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A landscape version of distorted reflections of one mid-century building in the remaining darkened and blown glass panels of another on the brink of demolition.
These are Sentinel House (see flic.kr/p/2rjzqZz) and Charles House in Eccles, Greater Manchester.
Photo taken in July 2025.
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The building was originally a metal works shop, built in 1916. Today, it’s a wine storage facility in a trendy part of Portland.
I am always blown away at the size and grandeur of our Golden Gate Bridge. Very impressive structural engineering.
The Cantuña Chapel houses a small art collection from the Quito School. It’s shrouded in one of Quito’s most famous legends, that of the indigenous builder Cantuña, who supposedly sold his soul so the devil would help him complete the church on time. Just before midnight on the day of his deadline, Cantuña removed a single stone from the structure, meaning the church was never completed. He duped the devil and saved his soul.
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From the aesthetic point of view, the Chapel of Cantuña is a small church with a single vaulted nave, with protruding ribs and lunettes. On the presbytery, which with the ship forms a single body, rests a dome with a flashlight through which the light that fills all this space is filtered. In its back is the sacristy and, when entering the ship, a small choir that is reached through a ladder placed to the right of the entrance to the Chapel. Given its structural simplicity, the ambivalence between spatial organization and decoration is evident in Cantuña, which, as in the main church, has undergone profound transformations. The altarpiece of the main altar together with the pulpit constitute the most interesting decorative element of the space. Attributed to Bernardo de Legarda, his factory would be related to the enormous prestige achieved by the Brotherhood of the Virgen de los Dolores in the second half of the 18th century. In this altarpiece, characteristically baroque, there is a clear predominance of decorative elements over images; It is complemented by the magnificent group of Calvary (of which the Virgin of Sorrows is a part) placed in its central niche, also attributed to the master. Legarda carved the columns, cloths, frieze, cornice, arch, auction and dozens of exquisite ornamental elements. The niches and shelves are full of beautiful sculptures that are also his own; He finally completed the set giving the central niche a frame of mirrors and silver.
The Cantuña Chapel also houses Caspicara's works, including one of his masterpieces: the Impression of the San Francisco Sores, a harmonious and transient group of devout sentiment, whose culmination is the admirable expression of the Saint, abyssed in pain and illumination. No less impressive is the effigy of San Pedro de Alcántara, which for a long time was mistakenly attributed to Father Carlos.
Landscape view of The Columbia Center in downtown Seattle, the second tallest building on the west coast of the USA. I hope that you like this composition.
Architects: Chester L. Lindsey
Another photo of the Hexagon Tower, Manchester.
This building was completed in 1973 for ICI.
For 50 years this Brutalist building’s facade was of concrete. The facade was over-clad with insulated aluminium rainscreen in 2023/2024, retaining the hexagonal shape of the original structure’s windows.
The 14-storey tower was named after the hexagon shaped windows based on the chemical compound Benzene, which is widely used in the creation of synthetic dyes.
Original architect was Richard Seifert.
Photo taken in April 2025.
Another photo of this apartment building facade in Barcelona, Spain. It was inspired by the building opposite, Gaudi’s wavy La Pedrera. Facade architect:: Toyo Ito.
Simple Abstract 25 re-visited, this time in larger landscape version. This is another black and white view looking up at the curvaceous balconies of the 'Riverwalk' apartments, overlooking the River Thames at Westminster, in London. Architects: Stanton Williams.
beneath the bright expanse of glass, travelers move in silence, their mirrored selves etched into the floor below like shadows of another realm. in black and white, the moment becomes timeless, a meditation on waiting and becoming.
A section of the Walbrook Building roofline, photo taken from the inner courtyard behind Cannon Street in the City of London. Architect: Foster & Partners - Built 2010.
Another photo looking up at Lombard Wharf, a residential tower in south London. Architects: Patel Taylor.
Also known as the Arcola High Bridge, is a steel deck arch bridge over the St. Croix River between Stillwater, Minnesota and Somerset, Wisconsin. It was designed by structural engineer C.A.P. Turner and built by the American Bridge Company from 1910 to 1911. Today a late CN L506 with two EMD SD60's: CN 5429 and CN 5428 cross the 2,682 foot long bridge and 184 foot above the river.
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Another image of the much photographed, greatly loved, but soon to be demolished, Welbeck Street Car Park in London. Closed August 2018.
Architect: Michael R Blampied & Partners - 1971
Update April 2019: This building is, sadly, currently in the process of being demolished.
I'm a big fan of the Carquinez Bridges and have shot them from many different angles.
Somehow I got the idea that it would be cool to find a center point looking through the triangular supports from Crockett. The ideal alignment is a little lower than this and is most likely through someone's window. That being said this best alignment I could find from the street....
L’Abbazia di San Galgano sorge in Toscana nella pianura dell’alta Valdimerse, in provincia di Siena.
In mezzo ai campi, in posizione isolata, con le sua ampie navate rivolte al cielo, la chiesa abbaziale costituisce un monumento insigne dello stile gotico-cistercense in Italia.
Il nobile Galgano Guidotti, nato nel 1148, dopo una vita di dissolutezza, si ritirò a vita penitenziale sulle colline di Montesiepi.
Galgano venne canonizzato nel 1185 (dopo soli 4 anni dalla morte), e in suo onore il vescovo di Volterra promosse la costruzione di una piccola cappella.
Nel 1218 iniziarono invece i lavori della grande chiesa abbaziale (69mt di lunghezza e 29 di larghezza), prendendo come modello le chiese cistercensi francesi; la chiesa venne consacrata nel 1288. Alla fine del XII la l’Abbazia raggiunse l’apice del suo splendore. Purtroppo già nel XIII sec. iniziò il declino della comunità monastica di San Galgano.
Nel XVI sec. iniziarono i primi cedimenti strutturali della chiesa abbaziale, nel 1781 crollò quello che rimaneva delle volte e nel 1786 crollò il campanile. La chiesa venne infine sconsacrata nel 1789.
Solo alla fine dell’800 l’interesse verso il monumento riprese a all’inizio del ‘900 venne condotto un restauro conservativo per consolidare quanto era rimasto della struttura originaria.
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Saint Galgano abbey is located in Tuscany (Italy), not far from Siena town.
It is one of the most representative buildings of the gothic-cistercian architecture in Italy.
Galgano Guidotti was an Italian noble man born in 1148; after a life of dissoluteness, he decided to retire to penitential life in a place very near to here. He died in 1181 and in 1185 he was canonized.
In 1218 they started the works for the big abbatial church (69mt length, 29mt width), taking as model the French Cistercian church. The church was dedicated in 1288.
At the end of XII cent. the community of the abbey reached the maximum splendour, but in the XIII the decadence started. In XVI cent. the first structural settling started in the church, in 1781 what remained of the roof ruined, in 1786 the bell tower fell down and in 1789 the church was desecrated.
Only at the end of 1800 the interest toward the building restarted and at the beginning of 1900 a restoration was done in order to consolidate what remained of the church structure.
The castle Satzvey is a medieval water castle, at first from the 12th century, and lies with the northeast edge of the Eifel in Mechernich (district of Satzvey) in the circle of Euskirchen. Among experts it is valid as the water castle best preserved in her original structural fabric of Rhineland, as a jewel of the Rhenish castle construction and monument of aristocratic culture and life form.
A landscape image of the car park at Leeds University, Yorkshire, designed by CJCT Architects. Photo taken in January 2022.
Here's the square format version of this photograph: flic.kr/p/2nxGRFH
Another photo of Stanley Street NCP car park in the New Bailey development area of Salford. It was nominated for 'Best New Car Park' at the British Parking Awards 2019.
Designed by AHR Architects.
Here's the link to my other 'Structural Expressionism' images: flic.kr/s/aHBqjzL8RQ
We do not possess tradition in order to become fossilized within it, but to develop it, even to the point of profoundly changing it. But in order to transform it, we must first of all act “with” what has been given to us; we must use it. And it is through the values and richness which I have received that I can become, in my own turn, creative, capable not only of developing what I find in my hands, but also changing radically both its meaning, its structure, and perspective.
-The Religious Sense, LUIGI GIUSSANI, pg. 37