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Just a few cases of red brick used for this sculpture… I built a variety of sizes for their new logo.
Posted with permission from Crum & Forster.
Red brick building with fancy doors in Cornwall Street, Birmingham.
Unfortunately, a few days in Birmingham were enough only for quick sight-seeing. Fortunately, the weather was behaving, though...
Taken with Panasonic GF1 camera and Panasonic G 14mm F2.5 wide-angle pancake lens, during our trip to Birmingham, early May 2015.
Gustav Adolf Church or the Scandinavian Seamen's Church is a historical building located in Park Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It consists of a church, built between 1883 and 1884, and an attached minister's house, and provides a centre for the Liverpool International Nordic Community.The combined church and minister's house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
During the later part of the 19th century, large numbers of Scandinavian emigrants were passing though Liverpool, and there was a need to serve their spiritual needs. The first Scandinavian priest was appointed in 1870, who visited the emigrants in ships and boarding houses. There was perceived to be a need for a permanent centre. The commission to design a church and minister's house was gained by W. D. Caroe, whose father, Anders Kruuse Caroe, was the Danish Consul in the city. It was Caroe's first independent commission to design a church.[3] Building started in 1883 and was completed the following year, at a cost of £15,000 (equivalent to £1,430,000 in 2016).
I just liked the look of this building. Its raining pretty hard here and we're hiding under an awning waiting for a break. I took this and punched it up to make it more interesting. New Albany, Indiana
The Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall) is the town hall of Berlin, located in the Mitte district on Rathausstraße near Alexanderplatz. It is the home to the governing mayor and the government (the Senate of Berlin) of the Federal state of Berlin. The name of the landmark building dates from the facade design with red clinker bricks. [Wikipedia]
A ginnel is an alleyway. This very simple shot seems to have a nice quality to its light and the car at the end even adds to the harmony...
Hmmm... what you think looking at this? I would like to go... slowly, step by step, go straight to the blue... ;)
But this is only tower of the castle in Radzyń Chełmiński :))
Soaking up the final hour of sunlight riding their scooters on the roundabout.
Nikon D700
AF Zoom-Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8 ED
Emerging from the quiet of the pre-dawn hours, this historic building at the corner of 20th and Georgia in San Francisco's Pier 70 district possesses a powerful sense of permanence and history. The photograph captures the scene during the early morning blue hour, where the remaining darkness of the night sky provides a deep, dramatic backdrop to the warmly lit structure. The building, constructed primarily of rich, red-orange brick, is brought to life by strategically placed exterior lighting.
The architecture is impressive, featuring two stories of monumental, repeating arched windows framed with subtle green trim and dark, heavy sills. This design reflects the building’s original use as a grand, utilitarian headquarters or workshop within the Union Iron Works complex. The ground-level uplighting washes the lower half of the walls, highlighting the texture and color of the aged brickwork.
At the corner, the transition to the modern era is visible. A low, tiled overhang covers a contemporary entrance featuring glass and metal, indicating its current use as commercial or office space. This addition is directly beneath the historic street sign prominently marking the intersection. The foreground is dominated by the wide, empty intersection, where the dark asphalt meets the classic brick paving of the sidewalk, contrasted sharply by the bright, white lines of the crosswalk. The stillness of the empty street is palpable, emphasizing the brief moment of solitude before the city's daytime activity begins. This striking view is a testament to the preservation and revitalization of San Francisco's industrial landmarks against the cool, crisp light of a new day.
The Prudential Building at Holborn Bars was built in phases between 1879 and 1901 to the designs of Alfred Waterhouse. It was the headquarters of what was the largest life assurance company in Britain. It is now in multiple occupancy and Grade II* listed.
There was a little alley in San Francisco back of the Southern
Pacific station at Third and Townsend in redbrick of drowsy lazy
afternoons with everybody at work in offices in the air you feel
the impending rush of their commuter frenzy as soon they’ll be
charging en masse from Market and Sansome buildings on foot
and in buses and all well-dressed thru workingman Frisco of
Walkup ?? truck drivers and even the poor grime-bemarked Third
Street of lost bums even Negros so hopeless and long left East
and meanings of responsibility and try that now all they do is
stand there spitting in the broken glass sometimes fifty in one
afternoon against one wall at Third and Howard and here’s all
these Millbrae and San Carlos neat-necktied producers and
commuters of America and Steel civilization rushing by with San
Francisco Chronicles and green Call-Bulletins not even enough
time to be disdainful, they’ve got to catch 130, 132, 134, 136 all
the way up to 146 till the time of evening supper in homes of the
railroad earth when high in the sky the magic stars ride above
the following hotshot freight trains--it’s all in California, it’s all a
sea, I swim out of it in afternoons of sun hot meditation in my
jeans with head on handkerchief on brakeman’s lantern or (if not
working) on book, I look up at blue sky of perfect lostpurity and
feel the warp of wood of old America beneath me and I* have
insane conversations with Negroes in second*-story windows
above and everything is pouring in, the switching moves of
boxcars in that little alley which is so much like the alleys of
Lowell and I hear far off in the sense of coming night that engine
calling our mountains.
Jack Kerouac-October in the Railroad Earth
On 12 Februrary 1974, a friend and I visited the Bay Area for a first ride on BART as well as a trip on the SP commutes. We were planning to go over Christmas break, taking the Coast Starlight from Davis to Richmond, riding BART, then going to the SP's 3rd and Townsend Street station to catch a commute, pulled by an H-24-66, to San Jose and the Starlight back to Davis and home.
This was the very end of 3rd and Townsend, the station SP had built for the 1915 Pan-Pacific Exposition as a temporary structure that somehow held on for almost 60 years, through wars and streamlined Daylights and Larks and dieselization and Amtrak ending long distance passenger service into SF, and now, here it was, with a couple of SDP45s supplementing the F-Ms and Geeps that had been the commute power since the day I was born when diesels took over the commutes from the last of SP's steam.
Within a year or so, the F-Ms were gone and a new station was built south of 4th Street, which Caltrain still uses and is now over 40 years old itself, as old as 3rd and Townsend was when Kerouac and Neal Cassady were working for SP and they and their fellow Beats were having poetry readings in North Beach.
In 1974, there were flagmen who would block 4th Street to traffic when a train was due to leave or arrive at the station during the day. They would come out with their STOP signs from their little cabins and hold up cars for a few seconds until the train cleared, then go back to doing whatever they had been doing.
When rush hour approached and some of the trains extended beyond 4th Street, they would extend a chain across 4th Street and open up 5th Street a block south and flag that for the evening commute parade. 130, the first train that Kerouac mentions in Railroad Earth left at 514 and ran non stop down to what we now call Silicon Valley, before making its stops. In 1974, it was one of the first trains to have an SDP45 and ran with 9 gallery cars, which extended over 4th Street, as did some of the other trains. SP dispatched trains at 3 minute intervals at the rush hour, and my 1958 Official Guide shows the same train numbers and times as prevailed at rush hour in 1974.
Today, Caltrain runs a different service, reflecting that many people are commuting south in the morning and north in the afternoon as Santa Clara County has turned from a bedroom community to an economic powerhouse. The whole neighborhood has changed with former SP yards and freight houses now apartments and condos, and the Giants' 3 Com Park a few blocks north. Streetcars again serve the station with Muni's E, N and T lines.
Free texture. Commercial or whatever. Credit is nice but not mandatory. No rules. Go crazy. My thanks to those who shared texture before me. Let me know if I chose the wrong attribution. I chose wrong before and someone got upset. :P
Built in 1893, this redbrick complex was originally Europe's largest solitary confinement facility, and used to hold political prisoners, including Trotsky in 1905 and, in October 1917, the entire provisional government.
Camera: Canon A-1
Film: Silberra RS100
Lens: Canon FD 50mm 1:1.8
Saint-Petersburg, June '22