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"De Kasbah", a striking complex of pile dwellings, Hengelo, the Netherlands.
Design (1973): Piet Blom.
Designed from the concept "Living as an urban roof" ("Wonen als stedelijk dak"). By building the houses on piles, room was created below as meeting place, parking, playing and common facilities. The building density achieved with this design is four times higher than in a normal residential area.
Bandelier National Monument is a 33,677-acre (136 km2) United States National Monument near Los Alamos in Sandoval and Los Alamos counties, New Mexico. The monument preserves the homes and territory of the Ancestral Puebloans of a later era in the Southwest. Most of the pueblo structures date to two eras, dating between AD 1150 and 1600.
The following recreated zulu dwelling is on display in the Ondini KwaZulu Cultural Museum, in Ulindi, near where Cetshwayo's one-time capital, Ondini, was destroyed.
The raised area at the back of the dwelling is known as the Usamo, and it is here that pots and utensils are stored. This is also the sacred area of the dwelling and it was beleived that the spirits of the ancestors lived here. In the centre of the dwelling the hearth is housed, and if occupied a fire would burn continuously. The smoke of the fire would raise up and pass through the thatched roof, serving not only to strengthen the thatch but keep the thatch clean of insects etc.
The women slept on the left and the man on the right. If the man felt like some nookie, he would wait for the kids to sleep and then tap his wife on the ankles with a long stick. His wife would dutifully cross over to his side, return to her side once the fun ends. (Whats happened to old time values?)
Looking south-west across Mosman Bay to the cottages on Bromley Avenue, Cremorne Point. The cottage on the far right of the image is a heritage-listed dwelling from the 1890s. Its lookout tower is of special historical significance.
Photographed yesterday, Sunday 28th February, 2021, during my harbourside walk from Milson's Point to Mosman.
This particular section of the walk meanders through a pocket of lush rainforest known as 'Harnett Park', which is also home to a significant colony of Tawny Frogmouths. I have noted them in this area since I started doing this walk in the 1990s.
And the Tawny Frogmouths were there yesterday - all lined up in the trees looking at the view over Mosman Bay. I needed Flickr photographers, David Nice, Rodger Scott and Eleanor Dilley to be there with their super bird lenses!!
My Samsung Galaxy S20+ mobile phone camera.
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Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
Something a little different this morning.
Betatakin means "House Built on a Ledge" in Navajo. It is one of three well preserved cliff dwellings in Navajo National Monument, located within the northwest portion of the Navajo Nation territory in northern Arizona. Constructed of sandstone, mud mortar and wood, it had about 120 rooms at the time of abandonment. Today only about 80 rooms remain, due to rock falls inside the alcove. Betatakin was built in an enormous alcove measuring 452 feet high and 370 feet across between 1267 and 1286.
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Cliff dwellings under the rim that encircles Montezuma Well. www.desertusa.com/mag98/aug/stories/montzwell.html
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Pompei is a city and commune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in Italy, home of the ancient Roman ruins part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The city is mainly famous for the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii. Pompeii city and its people was buried under 4 to 6 m of volcanic ash and pumice in the big eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The first stable settlements on the site date back to the 8th century BC. In Roman times it was a flourishing city with about 12,000 inhabitants. The Roman city was destroyed by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago. The often lifelike poses of many victims in Pompeii - lying together, crawling, on a mother's lap, face to face - help scientists get a new interpretation of how these Romans died in the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 AD. Until now, it was widely believed that most victims died from volcanic gas and ash. But a recent study says most died directly from tremendous heat. The House of Octavius Quartione is renowned for its well-preserved artwork as well as its large gardens. The house is distinguished by its magnificent garden consisting of an open gallery and a pergola embellished by water channels, fountains and a temple as well as by pictorial decorations and sculptures. The mythological depictions bear the signature of Lucius. Precious paintings adorn the dining area. Other paintings, for the most part belonging to the IV style, decorate one of the small rooms next to the large hall. An interesting feature is the great entrance portal to the house. The combination of the decoration and the architectural layout of this house bear witness to the prestige and affluence of the family who lived there.
Pompei city is mainly famous for the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii. The vast archaeological area is under the Unesco protection and attracts tourists from all around the world. Mount Vesuvius, the Italian volcano still considered dangerous, erupted in AD 79 and destroyed Pompeii with ashes and lava. There is ample documentation of the Roman house in Pompeii, from modest dwellings to large and magnificent villas with sumptuous decorations, from simple workmen's houses to the elegant residences of the noble class, from the homes of merchants which were built around their workshops, to those with their own vegetable garden and plots of land used for agricultural purposes. Photo of the House of Octavius Quartione which belongs to the noble class of Pompeii. The house is distinguished by its magnificent garden consisting of an open gallery and a pergola.
Pompei is een stad en gemeente in de metropool Napels in Italië, de thuisbasis van de oude Romeinse ruïnes die op de werelderfgoedlijst van UNESCO staan. De stad staat vooral bekend om de ruïnes van de oude stad Pompeï. De stad Pompeii en haar inwoners werden begraven onder 4 tot 6 m vulkanische as en puimsteen tijdens de grote uitbarsting van de Vesuvius De eerste nederzettingen op de site dateren uit de 8e eeuw voor Christus. In de Romeinse tijd was het een bloeiende stad met ongeveer 12.000 inwoners. De Romeinse stad werd 2000 jaar geleden verwoest door een vulkaanuitbarsting. De vaak levensechte poses van veel slachtoffers in Pompeii - liggende tegen elkaar, kruipend, op de schoot van een moeder, met gezicht in handen - helpen wetenschappers om een nieuwe interpretatie te krijgen van hoe deze Romeinen stierven in de uitbarstingen van de vulkaan Vesuvius in het jaar 79 na Christus. Tot nu toe werd algemeen aangenomen dat de meeste slachtoffers dood gingen door vulkanische gas en as. Maar een recent onderzoek zegt dat de meesten direct stierven door enorme hitte. Het huis van Octavius Quartione staat bekend om zijn goed bewaard gebleven kunstwerken en de grote tuinen. Het huis onderscheidt zich door zijn prachtige tuin die bestaat uit een open galerij en een pergola die is verfraaid met waterkanalen, fonteinen en een tempel, evenals door schilderachtige decoraties en sculpturen. De mythologische voorstellingen dragen de handtekening van Lucius. Kostbare schilderijen sieren het eetgedeelte. Andere schilderijen, die grotendeels tot de IV-stijl behoren, sieren een van de kleine kamers naast de grote hal. Een interessant kenmerk is het grote toegangsportaal van het huis. De combinatie van de decoratie en de architectonische indeling van dit huis getuigen van het aanzien en de welvaart van de familie die er woonde.
This is the entrance to the Wentworth Dwellings Building on Goulston Street where Jack The Ripper left the torn piece of apron belonging to Catherine Eddowes in the early hours of September 30th 1888.
The apron was discovered at around 2:50 am by PC Alfred Long underneath some anti-Semitic Graffito which was erased before it could be photographed.
Sir Charles Warren, head of the Metropolitan Police, was concerned of Anti-Semitic violence so he made the decision to have it erased.
Nikon F4. AF Nikkor 14mm F2.8D lens. Wolfen ORWO NC500 35mm C41 film.
As well as collecting memorabilia of how it was to live a peasants life in Romania, the museum also brought in this old wooden farmhouse. We couldn't go inside, but just to see it from the outside was a great insight into a life gone by.
One of a series of 3 rather bleak microscale creations put together in the middle of last year.
What can I say? They matched my mood at the time.
I almost always find the museum and gift shop buildings as (or more) photogenic than the cliff dwellings, especially given the backdrop against the Pike's Peak foothills and Manitou Springs area. Two stop, three image bracket, 10mm f/16 ISO100.
Hoodoos, Uçhisar, Cappadocia, Turkey. The yellow-orange color comes from trace amounts of sulfur in the volcanic tuff (compressed ash) which makes up the hoodoos.
Some of these dwelling seem to still be occupied. Most are clearly abandoned.
Kodak Retina IIIC, Scheider-Kreuznach 50mm f/2
Kodak Portra 400
Nikon Coolscan 5000ED
I need to do more research and this group of dwellings but I have been drawn to their shabby details and overall looks. I surmise that they may be part of a low income housing development.
The frame is made of wood and the facades have wood shingle cladding. Two buildings with 22 dwellings in each building. Inaugurated: 2015. Architect: Tengbom.
2 nearly new SD70Mac's wait for their train to be switched in Alliance's south yard.. they will be added with a trip towards the Valley Sub and Guernsey await..1999-10-09 bnsf 8944
Shadows cloak the rooms like a veil, whilst the sequence of open doors creates a tunnel leading towards an unknown, bleached by the light. It is an unsettling invitation: the past seems to watch from the gloom, leaving one to wonder who — or what — still inhabits these silent halls.
Wabana Lake known for it's clear water and beautiful settings. This lake is home to Wa-Ga-Tha-Ka Resort (in Chippewa, the language of the Ojibwa Indians), means "dwelling place among the birches". In operation since the 1920s, this resort has been host to the famous and the infamous.
A two-story dwelling on the tropical island of Bohol, Philippines. The poorest of the poor make their own homes themselves out of basic, local materials. No plumbing and no electricity unless you can tap into the grid illegally on your own.
This compound of dwellings sits on Gravina Island in Alaska. The island is 21 miles long and has a population of 50 people. The only access is by boat.
Interestingly, the state of Alaska applied for federal funding for a bridge in 2005 to connect the island to the mainland and the town of Ketchikan. The projected cost was $398 million dollars. The proposed bridge was quickly dubbed as "The Bridge to Nowhere" and became the poster child for unnecessary pork barrel spending. The project was eventually cancelled and the bridge has never been built.
I wonder if it was a relief to the residents. It seems like the kind of place where isolation may be a cherished value.
Gravina Island, Alaska
The ancient Anasazi people had an excellent understanding of solar cycles so if you've done any "ruin hunting" you know to scan the southeast facing walls the most. (Southeastern facing alcoves provide warmth in the winter, shade in the summer.)
This two-story dwelling is the perfect example of building to face the southeast. This is the final moments of sunlight on a late December afternoon providing heat for me (and Utah 🐶) and some night light for a few final shots before packing up for the hike out.
Structures and dwellings built by mankind are often simply left to be reclaimed by the elements. Whether due to a catastrophic event or the natural movement of the population to another location, places that are abandoned can serve as a record of times past. They may help us – or future generations – learn about our heritage. In nearly every instance, they are beautiful and haunting places to explore.