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House built for contest on Finnish LUG Palikkatakomo's exhibit on Model Expo last weekend. More on Cyclopic Bricks.
"lower eastside archiecture, tenement buildings and historic bialystoker nursing home on east broadway in the lower eastside nyc-photo by nolan rhodes-'the-eye-of-the-moment'"
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This was one of my favorite locations, the Simcoe location of the American Can Company. The Art Deco details, the odd little town, and the water tower.... all amazing and special for the area. I visited it twice before it was torn down in 2011. It opened in 1929 and closed in 1991 only 3 years after being bought by Ball Packaging. The view from the top floor was the best on a nice day.
Video before demo:
août 2002
Sevilla, Catedral de Santa María de la Sede (1402-1507) - Retablo mayor de la Catedral de Sevilla.
août 2002
Sevilla, Catedral de Santa María de la Sede (1402-1507) - Retablo mayor de la Catedral de Sevilla.
James Street Station, Water Street entrance, Liverpool, UK.
There are two entrances to Merseyrail's James Street station. One's got ticket machines, lifts, a refreshment kiosk and enough Merseyrail Yellow to drive you mad. The other one, on Water Street, hasn't been updated for decades. It's accessed via a steep, gloomy tunnel, it's only open at peak hours, and was built in the 1930's as part of the India Building complex.
It is getting a refurb though, Merseyrail have applied to bring the Water Street ticket hall back to its 1930s finery. The mosaic tiles will be cleaned and regrouted; where they are missing, reproductions will be created. The unsympathetic flourescent lighting will be replaced with "heritage-style" modern fixtures. The Loop line era ticket desk, all blue tiles and stainless steel, is to be torn out and a more in keeping green wood and glass structure will be inserted in the gap......There is also going to be Heritage Posters, more in keeping with the 1930's Archiecture, and the long tunnel, wich has quite an incline, is going to be re paved, with non slip flooring (the tunnels proximity to the River Mersey, means it can have drainage issues!). On top of all this, there is going to be multi-coloured lighting in the tunnel for getting rid of that gloomy, dank feel, they've proposed something special. The strip lights will be replaced with coloured LEDs,
as you pass up or down the passageway you'll move through different sections of coloured light, breaking up the relentless slog and making the journey far more interesting.
Phew, now I'm quite pleased about all this, can't wait to see the Station when it's completed later in the year, the Architects are Michael Cunningham - the people responsible for the superb restoration of Manchester Oxford Road, so the end result should be really special, it isn't Grade II listed like the India Buildings, so I guess Merseytravel could have done what they liked,I'm really pleased about the refurbishment and can't wait to see it when completed.
Now, I thought that it was going to be closed when I visited, the refurb started a couple of days previously, however......it wasn't quite...I got in! Really pleased I managed to grab some images before it's closed for the upgrade, and I can also return when it's complete, and we can check it out after it's restoration :)
Have a great weekend everyone :)
f4/1/50th Second/iso100/Nikon D5100/Sigma 10-20mm lens @ 12mm
Kathy Toth || Toronto Graffiti Archive || Instagram
I shot this back in 2011 and came across it by complete accident at the time. I've driven around twice now looking for it, never found it again. Half of the parking lot was flooded which you can see in the next shot. I'd love to see more buildings like this in my city."
Seen near Albury
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Es la edificación más importante de la zona arqueológica de Uxmal, esta antigua ciudad Maya ubicada en el Estado de Yucatán inició su construcción en el año 500 A.C, alcanzando su apogeo entre los siglos IX y XII D.C cuando llegó a albergar una población de 25.000 habitantes.
Uxmal fue declarada Patrimonio Cultural de la Humanidad en 1996.
Taken in Paris, France.
One of the most interesting things I saw while in Paris, the Pompidou is a must see both inside and out with tons of wonderful art inside.
Wikipedia expains what you are looking at better than I can:
"Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, two emerging architects in their thirties, designed the first major example of an "inside-out" building with its structural system, mechanical systems, and circulation exposed on the exterior of the building, reflecting their belief that they had no chance of winning the commission. Gianfranco Franchini was also involved in the design.
Explaining the ideas that informed the Centre Pompidou's design, Piano said, "Our idea was a museum that would inspire curiosity, not intimidate people, and that would open up culture to all... Our credo was a place for all people – for the poor and rich, the young and old".
The daring design increased the efficiency of interior space utilization.[5] Initially, all of the functional structural elements of the building were colour-coded: green pipes are plumbing, blue ducts are for climate control, electrical wires are encased in yellow, and circulation elements and devices for safety (e.g., fire extinguishers) are red. According to Piano, the design was meant to be "not a building but a town where you find everything – lunch, great art, a library, great music".
The Centre Pompidou, initially met with dismay akin to the Eiffel Tower's reception in its time, is now widely regarded as an artwork in its own merit. National Geographic described the reaction to the design as "love at second sight." An article in Le Figaro declared: "Paris has its own monster, just like the one in Loch Ness." But two decades later, while reporting on Rogers' winning the Pritzker Prize in 2007, The New York Times noted that the design of the Centre "turned the architecture world upside down" and that "Mr. Rogers earned a reputation as a high-tech iconoclast with the completion of the 1977 Pompidou Centre, with its exposed skeleton of brightly coloured tubes for mechanical systems". The Pritzker jury said the Pompidou "revolutionised museums, transforming what had once been elite monuments into popular places of social and cultural exchange, woven into the heart of the city."
Unique being built almost entirely of glass block. The restaurant is operated by the Interstate Co. and is the outstanding eating place on U.S. Highway No. 1 between New York and Miami
This building caught my eye and the more I look at it, it feels more like socialist architecture from the 60s and 70s than something I should find in an alleyway in Toronto wandering around.
Once again the building at the junction of Kemble Street and Kingsway. The entrace features a mermaid, a merman, shells and dolphins. I'm guessing that this is called the Rococo Revival style.
41 Kingsway at Kemble Street, London WC2
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We Chinese have a saying... "one (a person) is often fond of the first encounter." Back in 1997, when my English-born Canadian friend Dan and I visited London, we stayed at Dan's half-brother's (confusingly also named Dan) apartment on Gray's Inn Road in the Holborn district. I fell in love with the neighbourhood and in every subsequent visit to London, I always come back to have a look. Somehow it feels like my London home base, not that I'd ever be able to afford any place in London.
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Another shot of the Manitoba Legislature in Winnipeg, Canada, with downtown Winnipeg in the background. I took this one evening from a friend's balcony in Osborne Village.
I'm doing my largest print so far of this photo, 40x60 inches. Pretty exciting.
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This is a picture of the law courts building in Winnipeg, Canada, a National Historic Site of Canada. I left it a bit dark to give a spooky feel to the image and I also tried an HDR treatment in Lightroom. I liked how it turned out.
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Potsdamerplatz Berlin
The site was originally a bustling city centre in the early 20th century. Most of the buildings were destroyed or damaged during World War II. From 1961 on, most of the area became part of the No Man's Land of the Berlin Wall, resulting in the destruction of the remaining buildings. After the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, the square became the focus of attention again, as a large (some 60 hectares), attractive location which had suddenly become available in the centre of a major European capital city. As part of a redevelopment effort for the area, the center was constructed. The centre was designed by Helmut Jahn and construction was completed in 2000 at a total cost of €750M.