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IJburg, Amsterdam, NL
In IJmeer, a lake on Amsterdam’s eastern side, the city’s new residential district IJburg is coming into being on seven artificial islands of dredged sand. When, a few decades from now, the district is complete, 45,000 city dwellers will be living here in 18,000 dwellings. In 2001, the first building was completed on Haveneiland West. The urban design scheme for these islands (2000) is based on a grid of rectangular blocks, rectilinear streets, green strips and waterways. On Kleine Rieteiland, ‘private plots’ are being built on by private individuals who are working with an architect of their choice, without a supervisory architect and without any aesthetic control by the municipal inspectorate. On Steigereiland, too, the new city district has taken shape. The urban design scheme for Steigereiland (2001) is based on the ‘collage city’ concept, which means that each of the eight neighbourhoods has been given its own individual character as far as possible. In some of the neighbourhoods on Steigereiland, space has been reserved for floating dwellings. In other neighbourhoods, as on Kleine Rieteiland, private plots have been issued and in strips 1 and 2 this has resulted in a high degree of architectural variation. The design of the public space will provide the necessary cohesion. In October 2005, the go-ahead was given for the construction of the first dwellings on Haveneiland Oost. This marks the final part of IJburg’s first phase, comprising Steigereiland, Haveneiland and the Rieteilanden.
An image of the extant dwellings for the enslaved people held at Hampton. Hampton National Historic Site contains the grounds of an 18th century estate. It is run by the National Park Service.
This large fungus was about 30cm in diameter and looked like a ground dwelling bracket, probably on a root left after a tree was removed.
A Cork County Council warning sign looms overhead at Garretstown Beach, Co. Cork. Luckily I had left the caravan at home and the rubbish was in the bin!
This photo shows one of the disadvantages of shooting in Jpeg - it can't cope with the subtle shades of blue in the sky, although the ugly bands of colour are made worse by my vignetting of the image afterwards. Oops.
I made a cliffside dwelling. The aim for this build was to have a central "room" and then make it look as if other rooms were added on on a whim.
Also includes a flying boat.
[All terrain was custom-made by myself, as well.]
Abandoned dwelling along Garden Highway, Sutter County, California.
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Stara Zagora hosts Europe's oldest dwellings, dating back to the neolithic age. The museum is tucked behind the city's main hospital.
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Dwelling in darkness , fully letting it take over you, control you, guide you into complete misery where the darkness purpose is done and yours is lost for good. Point: No negative vibes. =]
Look At This Adorable New Listing! Check It Our Yourself: Property Details For: 2-39 26TH STREET FAIR LAWN, NJ 07410Type: ResidentialPrice: $499,000Bedrooms: 5Baths: 4.0Sq Feet: 2,760See full detail for Listing: 1137432Address: 2-39 26TH STREET FAIR LAWN NJ 07410Here is some additional information about 2-39 26TH STREET FAIR LAWN NJ 07410: This Unique House Contains 2 Dwellings W/Separate Entrances. Main Part Contains: First Floor Open Design Kitchen With Island, Cathedral Ceiling, Ceramic Tiles Throughout, Track Lighting, Fan And Top Of The Line Appliances, Washer And Dryer In A Kitchen, Spacious Dining Room, Separate Living Room With Hardwood Floor, Entrance To Private Large Deck And Backyard, Upstairs: 5 Bedrooms (5th Is A Tandem) And 2 Full Bath, Huge Master Bedroom With Cathedral Ceiling And Fan. Lower Level (Basement): Has Large Recreation Space With A Full Bath And 2 Service Rooms. Adjustment Apartment: Has Separate Entrance, Big 1 Bedroom, Living Room, Full Bath And Kitchen W/ Breakfast Bar And An Entrance To Private Deck. The Whole House Has Central Air, Baseboard Heat, Garage 3 Car (Or More) Driveway, House Located 15 Minutes From New York City, Conveniently Located Near The Train Station, Shopping Perfect For In Laws Situation, Extended Family, Etc. Here is what Trulia.com has to say about the area: Average listing price in Fair Lawn, NJ went down 1.34% to $426,293 from prior week
Abandoned dwelling along Garden Highway, Sutter County, California.
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"Selling the Dwelling: The Books That Built America’s Houses, 1775-2000" At the Grolier Club December 11 2013-February 7 2014; Curated by Richard W. Cheek
"In December of 2013 the Grolier Club will host an extraordinary exhibition on the history of the American Dream of home ownership. Over 200 rare books, periodicals, drawings, periodicals, and printed ephemera will show how the idea of “A Home for All” was marketed in the United States, first through eighteenth-century builder’s guides, then by nineteenth-century pattern books, and finally by twentieth-century house plan catalogues.
"The plans, elevations, and large, elaborate, and often colorful perspective views in these books fueled the growth of home ownership in America. The story begins in 1775 with George Bell’s reproduction of Abraham Swan’s The British Architect, credited as the first architectural book published in America. The show will contrast early American editions of luxurious pattern books for the wealthy with a selection of the more modest “builder’s guides” used by most Americans who desired to construct a house. As the Republic grew, and novel styles of design began to challenge Classical and Federal norms, new domestic pattern books such as Alexander Jackson Davis’s Rural Residences (1837) began to offer plans and elevations in the new Italianate and Gothic styles.
"After a hiatus in building during the Civil War, American house building resumed in earnest, fueled by an explosion of architectural book publishing, which now focused on providing house plans by mail. The trend begins in 1856 with Cleaveland and Backus’s Village and Farm Cottages and Cummings and Miller’s Architecture (1865), and grows throughout the 1870s with Hussey’s 1875 Home Building, and Palliser’s Model Homes for the People (1876).
"By the 1880s the quasi-periodical publications of Robert W. Shoppell’s “Co-operative Building Plan Association” illustrate the growing importance of magazines -- Godey’s Lady’s Book, Ladies’ Home Journal, House Beautiful and House and Garden -- as a vehicle for popularizing house designs. At the turn of the century, as the demand for more small houses increased, local millwork companies and national retailers like Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward began to produce pre-cut homes that could be shipped by railroad for assembly by local carpenters. The exhibition devotes a special section to the advertising and marketing of this new mode of house-building.
"With so many different businesses issuing house plan books simultaneously, an incredible variety of often elaborately-designed and printed publications was produced, usually accompanied by other forms of advertisement such as home planning guides, company journals, flyers, posters, calendars and paper models. Focusing directly on the consumer, chiefly on women, this vast panoply of promotional material promised a tasteful, convenient, and comfortable dwelling to anyone who purchased the products and services or followed the advice being offered. The post-WWII home-building boom reinvigorated plan book production, with modernism gaining a foothold when the undecorated version of the ranch house became part of the vogue for wide, single-level houses in the 1950s and early 1960s.
"The exhibition tracks extensive and rapid changes to the literature of house building after 1970. The level of house catalogue publication declined in the 1970s and 80s, chiefly because large tract developers were making more of the design decisions for new dwellings than prospective homeowners were. Many smaller house plan publishers went out of business, and the supply of plan books was further diminished in the 1990s, as house designs became increasingly available on internet sites which offered CD-ROMS instead of printed catalogues.
"The evolution of the house design book in the United States is a long and complicated story, filled with architectural creativity and banality, commercial genius and excess, egalitarian and humanitarian ideals, literary and social ambition, can-do individualism, faith in progress and invention, and endless energy. All of these quintessential American traits are bound within the pages of the builder’s guides, pattern books, catalogues, and other forms of architectural literature that have competed for the financial and psychological rewards involved in designing and building a domestic haven for every citizen. Curator Richard W. Cheek highlights the more visually arresting and socially compelling examples of this genre, focusing on books that reveal the character of our country as much as they do the style of our houses."
Photograph by James Russiello
Odessa, Delaware, is simply one of the best preserved colonial towns of the Mid-Atlantic region. Established in the 1660s as a Dutch settlement, the town was formally laid out in the 1730s. Originally named Cantwell's Bridge, the town became Odessa, named after a Ukrainian port town, was chosen by the town government in the 1850s. By the 1860s, the railroad had been constructed through nearby Middletown and Odessa's economy which had long been based on trade on the Delaware River began to stagnate. Because of this, the town's historic architecture remains largely unaltered. Brick Georgian and Federal houses line the Main Street of the town, reflecting the immense wealth to be obtained through trans-Atlantic and inter-colonial trade in the 18th century. The town was incorporated in 1873, and a historical society oversees the preservation of Odessa's landmark properties.
One of the newer structures on Odessa's Main Street, the Red Men's Hall was erected in 1894. Two stained glass windows from the lodge are preserved in the building, which today is a private dwelling.