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My wife, Lisa pointed out to me this interesting visual as we were about to leave the Art Gallery of Ontario.
What appears to be someone drawing nothing, is actually a fellow art lover drawing the wooden set of stairs in the previous picture :)
Det Norske Opera og Ballett Hus/The Norwegian Opera and Ballet House, Oslo Norway. The building lies in Bjørvika, in the center of Oslo, at the head of the Oslofjord. Designed by Architektenkontoret Snohetta, Oslo, Norway
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Filey Brigg is a long narrow peninsula at the end of Filey bay in North Yorkshire and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
It must be forty years since I have visited and it holds very happy memories for me. I'm sure my love and fascination with the sea originates from the times as a child when I used to spend many a happy hour ferreting about in the rock pools which are exposed at low tide or watching the waves crash over the harbour walls in nearby Bridlington. We would usually be making a visit to my grandparents who lived in a small village on the Yorkshire Wolds near the quaintly named locales of Wetwang and Thwing.
I have vivid memories of the Brigg during the heatwave of 1876 when we had an invasion of ladybirds and the rocks were completely carpeted in seething masses of them.
I made my way to the end of the cliffs expecting to make the steep and precarious descent down to the rocks below, but of course this is the era of rule by the Health and Safety Police and that avenue of enjoyment has now, sadly, been denied. Probably just as well as I would undoubtedly arrived on the rocks just a little sooner than planned! So faced with a sign warning of imminent death, being the incurable conformist that I am, I retraced my steps and made my way down the all too sensible steps.
So to the image. I processed a photo taken from the cliff top and on reflection I felt it would make a good charcoal drawing, so here is my lame attempt at recreating it. Personally I think it looks like a dragons tail emerging from the sea which by absolute coincidence links to the legend which states that the rocks of the Brigg were the bones of a dragon, which terrorized the area but was outsmarted by the townsfolk, who drowned it when it dived into the sea to wash parkin (a Yorkshire cake) from between its teeth. I always suspected us Yorkshire folk were a bit weird, although I am pleased to note that dragons are diligent creatures when it comes to dental health!
As I'm being all nostalgic, albeit in a conformist sort of way, here's a classic track from the past.
Elizabethan Classics English turn console lavatory sink in white and Strom Plumbing Sacramento bathroom sink faucet and cross handles in chrome, Vintage Tub & Bath; vintagetubandbath.com. 2" marble hexagon tile, Ann Sacks; annsacks.com. Ralph Lauren Clubhouse Classics Great Harbor White wallpaper (LCW22213W); ralphlauren.com.
Photo from Coastal Living.
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2009 Challenge, Day 313: HALLWAY
I don't have to many "blue Mondays" but today didn't feel like coming to work!! And I remembered today's photochallenge "Hallway"!! since the office bldg. has a nice hallway, I decided the challenge wins over the blues!!
Was so disappointed to see this ugly "rainy days" carpet covering the beautiful tiles and reflections!! This is not what I was aiming for in my mind, instead it was like the shot below that I took in August!!!. Went to the lobby few times, carpet didn't disappear!! Asked Juan, the janitor (u remember him from my "clean" shot!!) about the carpet and he said very diplomatically "could be there for tomorrow's rain", erasing all hopes of removal of the ugly carpet!!
Looking at this shot positively, now, I guess it enhances the perspective!! :))
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Detail of courtyard floor, comprising marble tiles surrounded by zellige patterning. Probably late C19. At the Dar Si Said museum, Riad Ez-Zaitoun El Jadid, Marrakech, Morocco.
The site of the balcony was originally home to the watchtower of a 9th century defensive fortification, used by the Moors to monitor the coastline and protect against pirates and smugglers sailing around the coastline. Years of fighting and a battering from the elements took their toll on the tower, which was subsequently rebuilt in 1487. It was then known as La BaterÃa after the battery of guns that sat inside it and protected the town. The tower was attacked and destroyed by British ship the Hyacinth in May 1812, part of an envoy that was fighting in coalition with Guerilla Spanish forces against Napoleon´s French troops, during the Spanish War of Independence (The Peninsula War).
The large boulders and rocky debris that still lie at the base of the balcony are a reminder of the fighting and the destruction of the fortress. The two rusty cannons recovered years later are presented on the balcony as a reminder of this battle. The area where the balcony now sits suffered further destruction in the earthquake which occurred in Nerja on 25 December 1884. The following year the balcony came to earn its present name.
King Alfonso XII visited Nerja to see for himself the destruction of the earthquake, and was taken aback by the view and the beauty of the place. He stood on the cliff where the balcony is now and said "this is the Balcony of Europe". After that (in spite of rumours that it had already been nicknamed Balcón de Europa for some time) the platform was rebuilt as a balcony.
The surrounding area was built up in 1930, adding a short promenade leading to the balcony and a number of cafés; it was then officially named Balcón de Europa. In honour of this historic moment, a sculpture of King Alfonso XII sits on the balcony, leaning against the railings.
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This kind of came about organically, in a way. My husband and I just finished renovating a client's bathroom. I brought my camera to shoot the after photos, and as I was shooting, I thought this would be a great way to implement my prompt for the week. My client and I picked out this gorgeous marble hexagon tile. I'm so very proud of the work and the bathroom looks amazing! Great accomplishment! :D
Leaca uaighe Aodh, Barún Dhún Ceanainn agus Ruaidhrà Ó Domhnaill, Iarla ThÃr Chonaill, i séipéal San Pietro in Montorio.
The grave slabs of Hugh, baron of Dungannon, and Rory O’Donnell, earl of Tyrconnell in the church of San Pietro in Montorio.
Christ Church, built almost on the corner of Glenlyon Road and Brunswick Street in Brunswick, is a picturesque slice of Italy in inner city Melbourne. With its elegant proportions, warm yellow stuccoed facade and stylish Romanesque campanile, the church would not look out of place sitting atop a rise in Tuscany, or being the centre of an old walled town. This idea is further enhanced when the single bell rings from the campanile, calling worshipers to prayer.
Christ Church has been constructed in a cruciform plan with a detached campanile. Although not originally intended as such, at its completion, the church became an excellent example of "Villa Rustica" architecture in Australia. Like other churches around the inner city during the boom and bust eras of the mid Nineteenth Century as Melbourne became an established city, the building was built in stages between 1857 and 1875 as money became available to extend and better what was already in existence. Christ Church was dedicated in 1857 when the nave, designed by architects Purchas and Swyer, was completed. The transepts, chancel and vestry were completed between 1863 and 1864 to the designs created by the architects' firm Smith and Watts. The Romanesque style campanile was also designed by Smith and Watts and it completed between 1870 and 1871. A third architect, Frederick Wyatt, was employed to design the apse which was completed in 1875.
Built in Italianate style with overture characteristics of classical Italian country house designs, Christ Church is one of the few examples of what has been coined "Villa Rustica" architecture in Victoria.
Slipping through the front door at the bottom of the campanile, the rich smell of incense from mass envelops visitors. As soon as the double doors which lead into the church proper close behind you, the church provides a quiet refuge from the busy intersection of Glenlyon Road and Brunswick Street outside, and it is quite easy to forget that cars and trams pass by just a few metres away. Walking up the aisle of the nave of Christ Church, light pours over the original wooden pews with their hand embroidered cushions through sets of luminescent stained glass windows by Melbourne manufacturers, Ferguson and Urie, Mathieson and Gibson and Brooks Robinson and Company. A set of fourteen windows from the mid-to-late Nineteenth Century by Ferguson and Urie depicting different saints are especially beautiful, filled with painted glass panes which are as vivid now as when they were created more than one hundred years ago. The floors are still the original dark, richly polished boards that generations of worshipers have walked over since they were first laid. The east transept houses the Lady Chapel, whilst the west transept is consumed by the magnificent 1972 Roger H. Pogson organ built of cedar with tin piping. This replaced the original 1889 Alfred Fuller organ. Beautifully executed carved rood figures watch over the chancel from high, perhaps admiring the marble altar.
Albert Purchas, born in 1825 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, was a prominent Nineteenth Century architect who achieved great success for himself in Melbourne. Born to parents Robert Whittlesey Purchas and Marianne Guyon, he migrated to Australia in 1851 to establish himself in the then quickly expanding city of Melbourne, where he set up a small architect's firm in Little Collins Street. He also offered surveying services. His first major building was constructing the mansion "Berkeley Hall" in St Kilda on Princes Street in 1854. The house still exists today. Two years after migrating, Albert designed the layout of the Melbourne General Cemetery in Carlton. It was the first "garden cemetery" in Victoria, and his curvilinear design is still in existence, unaltered, today. In 1854, Albert married Eliza Anne Sawyer (1825 - 1869) in St Kilda. The couple had ten children over their marriage, including a son, Robert, who followed in his father's footsteps as an architect. Albert's brother-in-law, Charles Sawyer joined him in the partnership of Purchas and Sawyer, which existed from 1856 until 1862 in Queens Street. The firm produced more than 140 houses, churches, offices and cemetery buildings including: the nave and transepts of Christ Church St Kilda between 1854 and 1857, "Glenara Homestead"in Bulla in 1857, the Melbourne Savings Bank on the corner of Flinders Lane and Market Street (now demolished) between 1857 and 1858, the Geelong branch of the Bank of Australasia in Malop Street between 1859 and 1860, and Beck's Imperial Hotel in Castlemaine in 1861. When the firm broke up, Albert returned to Little Collins Street, and the best known building he designed during this period was St. George's Presbyterian Church in East St Kilda between 1877 and 1880. The church's tall polychomatic brick bell tower is still a local landmark, even in the times of high rise architecture and development, and St, George's itself is said to be one of his most striking church designs. Socially, Albert was vice president of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects for many years, before becoming president in 1887. He was also an inventor and philanthropist. Albert died in 1909 at his home in Kew, a wealthy widower and much loved father.
You really can swim in place indoors! The Fastlane delivers Endless Pools' signature current to almost any ordinary pool ... and even to some extraordinary ones!
This Roman pool gets added grandeur from the Italianate mural, tile floor, and pedestal planters.
The Fastlane lets you enjoy an uninterrupted, open-water-style swim. The view you emerge to is entirely up to you!
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Monarchy Medallions: Circular cut water-jet floor medallions. Made of pure A grade marble and bespoke designs can be designed and manufactured to clients needs.
Monarchy Medallions: Circular cut water-jet floor medallions. Made of pure A grade marble and bespoke designs can be designed and manufactured to clients needs.
XingWang Flooring Tile Factory Outlet accepting PayPal, Free Samples! Flooring Tile Factory Outlet accepting PayPal, Free Samples, No Min Order! Buy Marble Flooring Tile from our factory located alongside the quarry.