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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.
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.
The Church of the Saviour at Berestovo.
Berestovo was a suburban residence of Volodymyr the Great (who died there in 1015 and some of his descendants, including Vsevolod I and Volodymyr II. It was also the site of a monastery, first recorded in 1073. Construction of the present structure is not documented, but most art historians date it to the reign of Vladimir Monomakh (1113–1125). Indeed, it has structural parallels with the churches of Pereiaslav, especially those built during Monomakh's administration of the town at the turn of the 12th century.
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.
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.
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
On those days / when I sense less of internal structure / I realize to focus more / on fixed structures in the surroundings
Equisetum - horsetail - I think this plant belongs to this genus. ("descended from huge, tree-like plants that thrived 400 million years ago during the Paleozoic era. ... is evergreen ... but more closely related to ferns than to the perennials"). Just a few species left in today's world. Pretty in a garden but invasive.
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 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
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 Centre Point, a Grade 11 listed landmark skyscraper in central London. Currently under reconstruction. Original architect: George Marsh of R. Seifert and Partners. Original construction completed in 1966.
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
Top of the MM Galleria in the city-center, Poznan. If only they had built this 3 meters taller.....in a city that really needs some elevated scenic views, this almost does the job. Still its a view.. ;)
Poznan, Poland
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