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William Blyth tileworks Barton-on-Humber. Their works in this area have been producing hand made roofing tiles for around 160 years. This site has been temporarily closed whilst the kilns are refurbished and production is expected to resume at some point.
Only in Israel... What happens when you want to develop land, only to find precious archaeological discoveries where you plan to build? Preserve the archaeological dig and build the city OVER the historic site.
That is exactly what you see here. This archaeological excavation is approximately three meters below the level of the present Jewish Quarter (Old City Jerusalem). Above our heads was an entire city!
The homes that were excavated here are approximately 2000 years old, and would have been in the upper city of Jerusalem during the Herodian period.
This home was in the "Beverly Hills" section of Jerusalem, and it represents the dwelling of a family (families) that was very well off. When the Romans persecuted, slaughtered, and destroyed the Jews, they set this home on fire. There was still evidence of the fire visible in some of the mosaic tilework (not pictured here) and on the walls.
A quick visit to the old Tile Works at Barton-on-Humber before crossing the magnificent Humber Bridge. There is evidence of a narrow gauge tailway around the surviving Tile Works structures.
The Olympia Theater was built in 1890 -- first used for vaudeville, then movies, then adult entertainment, with various name changes along the way. It's now vacant. These hexagonal tiles were common for the era (they are the same type as the ones on my bathroom floor, also a late 19th century building.)
"Architextures" is a series of composite images. Each image is a mashup of multiple photographs. At least one of the sources is of an architectural subject, anything from closeup walls or windows to broad cityscapes. The added images provide texture or pattern. In some, the architectural forms are preserved and obvious. In others, the pictures become pure abstractions. Yet in all of them, the inherent geometry, angles, lines, and repetitions of the architecture are essential to the geometry and esthetics of the final image. Most of the source images used for this series are already posted in this photostream. The links to the original and source images are listed below.
Inspiration for the name “Deco Tileworks” is in the geometry of the images. Decorative motifs suggestive of 1920’s and 1930’s art meld with rectilinear blocks suggestive of tilework in the public spaces and architecture of that era, such as railway and subway stations, movie theaters, and high rise office buildings. The Deco Tileworks sets all share a common foundation image. That base picture derives from views of the Atlanta, Georgia skyline and its tall buildings (source images and explanatory notes are elsewhere in this photostream). Specifically, there were two original source images, Facets #1a and #2a. These were combined to create Facets #2e, which by itself was reworked into the common core for the Deco Tileworks. Image 11a, the first in this set, is the common foundation image for the rest of the Deco series.
Base images used for the Deco Tileworks series are:
atlanta highview _ grey sky facets #1a _ (© 2012 megart)
atlanta highview _ grey sky facets #2a _ (© 2012 megart)
atlanta highview _ grey sky facets #2e _ (© 2012 megart)
www.flickr.com/photos/meg99az/7587589876
www.flickr.com/photos/meg99az/7587598284
www.flickr.com/photos/meg99az/7587599742
The Architextures 11 series of Deco Tileworks uses no other source images or composition elements. Only the Facets #2e image is present. Variations of texture, color, and form come from mathematical merges and blends, and from simple mirrors and rotations.
The Architextures 12 series of Deco Tileworks continues the basic themes and geometries of the Deco Tileworks 11 series, but it introduces bright colors. Whites and yellows were created with no additional source images or composition elements, just various merges and saturations of the common deco tileworks foundation image. Blues and greens were created by overlays with another of the Atlanta Highview images (blue sky facets v2). Oranges and reds were introduced by overlays with an unrelated non-architectural image (sunset trees & red rock cliffs _ arches national park, utah).
Mosque Names: Masjed-e Jadid-e ʿAbbāsi, Masjed-e Šāh (the Royal Mosque), Masjed-e Emām (Imam Mosque, since 1979).
The mosque was completed c.1630 during the reign of 'Abbas's successor, Shah Safi (r.1629-1642).
Patron: ʿAbbās I, the Great 1571-1629, Safavid Shah (king) of Iran (r.1588-1629), son and successor of Solṭān Moḥammad Shah.
Shah Safi (Abu’l-Naṣr Sām Mirzā) 1611-1642, Safavid Shah (king) of Iran (r.1629-1642), grandson of ʿAbbās I.
Structural plan: Badi' al-Zaman Tuni.
Architect & Engineer: 'Ali Akbar Isfahani (Memar Bashi) b.1577, a pupil of Badi' al-Zaman Yazdi, the court architect of Shah Abbas.
Contractor: Mohib 'Ali Beyk (Abeyk).
I photographed this fantastic tilework a few weeks ago and later walked by the same storefront to find out that it's not long for this world. In fact, I'm certain it's already been covered up by that oh-so-classy marble. Dammit.
Photographed just off of Broadway in the Broadway Theater district.
The tilework outside the Mercantile Hotel, Australia's oldest continuously operating Irish pub, is an appropriate shade of green.
Tilework and 15th century painted ceiling in the vestibule of the western gateway.
The Great Umayyad Mosque was built from 708-715 AD on the site of earlier places of religious worship. During the 9th century BC the Semitic Arameans built a temple to their god Hadad, the Romans built a Temple of Jupiter during the 1st century BC, the Byzantine Christians replaced that with a Cathedral of John the Baptist in the 4th century AD.
Due to various earthquakes and fire damage, large areas of the original mosaic decoration were destroyed. The facades around the courtyard now have some areas left plain, some of replaced mosaic and some original.
Master Bathroom features beautiful custom tilework.
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I think it's interesting how unglazed tiles the color of the surrounding brick were incorporated into the design.
Mashhad, Iran
I took this photo while wandering aimlessly around Istanbul, Turkey in November 2008. Istanbul is an absolutely fascinating city full of culture, history, and some pretty good food too - what a nice place to visit for a few days.
Arabic Tilework Inscription on the Second Gate of the Akbari Darwaza (Amar Singh) Gate of Agra Fort (Qila-i-Akbari) (Built by the Mughal Emperor Akbar, designed by Qasim Khan Mir Barr-wa-Bahr, 1565AD-1573AD)
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Taken at Latitude/Longitude:27.176753/78.022423. 0.93 km South-East Belanganj Uttar Pradesh India (Map link)
The heavily decayed and under-construction Bleecker Street station contains original IRT tilework from 1904.
Founded in 771 by the Taym Arabs of the village Ṭirān on the outskirts of Yahudiya, one of the then twin towns
constituting the city of Isfahan.
The mosque was renovated between the late 10th century and the early 11th century by the Buyids (932-1055), an Iranian Shia Dynasty.
In 1051 Isfahan became the capital of the Seljuks, a sunni group from Central Asia who wanted the restoration of the Abbasid Caliphate.
In 1121 the Ismaʿilis set fire to the mosque and in its rebuilding, a quintessentially Seljuk mosque was created.
Nearly every significant architectural and decorative trend of the medieval period in Persian history, found its monumental representation in this mosque.
Patron, tilework: Uzun Ḥasan (Hasan the tall) ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḳara yoluk ʿUt̲h̲mān (Abū Naṣr) 1425-1478 a powerful leader of the Aq Qoyunlū (white sheep), a confederation of Turkman tribes who ruled in eastern Anatolia and western Iran until the Safavid conquest in 1501-03.
Whoever designed the Khaju Bridge decided to decorate the structure with tiles in the triangular spaces adjacent to each of the bridge's arches.
I photographed the tilework because I discovered that each triangle was different from all the rest.
I think it's fascinating to see how many design variations are possible in a limited space and, in almost every case, with only three colors of tile to work with.
The National Theater is the only survivor from Detroit's original theatre district, and is the only theatre still standing designed by one of the most famous of Detroit's architects, Albert Kahn.
Originally a vaudeville house, it progressed to showing silent films and talkies. Then, as the huge movie palaces on Grand Circus Park like the Fox and the State were built, the National couldn't keep up and began burlesque shows.
Into the late '60s, The National was the last operating burlesque house in Detroit before becoming known as The Palace and showing adult films. Finally, in 1975, as the neighborhood continued its decline into abandonment, the National was closed down permanently.
The National avoided demolition with the rest of the block she was on, perhaps because of the architectural significance of this rare Albert Kahn design. Several ideas for renovation and reuse have come and gone, but none of them have taken hold, yet.
This tilework graces the octagonal pavillion that Karim Khan built for official receptions.
According to Wikipedia, "Karim Khan Zand . . . (c. 1705- 1779), was the ruler and de facto Shah of Iran from 1749 until 1779." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Khan
Since 1933, the building has been a museum whose collection focuses on the history of Fars Province and the life of Karim Khan . The paviliion is renowned for its tile panels and painted roof.
Shiraz, Iran.
Founded in 771 by the Taym Arabs of the village Ṭirān on the outskirts of Yahudiya, one of the then twin towns
constituting the city of Isfahan.
The mosque was renovated between the late 10th century and the early 11th century by the Buyids (932-1055), an Iranian Shia Dynasty.
In 1051 Isfahan became the capital of the Seljuks, a sunni group from Central Asia who wanted the restoration of the Abbasid Caliphate.
In 1121 the Ismaʿilis set fire to the mosque and in its rebuilding, a quintessentially Seljuk mosque was created.
Nearly every significant architectural and decorative trend of the medieval period in Persian history, found its monumental representation in this mosque.
Patron, tilework: Uzun Ḥasan (Hasan the tall) ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḳara yoluk ʿUt̲h̲mān (Abū Naṣr) 1425-1478 a powerful leader of the Aq Qoyunlū (white sheep), a confederation of Turkman tribes who ruled in eastern Anatolia and western Iran until the Safavid conquest in 1501-03.
This tilework graces the octagonal pavillion that Karim Khan built for official receptions.
According to Wikipedia, "Karim Khan Zand . . . (c. 1705- 1779), was the ruler and de facto Shah of Iran from 1749 until 1779." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Khan
Since 1933, the building has been a museum whose collection focuses on the history of Fars Province and the life of Karim Khan . The paviliion is renowned for its tile panels and painted roof.
Shiraz, Iran.
Azulejo decoration in a house entrance in Rua da Ilha, Coimbra, Portugal.
Azulejos are typical Portuguese tileworks.
Coimbra is a city at the Rio Mondego in Mid-Portugal with now over 100.000 inhabitants. The first settlement on the site probably was Celtic, later it was Roman, Visigothic and Moorish. In 1064 Coimbra was conquered by the Spanish King Fernando I of Castile. The first king of Portugal, Dom Afonso Henriques, was born here and integrated the city into the Portuguese territory in 1131.
Coimbra was the setting of the forbidden love of Dom Pedro I (Peter I of Portugal, 1357-67) and Dona Inês, a lady at court. The legend of their tragic love is omnipresent and still alive everywhere in Coimbra.
Although it served as the nation's capital during the High Middle Ages, Coimbra is better-known for its university, the Universidade de Coimbra, which is one of the oldest in Europe and the oldest academic institution in the Portuguese-speaking world.
The area around Coimbra University was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage list as University of Coimbra – Alta and Sofia in 2013.
Coimbra also is a city of the typical Portuguese music genre Fado. There are two main styles of Fado in Portugal, one is Lisbon Fado and one is Coimbra Fado, also known as Student Fado (Fado de Estudante).
Fado, Urban Popular Song of Portugal was declared as Intangible Cultural Heritage by the UNESCO.
Natur und Kultur in Mittelportugal (Nature and Culture in Mid-Portugal), Wikinger-Reisen, September 2011