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Under the shady roof
Of branching Elm Star-proof,
Follow me,
I will bring you where she sits
Clad in splendor as befits
Her deity.
Such a rural Queen
All Arcadia hath not seen.
John Milton
Detail from a large drum-shaped building on the waterfront in Akureyri on the north coast of Iceland. The geometric basalt columns that are a common feature of Icelandic geology have been sliced and affixed to the exterior, with attention to spacing so that whole columns frame all openings. The effect is quite striking - one could easily picture a whole town built this way - but the earthquake-conscious Californian in me worries a lot about how the stone is attached.
Menningarhúsið Hof
Akureyri
Iceland
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There's a strange cylindrical office building right next to the number "5" on the front of the UBS building Broadgate Circus. It's always looked a bit out of place, especially after all the redevelopment in the area, so someone has decided to clad it in golden rectangles, and to be fair it looks pretty good!
It's a tricky one to shoot - where you've got room to maneuver you'll find there are two large windows in the way that spoil the look a bit. To get a shot without them you need to go down the side of the building, but it's right next to another so you don't have a lot of room to get it in frame. I took this at 35mm, but wish I'd had something a bit wider.
New cladding on the east wall of the Kensginton Market Lofts adds some colour to the streetscape. The building used to house George Brown College prior to being converted in 1999 for residential use.
Excerpt from www.aph.gov.au/visit_parliament/about_the_building:
Marble Foyer
The Marble Foyer features 48 marble columns that evoke the muted pinks and greens of the Australian landscape as well as the colours of the two Parliamentary Chambers, clad in green Cipollino marble from Italy and creamy pink Atlantide Rosa marble from Portugal. The two marble staircases feature stone finials created by Sydney sculptor Anne Ferguson, which were inspired by the seed forms of Australian trees. The floor has a series of circles, semi-circles and triangles of Paradise White marble and black Granitello Nero limestone from Belgium. The limestone is full of fossils of sea life that existed some 345 million years ago. You can see the remains of ancient corals, sponges and crinoids, or 'sea lilies'.
The walls feature twenty marquetry panels depicting Australian native flora, designed by Adelaide artist Tony Bishop and produced by Michael Retter, the six panels above the entrance feature plants traditionally used by Aboriginal people, and those on the southern side feature plants collected by Sir Joseph Banks in 1770.
I have a strong artistic bias toward doing things I haven't done before, and a stronger ones to trying things I've never even seen before.
I'd love to see someone guess the lighting on this one. UPDATE: Solution is here
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Clad in stainless steel,you can get some great reflections at night from the street lights and passing traffic
Walking up to Baltit Fort.
Karimabad, formerly known as Baltit, is the capital of Hunza District, in the Gilgit-Baltistan province of Pakistan.
Karimabad town, located on the west bank of the Hunza River, is in the Northern Areas of the Pakistan, in a valley which is at an altitude of 8,200 feet. The town is made up of stone walled steep sloping large terraces. The town was a caravan halting place for people who were traveling through the Hindu Kush mountains to the Vale of Kashmir. It is set amidst the snow clad mountain peaks of Rakaposhi altitude of about 7,600m, and glaciers like the Ulter Nala as a backdrop, and deep gorges.
While taking in views at the Morant’s Curve overlook along the Bow Valley Parkway. The view is looking to the southwest to Mount Temple another other peaks and ridges of the Bow Range. This is in Banff National Park.
From yesterday's shot, this is the building in all it's brutalist cladded glory. Originally completed in 1975, this office block was converted recently into some of the worst flats in the country under the universally disliked (except in govt and slum landlord circles) Permitted Development Rights (PDR) scheme which allows developers to bypass community consultation, bypass planning standards, and allow them to build homes without contributing to local needs .
The Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol.
Although similar in size the bridge towers are not identical in design, the Clifton tower having side cut-outs whilst the Leigh tower has more pointed arches and chamfered edges. Brunel's original plan proposed they be topped with then-fashionable sphinxes, but the ornaments were never constructed.
The 85-foot-tall (26 m) Leigh Woods tower stands atop a 110-foot (34 m) red sandstone-clad abutment. In 2002 it was discovered that this was not a solid structure but contained 12 vaulted chambers up to 35 feet (11 m) high, linked by shafts and tunnels.
Roller-mounted "saddles" at the top of each tower allow movement of the chains when loads pass over the bridge. Though their total travel is minuscule, their ability to absorb forces created by chain deflection prevents damage to both tower and chain.
The bridge has three independent wrought iron chains per side, from which the bridge deck is suspended by eighty-one matching vertical wrought-iron rods ranging from 65 feet (20 m) at the ends to 3 feet (0.91 m) in the centre. Composed of numerous parallel rows of eyebars connected by bolts, the chains are anchored in tunnels in the rocks 60 feet (18 m) below ground level at the sides of the gorge. The deck was originally laid with wooden planking, later covered with asphalt, which was renewed in 2009. The weight of the bridge, including chains, rods, girders and deck is approximately 1,500 tons.
One reason why the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is one of the most photographed buildings in the world is undoubtedly the facade, which is made from exactly 42,875 titanium panels. This is a re-edited version from a trip in 2019 with some more drama.
On the Sunday of Open House weekend in London last month I was lucky enough to get tickets for a tour of Bloomberg's new headquarters designed by Foster + Partners. The building has only been open a year and is one of the most self sustaining buildings in the world.
This photo is of the main hypotrochoid stepped ramp that flows through the centre of the building. The tour included several areas but I thought this stunning piece of architecture was fantastic. Clad in bronze, the ramp is designed and proportioned as a place of meeting and connection, allowing staff to hold brief conversations with colleagues, whilst not impeding the flow of people.
We weren't allowed to use proper cameras, but we could use our mobile phones. The tour did move at quite a pace, so we didn't get much time for photos but I may post the others I have in a separate album at some point.
Occupying a full city block, the 3.2-acre site actually comprises two buildings united by bridges that span over a pedestrian arcade that reinstates Watling Street, an ancient Roman road that ran through the site. The building itself sits near the site of the ancient Walbrook River and when it was being built they discovered over 14,000 Roman artefacts.
The new Bloomberg building also returns the archaeological remains of the Roman Temple of Mithras to the site of their original discovery, Mithras was a Roman god worshipped by secretive Cult of Mithras, which practised between the 1st and 4th centuries. It really was incredible to see this ancient temple under a futuristic building such as this. If anyone fancies seeing it for themselves, the temple is open to the public and free to visit.
This was definitely a tour worth going on and I learnt so much from our guides. Not only about the building itself but about the Roman's who settled in this area and created Londinium.
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Traffic light reflections at dusk on Avenida Abandoibarra in Bilbao, the largest city in the Spanish Basque Country.
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Just a thought: If you're a U.S. Senator attending a fundraiser for a middle school that's been burned down, and a newspaper photographer shows up, and among the people present are a variety of parents and a scantily-clad adolescent girl....you might wanna position yourself squarely among the adults. I'm not making ANY suggestion of even the appearance of impropriety, because I'm sure there wasn't any, but in today's political climate... can you really afford to take any chances?
The event was a bake sale and carwash (which I'm sure accounts for the bikini). Were they trying to recreate the car-washing scene from "Cool Hand Luke" with characters based on "Lolita?"
I may have just outed myself as the biggest prude-Mom on the planet, but I'm really just kinda hoping that my daughter won't be making any downtown public appearances in bikini tops and low-rider shorts when she's just finished the eighth grade...especially if there are politicians and/or newspaper photographers around.
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