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The Neville Bonner Building on William Street was named after Senator Neville Bonner (1922–1999), the first Indigenous Australian to be elected to the Federal Parliament.
The building of the Riverside Expressway in the 1970s divorced the land and government buildings along William Street from the Brisbane River. Completed in December 1998, the Neville Bonner Building was the first major government building constructed in what had become an unused area.
The building’s architects, Davenport Campbell with Donovan Hill and Powell Dods Thorpe, had to manage a challenging site, bounded on two sides by the Riverside Expressway and the Margaret Street off ramp, with their attendant noise and fumes. On the upstream side was the former Department of Agriculture and Stock (later DPI) building, which had opened in 1866 as an Immigration Depot. To contend with also was a drop of nine metres between William Street and Queen’s Wharf Road.
At the time of its construction, the Neville Bonner Building was considered to be architecturally intelligent and original, with its related spaces establishing new and demanding standards for future government developments. The architects collaborated with artists Barbara Heath, Ron Hurley, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott and Yenda Carson so that pieces of their art could be included in and around the building. The most visible of these is The Net by Barbara Heath. It hangs outside the entrance and references related themes of the area’s original Indigenous inhabitants, including connections between the land and river, and their associated fishing practices. Hence the idea of a net.
Writing for Architecture Australia, Professor Michael Keniger (then head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Queensland) noted that, ‘The simplicity of the planning is masked by the complexity and staccato tactility of the elevations, which are enlivened by an interplay between the inner layer of glass cladding and suspended external screens of precast concrete panels and metal mesh blades’. Not everyone agreed. Jim Soorley, then Brisbane’s Lord Mayor, described it as ‘ugly’.
The building, however, won two architectural awards for design:
• The RAIA (National) Commercial Award 1999 and the
• RAIA (Queensland) F.D.G Stanley Award & Regional Commendation 1999.
At a cultural closing ceremony held in the building in August 2016 it was announced that the yet-to-be-constructed bridge between Queen’s Wharf and Southbank would be named the Neville Bonner Bridge. The artwork from the building will be distributed between Parliament House and 1 William Street.
Source: Historic Queens Wharf.
Parte del complesso architettonico di Tsarskoye Selo, nella città di Puškin a 25 Km da San Pietroburgo.
(Arch. Rastrelli)
Une vraie perle de l'architecture du XIXe siècle, qui est un morceau d'histoire de Varsovie, a très long temps attendue la renaissance, mais bientôt va être rénovée en un bel immeuble d'habitation.
A real pearl of the architecture of the nineteenth century, which is a piece of history of Warsaw, very long time awaited rebirth, but soon will be renovated in a beautiful apartment building.
Prawdziwa perła architektury XIX-wiecznej, będącą fragmentem historii Warszawy, bardzo długo czekała na swoje odrodzenie , ale niedlugo bedzie odnowiona na piekne apartamentowce.
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The set of stairs at West End Architectural Salvage, Des Moines, IA.
This place had a short series on HGTV in 2013.
El Paseante, ya dentro del monasterio, se refugia de los rigores y la severidad del verano en la iglesia.
Su única compañía allí son la luz taimada, los versos del Cántico Espiritual de San Juan de la Cruz sobre los que descansa su vista y el súbito bisbiseo de un hábito que se aleja... desde no sabe dónde.
La soledad sonora
Taken on the River Avon this week
Lots to look at as we were on holiday touring on the River Avon and over to Bristol Harbour.
A shot here of former warehouses and industrial buildings which have been converted
La ermita de Santa Cecilia de Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia) está situada en la ladera sureste del cerro del Castillo. El templo actual, de estilo románico, se construyó entre los siglos XII a XIII, pero entre los siglos XVI y XVIII se acometieron reformas en las que se sustituyó el ábside original, y en la década de 1960 fue restaurado cuando estaba en estado de ruina. Presenta planta cuadrada irregular, con tres naves separadas por arquerías apuntadas y la nave central se cierra con bóveda de crucería. Entre la nave principal y la cabecera se halla la esbelta y elegante torre que consta de tres pisos, en los que se abren los dos superiores amplios ventanales. La portada se sitúa en el muro sur, cubierta por un tejadillo, y dispone de cuatro arquivoltas de medio punto constituidas por medias cañas y baquetones. En el interior sobresalen sus capiteles historiados, entre los que destaca el dedicado a la Matanza de los Inocentes.
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Aspects of Sydney Opera House.
Some iphonography taken at 6am to avoid tourists and to catch early morning light. Got lucky with the light quality on here too.
* This shot would I think defy any straightening software. Both The Two Towers are leaning very significantly. At the heart of the city they are the symbol of Bologna. They are located at the intersection of the roads that lead to the five gates of the old ring wall (mura dei torresotti). The taller one is called the Asinelli while the smaller but more leaning tower is called the Garisenda. Their names derive from the families, which are traditionally credited for their construction between 1109 and 1119. Their construction was a competition between the two families to show which was the more powerful family.
The Asinelli tower rises 318 feet (97 metres) and slopes seven feet to the West. The smaller tower Garisenda once rose to 197 feet but it had 39 feet lopped off the height in the mid fourteenth century for safety reasons. Garisenda leans full 11 feet to the North East. It is possible to climb the 425 steps to the top of the Asinelli Tower but I did not risk my knees
It hard to imagine but Dante knew these towers well and are cited several times by in the Divine Comedy
Considering their size they proved rather difficult to photograph and this is probably the best of the many shots I took of them
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