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Mock Tudor boarding as done by the Victorians...If you are going to do something... just over do it.
Project Specs
Pattern: Chickadee Cowl by Kirsten Kapur
Pattern Source: Through the Loops! (also available as a free download on Ravelry)
Yarn: Handmaiden Sea Silk in Bronze, 58 grams (254 yards)
Needles: US 8 Denise circular needles
Finished Size: 11" long x 10.5" wide
Modifications: Cast on 147 sts on US 8 needles, knit for 11", used fingering weight yarn (pattern calls for bulky), at end knit one row plain and bound off on size 7 needles
Inspired by Hannah's Spring Chick Cowl
I really loved knitting this cowl. The pattern is simple and fun, plus it goes great with the yarn!
I decided to try something different this weekend so Nicole and I went to the Denver Art Museum. What a cool building!!....unless you don't like angles!
Temporary barriers set up around building work in progress in the city on King William Street, Adelaide.
Grade II Listed. Livery company hall with offices. 1967 design, built 1972-6. John S Bonnington Partnership, formerly Sir Basil Spence, Bonnington & Collins, and Spence had early conceptual design involvement.
Materials: In situ concrete frame clad with aluminium curtain wall on lower office floors with smoke-coloured glass; ribbed, knapped and bush hammered concrete (painted in 1992) to modelled upper floors.
Plan: Rectangular plan to Fore Street, with four storeys of lettable office space below a double-height hall and further Salters' accommodation at floors five and six.
Exterior: Fore Street level, with porte-cochere, is semi-open with pilotis, and the central wrought iron gates, dated 1887, and featuring birds and delicate foliate decoration; to the left is the name plaque. Above this, the four bays of office accommodation, divided by concrete piers, and with aluminum-framed, smoked-glass windows to north and south (except for north-east bay which is blind for the lifts inside). The exterior is defined by its dominant floors five and six, which extend beyond the footprint of the stories below. The concrete faced floor five wraps around, blind to the north side, and with some windows and the Salters' coat of arms in bronzed GRP to the south. Rising from this at the west end is the two-storey main hall, and extending from the east end is the three-storey stair tower, flanked by a taller lift shaft. Floors six and seven also hold the Salter's office, expressed externally with smaller windows in aluminum frames. The building connects with the high-level walkway to the east, which is not included in the listing.
History: The medieval hall of the Salters' Company, founded in 1394, was in Bread Street, and then in the 17th century was rebuilt in St Swithin's Lane. This building was rebuilt several times, including after being destroyed in the Great Fire. The Salters' were also hit by the second great wave of City of London damage when the handsome 1823-7 hall by Henry Carr was destroyed in an air raid in May 1941. Fortunately, the gates of 1887 were salvaged and re-used in the present Fore Street building.
The Salters' Hall has been attributed to Basil Spence but it seems more likely that due to his age (it was near the end of his career, and he died in 1976) and some internal disagreements, he had a minor role in the design as built. Spence's partner from the firm of Basil Spence, Bonnington and Collins (founded in 1963) carried out the project as the John S Bonnington Partnership. The interior was fitted out and designed by a partnership of the leading interior designers David Hicks and Patrick Garnett.
Salter's Hall won a RIBA London Award 2018.
RIBA archive photo.
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My wife was curious why I was taking a picture of the mannequin. I told her it was for Flickr and then she understood.
Commentary.
1. A gem of the western coast.
This clutch of a dozen sandy coves is a microcosm of this convoluted, fascinating and spectacular three thousand mile coastline.
2. Green hills sweeping down to the rock-pooled bays.
An isolated hamlet dotting the shore with white-washed cottages.
A plethora of white shell-sand beaches punctuated by green algae-clad slabs harbouring pools, thronging with life.
Marram grass binding dune walls for shelter from sea-breezes.
A vibrant, fertile, magnificent ocean.
Magical, mountainous offshore islands, Canna, Rum, Eigg and Muck.
3. Marine life as diverse as red anenomes, razor shells, spider crabs, porpoises, dolphins and massive basking sharks.
Such is Sanna on the volcanic and far western edge of the most westerly peninsula.
A haven, a heaven on earth, eternal, holy, unspoilt, proud and captivating.
Alternating expanses of beige and slate grey siding begin to cover Tyvek on a new apartment building
“There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance.” ~ William Sharp
Okay, feeling a bit of nostalgia today...two weeks from today, we will be headed to our "home away from home" to ring in the New Year....can't think of a better way to spend the holiday than being with my soulmate in one of the most magical places we've ever visited. And as I was going through some of my archives from previous winters' trips, I came across one of my favorites....it was a dark, gloomy, snowy, & bitterly cold January day, but that always pales in comparison to being surrounded by such incredible natural beauty.
Have a fabulous Thursday...and thanks as always for stopping by to visit :-)