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I enjoyed my usual trip to Oxford it is just a twenty minute train journey from Banbury. I passed this college on my way into the City Centre and the door was open. I got a friendly welcome and enjoyed a walk round this immaculate quadrangle. I was surprised the college was open before 10am, it was a good start for me. As I have said previously I do like the honey coloured buildings of Oxford.
Architecture in Ipswich
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Built in 1931 and designed by architect Mark Lemmon, the Tower Petroleum Building is a monument to prewar, Art Deco Moderne architecture. While it once was a focal point of downtown, it now sits amid a cluster of half-empty buildings whose heyday passed long ago.
Tower Petroleum Building, 1907 Elm Street, Dallas
L'Irvine Building du St Salvadore's College, St Salvator's Quadrangle, Lower College Hall, North Street, Saint Andrews, comté de Fife, Écosse.
Ce collège fait partie de la St Andrews University fondée en 1413 lorsqu'un groupe du clergé augustin, chassé de l'Université de Paris par le schisme d'Avignon et des universités d'Oxford et de Cambridge par les guerres anglo-écossaises, a formé une société d'enseignement supérieur à St Andrews, qui offrait cours de conférences sur la divinité, la logique, la philosophie et le droit.
Fondé en 1450 par l'évêque James Kennedy, c'est le plus vieux collège de l'Université de St Andrews. Les deux ailes donnant sur la cour d'honneur sont des reconstructions du siècle dernier.
La collégiale fut restaurée aux 19e et 20e siècle. La ville de St Andrews est située sur la côte de la mer du Nord entre Édimbourg et Dundee. Nommée d’après l'apôtre saint André, le bourg royal de St Andrews a une histoire riche sur bien des aspects. Ancienne ville épiscopale, elle eut une importance religieuse considérable au Moyen âge, son université, bien que plus jeune comparée à celles de Cambridge et Oxford, est la plus ancienne d'Écosse.
Enfin, elle est le berceau du golf, sport né vers le 15e siècle sur ses dunes de sable et elle exerce toujours une influence considérable sur ce sport. Ses nombreux monuments, ses plages de sable et ses parcours du golf, dont les fameux links, font de la ville un centre touristique. Elle abrite également l'université de St Andrews.
There are many ways to photograph this special building, but I chose this composition in order to express its delicate slenderness and aspiring height.
Designed by Italian architect, Renzo Piano, The Shard is a 72-storey skyscraper in Southwark, London.
The architect was inspired by the railway lines next to the site, the London spires depicted by the 18th-century Venetian painter Canaletto, and the masts of sailing ships. Piano considered the slender, spire-like form of the tower a positive addition to the London skyline, recalling the church steeples featured in historic engravings of the city,
Of course, Piano's design met criticism from English Heritage, who claimed the building would be "a shard of glass through the heart of historic London", giving the building its name.... to the chagrin of these conservative critics. Piano knew that its presence would be far more delicate than opponents of the project alleged. Furthermore its expressive façades of angled glass panes intended to reflect sunlight and the sky above, such that the appearance of the building changes according to the weather and seasons.
The Shard is not simply an iconic building but represents an approach to expanding the urban landscape: offices, residences and public spaces alike are all taken skyward. [References: Wikipedia. Google, and The ShArd.]
The Menara gardens are located to the west of Marrakech, Morocco, at the gates of the Atlas mountains. They were built in the 12th century (c. 1130) by the Almohad ruler Abd al-Mu'min.
The name menara derives from the pavillon with its small green pyramid roof (menzeh). The pavilion was built during the 16th century Saadi dynasty and renovated in 1869 by sultan Abderrahmane of Morocco, who used to stay here in summertime.
The pavilion and basin (an artificial lake) are surrounded by orchards and olive groves. The intention of the basin was to irrigate the surrounding gardens and orchards using a sophisticated system of underground channels called a qanat. The basin is supplied with water thanks to an old hydraulic system which conveys water from the mountains located 30 km approximately away from Marrakech.
La Comerica Bank Tower, 1717 Main St, Dallas, Texas, USA. Une vue à partir de la Julius Schepps Freeway (I-345 ou US-75).
Anciennement appelée le Chase Center ou Bank One Center, cette tour est un gratte-ciel de Dallas dont la construction s'est terminée en 1987. Les architectes sont les agences de Johnson/Burgee de Philip Johnson et HKS, Inc.
Church of Saint Spyridon
A nice church located close to the city center. It has a nice old Byzantine architecture with a very elegant Dome and 2 Bells Towers and surrounded by a small garden and having a huge graveyard in the back just on Makarios Avenue that was renovated few years ago.
Anyone in Adelaide would instantly recognize this building as the SAHMRI. It's been shot to death and I've really avoided it until now. I ride past it everyday to work contemplating it's unique architecture and looking for the angles not yet (well to my eyes) exposed.
Stumbled across this getting back to my car in Tesco carpark!
As an old aficionado of shipping containers (...I can explain!), i immediately recognised that this building was made out of long shipping containers. Ultimate added value recycling!! Loved it at first sight! Amazing how good it looks. Stunning building.
When I came home and looked on google, I can see that it won lots of architecture awards 5 years ago when it was assembled. Also it is 37 shipping containers.
District 10 container office building
designed by Ged Young of Aim Design Architects
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