View allAll Photos Tagged block
Housing block in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern.
Photo taken on an iPhone 4 and edited in Photoshop Elements.
On Saturday, July 8, 2017, the FDNY celebrated its first summer Block Party at Station 52 in Queens.
Very very orange to match the frame's reddish-orange interior, this clean and well kept 327 V8 looks fantastic.
I liked the design of the tin sheds in the background, hence the post.
Brisbane airport up till around 20 odd years ago used huge tin hangars like this for their arrival and departure areas and for many years were way behind our other large cities.
In those days arriving in Brisbane was like stepping back in time. I think they were built around Circa WW2.
It was kinda nice to see these again.
These buildings are in the Newstead area of Brisbane and I had to kinda break in (if you call opening a tied off gate breaking in) to a vacant block to get the shots.
Looking at the Block shelf an lever frame in Diamond Valley "B" Signal Box.
Diamond Valley Railway 58th Birthday Day 1.
Experimenting with economy blocks for a new project!
Blogged:
sewmesomethinggood.blogspot.ca/2015/09/sometimes-its-as-e...
On Saturday, July 8, 2017, the FDNY celebrated its first summer Block Party at Station 52 in Queens.
I don't remember which cell block number this is from the Eastern State Penitentiary. I think it was closed to guests beyond a certain point.
8 East Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC.
Description of Historic Place:
The Desrosiers Block is located on East Hastings Street on the southern fringe of Vancouver's historic Gastown district. It is a two-storey commercial building with Edwardian archtiectural elements.
Heritage Value:
The heritage value of the Desrosiers Block lies in the historic relationship between this area and the economy of early Vancouver. When Vancouver became the entrepot between the Canadian Pacific Railway and trans-Pacific shipping in 1887, Gastown was its hub. At the turn of the twentieth century, this area of town was developed as a shopping area, as commercial activity spread outward from its early roots in Gastown. The Desrosiers Building is associated with Gastown's history as a mixed-use district.
Michael Desrosiers, a plumber who also operated a retail stove outlet, worked with contractor P. J. Donahue in 1901 to construct this building. Although its larger neighbours on each side emphasize the modest scale of the building, its solid massing and stone detailing give the site substance and significance. This building provides a contrast in scale, massing, detailing and use, demonstrating the variety of architectural styles and functions established along Hastings Street. By 1908 the tenants included two liquor stores and a barber, catering to a largely male clientele. In 1913 a restaurant was opened in the Desrosiers Block. The retail use continues today.
Source: City of Vancouver Heritage Conservation Program
Character-Defining Elements:
The character-defining elements of the Desrosiers Block include:
- the physical and stylistic relationship between this building and its higher neighbours within the Gastown historic district
- form, scale and massing
- its siting on the property line, with no setbacks
- Edwardian architectural elements, such as moulded sheet metal parapet, projecting pediment inscribed "Desrosiers Block" supported by circular columns on each side, stone decorated brackets supporting cornice with dentils, medallions at top of three stone pilasters between windows, pattern of fenestration (four large double-hung one-over-one sash windows set in stone surrounds), rusticated stone string courses above ground floor level, and horizontal stepped string course above windows
- continued retail use of ground floor
Another one from the Benini Sculpture ranch. :)
Much nicer viewed larger on black here.
More from the set here.
I happened to be walking down 15th St to get some pictures of the snow in Washington, when a motorcade left the White House. Unfortunately, the camera I was using is lousy for capturing this kind of fast moving action.