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Detail of Clow farmhouse at Riverview Farmstead, Naperville, IL. 1/125s at F11, +1/2 stop EC, 50mm with hood, mostly sunny day, 4/15/17.
First I intended to tell you something about the traces of urbanism we are looking at here. Something about an upswing in the end of the 19th century that enabled builders to decorate their houses like the 'big ones' in the city. This must have been pretty expensive, but the desire for keeping up with the bourgeoisie was big. Stuff like this, because it interests me.
But when I was looking for the exact name of this street in Google Maps, I switched on StreetView and easily found that place in the photo again. Thanks to my imagination, not due to the incredible image quality of StreetView. See for yourself.
Oh, folks at Königswinterer Straße made their houses blurred away in StreetView. What did happen?
Months ago Google officially announced the introduction of StreetView in Germany. This caused some stir, as many house owners didn't want to get their buildings photographed. There were as many reasons for this as there were buildings: many feared loss of their privacy, others felt in danger of burglars who would be able to use StreetView as sort of an 'atlas' in order to choose from 'profitable' objects, others didn't like Google anyway, and many didn't want photos of their house not under any circumstances. Civil protest groups were founded, the mass media were seconding them, and suddenly Google became sort of photographic Al Quaeda. Some people even demanded that photographing private buildings should be made indictable. Street photographers = criminals.
Okay, it was not nice that Google has also scanned open W-LANs. And of course Google wants to make money with services like StreetView. And certainly there are many reasons for not wanting one's building made publicly available. But: from my point of view this protest was a generational conflict.
Here's an article in one of our local newspapers about some protesters. House owners living nearby my street, typical protesters. Enlarge the photo by clicking on it: as you can see, these people are standing in front of their houses and their names were made public, they obviously agreed to this. You note the irony?
Then there's this ineradicable ignorance: the Internet is somehow bad, child molesters and other criminals have taken over, you only can protect yourself by pulling the plug. Most people in Germany are online now, but the greatest part of elder people isn't interested or feels uneasy about the Internet. They trust in traditional media, and these media were supporting their fears in various campaigns against Google which lasted for weeks. Whatever was hitting the news in the first place, the next news would be about Google. A public local radio station published posters: "Thanks, Google, but we're already street-smart."
What was almost completely ignored: there are several other StreetView-like services, take Bing for example. The same spot can be seen from all directions (switch to bird's eye view, then click on the compass). But everybody was claiming about Google only. Anyway, the campaigns were very successful, and Google offered blurring away buildings on demand. Lawyers and house owners' associations got a lot of attention, and when StreetView went online, everybody was surprised that the photos taken were three years old. Within a few weeks the spook was over then, and the protest disappeared from the headlines. Actually Germany has bigger problems than street views.
Only some annoying guys started taking photographs and refill StreetView's gaps, presenting the blurred buildings. I'm now one of these guys, as I learned yesterday. And it's completely legal: this photo was taken from public space. And I don't even make money with it. That's the story behind this shot.
The Toronto Jail was built between 1862 and 1865 with most of the current jail facilities being built in the 1950s, although a jail has stood on the site since 1858. Designed by architect William Thomas (also designed St. Lawrence Hall and St. Michael's Cathedral) in 1852, its distinctive façade in the Italianate style with a pedimented central pavilion and vermiculated columns flanking the main entrance portico is one of the architectural treasures of the city and one of very few pre-Confederation (1867) structures that remains intact in Toronto. Owing to its sturdy construction, its interior has gone largely unchanged in the last fifty years as renovations would be both difficult and expensive, even in an empty facility; as such, it is considered badly outdated as a prison facility. The old Jail was closed in 1977.
A Romanesque basilica dedicated to Saint Nicholas had existed at the southeastern corner of the Dresden market since the early twelfth century, documented about 1168. A Side-chapel of the Cross, named after a relic bequeathed by the Meissen margravine Constance of Babenberg (1212–1243), was first mentioned in 1319. Over the decades, it became the name of the whole church, which was officially dedicated on 10 June 1388 to the Holy Cross.
From 1401 it was rebuilt as a hall church with a prominent westwork in the German Sondergotik style. Based on the architectural works by Peter Parler (1330–1399), the construction later served as a model for numerous church buildings in Upper Saxony such as St. Anne's Church, Annaberg-Buchholz or St. Wolfgang's Church, Schneeberg. Finished about 1447/49, the church burned down in 1491, the first of five blazes over the next centuries. The Wettin electors of Saxony, residing at Dresden since 1464, had the Gothic hall church rebuilt, from 1499 under the architectural direction of Conrad Pflüger. From 1579 until 1584 the westwork was restored in a Renaissance style.
The church was heavily damaged by Prussian cannonade during the Seven Years' War, with its Late Gothic choir almost completely destroyed. After the war, the Dresden master builder Johann George Schmidt (1707-1774) set up plans for a Baroque reconstruction, which however were opposed by contemporary architects of the Neoclassicist school following Zacharias Longuelune (1669-1748). Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony backed Schmidt and laid the foundation stone in 1764, nevertheless, after the preserved westwork collapsed in 1765, Schmidt had to accept the Neoclassicist chief architect Friedrich August Krubsacius (1718-1789) as adviser. Choir and steeple were accomplished in 1788, the new church was consecrated in 1792 and construction works finished in 1800.
Interior
After the building was gutted by a fire in 1897, the church interior was reshaped with Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) elements according to plans designed by the Dresden architects Schilling & Graebner including works by Hans Hartmann-MacLean. The Church of the Cross was again set on fire during the Bombing of Dresden on 13 February 1945. In its current form with its sober scratch coat interior, it was re-opened in 1955. In the course of the reconstruction of the nearby Frauenkirche a debate arose over a restoration of the pre-war design, however, from 2000 to 2004, the interior was refurbished in its 1955 condition.
The director of the choir is known as the Kreuzkantor. Roderich Kreile is the twenty-eighth Kreuzkantor since the Reformation.
The Lighthouse in Glasgow is Scotland's Centre for Design and Architecture. It was opened as part of Glasgow's status as UK City of Architecture and Design in 1999.
The Lighthouse is the renamed conversion of the former offices of the Glasgow Herald newspaper. Completed in 1895, it was designed by the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The centre's vision is to develop the links between design, architecture, and the creative industries, seeing these as interconnected social, educational, economic and cultural issues of concern to everyone.
The Lighthouse Trust went into Administration in August 2009. At its peak the Lighthouse Trust employed around 90 staff. Its Directors moved on: Nick Barley is now Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Following a substantial redundancy programme the remaining staff were transferred to Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS) and Glasgow City Council (GCC). The Lighthouse building remains in the ownership of Glasgow City Council, which has made financial provision to meet the costs of operating the Centre, re-establishing it as Scotland's National Centre for Architecture and Design.
A Steering Group - made up of representatives of Glasgow City Council, Glasgow School Of Art, Scottish Enterprise, Creative Scotland, and various independent architects and designers - has now implemented a range of permanent and temporary uses within the building including a conference/events programme, catering facilities, temporary and permanent exhibitions, a limited amount of business space, and a design shop (TOJO) on the ground floor. Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS) now occupy one of five floors of the building and continue to run a range of programmes on that floor. The remaining staff have recently been awarded extended contracts of employment with GCC.
One of the key features of The Lighthouse is the uninterrupted view over Glasgow's cityscape available from the Mackintosh Tower at the north of the building, which is accessible via a helical staircase from the third floor.
There is also another modern viewing platform at the south of the building, on the sixth floor and is only accessible via lift
Call Number AUR-68
Summary View of 2816 Curtis Street (ca. 1880) in the Five Points (Curtis Park) neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The wooden one-story vernacular cottage has a cross-gabled roof and a small porch at the side. The residence is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing resource to the Curtis Park-Champa Street Historic District.
Date 2008.
Creator Noel, Thomas J. (Thomas Jacob)
Collection Tom Noel photograph collection. notebook ; California and Champa.
Notes Title inked and penciled on slide mount.
Content derived from inventory prepared by Jacquelyn Ainlay-Conley.
Scanned image from loaned collection.
Source Tom Noel.
Medium 1 slide : color.
Copyright Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
A video of this church is at ChiTownView; youtu.be/CljJwTXrumE
St. Thomas the Apostle Church is located at 5472 S. Kimbark Avenue in Hyde Park, Chicago. It is actually the third St. Thomas church on this site whose parish goes back to 1869. In 1922 Monsignor Thomas Shannon retained Francis Barry Byrne to build this church that was completed in 1924. Mr. Byrne was a student of Frank lloyd Wright and we can see some of his prairie school elements incorporated in this design. He had a career as a designer of ecclesiastical and educational buildings for the Roman Catholic Church Working with him was sculptor, artist, and industrial designer Alfonso Iannelli. Mr. Iannelli worked with Frank Lloyd Wright on his Midway Gardens project as well as some buildings at the 1933 Century Of Progress World's Fair.
The church was considered radical because of the nature the design and materials used. Making the Saint Thomas the Apostle to became known as America's first modernist Catholic church building. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Tortuguero airstrip/airport terminal building. No security lines at this airport. Easiest airport I ever flew in/out of.
Magnifique, l'église de Saint-André de 1929 l'est surtout grâce à sa décoration intérieure réalisée par le grand artiste sierrois: Edmond Bille. (vitraux, peintures et mosaïques)
Architecture de Lucien Praz, mais le clocher date de l'ancienne église (1790)