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The same pediment pops up again in N16 on Ebenezer Howard's old home and its fabulous next door neighbour. The path here is also crazy paved. The squared tiled cladding is most unusual,especially the Piet Mondrian touches above the upper window line. I like this immensely. A shame that the little ballustrade above the bay has been lost.
Minerit HD fiber cement boards on a hillside home in Los Angeles. Installer was Sievers Construction Services.
SPIN Pizza with Dark Brown Fiber Cement Boards on a rainscreen system. Design by: Architects Design Consortium
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Restaurant ZEST at JW3 in London.
Architects: Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands.
Wall Cladding of Counter: EXYD with Cantilever Bars.
Warrior was different from the sailing warships of the previous four centuries - like Mary Rose and Victory - in having one long stable gun deck rather than several stacked gun decks. Six hundred men lived here, divided into 34 messes, each with up to 18 men squashed into the space between two guns. They crammed around the simple mess table at mealtimes and at night slung their hammocks above. They were allowed small ditty bags or boxes containing day-to-day possessions. Despite the sometimes rigorous conditions, off-watch the crews' leisure time was spent singing, talking, playing cards, sewing and writing letters home. Some had musical instruments; others had pets such as parrots.
The contrast between the social life of the crew and officers is evident. The Captain's cabin, with its rich décor and fine furniture, was very like the Victorian drawing room. Officers had individual cabins, which they adorned with personal possessions such as fishing rods, books and photographs. The Wardroom table is still magnificently set for formal dinner, gleaming with silver, crystal and embossed fine bone china.
The Admiralty classification of ships was regulated by armament and Warrior, officially a third-rate frigate, would normally carry a crew of 300. However, when she set sail on her first commission, Warrior had a crew of approximately 700.
The ship herself may have been revolutionary, but the day to day lives of her crew differed little from service in the great wooden warships. Manpower was still essential.
To many on board it must have seemed, as it did to those at home, that Warrior's career would go on forever.
For more information, please see here: www.nmrn.org.uk/hms-warrior/history
Cherry Crest Elementary School with Red Fiber Cement Boards on a rainscreen (overlap) system. Architect: NAC Architecture
Today we are Birmingham to check University for Daughter #1.
Work is clearly in place to replace it all cladding, despite claims is it not combustible (see below). Looks like the work won't be complete by the time students return in September 2021.
"Q. Does the cladding on the students' accommodation properties pass combustibility tests?
A. Following the recent tragedy at Grenfell Tower, the owners of our on-campus student accommodation, Unite Students, conducted a thorough review of the cladding systems currently in use.
Unite’s Estates and Maintenance Technical Manager has completed a full survey of each property and has confirmed that they do not have any properties with the same brand of external cladding as the material used on the Grenfell tower, or indeed any buildings of a comparable structure to Grenfell.
However, the safety of our students is paramount and as a proactive measure Unite are working alongside Government specialists to review properties that have external cladding in situ. This will allow us to ensure that all fire prevention and mitigation measures are in place (such as passive fire stopping) to provide further reassurance."
Split Croatia- Pine-clad hills, secluded coves, beaches- Split and the Dalmatian Riviera have been premier destinations on the Adriatic since the days of theRoman Emperors.
In fact, medieval Split was built within and around the palace built for the emperor Diocletian in his retirement.
The charms that entertained Emperors are still evident today. The Dalmatian Riviera offers the traveler a heady blend of natural beauty and fascinating cultural sites.
Diocletian abdicated in 305 A.D . During his reign , the emperor ruthlessly persecuted Christians. Ironically Split’s St. Dominius’ Cathedral occupies his mausoleum.
As far as we know, the original settlers here were Dalmatians tribes, later joined by Greek merchants, who saw the value of the harbor and its proximity to the rich interior. The first Romans stablished a colony nearby at Selona in 78 B.C, taking full advantage of the same features. Selona eventually became the Roman administrative center for Dalmatia, especially after Caesar settled other Italian colonist there. Roman roads and aqueducts were added to exploit the rich mines and farms along the sunny coast.
Diocletian Palace- The heart of old Split is built within and around the sprawling 8.4 acre(3.4 hectare) Palace erected by Diocletians.
San Francisco Residence with White Fiber Cement Boards on a Rain-Screen. Installed by Saturn Construction.
Natural stone wall cladding ideal for commercial and residential interior and exterior wall cladding. For more info, click on the link: Stone Wall Cladding
During Construction, Minerit HD fiber cement boards installed on steel furring over an existing brick building. Installer was Sievers Construction Services.
Eva-Last, Infinity, Swiss Oak, Capped Bamboo Composite Decking, VistaClad, Infinity, Swiss Oak, Composite Cladding.
Split Croatia- Pine-clad hills, secluded coves, beaches- Split and the Dalmatian Riviera have been premier destinations on the Adriatic since the days of theRoman Emperors.
In fact, medieval Split was built within and around the palace built for the emperor Diocletian in his retirement.
The charms that entertained Emperors are still evident today. The Dalmatian Riviera offers the traveler a heady blend of natural beauty and fascinating cultural sites.
Diocletian abdicated in 305 A.D . During his reign , the emperor ruthlessly persecuted Christians. Ironically Split’s St. Dominius’ Cathedral occupies his mausoleum.
As far as we know, the original settlers here were Dalmatians tribes, later joined by Greek merchants, who saw the value of the harbor and its proximity to the rich interior. The first Romans stablished a colony nearby at Selona in 78 B.C, taking full advantage of the same features. Selona eventually became the Roman administrative center for Dalmatia, especially after Caesar settled other Italian colonist there. Roman roads and aqueducts were added to exploit the rich mines and farms along the sunny coast.
Diocletian Palace- The heart of old Split is built within and around the sprawling 8.4 acre(3.4 hectare) Palace erected by Diocletians.
Cherry Crest Elementary School with Red Fiber Cement Boards on a rainscreen (overlap) system. Architect: NAC Architecture
more Summer evening wandering around Heslington East campus.
Brand new glass, steel, copper and wood all over the place.
Looks more like the deck of a ship this one, but I like the splodges of reflected light from the glass building opposite.
Cherry Crest Elementary School with Red Fiber Cement Boards on a rainscreen (overlap) system. Architect: NAC Architecture
Minerit HD fiber cement boards on a hillside home in Los Angeles. Installer was Sievers Construction Services.
St John the Baptist, Upton, Cambridgeshire
From Ufford I climbed back out of the valley along the road to Marholm before turning off on a country lane. This wasn't particularly narrow, but it was very lonely. Hardly a single car passed me, and there was a wide view in every direction. There were more cyclists than cars, mostly the usual grim-faced lycra-clad hobbyists who would have been playing golf in a different decade, but also lots of cheerful ordinary cyclists venturing beyond Peterborough's Green Wheel. This happened a lot to day, and on every occasion without exception my greeting was returned. They seemed a particularly friendly lot around here.
I was glad I had my OS map, because the little lane to the remote hamlet of Upton was not signposted. Indeed, I found this a lot today. Either signposts were confusing or there were simply none at all. I put this down to the local history. Maybe Northamptonshire county council never got around to replacing the signs removed after the War, and then in 1965 the bureaucrats at County Hall in Huntingdon thought to themselves Hmmm, we ought to do something about this, but before they could it was 1974 and it was the bureacrats at County Hall in Cambridge who were scratching their heads and saying Beyond Peterborough? Is that our responsibility? It is? Well, I suppose we ought to do something about it, but suddenly it was 1999, Peterborough became a unitary authority with responsibility for its own road signs and they said Let's not bother, everyone local knows the way to everywhere else local, and that's good enough for us. Or something like that.
Anyway, the narrow lane got narrower and narrower and descended more and more steeply, so I hoped I'd got the right lane or it would be a long haul back to the road. But I had, and eventually came to the little hamlet of Upton, not to be confused with the large suburban village of Upton on the outskirts of Alconbury a few miles off. Perhaps they used the signs there instead. I said it was remote, and it is, there's a couple of miles to the nearest other settlement. But it is also enfolded in the hills, and at the end of a dead end leading into farmland. It seemed much more remote even than it actually was.
I only knew of the church from the simple cross on my OS map, and had no idea what to expect. Beyond the houses I crossed a noisy cattle grid into a wide open overgrown meadow, and there it was on the far side. It looked extraordinary, a low double-gabled frontage with a small medieval extension beyond. Was it even a church? The cross on the gates told me it was. There was no path across the meadow here so I headed down to the farm and took a track leading back off to the north.
The church was locked with a keyholder notice (at first I though there wasn't one, but on the noticeboard bolted to the west wall someone had covered it up with another notice). Now, I hadn't planned to go for the key because I wanted time to visit all the churches on my list in this area, but one peep through the window changed my mind. It looked extraordinary inside, a church of different levels with a vast bedstead memorial and a Stuart pulpit beyond. I scurried back to the keyholder just beyond the cattle grid and back to the church. I let myself into the west door.
Extraordinary. This must have been a tiny church once, but in the 17th Century the Dove family built a massive two stage extension on the north side. This consisted of a mausoleum below and a family pew on the upper floor, with balustraded stairs leading up to it as if in a country house. As if that were not enough, the family pew contains a massive memorial, quite out of scale, to Sir William Dove and his two wives (a civilised custom I always think, it's a shame it has been lost to us). He died in 1633, but the memorial is later than that and probably a composite, for his first wife is made of Barnack stone and he and his second wife (they weren't really at the same time) are made of terracotta. Stepping down into the tiny nave and chancel was like crossing the centuries. Here, a distinctly prayerbook feel has been elaborated in an early 20th Century fashion. it was enchanting, a thrilling little church. If I had come here on my 21-church trip through the middle of Cambridgeshire a couple of weeks back it would certainly have been my church of the day, but for now it had to make do with slipping in behind Barnack and Peakirk.
I felt thoroughly lifted up, despite the fact that I emerged to find the sky had clouded over. I took back the key and descended by the other narrow lane to the A47, which took me by surprise, I was halfway around the roundabout before I realised I was on it, and then off the other side and down into the tiny village of Sutton.
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