Central station, The Netherlands.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttress
Part of Arnhem Central Masterplan (1996-2015).
Design: UNStudio.
Walking down The Buttress an old cobbled road (and now public footpath) from Heptonstall and towards Hebden Bridge in Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
I know Europe is famous for it's flying buttresses, but they have nothing on rural Virginia’s buttresses. These don’t even support the wall. They seem to hold up the roof or just be a strange architectural design. Who knows why...
Fig trees in the Ngoanga group , the place of Fig trees in the dialect of the Turrbal people .
Old Petrie Town
Brisbane
At the summit looking North East over the buttress to CMD, Aonach Mor and Aonach Beag. It was just so lovely with no human marks on the snow. It was during Covid.
Buttresses at the base of Mt. Slesse. The name "Slesse" means "fang" in the Halkomelem language, the local language of the First Nations. It certainly has the appearance of a "fang" when viewed from the city of Chilliwack to the north.
"Climbers come to the Fraser Valley from around the world to climb the aesthetic 24 pitch granite spire, making it one of the most iconic climbs in North America." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slesse_Mountain
The trunk of a cypress has a wide, swollen base, or buttress, that helps to support the tree in wet, unstable soil. The knobby, cone-shaped humps rising from around the base of the tree are called knees, that help with aeration of the roots and stabilization of the tree. It also give it that eerie look at the water's edge.
Ferns are growing on the buttress of the cypress. As well you see a new tree growing from a beaver stump in front of the cypress. The ecosystem uses all its niches.