View allAll Photos Tagged architecture
Pentax *ist • Pentax FA* 24mm F2 AL
Agfaphoto Vista 400 film in Tetenal Colortec C-41
Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 120 at 2400dpi with Silverfast AI Studio
Deutz • Köln • Germany
TWITTER | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM |
London | Architecture | Night Photography | London Underground | London Eye
London is not characterised by any particular architectural style, having accumulated its buildings over a long period of time. Few structures predate the Great Fire of 1666, notable exceptions including the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Banqueting House and several scattered Tudor survivors in the City of London.
In itself, the City contains a wide variety of styles, progressing through Wren's late 17th century churches and the financial institutions of the 18th and 19th century such as the Royal Exchange and the Bank of England, to the early 20th century Old Bailey (England and Wales' central criminal court) and the 1960s Barbican Estate. Notable recent buildings are the 1980s skyscraper Tower 42, the Lloyd's building with services running along the outside of the structure, and the 2004 Swiss Re building, known as the "Gherkin".
London's generally low-rise nature makes these skyscrapers and others such as One Canada Square and its neighbours at Canary Wharf and the BT Tower in Fitzrovia very noticeable from a distance. High-rise development is restricted at certain sites if it would obstruct protected views of St. Paul's Cathedral. Nevertheless, there are plans for more skyscrapers in central London (see Tall buildings in London), including the 72-story "Shard of Glass", which is now completed and is currently the tallest building in the European Union.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_London#Skyscrapers_...
London Fisheye Architecture
Worms cathedral romanesque architecture, the medieval west front of Worms Cathedral with the typically German feature of having a westwerk apse on the front of the cathedral. Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Sony Nex3
Chamonix F1 - Nikkor 75sw - B+W Red filter - Fomapan 100 - xtol 1+0
This house is located in central Uppsala in sweden, it's finished in 2017, the house won price for ugliest design but it is photogenic.
Landshut architecture, looking down the Altstadt street to the massive medieval gothic church of St Martin. This medieval building has the tallest brick spire in the world, at 130.6m high it is skyscraper tall!!! Bavaria, Germany.
This picture was shot hand-held with three exposures (-2..0..+2EV). I used Photomatix to create the HDR with tonemapping and detail enhanced. I decreased the overall saturation with Hue/Saturation in Photoshop. Curve adjustment to increase the overall contrast. Unsharp Mask to bring out detail of the brickwork.
On the right is the Antoinette Hatfield Hall. This building houses the Newmark Theatre and Dolores Winningstad Theatre. These are venues for the Oregon Symphony, Oregon Ballet Theatre, and concerts. The First Congregational Church is right behind the Antoinette Hatfield Hall. The building on the left houses the Oregon Historical Society, in the former Sovereign Hotel. The Sovereign Hotel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
To view my other HDR work, click here.
View Most Recent | View Most Interesting
Thanks guys for getting me explored!
Website | Twitter | Getty | 500px | Join me on Facebook
I've had serious man-flu for the last week, so this is my first upload in a few days :-( I'm so looking forward to a few weeks of good health at some point in the year!
Porvoo, Southern Finland.
This Old Town Hall was erected in 1762-64. It and the Cathedral are the most important buildings in the Old Town of Porvoo. A two-storey structure with a mansard roof, atop which is a small wooden clock tower. It is one of two 18th-century town halls still standing in Finland. Nowadays this Townhall is a museum.
Thank you for your visit and comment!
My take on the Castle of Noisy, probably the mother of all abandoned castles.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_Castle
My visit has been brutally interrupted (I mean it) by the incoming of the guard; Consequently, I did not had the time to take all the pictures I wanted. This is particularly true for the main entrance and the classroom.
I visited the castle mid of April 2016 and my feelings are that castle is really in advanced damaged state. It has probably exceeded the point of no return. As I see it, it probably will be destroy any time soon.
If you plan to visit the castle, please be very cautious becaused of the damaged state. And if you see the guard arriving, do yourself a favor and run in the opposite direction.
have been given the opportunity to shoot some pretty special places recently, this is the view from one of them...love this perspective as it has a lot happening in it...
in the center right of the image is the axa building, what was once the tallest structure in sydney...dwarfed by its neighbours now...
harry's mlc tower also makes it into the shot...always thought this was a tall building until i visited new york...there the woolworths building (near downtown i think, built in 1913) is only slightly smaller...made me feel like sydney was a provincial town...
annnnyway, some come for the harbour, some for the surf...me, i stay for the (ur)banality...
now, back to the grindstone...