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The Column of Jerash, a column erected by the Romans in the year A.D. 120, was presented to the City of New York by King Hussein of Jordan for the 1964-65 World's Fair, and is still in Flushing Meadows Park in some random spot east of the Unisphere.
From the Temple of Octavia in Ancient Corinth, Greece.
Good example of the Corinthian Order.
Compare with this drawing.
The portico of General Lee's mansion in Arlington Virginia, facing across the Potomac toward Washington, DC
the Eastbourne Terrace facade of Paddington Station. This should be getting some TLC from Network Rail before the Crossrail station opens.
Base of a full-size column from Mies van der Rohe's German Pavilion at the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition.
Another shot of Astoria Column. The lighting was just right for the lines of dark and light to work with the natural lines of the column.
Moscow. Rostral column of building Moscow State University, architects L. Rudnev, S.Chernyshev, P.Abrosimov, V.Nasonov (1948–1953) (1978)
Credit has to go to KT, another member of the group on the Light&Land workshop at Stourhead, for this shot, as I was getting in the way between the columns as she waited to take one.
These are three of the columns of the Temple of Flora by the lake in the gardens.
I was going to crop out the base of the third column but decided to leave it in to give more idea of what you are looking at.
Where am I admiring architecture today? Rome? Paris? Athens?
No - this photo was actually taken outside the former Flemington Court House complex (now home to just the Flemington Police Station).
More information about the full building can be found here: www.onmydoorstep.com.au/heritage-listing/499/former-flemi...
Cahaba, Alabama
The house sits between the river and the columns. The house is vacant but not an original structure.
Nelson's Column is a monument in Trafalgar Square in central London built to commemorate Admiral Horatio Nelson, who died at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The monument was constructed between 1840 and 1843 to a design by William Railton at a cost of £47,000. It is a column of the Corinthian order built from Dartmoor granite. The Craigleith sandstone statue of Nelson is by E. H. Baily and the four bronze lions on the base, added in 1867, were designed by Sir Edwin Landseer
A WSDOT crew member paints a column on the Alaskan Way Viaduct bright orange, to highlight the northern limits of a project to replace about half of the seismically vulnerable structure. The column is located west of Seattle's sports stadiums, near the viaduct's Railroad Way ramps.
For more information on the Alaskan Way Viaduct and Seawall Replacement program, visit www.alaskanwayviaduct.org.