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Urban art at the maisonettes. I did wonder if it was somebody's parting comment...
As I was taking shots around the maisonettes, someone wandered over and said "have you been evicted love? "
Gateshead Council’s Cabinet have backed plans to redevelop the Ravensworth Road area of Dunston, Gateshead and demolish Derwent Tower - the so-called Dunston Rocket.
The 29-storey was tower was designed by Owen Luder the Derwent Tower and 116 adjacent maisonettes will be demolished, followed by new residential development , new shopping facilities, improved health facilities and a range of environmental improvements.
However plans are subject to a Certificate of Immunity from Listing to be received which would enable the 280ft building to be demolished.
Blackwood Historical Walk.
Blackwood was only created as a town subdivision in 1879 because work was about to start on the Hills railway line to Nairne. Prior to this time the local centre of importance was Coromandel Valley which had an institute, school, and Anglican and Methodist churches and cemetery, bakery and jam factory. The main landowner of the Blackwood area from 1852 was Daniel Johnson.
•The Blackwood War Memorial was unveiled on 11 June 1921. The water fountain memorial was erected in memory of 16 year old Frank Collins who, on 8 October 1927, attempted to save his friend Rodney Saint from drowning in Sturt River. The boys were playing by a deep waterhole when Rodney got into difficulties. Frank tried to save him but drowned too.
•There was a weatherboard Blackwood Methodist church built in 1881 in Young Street where the ANZ Bank is now located. In 1917 it was moved to its current location at Five Ways by a bullock team. In 1921 the foundation stone of the new church was laid and the present church, built by Albert Hewett for £2360.
•The Methodist manse was next door but it was demolished in 1972 for tennis courts.
•Magnet Shopping centre was a grand mansion called Caithness which was originally built as a Temperance Hotel around 1880. Its aim was to keep the workers in the rail camp building the railway line to Nairne sober and temperate. It later became a residential hotel and then it was purchased by the Methodist Church in 1958 as Aldersgate Hospital. It was demolished to crate Magnet Shopping centre in 1972.
•The Police Station was built between 1930 and 1933 with the first policeman appointed in 1930. Note the old tin lock up behind the former Police Station. From 1988 the police operated from these premises on a restricted basis and it completely closed in 1998. It is now used by Meals on Wheals.
•Once the new railway service began from Blackwood to Adelaide in 1883 new subdivisions were created around the village and some prominent members of society moved to Blackwood. The owner of this fine house was John Carr a local politician and Member of Parliament. He was a land investor along the new hills railway and was the Chairman of the Hills Land Investment Company which did subdivisions at both Blackwood, Waverley Ridge and Crafers. He helped found the Methodist Church in Blackwood. In 1914 the house was sold to Claude Verco a clerk who commuted to Adelaide to his office. He was related to the local Magarey family who had orchards in Coromandel Valley.
•McDonald house. This house was built in 1881 before the railway reached Blackwood but after the rail route had been announced. It was built for Alexander McDonald a state parliamentarian and a local Mitcham Councillor. McDonald was also one of the original Belair Park Commissioners and a trustee of the Savings Bank of SA. It is now a well-cared for office for accountants. Note the corbels which support the roof.
•This symmetrical 19th century cottage at 20 Coromandel Parade was built around 1879 for a local preacher named John Broadbent. Because of his evangelical preaching style the house was locally known as the “sons of thunder”.
•The Blackwood Community Centre is a recent building. It was architect designed by Kenneth Milne and erected in 1956. J Hewett a local builder erected it. His family is estimated to have built at least 50% of the houses in Blackwood by the 1914. Four generations or more of the Hewetts have been Blackwood builders.
•This grand two storey Italianate house with double bay windows was built in 1881 across two allotments. It was designed by well-known SA architect Roland Rees. It was built as the home of William Townsend a Local Member of Parliament. The proximity to the new railway station allowed him quick access to Parliament House on North Terrace. Rees’ well known buildings include: Moonta Methodist Church; Oxford Hotel North Adelaide; St Peters Town Hall.
•Café de la Paix was originally a store and later the Blackwood Post Office for a short time. It was built around 1929 as a drapers shop.
•Coromandel Parade Rail Bridge was built in 1929 when the railway line to Belair was doubled. The old tunnel here was converted to an open cutting. Look for the old bricks which mark where the tunnel was located. The maisonettes along the southern side of the railway line and cutting were built by Hewett builders circa 1930. One branch of the Hewett family lived in the store and villa on the corner of Coromandel Parade.
•Across the line to the east at number 2 Edgecombe Parade was the home of Ainslee Roberts (1947-1968) the well-known artists who interpreted Aboriginal myths and stories in art. There are two grand mansions down this street, Clarendon House (1881) and Annadale House (1882).
•Dew Drop Cottage the former boot maker’s shop. A little further along Coromandel Parade is the old bookmaker’s shop with a pediment across the front for advertising.
•The first Anglican Church at Blackwood was a simple weatherboard structure on Shepherds Hill Road. It opened in the 1890s but in 1914 it was moved by a bullock team to the site of the present Anglican Church on Coromandel Parade. It burn down in 1934 and was replaced by this fine red brick Gothic church with sandstone quoins around the windows etc. Architect was Dean Berry and the builders were Harry Hewitt. Note the buttresses, multi coloured brick patterns in the gable end, and the tiny gargoyles on the sides of the gable end window etc.
•Opposite the Anglican Church was another Hewett home for another branch of the family. Its name plate for 44 Coromandel Parade is Buffalo. The Hewitt family also built the new Catholic Church further along Coromandel Parade in 1936.
•The Nairne Railway to Blackwood opened for passenger services in 1883. The platform and sandstone railway station was built between 1884 and 1886.The old signal box was built in 1884. It had three platforms from 1886 but the track was not doubled until 1929 when the tunnel at Coromandel Parade was removed and made into a cutting. The station was a major watering stop as steam engines needed to refill their tanks up the climb up the hills. The tank was painted with a large Amgoorie Tea sign but it has now faded.
This building was completed in March 1973 as part of Phase IV of the building programme for the Barbican Complex. It is the longest terrace block in the Barbican, running east to west on the north podium (on which I was standing).
On the front (this side) it faces south towards the Barbican Centre, whilst the back looks down on the Finsbury district and a local school playground. It crosses Golden Lane in the middle and has a walkway underneath it at podium level at that point.
There are seven residential floors above the podium level, including two- and three-storey penthouses, with a total of 204 flats. These are accessed via a central corridor that runs the length of the block with lifts at both ends and in the middle. The flats are maisonettes.
Ben Jonson Place in front of the block has a set of mini-gardens raised about 30cm above podium level and more of the mini-gardens can be found on the other side of the block.
A three-frame panorama that comes out best (to me, at least) in a square format.
Sheffield Station. The station was completed in 1870 to the design of John Holloway Sanders, remodelled and extended in 1904-5 to the design of Charles Trubshaw, further altered in 1959 and 1979-8, and remodelled again in 2002. Originally known as Pond Street Station, it later became the Sheffield Midland Station and is grade 2 listed. Park Hill flats above (the subject of a hit musical "Standing at the Sky's Edge"), Flats and maisonettes. 1957-60 by Sheffield Corporation City Architect's Department under J L Womersley, designed by Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith with F E Nicklin and John Forrester (artist); Ronald Jenkins of Ove Arup and Partners, engineer. Grade 2* listed.
City of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England - Sheffield Railway Station / Park Hill, Sheaf Square
July 2023
Sculpted by Graham Ibbeson, The Spirit of Jarrow was made to commemorate the 65th Anniversary of the Jarrow Marchers and was unveiled by Stephen Hepburn MP on Friday 5th October 2001. The sculpture can be found in Jarrow’s main shopping center in front of Morrison’s supermarket who was also the sculpture’s sponsors.
The Spirit of Jarrow depicts two marchers, two children, a woman carrying a baby and the march mascot, a dog. They are all walking out of the ribs of a ship carrying a banner. The lead figure could easily be mistaken for Miss Ellen Wilkinson MP who has been well documented as being part of the spearhead leading the March from start to finish. In later years, Miss Wilkinson MP would lend her name to a new town center development of high storey flats/apartments and maisonettes. In honour of her involvement in the 1936 crusade as it became known.
The March was not about party politics. They were skilled tradesmen, who over 80 years had produced 80,000 ships for the British empire, and now unemployed for several years poverty and deprivation brought shame and sadness to a once proud workforce, who now through no fault of their making were forced to beg or ask for credit.
Poverty and deprivation brought shame and sadness to a once proud workforce, and now through no fault of their making were forced to beg or ask for credit. The once proud workforce had been plunged into poverty & sadness and was now having to ask for credit. To combat this the marchers took their plight on to London.
The sculptor Graham Ibbeson is a resident of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK. He has created bronze sculptures in towns and cities across Britain including Leeds, Cardiff, Dover, Barnsley, Doncaster, Northampton, Chesterfield, Middlesbrough, Perth, Otley and Rugby.
This bench was originaly meant to be for the dining area {yes, we now have a separate room / area for this purpose :)} but somehow I had the feeling and idea that it would be both practical & beautiful under a window which is low {40cm from the floor}, 2m long & reaching on the right {it's diagonal} the 3m ceiling as - once more! - the second floor of our new maisonette apartment is also the last one.
So we have this sliding ceilings of the roof, which I had so much liked in our former residence. No huge, semi-circular window , or any of its grandiocity, but this place has many, many more windows all over.
Disregard the cleaning factor & I'm so grateful for each and every one of them. I think this is my favorite, even though it's not the bigger, cause I adore the view to the super tall trees outside, the woods {50m to the left!} and a low house, fully covered in Ivy plants. Blink :*)... that must have been a sign, right?
Anyways, my dears enjoy a few first shots & welcome 2012!
Designed by Edward Hollamby, LCC Architect's Department, 1961. As well as six 18-storey point-blocks there were 40 low-rise blocks with shops, library and GP surgery. London Borough of Southwark.
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Virginia South Australia.
The flat Adelaide Plains north of the city of Adelaide were only surveyed and put up for sale in 1853/54. Most land around Virginia was taken up by farmers at that time. Although some of the early farmers were Catholics from Ireland it was the Bible Christian Methodists who first established a church here. One was at Waterloo Corner in 1857 and another in what is now Virginia in 1858. That Bethlehem Bible Christian Church in Virginia was demolished in 1937 and replaced with a new fine stone church in 1937. One of the sons of the founders of the Elim Bible Christian Church at Waterloo Corner laid the foundation stone in 1937 – Samuel Taylor who began preaching in Methodist Churches when he was 17 years old and did so until his death when he was 95 years old. The Catholic families of Ryan, Sheedy and Brady wanted a Catholic Church and the foundation stone of the current church was laid in 1861. It was completed in Romanesque style in 1862 and is still in use. It has an impressive four ton Italian and Irish marble altar which was imported from England. Most of the other early buildings of the town have been demolished.
The Wheatsheaf hotel which opened in 1854 and was licensed from 1855 was built for Daniel Brady. It was a tiny structure then but enlarged by later licensees. It was totally remodelled into a Tudor style building in 1925 and then had an ugly modern make over in 1971. It has recently been demolished and replaced with a new hotel a few metres to the north of the old Wheatsheaf Hotel site. A pine and pug Catholic school room built local men opened in 1863 near the Catholic Church. It closed in 1886. The state government stone school in Virginia opened in 1876. It appears to have been demolished in 1956. It was replaced with wooden portable school buildings in 1957 west of the Old Port Wakefield Road. An entirely new state school was built in 1971. The stone Institute Hall opened in 1908. It is still used for community functions. The only other old structure partially standing is the Virginia Post Office. Post services began in 1858 when the town was surveyed. A formal Post Office was established few years later in one of the general stores until purpose built government Post Office with corbels to support a slate roof opened in 1886. Today only the corbels below the roof line are visible as the walls have all been rebuilt or changed. The nearest railway station for the Virginia farmers was in Salisbury from 1856 but Virginia did get its own railway station and trains service from January 1916. Work began on the line in 1914 when it was built from Salisbury to Long Plains near Balaklava. It was later extended to Redhill and then finally to Port Pirie in 1937. All that remains of the railway station today is part of the platform which is used as ramp by a local fruit and vegetable box maker and supplier. The railway line, however is still in use for The Indian Pacific, the Ghan and freight trains.
Architects: Colin Lucas, Philip Bottomley et al. at the LCC/GLC, c.1963. Each of the point block's twenty-one floors accommodates four flats. In the foreground, one of six four-storey ‘cluster blocks’ of maisonettes, also part of the Somerset Estate. Battersea, London Borough of Wandsworth.
C.F. Møller Architects, 2017
The town houses are a part of a large urban development project to transform a former industrial area on the harbour of Stockholm into the city's new high-profile environmental area called Norra Djurgaardsstaden.
The houses, 18 in total, stand right on the edge between the city and a nature reserve, neighbouring a former gasworks turned into a cultural centre and the Husarviken stream. The architecture is inspired by the gasworks’ red bricks and simple geometry as well as by the area's green qualities, expressed in the warm tones of weathering steel facades combined with lighter wooden facades.
The aim of the housing district is to adapt to global climate changes, so that in 2030 the district will no longer make use of fossil fuels. In addition to minimizing energy consumption, the Zenhusen (the Zenhouses) development features quality materials that add a Nordic feel and age with beauty - in terms of facade, interior and landscape. Inside, the homes are bright and transparent, featuring double height living rooms and views to sea and nature. Furthermore, residents have access to private patios, roof terraces, balconies and a more intimate, planted courtyard.
The energy consumption will be minimized by means of the massing of the buildings, for example, the town houses are staggered in order to maximize views and daylight. Also contributing are solutions such as intelligent lighting, solar panels for heating, and heat recovery.
The town houses will feature green roofs, which - along with a landscaped pond in the common yard - collects rainwater, convert CO2, and provide a fertile ground for biodiversity. The sustainable approach is continuous throughout the building life cycle - from construction phase to operational phase and a possible later decomposition phase, i.e. Cradle to Cradle Design.
www.cfmoller.com/p/-en/Zenhouses-high-profile-environment...
The west end…not the glitzy upmarket London type of West End, but a former warren of back to back terraced housing. Once teeming with shady characters and pubs like this one. Sadly many of the pubs have closed and the back to backs have largely been replaced by 60s and 70s maisonettes (not as exotic as it sounds).
A deck on the Southgate Estate, Runcorn New Town in 1973. Designed by James Stirling. Shows the coloured GRP (fibreglass) cladding to the maisonettes.
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Coloured fibreglass front doors and panels on maisonettes in the Southgate housing scheme at Runcorn New Town.
LCC Architect's Department, Housing Division, 1955, part of the Loughborough Estate council housing development. The estate provided over 1,000 dwellings in medium and low-rise modernist blocks of flats and maisonettes. Loughborough Junction, London Borough of Lambeth.
Converted grain silo north of Aarhus:
Many towns in Denmark have centrally located industrial silos; most are no longer in use, but continue to visually dominate the local skyline. This is also the case in the town of Løgten north of Aarhus, where the former silo complex has been transformed into a 'rural high-rise', with 21 high-quality residences composed as individual and unique 'stacked villas'.
They are an alternative to standard apartments or to detached suburban sprawl, and are a mix of single storey flats and maisonettes, meaning that even the lower levels fully get to enjoy the views, and that no two flats are the same.
The actual silo contains staircases and lifts, and provides the base of a common roof terrace. Around the tower, the apartments are built up upon a steel structure in eye-catching forms which protrude out into the light and the landscape – a bit like Lego bricks.
This unusual structure with its protrusions and displacements provides all of the apartments with generous outdoor spaces, and views of Aarhus Bay and the city itself. Similarly, every apartment enjoys sunlight in the morning, mid-day and evening, whether placed to the north or south of the silo structure.
At the foot of the silo, a new ‘village centre’ is created, with a public space surrounded by a mix-use complex with shops, supermarket and terraced housing, and a green park containing small allotments for the residents.
The nature of the silo’s ‘rural high-rise’ remains unique – since it is a conversion, no other building in the area can be built to the same height, and it will remain a free-standing landmark. It is an example of how the transformation of redundant structures can hold the potential to both give a new identity, and introduce density to suburban outskirts.
The body of the silo is deliberately left visible on the side of the building facing the new centre, to ensure a continued legibility of the history of the site, and to acknowledge that these types of structures have an equal validity as rural historical markers as do for instance the church bell-tower or historic windmills.
www.cfmoller.com/p/Siloetten-i2029.html
(It was never my intention to turn this photostream into a showcase of my own architectural work, but I couldn't resist putting up a few of these)
This is the view from Guinea Street, Bristol, into the courtyard enclosed by Francombe House, straight ahead, and Waring House, on the left. These blocks of maisonettes date from 1958-60 and were designed by city architect J N Meredith with detailing by A H Clarke. Their construction and styling were reputedly influenced by the Unité d'habitation apartment blocks famously developed by Le Corbusier, the largest and best known of which is in Marseilles, France.
Now, some of you are probably thinking it's all very well - he's extolled the virtues of these buildings before, but would he actually want to live there himself? No, not in my present circumstances. But if I were younger and had no children still at home, and wanted to live near the centre of Bristol with potentially stunning views over the south of the city towards Somerset, I'd seriously consider it.
Saturday 18th April 2015.
Kodak Ektar 100
Bronica SQ-A
Zenzanon S 80mm lens
Epson V600 scanner
80-82 Rasen Lane in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
A pair of houses built in 1874 by/for John Capp Whitton, architect J T Drury. Originally they were numbered 43-44 Rasen Lane until altered in 1898. They were called Cappstone Villas, with 82 named as Cappstone House in 1881 Directory. The north end of the gardens is now occupied by houses/maisonettes in Naam Grove.
C.F. Møller Architects, 2017
The town houses are a part of a large urban development project to transform a former industrial area on the harbour of Stockholm into the city's new high-profile environmental area called Norra Djurgaardsstaden.
The houses, 18 in total, stand right on the edge between the city and a nature reserve, neighbouring a former gasworks turned into a cultural centre and the Husarviken stream. The architecture is inspired by the gasworks’ red bricks and simple geometry as well as by the area's green qualities, expressed in the warm tones of weathering steel facades combined with lighter wooden facades.
The aim of the housing district is to adapt to global climate changes, so that in 2030 the district will no longer make use of fossil fuels. In addition to minimizing energy consumption, the Zenhusen (the Zenhouses) development features quality materials that add a Nordic feel and age with beauty - in terms of facade, interior and landscape. Inside, the homes are bright and transparent, featuring double height living rooms and views to sea and nature. Furthermore, residents have access to private patios, roof terraces, balconies and a more intimate, planted courtyard.
The energy consumption will be minimized by means of the massing of the buildings, for example, the town houses are staggered in order to maximize views and daylight. Also contributing are solutions such as intelligent lighting, solar panels for heating, and heat recovery.
The town houses will feature green roofs, which - along with a landscaped pond in the common yard - collects rainwater, convert CO2, and provide a fertile ground for biodiversity. The sustainable approach is continuous throughout the building life cycle - from construction phase to operational phase and a possible later decomposition phase, i.e. Cradle to Cradle Design.
www.cfmoller.com/p/-en/Zenhouses-high-profile-environment...
The Barbican Estate, or Barbican, is a residential complex of around 2,000 flats, maisonettes, and houses in central London, within the City of London. It is in an area once devastated by World War II bombings and densely populated by financial institutions. Originally built as rental housing for middle and upper-middle-class professionals, it remains an upmarket residential estate. It contains, or is adjacent to, the Barbican Arts Centre, the Museum of London, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Barbican public library, the City of London School for Girls forming the Barbican Complex. (From Wikipedia).
One bedroom flats are currently selling for around £1 million.
Architects Alison and Peter Smithson, 1972. The "streets in the sky" residential development at Poplar is now approved for demolition. Shown is the 10-storey, east block; behind is the Balfron Tower and the Orbit Tower. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
A different design from the one I posted a few days ago - much more angular...
It is located between Speed House (on the right) and Brandon Mews (on the left). The heavy gates at the bottom give access to/from the garage level. Speed House was the first Barbican block to be completed, in July 1969. Its seven stories contained 114 flats, maisonettes and penthouses, varying in size from two to five rooms. One of the floors of maisonettes is below the podium, i.e. somewhere down those stairs.
Brandon Mews, completed in November 1969, is a small terrace containing 26 two-storey homes clad in glazed engineering brick. All are below podium level and face out onto the Barbican Water Garden and Speed Garden (a very small part of which can be seen through the stairs).
Shot taken from the podium level in front of Willoughby House.
This view is taken from the podium level (one floor above ground level) under Andrewes House, looking north-west.
The tower block dominating the centre is the 43-storey-high Cromwell Tower (garage level, foyer, 38 stories of flats and two of penthouses), completed in January 1973 as part of Phase III of the Barbican project. It contains 108 flats (three per floor) and three penthouse maisonettes.
On the left, seven-storey-high Gilbert House (five floors of flats, two of penthouses), completed in August 1969 is the terrace building straddling the lake on tall concrete stilts. It contains 88 flats; the penthouses range from 1-5 rooms each. Behind Gilbert House can be seen the upper reaches of Lauderdale Tower. To the right of shot is Speed House, completed in July 1969 and the first Barbican block to be completed. It has 114 flats, maisonettes and penthouses over seven floors.
In the foreground is the Barbican Water Gardens. The lake isn't just for show; it was designed to provide cooling for the Barbican Centre's air-conditioning. It is replenished by rainfall but can be topped up from hydrants. The water is completely recirculated every two days - and there are some big fish in there...
The terrace and low building beyond it in the centre of shot is the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, which includes a theatre and concert hall for use by the students. Above and behind it, the glass panels are the outer covering of the Conservatory, which opened in 1984. It's an enclosure of exotic flora, pools, walkways and fountains with a mix of temperate and semi-tropical plants. In 1986 an Arid House was added.
The Barbican has two main gardens which both abut the lake, Thomas More Garden and this one, Speed Garden. It is the smaller of the two and sits at the eastern end of the lake, between Speed House (behind my right shoulder) and Brandon Mews (over my left shoulder).
The two terrace blocks beyond the park are Andrewes House (on the left) and Gilbert House (on the right). Although difficult to see, between the garden and Andrewes House is the lake. If you look carefully just below the curved window in the centre-left of the image you can make out the lake between the bushes on the far side of the garden.
Speed Garden used to have more trees in it than seen above. Some were removed because the grass was suffering due to a lack of direct sunlight. Both of the main gardens are for residents only; the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (mostly hidden behind the trees on the right) overlooks, but has no access to, the garden.
Καστέλλο της Ροδοδάφνης, γνωστό ως "Πύργος της Πλακεντίας".
Η Σοφία ντε Μαρμπουά Λεμπράν (Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun), Δούκισσα της Πλακεντίας (Duchess of Plaisance), υπήρξε φιλέλληνας αμερικανίδα, γόνος Γάλλου διπλωμάτη και σύζυγος του Δούκα της Πλακεντίας, μιας μικρής πόλης στη βόρεια Ιταλία. Η δράση της εστιάστηκε στην ενίσχυση του απελευθερωτικού αγώνα των Ελλήνων, με μεγάλη οικονομική και κοινωνική συνεισφορά κατά τα πρώτα χρόνια εδραίωσης του νεοελληνικού έθνους, εν μέσω πολιτικών ταραχών.
Το 1840 ανέθεσε στον αρχιτέκτονα Κλεάνθη την οικοδόμηση του περιβόητου Καστέλλου της Ροδοδάφνης, γνωστό ως "Πύργος της Πλακεντίας", καθώς και τρία σπίτια, τη Maisonette (Μεζονέτα), την Plaisance (Πλακεντία) και τον Tourelle (Πυργίσκο). Για την κατασκευή τους συνεργάστηκαν ο Χριστιανός Χάνσεν και ο μηχανικός Αλέξανδρος Γεωργαντάς.
Απεβίωσε το 1854 σε ηλικία 69 χρονών. Ετάφη μαζί με την κόρη της στον Πύργο της στη Πεντέλη. Ο θάνατός της δεν της επέτρεψε να δει ολοκληρωμένο το αρχιτεκτονικό αριστούργημα του Καστέλλου της Ροδοδάφνης, το οποίο ολοκληρώθηκε λίγο αργότερα και περιήλθε στο δημόσιο.
I went to the Barbican in London with several cameras. This is taken with my Canon G9 that I have converted to full spectrum with a 720nm infrared pass filter on.
This is handheld 3 picture HDR processed in Photoshop.
The Barbican Estate, or Barbican, is a residential complex of around 2,000 flats, maisonettes and houses in central London, England, within the City of London. It is in an area once devastated by World War II bombings and densely populated by financial institutions, 1.4 miles (2.2 km) north east of Charing Cross.[1] Originally built as rental housing for middle- and upper-middle-class professionals, it remains an upmarket residential estate. It contains, or is adjacent to, the Barbican Centre, the Museum of London, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Barbican public library, the City of London School for Girls forming the Barbican Complex.
A great venue for a day of photography.
Rochford Walk is part of the Blackstone Estate on London Fields West Side in Hackney, built in 1970-75.
It consists of two terraces of maisonettes facing across a central elevated 'street', beneath which is the car park (lit up in the lower middle of this shot).
I really need to come back and take this shot properly with a tripod and set a much lower ISO - this one was opportunistic and hand-held.
Boorowa. Tipperary of the South.Squatters beyond the approved Nineteen Counties settle here in 1828.Their properties were worked with assigned convicts euphemistically called assigned servants! The lands along the Boorowa River were very fertile as they were volcanic soils from an extinct volcano. This squatting era ended in the mid-1840s and when the assignment of convicts ended in 1841 many were forced to stay on in the Boorowa district to which they had been assigned. Thus many ticket-of-leave convicts and ex-convicts of Irish ancestry stayed on in the Boorowa district. The town of Boorowa was laid out in 1850 but not much happened in terms of town development until the 1860s. The Irish ex-convicts were political convicts from Clonoulty in Tipperary where they had stormed a hospital in 1815 that a garrison of British troops intended to occupy. During the night 15 Irishmen levelled the former infirmary. They were tried in 1816 and along with about 135 other convicts they were transported from Cork to Sydney, arriving in December 1816. Many ended up as assigned convicts near Boorowa. In the 1850s free Irish settlers, escaping the 1848 potato famine, also migrated to the Boorowa district. So many Irish people moved here that it was known as the Tipperary of the South. A popular story was that when a Catholic nun was asked if she had been to Ireland she said no but she had been to Boorowa. Consequently the first substantial stone Catholic Church west of the Great Divide was built in Boorowa in local stone in 1855 but non-stone Catholic Churches had been built earlier in Bathurst in 1843 and Yass in 1844. With time the Boorowa church deteriorated and was replaced with the current St Patrick’s Church built in 1877. One of the stained glass windows in the Catholic Church above the entrance door is a memorial to Daniel O’Connell “The Liberator of Ireland”. He started the process of independence from the British. Next to the Catholic Church is the St Joseph’s Catholic School built in 1882 although the town had a small Catholic school from 1848. The creek through the parklands is Ryan’s Creek which flows into Boorowa River (a tributary of the Lachlan River). A rudimentary town emerged in the 1850s and 1860s with the first police station built in 1857, the first Post Office in 1856, first Courthouse in 1860, the first hotels and stores. The fine buildings still standing in the town today are the Courthouse (1884), the Post Office (1876), the unusual Memorial Clock Tower (1933), the original Council Chambers (1909), the Guild Hall (1909), the Mechanics Institute (1883), Glenara House, now a gallery ( 1866) and the former Star Hotel next to it ( 1867) etc.
A bought photo from a scrap book of unknown origin.
The sign on the right says semi detached houses & maisonettes for the huge sum of £4,150. the reverse of the photo says Sept 1967
With people wishing to have smaller and more easily managed houses after the Great War (1914 - 1918), architects began designing new ways of living in the 1920s and 1930s including flats and maisonettes.
This wonderfully stylised 1930s Streamline Moderne pair of maisonettes (two houses joined by a shared central wall), is a perfect example of this new way of living during the Interwar period.
The maisonette in this photograph, which is only one of the two, shows round porthole feature windows with rippled glass, stuccoed brick walls with speed line detailing, a natutical porch lamp, a rounded porch and rounded front steps. This is totally different to its pair, which has the honeyed clinker brick walls exposed with horizontal bars of brown bricks and geometric patterns in concrete between the streamlined windows.
This way, even though the maisonettes were joined, the owners did not have to sacrifice their individuality!
Located at one end of Bryer Court, a terrace block in the Barbican. The exposed concrete and heavy iron railings and gates are found throughout the complex. The Court is named after W Bryer & Sons, gold refiners and assayers, whose premises were demolished to make way for the building.
The Barbican Estate, or Barbican, is a residential complex of around 2,000 flats, maisonettes, and houses within the City of London. It is in an area once devastated by WWII bombings and densely-populated by financial institutions, 2.2 km north-east of Charing Cross. Originally built as rental housing for middle and upper-middle-class professionals, it remains an upmarket residential estate. It contains, or is adjacent to, the Barbican Arts Centre, the Museum of London, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Barbican public library, the City of London School for Girls and a YMCA (now closed), forming the Barbican Complex. The residential estate consists of three tower blocks, 13 terrace blocks, two mews and The Postern, Wallside and Milton Court.
The entirety is a prominent example of British brutalist architecture and is Grade II listed (apart from one added apartment tower - The Heron). The flats reflect the widespread use in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s of concrete as the visible face of the building. The complex is also characteristic for its total separation of vehicles from pedestrians throughout the area ('slab urbanism'). This is achieved through the use of 'highwalks' - walkways of varying width and shape, usually located 1-3 stories above the surrounding ground level. Most pedestrian circulation takes place on these highwalks, while roads and car parking spaces are relegated to the lower level.