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I was going to describe this asymmetrical tilework as "decorative" when it occurred to me the assymmetry might mean the design is actually an archaic script of some sort.
If anyone knows whether or not that's correct, I'd be interested in hearing from you.
At the Friday Mosque, Esfahan, Iran.
The importance of tilework in Persian architecture arises from two important factors; first the need to weatherproof the simple clay bricks used in construction, and secondly the need to ornament the buildings.The colours used were blue, yellow, turquoise, pink, aubergine and green.
The ball bulges the back of the Ants net after a cracking strike by the Albert No 5. Royal Albert FC v St Anthony's FC, SJFA, West Region, Central District, Division 2, 8 April 2017, Tileworks Park, Stonehouse, Scotland
Buildings on Vittoria Street.
On Vittoria Street this is the Municipal School for Jewellers & Silversmiths at 82, 84 and 86 Vittoria Street.
This is the 1911 extension building of the School of Jewellery.
It is currently part of Birmingham City University.
It is Grade II listed.
It is a gothic building from about 1865 designed by J G Bland, was built as a jewellers workshop and offices and was originally 2 storeys.
The school was founded in 1890 and Cook took over the building in 1891. Second floor added in 1906 by the architectural partnership of Cossins, Peacock and Bewlay. Same architects added an extension in 1911.
Original building is red brick with stone dressings and some tilework.
1906 attic storey has broad workshop. 1911 extension has 3 storeys and a basement building.
School Of Jewellery And Silversmithing 82, 84 And 86 - Heritage Gateway
This tilework is UNBELIEVABLE... each of those is a piece of glazed masonry, cut and fit together!!! I think you can see best in this photo how it's done. We watched a master workman doing this and still couldn't believe it.
For more information about the mosque, see HORIZON's description - scroll down to "Jame Mosque."
I am so grateful to HORIZON for teaching me (through his example) how to photograph this stuff - always straight on - don't mess with the sacred geometry.
The Shah Nematollah Vali Shrine is a historical complex, located in Mahan, Iran, which contains the mausoleum of Shah Nematollah Vali, the renowned Iranian mystic and poet. Shah Nematollah Vali died in 1431 aged over 100. In 1436 a shrine was erected in his honor and became a pilgrimage site. (Wikipedia)
Naif art endures in Sicily. Here painted tilework with traditional motifs and elaborate decorative wrought ironwork come together to good effect on a 20th century sign for a cantina (wine shop).
During the Qajar period the seven color or polychrome tile work was expanded to include the use of pinks and yellows.
This is a detail of a mirror surround that is a WIP. The larger golden colored tiles were handmade. The rest of the mosaic consists of a variety of glass.
1830. - Teglværket Renbjærg ved Flenborg Fjord. Renbjærg tileworks by Flensborg Fjord
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (2 January 1783 – 22 July 1853) was a Danish painter. He was born in Blåkrog in the Duchy of Schleswig (now the southern part of Jutland in Denmark).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoffer_Wilhelm_Eckersberg
Statens Museum for Kunst (English: "Statens Museum" or sometimes "National Gallery of Denmark") is the Danish national gallery located in Copenhagen.
These shopfront mosaics are increasingly rare. Some fine examples in Aberystwyth.
Handmade to last, when businesses were also expected to last. Beautiful craftsmanship.
During the recent rebuilding of Arlington Green Line Station, some old tile work was discovered, cleaned off and restored. 6/1/2015. © 2015 Peter Ehrlich
...some of the walls below that amazing roof. The graffiti made me chuckle.
Up above, that's not graffiti, that's tilework! Engels has perfected his thousand-yard stare, while Marx looks gruff (just the beard, I'm sure)
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Buzludzha. I'd been meaning to visit this place for a long time, ever since I'd read about it and seen the photos. It didn't disappoint.
The Buzludzha Monument is an enormous building - shaped roughly like a UFO with a tower stuck to the side - that broods atop the Buzludzha peak in the Central Balkan Mountains, in Bulgaria. It was built in 1981 at a cost of about $21m in today's money in order to commemorate the founding of the Bulgarian Socialist Democratic Party, and it's as much of an ode to socialism as you're going to get. The architecture is insane - perched at 1,441m, and visible from every direction - but the inside is now closed to the public as the building decays.
Inside is, however, where all the good stuff is. I thought I was being an intrepid explorer but I later discovered the local hostel runs tours where they show you how to get in. It's a little sad, though, that this history is being left to rot; it's an adventurous piece of design. Looking at some of the old photos and hints of how the building used to be (deep red paint in the stairwells), it must have been awe-inspiring (or a joke, perhaps) to walk through. Now, it's home to a few birds, the roof is about to cave in, and everything remotely valuable has been cut way. The star on the roof has gunshot damage, because (apparently) people thought it was made of rubies, and wanted some for themselves.
It'd be something to see it restored, but that's unlikely to happen; socialism has had its day in Bulgaria.
Seen from Carpenter Road in Edgbaston, one of the diversions from the Worcester & Birmingham Canal. Got off the towpath at Islington Row Middleway as the towpath was blocked as far as The Vale for the towpath widening of the Edgbaston Tunnel.
I went down Wheeleys Road, Carpenter Road, Church Road, and back onto the canal at The Vale Village (University of Birmingham).
50 Carpenter Road is behind hoardings. It has interesting looking brickwork, which is being restored.
Grade II Listed Building
Listing Text
CARPENTER ROAD
1.
5104 Edgaston B15
No 50
SP 9585 SE 45/26 21.1.70
II
2.
C1870, a substantial and important Gothic home by Chamberlain. Tall proportions
with asymmetrical elevations of red brick - polychrome brick banding, stone
dressings end decorative tilework. Two storeys and attics with 2 gabled to
front. Gable end elate mote with Gothic ridge tiled and saddlestones to
gables. Slender shafts to brick chimney stacks. Paired windows consisting
of 2 pointed lights divided by colonette. Pointed arcade with tracery to
stone porch, continued blind against blank wall to left with quatrefoil panel
below 1st floor window. Ornate modelling of stone eaves to side with decorative
panel of polychrome tiles and similar tilework in tympana of window, a feature
repeated on the garden elevation. On the left hand west side a short screen
wall links the coach house, slate roof with saddlestone to gable, banded red
brick walls.
Listing NGR: SP0571185216
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
One of many Azulejos, found in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.
Azulejos are a form of Spanish and Portuguese painted tin-glazed ceramic tilework.
They are found on the interior and exterior of churches, palaces, ordinary houses, schools, and nowadays, restaurants, bars and even railways or subway stations.
They were not only used as an ornamental art form, but also had a specific functional capacity like temperature control in homes.
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The tilework for all Dual Contracts underground stations was essentially the same for both IRT and BMT. This is the BMT's station at Times Square. The IRT's station was just the letter "T" and the Flushing Line had a "TS" designation. June 8, 2014. © 2014 Peter Ehrlich
...Traced from decorative tilework on a building in Isfahan, in 1877. A series of 39 designs was commissioned on behalf of the V&A (then the South Kensington Museum), in order to record this astonishing aspect of the sacred architecture of Safavid Iran, rendered in full scale and in colour. Robert Murdoch Smith and Ernst Hoeltzer, both of whom worked for the Anglo-Persian Telegraph Department, hired a team of Isfahani contractors to produce the paintings, which required "light scaffolding and other mechanical appliances" to reach difficult areas. The designs are painted onto sized paper fixed onto plain canvas, and show the tiled surfaces of walls, window-panels, arches, rib-vaults and even domes, copied from six different religious monuments. The decorative repertoire features a characteristic range of flowers, foliate scrollwork, ogival medallions and lobed cartouches, usually set against a blue background. Although the project was discussed as the documentation of historic Safavid architectural design from the early 17th century, one of the surveyed monuments was very much contemporary: the Masjid-e Sayyid which was built for a powerful landowning family of clerics, known as the Agayan-e Masjid-e Shah.
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Epic Iran
(May - September 2021)
Epic Iran explores 5,000 years of Iranian art, design and culture, bringing together over 300 objects from ancient, Islamic and contemporary Iran.
Iran was home to one of the great historic civilisations, yet its monumental artistic achievements remain unknown to many. Epic Iran explores this civilisation and the country's journey into the 21st century, from the earliest known writing – signalling the beginning of history in Iran – through to the 1979 Revolution and beyond. Ranging from sculpture, ceramics and carpets, to textiles, photography and film, the works in this exhibition reflect the country's vibrant historic culture, architectural splendours, the abundance of myth, poetry and tradition that have been central to Iranian identity for millennia, and the evolving, self-renewing culture evident today.
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Taken in the V&A