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North Prairie Tileworks
From the first sketch to the final installation, North Prairie Tileworks transforms clay into artfully designed tiles that grace handsome homes and businesses throughout North America and Canada.
Known for craftsmanship and attention to detail, North Prairie Tileworks prides itself on the ability to create distinct tiles that are at home in both historic and contemporary structures. Specializing in the designs and color palette of the Arts and Crafts movement, North Prairie Tileworks’ custom-made glazes and firing methods bring to mind historic tiles created by well-known masters such as Ernest Batchelder and William H. Grueby.
Seville, Spain.
"The Plaza de España ("Spain Square", in English) is a plaza in the Parque de María Luisa (Maria Luisa Park), in Seville, Spain. It was built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. It is a landmark example of Regionalism Architecture, mixing elements of the Baroque Revival, Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival (Neo-Mudéjar) styles of Spanish architecture.
The center of it is Parque de María Luisa, designed in a "Moorish paradisical style", with a half mile of tiled fountains, pavilions, walls, ponds, benches, and exhedras; lush plantings of palms, orange trees, Mediterranean pines, and stylized flower beds. Numerous buildings were constructed in the park to provide spaces for the exhibition."
This and other architecture and fountains were the influence for the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri, Seville's sister city.
Repeating tilework for Bindlegrim blog, twitter, or your own computer background! Some visual updates on the Bindlegrim blog today - end of the book and lantern giveaway contest - bindlegrim.blogspot.com/
"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).
Additional images used for the Deco Tileworks 12 series are:
atlanta highview _ blue sky facets v2
sunset trees & red rock cliffs _ arches national park, utah
"Anno 1913"
The top of the former parish hall of nearby Oranjekerk. The empty panel in the balustrade used to contain tilework with the name "Oranjehuis", as can be seen on two pictures in the municipal archives [Stadsarchief Amsterdam]: beeldbank.amsterdam.nl [1972] and beeldbank.amsterdam.nl [1982]. They also show that the tiles had incurred rather severe damage. The tile panel was in the same style as one that is still to be seen lower in the facade, of which a picture is here.
Like Oranjekerk itself, the parish hall was designed by architect Christiaan Posthumus Meyjes sr. It was taken into use on 11 November 1913.
A closer look is here.
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Het bovenste deel van het voormalige wijkgebouw van de nabijgelegen Oranjekerk. Het lege vlak in de balustrade bevatte een tegeltableau met de naam “Oranjehuis”, zoals te zien is op twee foto’s in het Stadsarchief Amsterdam: beeldbank.amsterdam.nl [1972] and beeldbank.amsterdam.nl [1982]. Ze laten ook zien dat de tegels nogal beschadigd waren. De stijl van het tableau was hetzelfde als die van een tegeltableau dat lager in de gevel nog steeds aanwezig is en waarvan hier een foto is te zien.
Net zoals de Oranjekerk zelf werd het wijkgebouw ontworpen door de architect Christiaan Posthumus Meyjes sr. Het werd in gebruik genomen op 11 november 1913.
Hier een iets nabijere opname.
"The Iranian Mosque (also known as the Ali ibn Abi Talib Iranian Mosque) is a Shia mosque located near the old Textile Souk in the Bur Dubai district.
The mosque is inspired by Persian architecture and is notable for its colorful exterior and interior. A striking characteristic of its outer walls is extensive Persian azure blue colored faience tilework in floral motifs as well as curvilinear twirls in a riot of colors like red, green, yellow, and white. Islamic calligraphy from the Quran is inscribed in rosettes, amidst swirls in colors of green, yellow, red and white.
Built in quasi-Fatimid style, it’s reminiscent in appearance, if not quite in size, of the great mosques of Cairo. But medieval appearances are deceptive – the mosque was actually built in 1979."
Dubai. 2013
The tilework is proably this buildings best feature, most of the place is stripped back to the brickwork but in several areas they have kept the tiles intact.
Tilework on path from dock to Avalon Casino Ballroom made by RTK Studios of Ojai, California. www.rtkstudios.com/
at Wood Green.
Stations along the Piccadilly Line north of Finsbury Park all have unique features, some more subtle than other. Wood Green gets green stripey accent colours on its tiling.
Tilework on a Chinatown sidewalk pavement depicts the dream of Asian immigrants from decades past seeking the treasures of the new world’s supposed unlimited bounty.
The palace can be entered from the Plaza del Triunfo through the Puerta del León or Lion's Gate. The large gate, set in a massive crenellated defensive wall, is decorated with an azulejo (ceramic tilework) depiction of a heraldic lion.
The Alcazar of Seville occupies a large swathe of the southern edge of the old city. It was initially built inthe Moorish period as a fort and has been added to and embellished over the succeeding centuries to create the magnificent palace complex we see today (still an official residence of the Spanish royal family).
The Acazar is an outstanding example of Moorish and Mudejar architecture, being largely constructed in Arab / Islamic style, most of it dating from after the Spanish reconquest and illustrating the high esteem in which Moorish design and craftsmen were then held. Later generations added sections in more native styles, such as Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque.
The finest features of the palace are the courtyards, which with their cusped arches, filigree wall ornamentation and reflective pools are worthy rivals for the more famous Alhambra of Granada. There are also numerous rooms decorated with exquisite tilework, ceilings and doorways, culminating in a grand audience hall crowned by a gilded wooden dome.
Tilework in the portal to the Ulug-Bek medressah. The dozens of colourful little concave nooks played with your sense of dimensions - look at them too long, and you fall into a dizzying kaleidoscope nonsense world. Or maybe that was the stomach bug talking.
Remains of the Victorian tilework that formerly lined the lower walls of the sanctuary at Radford Semele church (a few survived the devastation in situ in the ruins).
St Nicholas's church in Radford Semele was devastated by fire in March 2008 (the work of an arsonist still at large targeting other churches). Currently cocooned in scaffolding, the rebuilding of the church is shortly to begin.
The pre-fire church preserved only the 15th century west tower and 12th century south nave wall from the medieval building, the remainder having been totally rebuilt in the 1880s. Only the shell of the building survived the inferno (the porch alone escaped destruction)) but is stable enough to be restored .
The rebuilt church will largely retain the old external appearence, though there will be new parish rooms and a glazed gable added to the north side. The new interior will see some dramatic changes, with a reorientation of the main axis to the north, with the nave and north aisle opened up (most of the damaged arcade will be removed) and the old chancel screened off to provide a seperate prayer space.
The refurbishment will take perhaps another two years. Meanwhile the process of selecting an artist fior the new stained glass windows has begun. (all the church's previous glass was lost in the fire, from the fine east window by Burlison & Grylls to the Millennium window which was my own work (and may yet be reinstated in the new church).
The church now has a website devoted to the restoration fund
www.stnicholasrestoration.com/
The church also has it's own Flickr photostream with images of the church before, during and after the fire:-
The Alcazar of Seville occupies a large swathe of the southern edge of the old city. It was initially built inthe Moorish period as a fort and has been added to and embellished over the succeeding centuries to create the magnificent palace complex we see today (still an official residence of the Spanish royal family).
The Acazar is an outstanding example of Moorish and Mudejar architecture, being largely constructed in Arab / Islamic style, most of it dating from after the Spanish reconquest and illustrating the high esteem in which Moorish design and craftsmen were then held. Later generations added sections in more native styles, such as Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque.
The finest features of the palace are the courtyards, which with their cusped arches, filigree wall ornamentation and reflective pools are worthy rivals for the more famous Alhambra of Granada. There are also numerous rooms decorated with exquisite tilework, ceilings and doorways, culminating in a grand audience hall crowned by a gilded wooden dome.