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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.
Dartford Warbler - Sylvia Undata
Suffolk
The Dartford warbler (Sylvia undata) is a typical warbler from the warmer parts of western Europe and northwestern Africa. It is a small warbler with a long thin tail and a thin pointed bill. The adult male has grey-brown upperparts and is dull reddish-brown below except for the centre of the belly which has a dirty white patch. It has light speckles on the throat and a red eye-ring. The sexes are similar but the adult female is usually less grey above and paler below.
Its breeding range lies west of a line from southern England to the heel of Italy (southern Apulia). The Dartford warbler is usually resident all year in its breeding range, but there is some limited migration.
The Dartford warbler was first described by the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant from two specimens that were shot in April 1773 on Bexley Heath near Dartford in Kent.
The species is naturally rare. The largest European populations of Sylvia undata are in the Iberian peninsula, others in much of France, in Italy and southern England and south Wales. In Africa it can be found only in small areas in the north, wintering in northern Morocco and northern Algeria.
In southern England the birds breed on heathlands, sometimes near the coast, and nest in either common gorse (Ulex europaeus) or common heather (Calluna
Dartford warblers are named for Dartford Heath in north west Kent, where the population became extinct in the early twentieth century. They almost died out in the United Kingdom in the severe winter of 1962/1963 when the national population dropped to just ten pairs. Sylvia undata is also sensitive to drought affecting breeding success or producing heath fires, as occurred during 1975 and 1976 in England when virtually all juveniles failed to survive their first year.
However, this species can recover well in good quality habitat with favourable temperatures and rainfall, thanks to repeated nesting and a high survival rate for the young. Indeed, they recovered in some areas of the UK, but numbers are once again on the decline in other regions of their natural range.
The range of the Dartford warbler is restricted to western and southern Europe. The total population in 2012 was estimated at 1.1–2.5 million breeding pairs. The largest numbers occur in Spain where there were believed to be 983,000–1,750,000 pairs. For reasons that probably include loss of suitable habitat, the Spanish population appears to be declining. The species is therefore classed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being Near threatened.
A period of climatic warming since 1963 has seen the UK population increase to "more than 2,500 pairs in 2006 (Wotton et al. 2009). Expansion into patches of structurally suitable habitat (up to an altitude of 400m), more northerly areas and away from the core of the range, from Dorset and Hampshire to Derbyshire and Suffolk, is likely to have been facilitated by milder winter weather (Wotton et al. 2009, Bradbury et al. 2011)... The Dartford warbler population in the UK is expected to continue to increase. However, future climate-based projections for the European range indicate that by 2080, more than 60% of the current European range may no longer be suitable (Huntley et al 2007). There is evidence that this is happening already, with severe declines in Spain and France (Green 2017). For this reason, the species is classified as Near Threatened on the IUCN Global Red List. If the declines in southern Europe continue, the UK will become increasingly important for global conservation of this species".
Population:
UK breeding:
3,200 pairs
A striking example of 1970s architecture located close to St Paul's Cathedral. This building was refurbished a few years ago.
It occupies the former site of a church destroyed in WWII.
Built in 1857. One of the two most deadly houses i ever went in. What you are looking at is four rooms and a massive internal chimney that have collapsed into the basement. Shot from the second floor hall.
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.
Detail from the 2016 annual Serpentine Pavilion in Hyde Park, London, by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels' firm 'BIG'.
This structure is a magnificent cathedral of glass fibre.
Photograph taken in July 2016
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.
Beethoven, Symp. no 3, Eroica
From Wikipedia.
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Opus 55 (also Italian Sinfonia Eroica, Heroic Symphony) is a structurally rigorous composition of great emotional depth, which marked the beginning of the creative middle-period of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven.[1][2]
Beethoven began composing the third symphony soon after Symphony No. 2 in D major, Opus 36; he completed the composition in early 1804, and the first public performance of Symphony No. 3 was on 7 April 1805 in Vienna.[3]
On display at the Lobkowicz Palace in Prague is a first published edition (1806) of Beethoven's Eroica, as well as other Beethoven treasures including manuscripts of the 4th and 5th symphonies, featuring Beethoven's own corrections and annotations for performance.
Le Viaduc de Millau
"The Millau Viaduct [...] is a multispan cable-stayed bridge completed in 2004 across the gorge valley of the Tarn near (west of) Millau in the Aveyron department in the Occitanie Region, in Southern France. The design team was led by engineer Michel Virlogeux and English architect Norman Foster. As of September 2020, it is the tallest bridge in the world, having a structural height of 336.4 metres (1,104 ft).
The Millau Viaduct is part of the A75–A71 autoroute axis from Paris to Béziers and Montpellier. The cost of construction was approximately € 394 million [...] It was built over three years, formally inaugurated on 14 December 2004, and opened to traffic two days later on 16 December. The bridge has been consistently ranked as one of the greatest engineering achievements of modern times, and received the 2006 Outstanding Structure Award from the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering. [...]" (Wikipedia)
On those days / when I sense less of internal structure / I realize to focus more / on fixed structures in the surroundings
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.
Image of a shopfront with a Sobel displacement filter and an image of scaffolding as a structural map
Another photo looking up at Lombard Wharf, a residential tower in south London. Architects: Patel Taylor.
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.
A landscape version of the ‘Cheesegrater’, a car park in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It was designed by architects Allies and Morrison.
In 2009 it won a RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Regional Award. These awards are given to UK buildings for their regional architectural importance. In 2013 it gained third place in the 'World’s Coolest Car Park' awards.
Here is another photo of mine showing a building in London by the same architects: flic.kr/p/Ts4f8Y
The blue colour of a Kingfisher's feathers isn't due to pigment, but a phenomenon called structural coloration, where the feather's structure scatters blue light. The feathers are actually brown.
I haven't noticed it very often but under certain lighting conditions and viewing angle - the brown colour can be seen - as on the primary feathers in this shot.
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