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One of the buildings belonging to the former British consulate complex close to the northern end of the Bund. On old Shanghai maps you'll find it as H.B.M. Consulate (H.B.M. = His/Her British Majesty).
Now the flagship store of a high-end Swiss watch company occupies the building.
Also note the highly attentive attitude of the gate guard...
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The Consulado General de Portugal in the Rua Pedro Nolasco da Silva, Macau.
The building is the former "St. Raphael Hospital and Garden", established in 1569, the first western-style hospital in Asia.
The current appearance dates to its last reconstruction in 1939.
Yet another archive shot from the back of my stream, originally uploaded on October 30, 2008, reposted on July 30, 2025.
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in the front building. Unfortunately the flag doesn't open up to the sideway.
@ Circular Quay, Sydney
Tin tile roof
fake victorian bullnose verandah
genuine 1960 brick veneer
"Fleur de lis" spear top panelised fencing
what do i care?
Darebin Road, Northcote
300-2909
This beautiful old house is the Consulate of Egypt in Rio.
Dedicated to all the Egyptians in Flickr, specially my contacts! :¬)
By the way, how must be the Brazilian Embassy / Consulate there? :¬)
Botafogo District, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Right angles meet curves at the edge of Randolph Cliffs and Randolph Crescent in the New Town, near the Dean Bridge. The flags you can see on the buildings belong to the Irish Consulate, who appear to have moved down to where the French Consulate was for many years (it has now relocated to a larger building in the Old Town)
May 2009, NY NY
I'll refrain from political commentary, except to say that I'm grateful to all my friends in the Republic of China on Taiwan.
This residencial building is full of Consulates(!!): Paraguay; Mexico;
Venezuela; Uruguay; Poland and Holland!!
Botafogo Distric, Rio de Janeiro, brazil.
Dedicated to all the Paraguayans, Mexicans, Venezuelans, Uruguayans,
Polands and Hollands in Flickr, specially my contacts! :¬)
By the way, how must be the Brazilian Embassy / Consulate there? :¬)
Garden Bridge with Shanghai Mansions, Russian Consulate and the Seagull Hotel.
The Russian Consulate is unique within all the other consulates in Shanghai, as it is still in the original building of the former Tsarist Russian Consulate. It has never ever moved to another location despite regime changes in Russia and China and the wars against the Japanese aggression with the bitter fighting along the Suzhou Creek front line.
Explore #216 on Saturday, October 11, 2014
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The Consulate General of France is the consular representation of the French Republic in the state of New York, in the United States of America. The Consulate General is housed in the Charles E. Mitchell House, at 934 Fifth Avenue, between 74th and 75th streets.
The Consulate’s mission is to provide protection and administrative services to French citizens living or traveling in the district. Under the authority of the French Embassy in the United States, its consular district extends across three states (New York, Connecticut and New Jersey), as well as the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda.
Currently housing the Consulate General of France, 934 Fifth Avenue was the residence of Charles E. Mitchell, President of the National City Bank (now Citibank). Ms. Anne-Claire Legendre has been the Consul General since August 2016.
Named "Chudleigh" for his home town in Devon, England, the successful tanner and leather merchant George Lissant Beardmore built this Second Empire mansion in 1872. It was the first of many grand homes along a then-nascent Beverley Street that had only recently been parcelled off from the Boulton Estate, for which the Georgian Grange manor house served as the family seat from 1817. George Wathen Beardmore, G. L. Beardmore's son, later built additions to Chudleigh in 1890, 1900, and 1901, all designed by Eden Smith.
Chudleigh became Toronto's Italian consulate in 1930, but was seized by the Government of Canada in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II and became a Royal Canadian Mounted Police barracks. In 1962, the building was returned to the Italian Government and served as the Centro Organizzativo Scuole Tecniche Italiane (COSTI), a centre that helped Italian immigrants integrate into Toronto society. The city's Italian consulate returned to Chudleigh in 1979 after extensively restoring the century home.
From the website:
Poland Regained: Polish Posters from the 1890s to the 1930s is a visual link to the centennial celebrations of Poland recovering independence in 1918. The posters featured were made between 1892 and 1939: after the 123-year period of the Partitions (1795-1918), when Poland was gone from the map of Europe, and during the 20 years of its existence as an independent state up until the outbreak of World War II. Exhibition will be on view in the outdoors public exhibition space on the front fencing of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland
Sculptor: Karol Badyna
Location: Polish Consulate General in New York
Jan Karski was a member of the Polish Resistance during WWII and acted as a courier between the resistance and the Polish government in exile in London. He was captured by the Gestapo and tortured and then rescued by the resistance. Karski tried to meet with allied leaders such as Churchill who claimed he didn't have time to meet with him. Karski did meet with President Roosevelt and was among the first to bring knowledge of the concentration camps to the attention of allied leaders. His evidence in his reports and microfilm was mostly ignored and he wrote “I learned that people in power are more than able to disregard their individual conscience if they come to the conclusion that it stands in the way of what they see as their official duty.” After WWII Karski taught at Georgetown University where one of his students was the future president Bill Clinton. He died in Washington, DC in 2002 and this statue was dedicated in 2007
There's a film "Remember This" starring David Strathairn as Jan Karski. I highly recommend it.
La Loge de la soie est une bourse de commerce construite à Valence au XVe siècle. La Llotja de València représente la puissance économique de la cité à la fin de ce siècle. Elle fut conçue comme un temple du commerce.
La Llotja, monument civil de style gothique, a été construite entre 1482 et 1498, par les maîtres tailleurs de pierre Pere Compte, Johan Yvarra, Johan Corbera et Domingo Urtiaga, qui la termina en 1548. Ses murs épais, sa tour et ses créneaux lui donnent un aspect de château ancien. La Lonja est faite de quatre parties :
la Salle du Consulat de la Mer (Sala del Consulat de la Mar), à gauche de la Tour en regardant la façade,
la Tour,
la Salle des colonnes ( Saló Columnari ou Sala de Contractació), à droite de la tour,
la cour des orangers (Pati dels Tarongers).
La superficie du monument dépasse les 2 000 mètres carrés entre les zones construites et les autres.
Le Salon aux colonnes est une grande salle, à trois nefs longitudinales. La porte principale est une porte gothique à laquelle on accède par quelques marches. Au tympan figure une Vierge à l'enfant, patronne des marchands. Deux grandes fenêtres surmontées des armes de la ville entourent cette porte. Sur la façade latérale, s'ouvre une autre porte encadrée elle aussi par deux fenêtres.
Le Salon est couvert par un ensemble de voûtes de croisée d'ogives reposant sur de sveltes colonnes hélicoïdales de presque 16 mètres. On a voulu y voir la représentation du paradis dont les colonnes seraient les troncs de palmiers et les voûtes représenteraient la voûte céleste ou alors les feuilles des palmiers ouvertes tout en haut. La municipalité installa ici la taula de canvis (table de change) pour réaliser les opérations financières et bancaires de cette époque. Tout au long de la partie la plus haute des quatre murs, à la naissance des voûtes, court une frise de couleur sombre sur laquelle est inscrit en lettres d'or un texte en latin qui rappelle aux commerçants leurs devoirs de marchands et de bons chrétiens : ne pas utiliser l'usure dans leur négoce pour pouvoir gagner ainsi la vie éternelle. L'inscription dit : « Maison illustre, j'ai été construite en quinze ans. Compatriotes, vérifiez et voyez combien est bon le commerce qui n'utilise pas la fraude en parole, qui promet à son prochain et ne faute pas, qui ne prête pas son argent avec usure. Le marchant qui vit de cette manière débordera de richesses et jouira, enfin, de la vie éternelle. »
The Silk Lodge is a trading exchange built in Valence in the 15th century. La Llotja de València represents the economic power of the city at the end of this century. It was designed as a temple of commerce.
La Llotja, a civil monument in the Gothic style, was built between 1482 and 1498 by master stonemasons Pere Compte, Johan Yvarra, Johan Corbera and Domingo Urtiaga, who finished it in 1548. Its thick walls, tower and battlements give it the appearance of an old castle. The Lonja is made of four parts:
the Consulate of the Sea Room (Sala del Consulat de la Mar), to the left of the Tower looking at the facade,
tower,
the Hall of Columns (Saló Columnari or Sala de Contractació), to the right of the tower,
the courtyard of the orange trees (Pati dels Tarongers).
The area of the monument exceeds 2,000 square meters between the built-up areas and the others.
The Salon aux Colonnes is a large hall with three longitudinal naves. The main door is a Gothic door which is accessed by a few steps. The tympanum features a Virgin and Child, patroness of merchants. Two large windows surmounted by the arms of the city surround this door. On the side facade, another door opens, also framed by two windows.
The Salon is covered by a set of ribbed vaults resting on slender helicoidal columns almost 16 meters high. We wanted to see there the representation of paradise whose columns would be the trunks of palm trees and the vaults would represent the celestial vault or the leaves of the palm trees open at the very top. The municipality installed here the taula de canvis (exchange table) to carry out the financial and banking operations of that time. Along the highest part of the four walls, at the birth of the vaults, runs a dark frieze on which is inscribed in gold letters a Latin text which reminds traders of their duties as merchants and good Christians. : not to use usury in their trade in order to be able to gain eternal life in this way. The inscription reads: “Illustrious house, I was built in fifteen years. Countrymen, check and see how good is the trade that does not use fraud in word, that promises its neighbor and does not foul, that does not lend its money with usury. The merchant who lives in this way will be overflowing with riches and will, at last, enjoy eternal life. »
...one of my favourites, is to be found in its retirement guarding the steps of the austrian consulate in edinburgh...it there a hidden meaning in this?
The Consulate General of France is the consular representation of the French Republic in the state of New York, in the United States of America. The Consulate General is housed in the Charles E. Mitchell House, at 934 Fifth Avenue, between 74th and 75th streets.
The Consulate’s mission is to provide protection and administrative services to French citizens living or traveling in the district. Under the authority of the French Embassy in the United States, its consular district extends across three states (New York, Connecticut and New Jersey), as well as the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda.
Currently housing the Consulate General of France, 934 Fifth Avenue was the residence of Charles E. Mitchell, President of the National City Bank (now Citibank). Ms. Anne-Claire Legendre has been the Consul General since August 2016.
The Samuel Hyde House was built in 1910 and was the Russian Consulate from 1994 to 2018. Sketched on white paper with watercolor, ink, colored pencils and white gel pen. #uskseattle #usk #urbansketchers #madisonparkseattle #samuelhydehouse #inksketch #sketchbook
Foreign Service officer Albert Cizauskas answers the phone at the U.S. Consulate in...
Batavia, Netherlands Indies.
c. 1947
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▶ In 1950, Indonesia gained independence from the Netherlands. The Dutch-named Batavia was re-named Jakarta and became the capital of the nation.
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The Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York is located in the Joseph Raphael De Lamar House at 233 Madison Ave. and E. 37th Street. It was completed in 1905 and designed by C. P. H. Gilbert in the Beaux-Arts style. Joseph Raphael De Lamar, a Dutch-born merchant seaman, made his first fortune in mining and metallurgy during the 1870s -1890s. Constructed to be a family residence, soon after it was finished De Lamar and his wife divorced. De Lamar died in 1918 at the age of 75. He left an estate worth $29 million (approximately $500 million today) to his daughter, who continued living in the house for a short time before moving to an apartment at 740 Park Ave. She sold the mansion to the American Bible Society, and in 1923 the National Democratic Club purchased it for its headquarters. The Republic of Poland bought the mansion to house its Consulate General in New York in 1973
From the website:
Poland Regained: Polish Posters from the 1890s to the 1930s is a visual link to the centennial celebrations of Poland recovering independence in 1918. The posters featured were made between 1892 and 1939: after the 123-year period of the Partitions (1795-1918), when Poland was gone from the map of Europe, and during the 20 years of its existence as an independent state up until the outbreak of World War II. Exhibition will be on view in the outdoors public exhibition space on the front fencing of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland
In 1938, the Netherlands Consulate General in Shanghai clearly was a men's world. In August 2021, Marjo Crompvoets became Consul-General in Shanghai.
Original caption reads:
"Above: (From left to right)
Mr. H. Bos, Chinese Secretary, Netherlands Legation;
Mr. G.W. Boissevain, Consul General and Commercial Counsellor;
Mr. J. van den Berg, Consul; and
Mr. J.J. Ypma, assistant."
Courtesy International Institute for Social History, reference number L 11-196
That building with green windows on the left-hand side of the photo is the Chinese Consulate in Manhattan. It has quite a view of the Hudson, and it's in plain view from the flight deck of the USS Intrepid...
Aquele edifício com janelas verdes do lado esquerdo da foto é o Consulado da China em Manhattan. Tem uma bela vista para o rio Hudson e está bem à vista a partir do deck do USS Intrepid...
The Polish Consulate in New York City.
233 Madison Avenue, Manhattan
In the Russian war against Ukraine, Poland has been a truly compassionate and generous friend and neighbour since day one. Despite Poland and Ukraine having had historical animosities for generations, Poland opened up its border and let millions of Ukrainian refugees in, housing them, feeding them, schooling them, comforting them.
I honour Poland's incredibly kindness. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
I've been supporting the nations helping Ukraine by donating money to the Red Cross and Canada-Ukraine Foundation for the humanitarian efforts.
Feeling uplifted on the day of the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States I took an early morning Covid Exercise Walk past the Consulate General of the United States in Regent Terrace, Edinburgh.
I add in the comments below a link to my photo of Abraham Lincoln standing in the Old Calton Burial Ground at the foot of Calton Hill - part of a 1893 Memorial to Scots who fought and died in the American Civil War. This is the only monument to the American Civil War outside the United States and was the first statue to a US President outside her own borders. It is the only statue of Lincoln in Scotland.
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This is the main room at the seat of the Consulate of the Sea in Valencia, Spain. This is where the important judicial decisions concerning the Mediterranean sea were taken since 1498. Of course, at that time the chairs and the projector have not been in here. ;-)
This was quite a tricky shot to process. The original source files were a bit on the dark side and had more noise than usual because I shot with an exposure compensation of -1EV (thought it would be a good idea at that time). So, I had to work with different intensities of noise reduction of different areas of the shot. Still, I like the result.
Enjoy!
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How it was shot:
> Taken handheld [details]
> Three exposures (0, -2, +2ev)
> Camera: Nikon D90
> Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 18-200mm 1:3,5-5,6G ED VR
> Details can be found here
How it was tone-mapped:
> Preparation: developed the RAW files with ACR mainly in order to reduce the CA [details]
> Resulting TIF images were then used as input to Photomatix
> Tone-mapping: Photomatix Pro 4.0 (Detail Enhancer)
How it was post-processed:
> Post-processing was done in Photoshop
> Topaz Adjust on the entire image to get back the colors and the details [details]
> Topaz Denoise on the entire image (different intensity in different areas) [details]
> Topaz Infocus on the entire image for sharpening
> Saturation layers on the floor, the curtains , and the projector (desaturation)
> Curves layer on the floor (more contrast)
> Saturation layer on the ceiling (toned down a bit)
> Levels layer on the ceiling (more contrast)
> Levels layers on the candleholders and the projector (more contrast)
> Sharpening using the high-pass filter [details]
> Vignette effect using a masked fill layer [details]
> Watermarking
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