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These images all started as pictures of some actual object, scene or whatever, but have been played with in Photo Shop in various ways. In some you might recognize the original subject matter, in many they bear little resemblance to what they started as. I love hearing what different people see in these almost as much as I love making them, so fire away--tell me what you see or feel about them!
Most of the images in this set will really reward being seen as large as possible.
Façade to the Römerberg (Roman Mountain)
On the Recent Restoration of the Romans Façade
With the acquisition of the two houses “Römer (Romans)” and “Goldener Schwan (Golden Swan)”, 600 years ago, the foundation was laid for one of the internationally most famous German town halls. Gradually, in the following centuries, other adjacent buildings (including the houses “Löwenstein (Lion Stone)” and “Wanebach”, “Frauenstein (Woman Stone)” and “Salzhaus (Salt House)”, “Laderam (Lateran)” or “Alt-Limpurg (Old Limpurg)” and “Silberberg (Silver Mountain)” added, which are now all summarized under the generic term Romans, In the course of time, the interiors of the individual town houses were rebuilt several times for the purpose of urban administration inside. But even the external appearance, that of the once rather simple stepped-gabled façades to the Romans Mountain, at the end of the 19th century no longer satisfied the representational needs of the powerful, prospering commercial and industrial city of Frankfurt am Main. With the redesign of the facades of these three houses (“Old Limpurg”, “Romans” and “Lion Stone”) to a design by Max Meckel, 1896-1900, the Romans—according to the former opinion—have received adequate appearance of its national historical significance.
While Meckel formed the facades of the three buildings individually, he put the emphasis of the decorative design on the exterior of the eponymous house “Romans”. For example, the Imperial Hall received a market-facing balcony on escutcheon-decorated consoles, with a magnificent balustrade in late Gothic forms. Between the ballroom windows, four almost life-sized imperial figures and an elaborately designed tracery canopy were arranged above the dial of the clock. Immediately below the keystone of the gable relay towers the mighty Frankfurt coat of arms.
The air raids in the Second World War also had devastating damage in the area of the Romans ensemble. The houses burned out completely. In addition to the two late-Gothic vaults of the houses “Romans” and “Golden Swan”, however, a large part of the massive facades of the houses “Old Limpurg”, “Romans” (here, however, the upper gable was completely lost) and “Lion Stone” remained largely intact, During the reconstruction of the Frankfurt city center the Romans was rebuilt in the years 1951-53, one of the outstanding tasks in the field of conservation. While the interior design of the buildings was largely in the 1950s style, the façades of the three stepped gable houses were prepared using parts of the overlying substance.
Remarkable is also the handling of the post-war period with the two destroyed, once important historical half-timbered houses “Woman Stone” and “Salt House”. The new building built in the early 1950s as a gabled double house arouses associations with the half-timbered construction of the lost predecessor buildings and at the same time self-confidently displays the modern construction method thanks to its slender grid of reinforced concrete construction. Although the mosaic decor of the wall panels certainly cannot and should not be an adequate substitute for the magnificent facades of the historic buildings, the twin dwelling represents an independent achievement within the reconstruction planning after the war. It holds commemorative values and yet creates something new. From the historically disguised ground floor zone rises the visible reinforced concrete structure on the upper floor. Their system merges with the monumental mural by Wilhelm Geissler “Phoenix from the ashes” facing Paulsplatz to the central Frankfurt memorial to commemorate the destruction of war and reconstruction.
The decision in the context of the recent refurbishment of a color scheme, which is based on the appearance of the Romans at the time of its restoration in 1951-53, had design consequences especially for the field of building sculpture. In addition to extensive restoration work on the tracery parapet of the balcony, the coats of arms and imperial statutes, which had been heavily colored in 1975, had to be gently cleaned and, as in 1952/53, painted in natural stone. Subsequently, the figures were given back their former gilding in the field of insignia and “precious metal” accessories. The ornamental gilding of natural stone reflects an aesthetic conception of the post-war period, as it still shows, for example, in numerous commercial buildings on Roman Mountain and in Braubach Street.
The Romans has always been adapted to the exterior taste of the time, as the multiple transformations since 1900 impressively demonstrate. The design of the façade, which has now been completed, certainly reflects today’s aesthetic conceptions; At the same time, as an approach to the design of the early 1950s, it honors the achievements of post-World War II reconstruction.
Dr. Stefan Timpe
Monument Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main
The Haus Römer shows the four kaisers of the Holy Roman Empire, two city coats of arms, a clock face, and a placard describing the most important facts about the building. The four kaisers are Frederick Barbarossa (the first king to be elected in Frankfurt), Louis the Bavarian (who gave convention rights to the city and allowed an expansion of the city), Charles IV (who made Frankfurt the location of the Kaiser selection vote), and Maximilian II (the first kaiser to be crowned in Frankfurt cathedral).
Hoisting a large wooden beam over the top of Mareel, which will make up part of the structure for the large glass window and wall of the cafe/bar.
Concord (NC) Fire Department working at a structure fire in an older building at the Stonewall Jackson Youth Development Facility.
I bought the Harbor Freight Portable Garage (Tent) to cover my car over the winter but once I put the framework structure together it was taller than I needed and wanted so I then figured out how to shorten the height by about 20" or so.
Wonderful structural, minimalist views of gas pipes outside of residences in Tel Aviv. These were all shapes and sizes and numbers of pipes. Generally a single larger pipe came up from the ground and spilt into multiple smaller pipes, connected with valves and meters, and then further pipes dissapeared into building walls.
GigaOM Structure Data event at Pier 60, Chelsea Piers in New York, NY on Wednesday March 19, 2014. (© Photo by Jakub Mosur).
the Shelby street pedestrian bridge by night.
as soon as we got to the other side of the bridge the lights went out, it was very dark.
After having observed the nest for a some time, my parents thought that this beautiful work of art made with some interweaved copper threads had been made by a big and very ingenious bird. The woodpecker was still often seen in the big pines around our neighbourhood and was indeed an ingenious bird. The chickadees and the sparrows were too small to have made it, and the crows were not enough sophisticated.
Discovering some silk threads still present in the structure, my parents recognized old telephone cables. When the phone company had set up the new lines (in the Thirties, Forties or Fifties?), the workmen had probably left some bits of cables everywhere in the streets. And some ingenious birds had used them to build a nest... That nest was indeed very old... :)
This is how high the structure is after modifying it and removing about 20" or so off of the side legs.
Veil of Maya
Support: Betraying The Martyrs, Vildhjarta, Structures, Volumes
08.05.2012
Baroeg, Rotterdam
Netherlands
Copyright © Jessica Santiago Lopez
Photos taken for www.metalkrant.net
Tree trunk (Frankfurt)
The Images exhibited at the Platform Sarai exhibition in Frankfurt in April-May 2008. The Images were printed on transparent self adhesive sheets and mounted on 2mm thick plexi sheets. Since half of the exhibited images were originally slides and the remaining were digital images, this introduced a play of the materiality of the digital medium by giving it a perception of slides. (Digital photo and digital print on transparent film)
Gigaom Structure Connect conference at Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA on Tuesday & Wednesday October 21-22, 2014.
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This magnificent structure was erected in 1898 to serve as the post office for the old district of East Saginaw, which had consolidated with Saginaw City in 1890 to form the incorporated municipality of Saginaw. The post office was designed by William Martin Aiken, who hoped to evoke the region's early European colonization with the mixing of French Châteauesque, Italian Renaissance, and Gothic Revival styles.
The structure itself is a beloved piece of Saginaw history, and can be hailed as a cause célèbre for historic preservation in the early 20th century. It was slated for demolition back in the 1930s, as its size was considered too small for the large postal capacity needed for this Midwestern city. However, due to a public outcry to save the edifice, it was renovated and expanded in the rear in 1935-37. The Postmaster General at the time, James A. Farley, labeled the building a “memorial to President Roosevelt.”
In the 1970s, the post office moved out, and the structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (1972). Today, it houses the Historical Society of Saginaw County, a museum open to the public. It is officially known as the Castle Museum of Saginaw County History.
Information from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Museum_(Saginaw,_Michigan)
Saginaw, Michigan is located between Flint and Saginaw Bay in the inland, central-eastern part of the state. It is the southernmost and most populous of the Tri-Cities.
Built in 1902, this Romanesque Revival-style structure was designed by Gordon and Paunack for the congregation of the Bethel Norwegian Lutheran Church, now Bethel Lutheran Church. Bethel Lutheran Church outgrew the building in the 1930s, and built a new church several blocks to the southwest, which was completed in 1940, after which the building became home to the First Christian Church of Madison. The building features a painted red brick exterior, a cross-gable roof, a tower with a low-slope roof enclosed by a parapet, a belfry with large arched louvers featuring tracery, recessed brick panels below the belfry, rusticated stone belt coursing, trim, and window sills, roman arched window openings, an entrance door at the base of the tower with a stained glass roman arched transom, above which is a datestone engraved with the year “1902” a side entrance with a stained glass roman arched transom, and a rusticated stone base. The building today serves as apartments, having ceased to be used as a church in the 20th Century.