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The recently restored Victorian bandstand on the seafront in Brighton makes for a very photogenic subject at any time of day. For this vintage style shot I've framed the disintegrating West Pier in the centre of the frame.
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From www.brightonbandstand.co.uk/users/history , "Brighton Bandstand, the Birdcage sitting on the city seafront, designed by Phillip Lockwood and completed in 1884 is designated as a Grade II Listed Building of Architectural importance. The fancy cast iron work was manufactured by Walter Macfarlane & Co. of Saracen Foundry in Glasgow, now operating as Heritage Engineering."
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Yates Mill is a fully restored, circa 1756 gristmill located in Raleigh, NC.
It is the centerpiece of Historic Yates Mill County Park, located in central Wake County. The mill is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is the only restored operational automatic mill in North Carolina and one of just a few in the country.
EXPLORED ~ Highest position: #22 on Thursday, July 9, 2009
the owner of this awesome restored and customized Valmobile was making the rounds at the Bob Baker car show. I need something this cool to get me around at car shows,it would fit in the trunk w/no problem...
here's a link to w/more about Valmoblie scooters
www.oldbike.eu/wordpress/?page_id=3292
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The restoration of this car, which sits in a little park across the main street from the city offices, was done as an Eagle Scount project by a young man named Rick Martinez. he completed the project in 1993. Sadly, he only lived from 1978-1998. Quite an accomplishment.
Beautiful restored gardens at Menai Bridge on Anglesey, North Wales. A mix of formal features, well planted borders and a woodland garden leading down to the river with so many different plants. I'd love to visit in summer as it's planted for all seasons.
This is the first of many new images from my time spent at a Flickr Gathering in upstate New York. You can read all about it and see LOTS of behind the scenes pictures AND a speed edit on my blog! :)
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The Kathleen & May the last remaining British built three mastered Schooner at Canning Dock Liverpool. Built by Ferguson & Baird on the River Dee at Connahs Quay North Wales in 1900. Restoration commenced in 1998 at Bideford Devon to near enough her original 1900 build and is fully sea going (with essential modern additions) and now included on the Historical Ships List.
Lockport,IL...Restored in 1984,originally built in 1838 as a storage facility for supplies to build the I&M Canal, it also saw service as a grain storage facility. The 3 story addition was added in 1859,and was a store owned by George Gaylord. Now houses a museum and gallery,as well as a fine restaurant. More info at www.gaylordbuilding.org/
During the war, the tunnels of Piccadilly Circus were used to store expensive works of art from the London museums and galleries, unknown to anyone until they were unearthed after the war. Here an old photograph shows them being carried out during rush hour, and note the guy carrying this expensive artwork .. with a lit cigarette in his hand!!
Taken at the annual Spring Grove car show held in Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum in Cincinnati, Ohio.
This beauty has been restored to it's original condition other than a few power upgrades to the flathead motor. Many like this one have been chopped rather than restored. I would think it would do well in a concours de elegance show. Althought ai can't blame the owner on a hot day like this was, but from my point of view as a photographer, it sure is a shame it was parked under some trees which cast some unwanted shadows on it. I would love to get it in a different place, but you have to do whatever is necessary to get the shot before the car gets away never to be seen again.
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This photo was ranked amongst the "World's Best Photo of Malaysia"
After an amazing 41 years and over 5.3 million cars, the Rover Mini finally ended production on the 4th of October 2000. The story does not end here however - A new "MINI" arrived to much fanfare and a new generation of fans - and the "Classic" Mini retains a HUGE following from its fans around the world. Long live the Mini! Mini World and Mini Resources are two links I can suggest to you guys to start your reading.
Wonder why all this fuss about Mini? Well, I practically grew up in one. And please look as what it might have looked like before the restoration, a parody by a good friend CS Wong
Gears: Nikon D50, Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AI
Location: Kampung Cina (Chinatown), Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia
The article below originated from:
Traditional Building Magazine
Updated: Jan 6, 2020
Original: Feb 2, 2016
Originally built in 1916, the Palm Beach courthouse was a tour de force of Neoclassical architecture. The architect Wilber Burt Talley designed a granite base, brick and stone façades, soaring Indiana limestone columns and Corinthian capitals that held up triangle pediments, and a dentil molding below the cornice. The four-story, 40,000-sq.ft. the building housed the county government offices and records, as well as the jail.
Almost immediately the courthouse ran out of space, and 11 years later an addition was constructed 25 feet to the east. Talley again served as the courthouse architect, and the 1927 addition was similar in appearance and used many of the same materials as the original building. In 1955, the two buildings were connected with usable rooms to accommodate the growing county.
Yet another addition was required in the late ’60s; it was completed in 1969. The architecture firm Edge & Powell delivered a brick building that nearly doubled the square footage to 180,000 sq. ft. This time, the addition was less than sympathetic. In fact, the 1916 and 1927 buildings were lost in the center of the new construction, which wrapped around them completely.
The building was utilized for 36 years in this configuration, until 1995, when a new courthouse opened across the street. Expansions had plagued the 1916 courthouse almost as soon as it was built, and this was no exception. “After the new courthouse opened, the old one was slated for demolition,” says Rick Gonzales, Jr., AIA, CEO and principal at REG Architects. “Since I knew about the 1916 courthouse, I recognized the potential of the site and got in touch with preservation specialists in the area. It took some time, but a group of us eventually convinced the county to fund a feasibility study, which we conducted in 2002.”
Gonzales talks about stimulating interest in the project: “We would go to the new courthouse to sell our idea and walk people up to the windows to look at the old site,” he says.
“‘Believe it or not, there’s a building inside that building,’ I’d say. That really piqued people’s interest.”
The county agreed to fund the project, and demolition of the additions began in January 2004 and was completed two years later. “It took a long time because it was a selective demolition,” says Gonzales. “We needed to be careful to salvage many of the materials from the 1927 building to use in the restoration of the 1916 structure. It resembled the original, so we took everything we could for reuse.” A number of materials were recovered, including limestone, granite, wood windows, doors, marble wainscot, mosaic floor tiles, wood flooring, trim, and hardware.
While a majority of the materials were the same from building to building, the detailing was not identical. “We were working from the drawings of the 1927 building because we couldn’t find drawings for the earlier structure,” says Gonzales. “We had thought the detailing was the same, but when we put our studies together we saw that the rhythm, proportion, and cornices were different.”
When REG Architects couldn’t apply the 1927 documentation to the restoration, the firm examined what was remaining of the building and the few images that had survived. “For a while, we had no cornice pieces, because all of the exterior ornamentations had been destroyed when the façades were smoothed for the addition,” says Gonzales. “Then a contractor found a 16-in. piece, which we used to re-create the cornice line.”
Other elements that needed to be re-created, such as the granite and limestone porticos on the north, south, and west façades, were designed using historic photographs. “We found limestone with the same vein from the same Indiana quarry that was originally used,” says Gonzales. “We were extremely lucky in that the quarry ran out of that vein right after our order.” REG Architects was also able to match the granite.
Many components of the building were salvaged and restored. The cornerstones were restored and placed in their original locations at the northwest corner. The 12 Corinthian capitals and the load-bearing limestone columns – each of which weighs 30,600 lbs. – were pieced back together and repaired. “Placement of the capitals was especially tedious,” says Gonzales, “because it needed to be precise. They were then secured with pegs and glue.”
On the north, south, and west elevations, the brick was restored and, when necessary, replaced. “We couldn’t locate replacement brick with the same hues as the existing brick hues,” says Gonzales, “so we hired artists to stain it so that it blended with the original brick.” On the east elevation, REG Architects specified new brick so the new façade clearly stood out from the old ones.
To the same point, new hurricane-proof wood windows were chosen for the east elevation, while REG Architects was careful to preserve as many old windows as possible on the other elevations. Hedrick Brothers repaired 76 original wood windows as well as the window hardware. “We found a local manufacturer, Coastal Millwork of Riviera Beach, FL, to get the original windows tested for hurricane-preparedness,” says Gonzales. “The company reinforced and laminated the windows, so we were able to reinstall them.”
The crowning achievement of the exterior work was the re-creation of an eagle crest on the west pediment.
Based on a small postcard and images of other eagle crests, Ontario, Canada-based Traditional Cut Stone designed the crest for Palm Beach. “They created a small scale model and then a full-scale model in clay,” says Gonzales. “The final piece, which took five months to produce, was hand-carved from five pieces of Indiana limestone.” Traditional Cut Stone was also responsible for all of the limestone work on the building. REG Architects based much of its interior design on the Desoto County Courthouse in Arcadia, FL, which was built by Talley in 1913.
“The dilemma about the interiors was that there was little archival material and few original photographs to give a precise vision for the interiors,” says Gonzales. “Emphasis was placed on trying to restore the character of the main courtroom and the main interior public spaces.” The main courtroom on the third and fourth floors was especially aided by the Desoto research. The millwork was re-created and the plaster ceiling and moldings, maple flooring, doors, and door hardware were restored. Replica lighting was fabricated.
Architectural elements in the corridors and staircases received similar treatment. Hendrick Brothers uncovered the original mosaic flooring and had it repaired. Only five percent of the tile needed to be replaced; in these cases, matching tile from the 1927 building was used. About 80 percent of the marble wainscoting was salvaged, while the other 20 percent was replaced with matching marble from the original quarry. Wood doors and door hardware were salvaged and reused.
All of the building code upgrades – including efficient HVAC, fire protection, and hurricane protection – were hidden as much as possible with historic finishes. The alley elevation provided an ADA-accessible entrance and space for elevators.
The newly restored Palm Beach County Court House now accommodates a museum for the historical society, as well as offices for the County’s Public Affairs Department and County Attorney. “People say this project was an alignment of the stars,” says Gonzales. “It was. We were lucky to have the opportunity to save this building, we worked with a lot of great people, and it turned out well. It was a great labor of love.” TB
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.traditionalbuilding.com/projects/courthouse-unwrapped
downtownwpb.com/things-to-do/history-museum-and-restored-...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_and_Pat_Johnson_Palm_Beach_...
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A couple of quick scenes for an ongoing storyline in Brethren of the Brick Seas on Eurobricks. Both scenes recycle older builds of mine and are for the purpose of illustrating the story only.
In Museum Mauritshuis The Hague, The Lamentation of Christ (c.1460-1464) by Rogier van der Weyden is being restored in a specially built studio in the exhibition space of the Museum.
The restoration project in public includes a very special loan: Rogier van der Weyden’s Entombment of Christ (1460-1464). This painting comes from the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence.
More of the restoration and the paintings at:
johanphoto.blogspot.com/2018/08/rogier-van-der-weyden-ont...
A section of the recently restored 2nd-century Roman theatre, which is a famous landmark in the Jordanian capital of Amman.
On the Zijkanaal, Amsterdam North. Last time I walked passed here which was probably 5 years ago this crane was in pieces behind some fencing.
Looks good what has been done to it.
Also a new bridge just along from it.
Mint restored Fiat two door open top dates from 1973.Not sure what model i am more into Bikes so any info would be gratefully received. Very smart indeed.
Standing on the events field at Beamish Museum is this pair of restored vehicles with, perhaps, very little in common other than their fine states of restoration.
On the left is a beautifully restored 1939 G2SW Morris Super-Six taxi, registered FLM 807. It was originally registered in May 1939 and worked as a London taxi until 1957.
The truck is a 1951 Bedford M-Series dropside truck registered WXG 577.
The vehicles paid a short visit to Beamish as part of their Transport Gala of September 2022.
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In-camera double exposure, processed in LR4
I'm listening to Kenny Wheeler, Lennart Aberg, John Taylor and Bobo Stenson in a recording at Umea Folkets Hus. Better than a wet weekday in Hampshire I can tell you...
A restored Sinclair gas station in White Post, Clarke County, Virginia. The white post signpost for which the town is named for is in front of the station, in the middle of the intersection.
Nikon D850 with Nikkor 85mm PC-E F2.8 perspective correction lens, F11, ISO 400. Oben tripod with Benro 3-way geared head.
Wakehurst Place. The house is completely wrapped in fireproof cladding so that work can be undertaken in repairing the roof. The public were able to access a viewing platform to see the work and to have a view over the gardens.
81/123 pictures in 2023: Preservation of a building
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Arriving at the beautifully restored Arley station with a Severn Valley Railway heritage steam service from Kidderminster is former Great Western Railway Class 2800 locomotive No. 2857. The loco was designed by G.J. Churchward and built at Swindon in 1918.
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