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I had never seen a grain elevator in my life, until I took my first train trip to Western Canada many years ago. As we crossed Manitoba and Saskatchewan, the visions of grain elevators approaching against the backdrop of canola fields and those fabulous prairie skies were very powerful.
Then I learned that there were thousands of them in Saskatchewan only, in the 1930s, but today only a few hundred remain, very few still being used, most of them abandoned, weather beaten, on the verge of demolition.
To me, grain elevators are the architectural equivalents of European medieval castles, or Dutch wind mills (a little exaggeration here, maybe?). They've captured my imagination like no other buildings in North America have (lighthouses and barns come to my mind too, I love them as well). These are the photographs I took in August 2013.
Richard Roger's Lloyds of London Building (1984)
"Whereas the frame of the building has a long life expectancy, the servant areas, filled with mechanical equipment have a relatively short life, especially in this energy-critical period. The servant equipment, mechanical services, lifts, toilets, kitchens, fire stairs, and lobbies, sit loosely in the tower framework, easily accessible for maintenance, and replaceable in the case of obsolescence. The key to this changing juxtaposition of parts is the legibility of the role of each technological component, which is functionally expressed to the full."
Barbie Campbell Cole and Ruth Elias Rogers, ed. Richard Rogers + Partners. p130-131.
The Creator's Words
"Buildings are not idiosyncratic private institutions: they give public performances both to the user and the passerby. Thus the architect's responsibility must go beyond the client's program and into the broader public realm. Though the client's program offers the architect a point of departure, it must be questioned, as the architectural solution lies in the complex and often contradictory interpretation of the needs of the individual, the institution, the place and history. The recognition of history as a principle constituent of the program and an ultimate model of legitimacy is a radical addition to the theories of the Modern Movement."
Richard Rogers. from Barbie Campbell Cole and Ruth Elias Rogers, ed. Richard Rogers + Partners. p19.
(Great Buildings www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Lloyds_Building.html)
Out for a drive coming back from somewhere and grabbed this image of a grain elevator aka "Prairie Giants". They were designed to receive, store and ship grain in bulk. They are a disappearing symbol of the Canadian Prairie skyline.
Some have even called the grain elevators “Prairie cathedrals.”
Passed this through a few Apps to get this Painterly effect.
Built in 1928 and closed in 1951, this iconic and highly photographed, former Alberta Pacific Grain, elevator stands in a field at Dorothy, a ghost town, in Alberta. Dorothy has a few people living there and the last few years have renovated the old church. I didn't have time to visit the church today but will on a future visit.
In 2015, a "plow wind" (I'm not sure what that is but I'll have to research that now lol) blew the roof off of this old historic beauty.
This elevator was even in a scene of Tom Cochrane's "Life Is A Highway" video.
Mirrors and angles and such.
- oooh, this has got popular!
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A pair of GP7's with BUGX reporting marks work under the massive elevator at Penny Newman Grain at the Port of Stockton, Central California Traction trackage.
Friday, October 20, 2023, 9:57 AM.
This is the inside of the elevator at de las Letras Hotel in Madrid. I had to try to capture the mood...see below for the range of reactions. Hmmm - maybe some people just aren't that into vertical travel.
Lisbon, Portugal
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A view of a passing elevators. A super awesome feature of this building: it still uses the original elevators, which are driven by a human operator.
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The Fine Arts Building was constructed in 1886, and is noted as being the nation's oldest artist colony. More info: www.fineartsbuilding.com/history
On 12-12-16, the UP Troy Grove branch line train comes through the elevator complex at Earlville, IL, which sees plenty of activity but no longer uses rail service.
Grain Elevators in St. Joseph, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at ƒ/8.0 with a 1/200-second exposure at ISO 50. Processed with Adobe Lightroom Classic.
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Ilford FP4+, 4" x 5", 125 iso, Normal development in Perceptol, 1:1, 11:45 Minutes, 24C.
Taken April 2017. Ebony SV45TU. Nikkor SW 65mm.
Another shot from the spring video documentary project. This was shot inside an abandoned grain elevator as I attempted to stay out of the bitter wind.
A glass-bottom, glass-ceilinged elevator takes us inside the dome of the Hannover Neues Rathaus to viewing platform on the lantern on top of the dome.
Just got back from a weekend in Melbourne checking out buildings for the Melbourne Open House Weekend, got over 12,000 steps yesterday and today a little over 19,000. I have a lot of shots I'll be working on and sharing soon but this one is one on my favorites captured at the first stop this morning looking straight up in the amazing elevator at Donkey Wheel House on Bourke Street.
I stayed back snapping shots and managed to get the elevator to myself on the way down :)