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In an attempt to get some fall colour shots in spite of dreadfully dull weather conditions, verging on rain but holding off (for the most part) for a few hours while I waited to transport some people home from a meeting in Caledonia, Ontario, I explored Caithness Street East. Here area located a number of fine old buildings that typify the architecture of Southern Ontario in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This particular building had the yellow brick accents typical of Scottish style buildings of the day, as well as the ornate gingerbread trim. On top of that it is pretty hard to resist the spectacular red and yellow fall colour display on the property. - JW
Date Taken: 2014-10-15
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 12-24mm Lense set to 18mm, ISO100, Aperture priority mode, f/7.1, exposure bias of EV+2.0 on a base exposure of 1/15 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee: increase exposure very slightly, slightly increase contrast, boost black, increase contrast and vibrance slightly, apply noise reduction, sharpen. PP in free Open Source GIMP: apply perspective correction to remove keystoning arising from use of a tilted wide angle lense, adjust colour balance slightly to remove slight magenta cast, remove some chromatic aberration traces in the lower right, use the healing tool and soft brush shape to remove steel post that projected into the frame near the right bottom of the frame, slightly reduce green channel only saturation to tone down the grass, sharpen, add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, scale to 1800 wide for posting.
Stuttgart-Schloss Hohenheim
Das Schloss Hohenheim liegt im Stuttgarter Stadtteil Hohenheim und wurde zwischen 1772 und 1793 vom württembergischen Herzog Carl Eugen für seine spätere Frau Franziska Leutrum von Ertingen gebaut. Architekt war Reinhard F. H. Fischer. Heute wird das Schloss hauptsächlich von der Universität Hohenheim genutzt.
Shopping area in Leamington Spa. Now on Parade.
Parade continues to the right.
All these shops are Grade II* listed.
From 12-42 The Parade. Includes 59 Warwick Street.
59, Royal Leamington Spa - British Listed Buildings
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3166SE PARADE
1208-1/2/261 (West side)
19/11/53 Nos.12-42 (Even)
and attached railings to Nos 16, 18
AND 20A
GV II*
Includes: No.59 WARWICK STREET.
Terrace of 16 houses, some probably with shops, now shops,
offices and flats and attached railings to Nos 16, 18 and 20A.
Numbered right to left, described left to right. c1827-36 with
later additions and alterations including ranges to rear,
late-C19 shop fronts, mid-late C20 ground floors and shop
fronts, also repaired and restored facade to Nos 22 and 24
with rebuilding to rear.
Pinkish-brown brick in English Garden Wall bond with painted
stucco front and side facades, concealed and Welsh slate roofs
and cast-iron balconies and railings.
PLAN: double-depth.
EXTERIOR: terrace in 2 stages of build, arranged 7:9 (Nos
30-42, and Nos 12-28). 4 storeys with basement to 4th dwelling
from right (No.18), 38 first-floor windows, arranged
2:3:3:3:3:3:3:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2.
Three ranges, stepped between 6th and 7th dwelling (Nos 28 &
30) and between 11th and 12th (Nos 18 & 20). Those 11
dwellings to left project.
Stucco detailing includes remains of horizontal rustication to
ground floor; first and second floors have tall Ionic
pilasters to ends of each stepped range and between dwellings,
fluted to left, plain to right; second-floor band to left
range, missing to sixth dwelling.
First floor: seventeen 6-pane French windows with divided
overlights; two tall 4/4 sashes; six tall 6/9 sashes; 9/6
sash; 11 tall 6/9 sashes, all with plain reveals.
Second floor: mainly 6/6 sashes throughout, except 35th window
a 3/6 sash, plain reveals and sills throughout. Stepped frieze
and cornice.
Third floor: mainly 3/6 sashes; 4th, 10th, and 11th windows
are 6/6 sashes, all with plain reveals. Cornice to right (Nos
12-28); blocking course and copings throughout. Tall ridge
stacks between dwellings, except to Nos 22-28.
Ground floor: some original entrances remain: Nos 40, 38, 34
and 32 have distyle Ionic porches with entablature. Nos 28,
20a, 18, 16A and 14A have rusticated cambered arches, those to
Nos 18, 16A and 14A have part-glazed, panelled double doors
with thin pilasters and side-lights (these with glazing bars
to Nos 16A & 14A), cambered overlights with glazing bars and
with 5 and 6 roll-edged steps to each. To No.18 a tripartite
window divided by fluted pilasters with panelled apron and
cornice, 12-pane casement between 8-pane casements; basement
has 8/8 sash.
To No.14, a projecting shop front of 2 canted bays with
plinth, pilasters to angles, central entrance, frieze,
cornice.
To No.20, projecting shop front has 3 Doric pillars, plinth,
plate-glass windows, smaller Corinthian column to return,
frieze, cornice.
Continuous balconies to each range to first floor, to left
with circle and lozenge motif; to centre with Carron Company
double-heart-and-anthemion motif, to right with
double-rod-and-anthemion motif.
To rear: many 6/6 and 3/6 sashes with plain reveals and sills.
Left return: 4 storeys, 3 first-floor windows, and further
2-storey, 1 first-floor window extension.
Main range: ground floor has remains of plinth and horizontal
rustication. Tall, fluted Ionic pilasters to first and second
floors to ends surmounted by frieze and cornice. Second-floor
band. First floor has 6-pane French windows with divided
overlights, that to centre with margin-lights. Second floor
has 6/6 sashes, sills. Third floor has 3/6 sashes. All windows
with plain reveals. Blocking course, copings.
Further range: moulded plinth. Entrance to right a part-glazed
door with roll-moulded lower panel, overlight, within doorcase
of engaged Tuscan pilasters on plinths, frieze, cornice. To
left a 2/2 sash with apron in similar surround. Moulded
first-floor band. First floor to left, 2/2 sash with apron
within moulded surround on plinths. Cornice, stack to left.
INTERIOR: No.18 has dogleg staircases with cast-iron balusters
to ground floor with decorative scrolls and anthemion motifs
to fluted rods. From first to second floors are stick
balusters. No.20 has narrow-openwell staircase from first
floor with remains of tapered rod-on-bobbin balusters and
stick balusters. First floors to Nos 18 and 20 have classical
motifs to cornices, ceiling roses, some marble fireplaces,
shutters to some windows, 4-panel doors, first-floor drawing
room survives intact to No.20. No.14A has dogleg staircase
with stick balusters and wreathed handrail.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to entrances, and to area of
No.18 (with gate) have bars with anthemion finials and dogbars
with lozenge finials, urn finials to gatepost; to basement
steps are stick balusters. Railings to No.20 renewed.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Parade was so-named in 1860, originally
Lillington Lane, it was renamed Union Row c1809 and then Union
Parade by 1814. Houses to Lower Parade were built c1808-14,
with Upper Parade, west side built c1827-40. All town centre
buildings were constructed as houses, lodging-houses or
hotels, by 1850 many on the Parade had become shops.
No.59 Warwick Street adjoins No.59A (qv).
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 33, 38-39).
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3166SE WARWICK STREET
1208-1/2/261 (North side)
19/11/53 No.59
GV II*
See under: Nos.12-42 and attached railings to Nos 16, 18 AND
20A PARADE.
This is Edmunds on Newhall Street and Edmund Street. The pub used to be The Hogshead.
Here is the pub at the corner of Newhall Street and Edmund Street.
It is at 29 Newhall Street and 106 - 110 Edmund Street. By Frank Barlow Osborn, 1895, for W M Smythe. Solicitors' offices with sets of doctors' consulting rooms on either side. A fine subtle Shaw-influenced design in red brick and dark grey stone, perhaps Cefn. It can be read two ways. There is a main block to Newhall Street with its central bay marked by broad pilasters ending in volutes, and a high roof with finely moulded chimneys, with a side wing to Edmund Street. But the canted bay rising to Queen Anne-style gables, and the continuous balconies with iron railings, impose a grid which clearly expresses the offices behind. Osborn's typical elongated consoles to the doorway. Blunt, unmoulded windows, especially in the corner oriel with its charming ogee cap.
Above information from Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster
It is a Grade II listed building.
Was listed as The Scottish Mutual Assurance Society Building.
Office building. Dated 1895; altered C20. By Frank Barlow Osbourne for W H Smythe, Solictors. Red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings; blue tile roof. 4 storeys with cellars; 4:1:4 bays wrapped around corner of Newhall Street and Edmund Street; asymmetrical. In simplified Flemish Revival style. Altered ground floor with corner entrance and separate entrances to 29 Newhall Street and 110 Edmund Street. Across each upper floor is a continuous balcony with wrought-iron balustrade set on the corbelled ashlar cornice of the floor below. Moulded sill bands; cross windows with chamfered ashlar dressings in brick surrounds. Newhall Street front: bay 3 projects and has a canted bay window on first and second floors, the side-lights with transoms only; projection narrows on the third floor its window flanked by C-scrolls and by brick pilasters which rise through a string course and 2 cornices to a shaped gable with kneelers, copings and ball finial; above the window is a decorative ashlar panel. The flanking bays are recessed but otherwise treated in similar manner whilst bay 1 is narrower projection with cross window to each floor and simpler gable. Main ridge has broad, corniced transverse stack and matching coaxial stack. Corner bay has rounded turret with curved cross-window to each floor and 4-light mullioned opening to void beneath octagonal ogee dome set on a corbel table. Edmund Street front: generally treated as Newhall Street front but with broad gable on left which projects and has cross-windows to each floor flanked by brick pilasters and by transomed single-light windows. Beneath first floor window is a carved ashlar panel with monogram and date '1895'; cornice above third floor surmounted by small ashlar pediment; 2-light window within the gable. Transverse ridge stacks as before. Important city centre location. Noteworthy roofscape.
The Scottish Mutual Assurance Society Building - Heritage Gateway
Creator: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; C.F. Murphy Associates (Chicago, Ill.); Loebl Schlossman Dart and Hackl; Holabird and Root (1957- )
Description: View of the Chicago skyline looking northwest from Pfc Milton Olive Park. The John Hancock Center and Water Tower Place stand out against the sky. The Arthur J. Rubloff Building, part of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, is visible in front of the Hancock Center.
Photograph credit: Brubaker, C. William, 1984
Date: 1969 (John Hancock Center); 1976 (Water Tower Place); 1984 (Rubloff Building)
Geographic coverage: Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.)
Collection: C. William Brubaker Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections Department
Rights: This image may be used freely, with attribution, for research, study and educational purposes. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago Library, 801 South Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607. Phone: (312) 996-2742; email: lib-permissions@uic.edu.
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A mash-up of several architectural styles and a major landmark of Valencia, complete with breathtaking interior.
Part of the second floor is boarded up but the 1st floor is clearly being lived in. From the lack of cars and clutter it appears to be an older person's farmhouse. Wonder what really is the story of this old farm.
La cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore è il Duomo di Firenze.
È la quinta chiesa d'Europa per grandezza, dopo la Basilica di San Pietro, la Cattedrale di San Paolo a Londra, la Cattedrale di Siviglia e il Duomo di Milano. È lunga, infatti, 153 metri mentre il basamento della cupola è largo 92 braccia fiorentine, pari a circa 54 metri. Ha una pianta peculiare, composta com'è di un corpo basilicale a tre navate saldato ad una enorme rotonda triconca che sorregge l'immensa Cupola del Brunelleschi, la più grande cupola in muratura mai costruita. Al suo interno è visibile la più grande superficie mai decorata ad affresco; 3600 metri quadri, eseguiti tra il 1572-1579 da Giorgio Vasari e Federico Zuccari.
Fonte - Wikipedia.
I walked in (having arrived for the first time the night before) under the impression that Indian art was somehow the work of committees and was struck immediately by the fact that this entire complex was the product of a single, insanely arrogant person's mind.
Re-edit.
More initial test shot, this time in black and white, with my lastest lens, the SMC Pentax FA 35mm f2.