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The classic architecture of the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady.
The Church of the Assumption of Our Lady is a Baroque Gothic church in Kutna Hora, Czech Republic.
The church is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Piazza San Marco, often known in English as St Mark's Square, is the principal square of Venice, Italy.
A remark often attributed to Napoleon (but perhaps more correctly to Alfred de Musset) calls the Piazza San Marco "the drawing room of Europe". It is the only great urban space in a European city where human voices prevail over the sounds of motorized traffic, which is confined to Venice's waterways. It is the only urban space called a piazza in Venice; the others, regardless of size, are called campi.
As the central landmark and gathering place for Venice, Piazza San Marco is extremely popular with tourists, photographers, and pigeons.
Venetian Gothic is a term given to a style of architecture combining use of the Gothic lancet arch with Byzantine and Arab influences. The style originates in 14th century Venice where the confluence of Byzantine style from Constantinople met Arab influence from Moorish Spain. Chief examples of the style are the Doge's Palace and the Ca' d'Oro in Venice.
The style was revived in the 19th century, largely through the influence of British architectural critic John Ruskin and his treatise The Stones of Venice. In North America the style was popularized by architects Charles Amos Cummings, Frank Furness, William Robert Ware, Willard T. Sears, and Frederick William Stevens.
Situated in a quiet corner of Heaton park,Manchester,UK is this grand colonade.
It seems rather out of place, as it dosent lead to anything and its not an arch, you cant even walk through it as its fenced off currently.
However the history behind this fine piece of carved masonry, is very interesting!
It was once situated on the corner of King street and Cross street in Manchester city centre, forming a grand facade to non other then Manchester's first town hall!
The present town hall, that internationaly famous high Gothic masterpiece, was completed in 1877 as a replacement for this older, classical style town hall, which had become too small for the growing town.
After the present town hall was completed, the old building(which had been completed in 1825) was used as a lending library at first, and then by Lloyds bank. However in 1912 the old building was pulled down to make way for a new Boroque style Bank, itself now a Grade II listed building.
But the people of Manchester recognised the significance of this old building as their first town hall. So its finely carved facade was taken down carefully and re-built in Manchester's green heart, Heaton Park, a former Manor estate which had been donated to the town in 1902.
Here she still stands today! a beautiful scenic monument to the history of this fantastic city!
Kylemore Abbey (Irish: Mainistir na Coille Móire) is a Benedictine nunnery founded in 1920 on the grounds of Kylemore Castle, in Connemara, County Galway, Republic of Ireland. The abbey was founded when Benedictine Nuns fled Belgium in World War I.
Originally called Kylemore Castle, it was built between 1863 and 1868 as a private home for the family of Mitchell Henry, a wealthy politician from Manchester, England. After the death of his wife Margaret in 1875, Mitchell did not spend much time there. He and his wife are both buried in the small mausoleum near the church in the grounds of the abbey. Notable features of the abbey are the neo-Gothic church (built between 1877 and 1881), a miniature replica of Norwich Cathedral, made from local green Connemara marble, and the Victorian walled garden.
The abbey houses a secondary girls' boarding school, Kylemore Abbey International Girls' School. The house and gardens are open to the public.
During our visit this year we were told that the school is closing in 2010. At present there are only two classes of students left in the school.
Melbourne’s “Argus” newspaper reported on the 19th of July 1881 that a new shire hall had been erected in Alexandra at a cost of about £3,000.00, and was considered to be one of the finest buildings of its class in the colony.
Located on Grant Street at the intersection of Perkins Street, the Alexandra Shire Hall is indeed very grand building, and is part of the north eastern Victorian town’s historical centre. It was designed by the Collins Street architect W. H. Ellerker, and whilst described by the “Argus” as Italianate in style, the hall is actually typical of the mid Victorian eclectic revival and modification of various stands of European Renaissance architecture that culminated in what was called the Academic Classical style. The building is symmetrical with large rounded windows and an arched entrance. The building date of 1881 may be found carved into the bluestone threshold of the main doors. The entire Grant Street façade is inspired by Roman architecture, with a pedimented portico derived from classical temple facades. A wonderful piece of Australiana, installed after Federation in 1901, may be found in a central cartouche in the apex of the grand gable; the Victorian coat-of-arms flanked by an emu and kangaroo, with “advance Australia” emblazoned on a ribbon below them.
Built by Thomas Carison, the Alexandra Shire Hall features a banqueting hall that could seat over 1,000 people and the grand room was often used as a ballroom for district gatherings and dances. It was the meeting place for the first shire councilors, who convened in the council chambers, and the Shire Hall also housed the office for the first shire secretary and engineer, who had their own offices in the complex.
The building narrowly avoided demolition in 1976 after there was a strong backlash by the citizens of Alexandra, who objected strongly to the proposal. Today the Shire Hall is enjoying a Renaissance as one of the focal points for Alexandra’s artistic scene.
Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.
The Police build up on Rose Street in an attempt to cut the large groups of protestors into small sections. As stated in the other picture, the Rose Street group, which I was wedged into, was pretty rowdy.
Athens, Rome, Berlin, or even Paris ? No, it's Birmingham's recently renovated Town Hall during 'Magic hour' on a cold Winters evening.
From Wikipedia : "Birmingham Town Hall is a " listed concert and meeting venue in Victoria Square, Birmingham, England. It was created as a home for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival established in 1784, the purpose of which was to raise funds for the General Hospital, after St Philip's Church (later to become a Cathedral) became too small to hold the festival, and for public meetings. Between 2002 and 2008, it was refurbished into a concert hall and is now used for performances as diverse as organ recitals, rock, pop and classical concerts and events such as graduation ceremonies for Aston University."
Silhouetted columns along the Cardo Maximus - the main throughfare of the ancient Roman city of Jerash in Jordan.
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The Caird Hall, Dundee, Scotland looking good on a sunny spring evening. Designed by the town architect James Thomson opened in October 1923 and ‘A’ listed. #listedbuilding #listedbuildings #historicenvironmentscotland #cairdhall #dundee #dundeecity #scottisharchitecture #architecture #classicalarchitecture
Eingangsgebäude U-Bahnhof Wittenbergplatz, Berlin-Schöneberg, 1911–1913, Alfred Grenander, Wiederaufbau 1951, denkmalgerechte Sanierung 1981–1983, Wolf-Rüdiger Borchardt
JCB國際組織 中正紀念堂 (CKS Memorial Hall) 民主大道上打 造超過600平方公尺的大型哆啦A夢風車裝置藝術。
CKS Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
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The Caird Hall, Dundee, Scotland looking good on a sunny spring evening. Designed by the town architect James Thomson opened in October 1923 and ‘A’ listed. #listedbuilding #listedbuildings #historicenvironmentscotland #cairdhall #dundee #dundeecity #scottisharchitecture #architecture #classicalarchitecture
Located on Grant Street at the intersection of Perkins Street, the former Alexandra Mechanic’s Institute and Free Library, built in 1883, is a beautiful example of a Victorian Free Classical building, and is part of the north eastern Victorian town’s historical centre. It was originally designed as Alexandra’s Mechanics’ Institute with a billiard room extension added in 1892. The building has been lovingly restored, and features many features typical of Victorian Free Classical architecture. The style was ebullient and self confident as it expressed society’s growing prosperity and self confidence, and is mostly represented in civil, commercial and religious buildings, but spread to a certain degree to domestic structures as well. The parapet concealing the roof, decorative accents along the roofline and windows and doors with accentuated vertical proportions are all typical of the Victorian Free Classical architecture movement.
The Mechanics' Institute Movement began in British urban industrial cities in the early 1800s to enable men of the lower classes to improve themselves. A "mechanic" was a person applying skills and technology. During the Nineteenth Century, most towns in Victoria established a Mechanics' Institute or Athenaeum with a library and meeting hall. Common objects of the Mechanics' Institute Movement was to spread useful knowledge and provide rational (non alcoholic) recreation for the community.
The former Alexandra Mechanic’s Institute and Free Library is still used for its original literary purpose, and a modern extension, subtly attached to the historic building, doubles the library’s available floor space, allowing for a wider array of benefits.
Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon. The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 (known until 24 April 1867) as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. The current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark (Queen’s Consort to King Edward VII of England) when given a stature of her to the shire; or from three men named Alexander (Alesander, McGregor, Alexander Don, and Alexander Luckie) who discovered gold in the area in 1866. Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprietor of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra. The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town via Yea from Tallarook in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers. Today many tourists pass through Alexandra on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne. The town contains the Timber Tramway and Museum (located at the Alexandra Railway Station), and the National Trust classified post office and law courts. There is a local market on the second Saturday of each month from September to May, an annual art show at Easter, an agricultural show and rose festival in November, and the annual Truck, Rod and Ute Show in June.
The earliest National Bank of Australia in Colac established its premises in the town's main thoroughfare at 28 Murray Street in a two storey brick building erected in 1865 to a design by the architect, Leonard Terry. In 1886 the Leonard Terry bank was demolished to make way for the present two storey stucco and brick building which was completed in August 1887.
Designed by self-trained local Colac architect Alexander Hamilton (1825 - 1901), the current National Bank of Australia building is a good example of transitional boom Classicism architecture. Builders Taylor and Ellis of Ballarat erected the bank at a cost of £3,500.00. The building, which stands detached and complete like the nearby Colac Shire Hall has an iron palisade fence. The design, with rusticated ground floor facade, Corinthian porch, unusual enframed windows and pronounced parapet entablature, is illustrative of trends in bank architecture in the mid 1880s in Victoria and is one of Mr. Hamilton's most significant and scholarly works.
The bank has seen many uses over the years, and was at one stage in its life a gentleman's club for wealthy local landowners to socialise in. Today the National Bank of Australia has moved to more modern premises in Colac, but the building houses professional suites as befits a building which such a fine architectural pedigree.
Alexander Hamilton was born in Moffat, Scotland, but migrated to Australia in 1852. Originally based in Melbourne, he went to the Western District town of Mortlake before moving in 1871 to Colac where he was amongst other professions a millwright, builder and an architect. Alexander Hamilton really concentrated on his profession as an architect when he arrived in Colac and made his name in the area as a number of older homesteads and buildings in the district were built under his instruction and supervision. These include "Illewarra House" which was built for for John Calvert in 1873, "Tarndwarncoort" for Alexander Dennis in 1877 and "Talindert" for James Manifold in 1890. Mr. Hamilton also designed the Presbyterian manse in Colac in 1883 and the Bank of Australasia in Beeac in 1888.
Located approximately 150 kilometres to the south-west of Melbourne, past Geelong is the small Western District city of Colac. The area was originally settled by Europeans in 1837 by pastoralist Hugh Murray. A small community sprung up on the southern shore of a large lake amid the volcanic plains. The community was proclaimed a town, Lake Colac, in 1848, named after the lake upon which it perches. The post office opened in 1848 as Lake Colac and was renamed Colac in 1854 when the city changed its name. The township grew over the years, its wealth generated by the booming grazing industries of the large estates of the Western District and the dairy industry that accompanied it. Colac has a long high street shopping precinct, several churches, botanic gardens, a Masonic hall and a smattering of large properties within its boundaries, showing the conspicuous wealth of the city. Today Colac is still a commercial centre for the agricultural district that surrounds it with a population of around 10,000 people. Although not strictly a tourist town, Colac has many beautiful surviving historical buildings or interest, tree lined streets. Colac is known as “the Gateway to the Otways” (a reference to the Otway Ranges and surrounding forest area that is located just to the south of the town).
This is one of the doors of the Georgian period houses around the Fitzwilliam Square area of Dublin City - built in the late 1700s.
According to John Colclough from whynotireland.com...
"George Moore lived next to Oliver St John Gogarty in Ely Place off Stephens white. Both were famous writers and both rather eccentric. All the doors of Ely Place were then painted white. Moore painted his door green so that the drunken Gogarty would not come knocking on it, thinking it to be his own door. Gogarty then painted his door red so that the drunken Moore would not come knocking on his door! So started the fashion."
That cloud is not a mistake, it's a feature (?).
Józef Rosenthal's House (the original owner), also known as Fryderyk Müller's House (the pharmacist), Piotrkowska 46. Famous for its pharmacy still in business since 1883. Built in the 1860s.
The Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta ... Siena Cathedral rising majestically in the eponymous city square, is one of Italy's most illustrious Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals. Entering the Cathedral means not only experiencing spiritual elevation but also opening up to beauty and exploring one of the city's most valuable art treasures.
Standing in the middle of Memorial Square in the heart of Colac, facing Murray Street is the Colac War Memorial.
Built rather like a classical temple of Roman or Grecian origin, the war memorial is built of sandstone and was erected as a tribute to those who both fought and died in the Great War (1914 - 1918), but it has been supplemented with plaques to other conflicts that occurred in later times. The shrine is engraved "1914 The Shire's Tribute 1918" and features places where conflict took place during the Great War; Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine, Flanders, Pozieres, Polygon Wood, Bullecourt, Paschendale, Viller Brettoneux and Mont St Quinton. The Colac War Memorial was unveiled by Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Chauvel (1865 - 1945) on the 15th November, 1924. The cost of the memorial was ₤3600.00 and it was built by the monument manufacturers Sale and Keape. There are the names of 1665 men who had enlisted during the war. Those who died as a result of the conflict have their names picked out in gold lettering. A pine tree taken as a cutting from the original Lone Pine tree in Galippoli has been planted at the rear of the shrine on a lush piece of lawn.
Located approximately 150 kilometres to the south-west of Melbourne, past Geelong is the small Western District city of Colac. The area was originally settled by Europeans in 1837 by pastoralist Hugh Murray. A small community sprung up on the southern shore of a large lake amid the volcanic plains. The community was proclaimed a town, Lake Colac, in 1848, named after the lake upon which it perches. The post office opened in 1848 as Lake Colac and was renamed Colac in 1854 when the city changed its name. The township grew over the years, its wealth generated by the booming grazing industries of the large estates of the Western District and the dairy industry that accompanied it. Colac has a long high street shopping precinct, several churches, botanic gardens, a Masonic hall and a smattering of large properties within its boundaries, showing the conspicuous wealth of the city. Today Colac is still a commercial centre for the agricultural district that surrounds it with a population of around 10,000 people. Although not strictly a tourist town, Colac has many beautiful surviving historical buildings or interest, tree lined streets. Colac is known as “the Gateway to the Otways” (a reference to the Otway Ranges and surrounding forest area that is located just to the south of the town).
Brighton Town Hall
The line of capitals on this row of ionic columns holding up the main portico of the Town Hall, I can see from my office window and I obsess about it. They make me happy. Classical architecture; repeating patterns and BoblyP is in harmony and happy
#Temple of #Hephaistos in central Athens, Greece, is the best-preserved ancient #Greektemple in the world, but is far less well-known than its illustrious neighbour, the Parthenon.
It was dedicated to Hephaestus, the god of smiths and metal-workers.
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#Godoffire , #volcanoes , #metalworking , #artisans , #metallurgy , #carpenters , #forges #sculpting , and #blacksmiths
On Friday, November 10, 1989 I caught the overnight ferry from the port of Piraeus in Greece to Brindisi on the heel of Italy. The fall of The Wall on November 9 made me change my travel plans, and I decided to forgo my scheduled visit to Naples, Mount Vesuvius, Herculaneum and Pompei and charge for Berlin. In Brindisi I caught the train to Rome, where I checked into an IYHF youth hostel, and ended up staying longer than I intended. This was because I sweet-talked myself into a getting a ticket for a private audience with Pope John Paul II on November 15...but that's another story. This gave me a few days to spend quality time taking in all the major sights of the Vatican and Rome.
This picture was shot on Sunday, November 12, 1989 from the top of the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. I found an elevated spot on which to perch my camera bag, dialled in the Pentax ME Super, set the timer, and jumped back to claim my spot at the railing! That's the lens of my Pentax SFXn peeking into the bottom of frame.
35mm Pentax ME Super with 50mm Pentax lens and screw-on fisheye attachment from Jessop, Oxford Street, London.
Google Maps - from the top of the dome at bottom of screen. It's the world's largest basilica of Christianity and the tallest dome in the world.
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The photograph captures a fragment of ancient Rome through its columns. Their repetition and weathered surfaces suggest endurance built over centuries. In a city where new layers constantly rise beside the old, these structures testify to how the past endures while discoveries keep adding to its fabric.
The National Monument was meant to be a replica of the Athenian Acropolis, being built in the 1800s as a monument after the Napoleonic Wars, but the money ran out and it was never finished. Over the intervening two centuries there has been the odd call to finish it, but most of us prefer it like this.
It stands on top of Calton Hill, just a few moments walk from the end of busy Princes Street, the hill offers wonderful 360 degree views across Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth. This month (until the 25th) a new sound and light set of artworks, Message From the Skies, is being projected onto buildings around the city. This one is being projected onto the National Monument and is by Kapka Kassabova. It was beautiful to watch and listen to, standing on the dark hill under the rising winter moon.
The message on all of them is of friendship with Europe - Scotland voted heavily to remain in the EU and there is real anger here at the London government pulling us out against our wishes, hence the theme of European roots and friendship on these projections.
view National Theater Hall (left) and National Concert Hall (right) at rosy dawn after summer shower.
The National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is a Taiwanese national monument, landmark and tourist attraction erected in memory of Chiang Kai-shek, former President of the Republic of China.
The monument, surrounded by a park, stands at the east end of Memorial Hall Square. The structure is framed on the north and south by the National Theater and National Concert Hall.
Taipei, Taiwan.
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