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Esta era una casa vieja en la urbanización Calicanto, ahora es un mini centro comercial donde está el Nu Lounge Bar y otras cosas más.
Hong Kong School Jing Ying Volleyball Tournament 2014-2015 on December 31st, 2014 at Tsing Yi Sports Centre Hong Kong, China. Photo by Panda Man / Takumi Images
'The Glenshiel', Architect: D. C. Frame, later modified by others.
One of Victoria’s landmark buildings, the Glenshiel celebrated its centenary in 2008, although construction did not begin until 1909. It is a three-storey Edwardian Italianate brick and stucco structure with two front façades separated by a wide entry and a recessed light court which extends halfway between the two sections. The original left façade built in 1909 is wider and stands proud of the right. It has paired windows on either side of central balconies on the second and third floors. It was added to in 1912. The recessed right façade built in 1925 has small, inaccessable central balconies on all three floors. In 1926 a large addition was built at the rear of the original building, making a total of three shallow bays on the left side. In 1957-58 a dining room extension was added to the first floor on the left front and along the left side. This extension creates a wide balcony which meets with the original balcony in front of the middle bay. The balcony has iron railings on the newer section meeting the original wooden balustrade.
There are modillions and dentils in the cornices all around the building, and stuccoed vestigial pilasters with capitals on all corners. A wide dentillated belt course separates the main floor from the second floor. The dark reddish-brown brick which covers the main floor on all sides is studded with Arts & Crafts-style clinker bricks of varying sizes from small to multiples of melded bricks. Other Arts & Crafts features are the diamond panes of the upper sash in the second and third floor windows, again all around the building. Substantial iron fire escapes are located on the rear right sides of both buildings. This beautiful building is now visible from all sides as it backs onto the parking lot of the Royal BC Museum.
[Victoria Heritage Foundation:
www.victoriaheritagefoundation.ca/HReg/JamesB/Douglas606....]