View allAll Photos Tagged entrydoor
Dunstaffnage is one of Scotland's oldest stone castles, built of 10 ft thick coursed rubble with lighter sandstone trim. It guards a strategic position at the entrance to Loch Etive and the interior of the Scottish Highlands. This view shows the 13th C donjon (north tower) and east facade, and the 15th C east tower and gatehouse, Argyll, Scotland.
Lee Lawrie doors, 1929.
Entry to the Warner Legislative Chamber (east).
Doors weigh about 750 pounds each and carry Indian motif, which continues inside.
584
Door with advertising papers in the little town of San Quirico d’Orcia in the Val d’Orcia (In English: "Valley oft he Orcia"), Province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Some background information:
San Quirico d'Orcia is a municipality of about 2,500 inhabitants in the Province of Siena in the Italian region of Tuscany, located about 80 kilometres (50 miles) southeast of Florence and about 35 kilometres (22 miles) southeast of Siena inside the Val d‘Orcia landscape. It is named in honor of Saint Quiricus. Located on the Via Francigena, San Quirico d'Orcia borders the municipalities of Castiglione d'Orcia, Montalcino and Pienza.
The settlement was already inhabited by the Etruscans, who were a powerful and wealthy civilization of ancient Italy between 800 and 500 BC. In the 8th century, San Quirico was first mentioned in a document. In the 13th century, it entered under control of Siena. Until the 15th century its town walls were extended and enhanced by the Sienese governers. But after the defeat of the Republic of Siena in 1559, the Florentine family Medici took control of the whole area. In 1677, San Quirico was enfeoffed cardinal Flavia Chigi by Grand Duke Cosimo III de' Medici and after the cardinal’s death, the town was governed by members of the cardinal’s own noble family Zondadari Chigi.
The Val d'Orcia, or Valdorcia, is a region of Tuscany, central Italy, which extends from the hills south of Siena to Monte Amiata. Its endless gentle, cultivated rolling hills, which are covered with grain or sunflowers in the summer and vineyards, olive groves, cypresses, beech or chestnut trees all year round alternate with medieval habitations, rural villas and castles boasting impervious towers – all of which is diffused in a tranquilly-isolated nature. This is the scenario that is laid out before the eyes of the visitor to Val d’Orcia.
In 2004, the Val d'Orcia was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. According to UNESCO the valley is an exceptional exemplar of the way in which a natural setting was redesigned during the Renaissance (in the 14th and 15th centuries), reflecting the ideals of good governance in the Italian city-state. Additionally, these splendid localities were celebrated by the painters of the Sienese School, which flourished between the 13th and 15th centuries.
The Val d‘Orcia is often described as the perfect combination of nature and culture, but it is also an ecosystem which bears witness oft he rural population that has cultivated and farmed the ground since the Middle Ages. However, also five-million years of geological history have left their mark on this territory that, today, is abundant in plant and animal species. Even the deposits of lava from volcanoes no longer active – such as Mounts Radicofani and Amiata – have contributed to the delineations and details of the area; the lava, hardened, gave form to those dark stones known as trachytes.
The valley is not only traversed by the river Orcia, but also by the rivers Asso, Formone, Vellora and Vivo. Furthermore the historic road Via Francigena and the Roman road Via Cassia pass through valley that covers and area of altogether 61,188 hectare (151,200 acres). Occasionally the landscape is broken by gullies and picturesque towns and villages such as Montalcino, San Quirico, Pienza, Castiglione and Radicofani. In the northwest the Val d’Orcia borders the Crete Senesi landscape while in the northeast it is flanked by the Val di Chiania.
Until 1250, the Val d’Orcia was under the rule of the noble family Aldobrandeschi, but subsequently noble families of the nearby town of Siena took control of the valley. They were attracted by the continuous transit of men and commerce along the fundamental pathways Via Francigena and Via Cassia. The most notable of these families was the family Piccolomini, which also provided several popes, among them the famous Pius II. It was him who commissioned to transform the little village of Corsignano into the town of Pienza and hence into a place which he thought is the "ideal town". However, after the mid-1500s, Val d’Orcia became a valuable part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and thereby of the Florentine orbit – solely for its agricultural aspect. Thus, it was the family Medici that improved the valley’s infrastructure in the years that followed.
Within the Val d'Orcia is a strip of land following the Orcia river that is used as a wine-growing area between the DOCG zones of Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. Here the Sangiovese and Trebbiano-based wines are produced under the Orcia Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC) status. The DOC red wine is composed of at least 60 percent Sangiovese with other local varieties, such as Abrusco, permitted to fill in the remainder of the blend. The dry white wine and Vin Santo style DOC wines are composed of at least 50 percent Trebbiano with other local varieties filling out the rest of the blend. All grapes destined for DOC wine production are limited to a maximum harvest yield of 10 tonnes/hectare with the finished wines required to have a minimum alcohol level of at least 12 percent.
But the region is also very rich in other high quality local products such as the "Pecorino" cheese of Pienza (a typical cheese made with sheep's milk), the genuine olive oil, saffron, mushrooms, (including truffles), sweet chestnuts, honey and a lot of other specialties.
This is the result of about 30 minutes of driving 10 or 15 blocks. Maybe about 10% of Crestview. By the time I snapped that last pic, the boys were taking turns slapping each other in the back seat ,the baby still would not sleep, and Christian and I were seriously car sick. Research is not easy.
Normally I take photos of unusual designs, but this time I took a photo of every wood veneer door with inset windows we went by. Pretty easy to see which design was most popular.
31 high on the hinge side, 5 high on the knob side.
Lee Lawrie doors, 1929.
Entry to the Warner Legislative Chamber (east).
Doors weigh about 750 pounds each and carry Indian motif, which continues inside.
570
Crooked House Public House
The Crooked House Pub - Himley - Near Dudley - West Midlands, England. UK
The Crooked house as it is now known was first built in 1765 as a farmhouse, it later became a public house called the Siden House (Siden being Black Country dialect for crooked). Its leaning effect is due to local mining in the 1800s when the building was badly affected by subsidence, meaning that one side of the building is now four feet lower than the other! It then became the Glynne Arms named after Sir Stephen Glynne, on whose land it stood before being condemned as unsafe in 1940s. Thankfully this wonderful building was rescued by Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries when it was reinforced with supporting buttresses and girders. Now known as The Crooked House it has become a tourist attraction and is visited by thirsty travellers from all over the world. The level floors combined with the Leasing walls can create some very intriguing optical illusions where glasses can slowly slide across tables and you should ask to see the marble roll uphill.
The Crooked House
Coppice Mill Lane
Himley Road
Himley, Staffordshire DY3 4DA, Vereinigtes Königreich
Arnis is the smallest town in Germany with about 300 inhabitants.
Arnis die kleinste Stadt Deutschlands mit ca. 300 Einwohnern.
Arnis liegt auf einer Halbinsel in der Schlei, unweit von Kappeln.
Arnis (dänisch: Arnæs) ist mit rund 300 Einwohnern die nach der Einwohnerzahl und mit 0,45 km² auch die nach der Fläche kleinste Stadt Deutschlands. Sie befindet sich in Schleswig-Holstein auf einer Halbinsel in der Schlei (Kreis Schleswig-Flensburg, Landschaft Angeln
Different front doors at the Royal Crescent, Bath, Somerset
Some background information:
The Royal Crescent is a street of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping crescent in the city of Bath. Designed by the architect John Wood the Younger and built between 1767 and 1774, it is among the greatest examples of Georgian architecture to be found in the United Kingdom. That’s why it is also a Grade I listed building. Although some changes have been made to the various interiors over the years, the Georgian stone facade remains much as it was when it was first built.
Many notable people have either lived or stayed in the Royal Crescent since it was first built over 230 years ago, and some are commemorated on special plaques attached to the relevant buildings. Today the Royal Crescent includes a hotel and a Georgian house museum, while some of the houses have been converted into flats and offices. It is a popular location for the makers of films and television programmes, and a major tourist attraction in its own right.
John Wood designed the great curved façade with Ionic columns on a rusticated ground floor. The 114 columns are 76 cm (30 inches) in diameter reaching 14.3 m (47 feet), each with an entablature 1.5 m (5 feet) deep. The central house (now the Royal Crescent Hotel) boasts two sets of coupled columns.
Each original purchaser bought a length of the facade, and then employed his own architect to build a house behind the façade to his own specifications. Hence what can appear to be two houses is occasionally just one. This system of town planning is betrayed at the rear and can be seen from the road behind the Crescent: While the front is uniform and symmetrical, the rear is a mixture of differing roof heights, juxtapositions and fenestration. This kin d of architecture, described as "Queen Anne fronts and Mary-Anne backs", occurs repeatedly in Bath.
In front of the Royal Crescent is a ha-ha, a ditch on which the inner side is vertical and faced with stone, with the outer face sloped and turfed, making an effective but invisible partition between the lower and upper lawns. The ha-ha is designed so as not to interrupt the view from Royal Victoria Park, and to be invisible until seen from close by. It is not known whether it was contemporary with the building of the Royal Crescent, however it is known that when it was first created, it was deeper than it is at present. The railings between the crescent and the lawn are included in the Heritage at Risk Register produced by English Heritage and were restored in 2011.
Among the TV productions and films which were shot at the Royal Crescent are a TV edition of Jane Austen's "Persuasion" from 2007 and the film "The Dutchess" from 2008, starring Keira Knightley.
The Royal Crescent is located in the centre of the city of Bath, UNESCO World Heritage Site largely because of its complete Georgian architecture.
The different front doors of the Royal Crescent caught my eyes because It strikes me how people act out their individuality even if living in a setting of great uniformity.
With its roughly 84,000 residents Bath is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset in South West England. It is situated 97 miles (156 km) west of London and 13 miles (21 km) south-east of Bristol.
The city was first established as a spa with the Latin name "Aquae Sulis" by the Romans around 60 AD, about 20 years after they had arrived in Britain. But archaeological evidence shows that the site of the Roman Baths' main spring was already treated as a shrine by the Iron Age Britons long before the Romans arrived.
In the Elizabethan era the baths were improved and the city began to attract the aristocracy. In 1590 Bath was granted city status by Queen Elizabeth I. During the Stuart period several areas of the city underwent development, and this increased during Georgian times in response to the increasing number of visitors to the spa and resort town who required accommodation. The architects John Wood the elder and his son John Wood the younger laid out the new quarters in streets and squares, the identical facades of which gave an impression of palatial scale and classical decorum. Throughout the whole city the creamy gold and rather expensive Bath Stone was used for construction.
In 1987 the City of Bath was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It has a variety of theatres, museums, and other cultural and sporting venues, which have helped to make it a major centre for tourism, with over one million staying visitors and 3.8 million day visitors to the city each year. Bath has two universities and several schools and colleges. There is a large service sector, growing communication technologies and creative industries, providing employment for the population of Bath and its surrounding area.
Arnis in Schleswig-Holstein auf einer Halbinsel in der Schlei (Kreis Schleswig-Flensburg, Landschaft Angeln
Arnis liegt auf einer kleinen Halbinsel der Schlei im Norden Schleswig-Holsteins und ist mit circa 300 Einwohnern die kleinste Stadt Deutschlands.
I made this photo of a yellow door that caught my attention as Melody and I were walking back to our car after visiting our neighborhood public library. I had admired this door before but finally stopped to photograph it using my Canon Powershot SX50 that I carry with me whenever out and about.
Haustür /
The narrow ways in Lübeck are idyllic: They lead to small small houses off the street noise. Before the windows blossom rose trees, many inhabitants have put chairs before the house to themselves. But earlier this was creepy! it was narrow, dark and often overcrowded. There ruled bad hygienic relations. There was only one construction restriction. The ways had to be so wide that a coffin fitted through.
****************************************************************************************
Die engen Gänge in Lübeck sind idyllisch: Sie führen zu kleinen Häuschen abseits des Straßenlärms. Vor den Fenstern blühen Rosenstöcke, viele Bewohner haben sich Stühle vors Haus gestellt. Aber früher war das gruselig! es war eng, dunkel und oft überbevölkert. Da herrschten schlimme hygienische Verhältnisse.; Es gab nur eine Baubeschränkung: Die Gänge mussten so breit sein, dass ein Sarg hindurchpasste.
Sunshine Verma is a psychology major double minor in criminal justice and Women's Studies, graduating this spring, photographed on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 in Chico, Calif. “I was born in India. My parents are from India, but when I was five years old, we moved to the bike at the age of 17. I was just really excited to get out of high school and go into college. Chico State has already helped me in so many different ways. I can't even begin to describe it. I've had the most fulfilling experience. I've been very privileged to have that experience as a student.”
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/Chico State)
Alte Vogtei
Ein schöner und interessanter Anziehungspunkt für Kunstliebhaber ist die Alte Vogtei in Lübeck- Travemünde. Das Gebäude in der Vorderreihe Nr. 7 ist 450 Jahre alt und war Sitz des Lübecker Stadtvogtes- Stadtherrn -. Die Vögte überwachten die Travemündung und schützten die Hansestadt Lübeck vor feindlichen Streifzügen und Eroberungsschiffen, erhoben Zölle und waren Herr der regionalen Gerichtsbarkeit.
1773 wurde eine große, ehemals zweiläufige Treppenanlage und die Rokoko- Haustür einbebaut
********************************************+
Old Bailiwick
A beautiful and interesting attraction for art lovers is the Old Bailiwick in Lübeck-Travemünde. The building in the front row No. 7 is 450 years old and was the seat of the city Lübecker Mr. Vogt-City -. The Vögte monitored the Trave estuary and protected the Hanseatic city of Lübeck forays against enemy ships and conquest, and duties levied were Mr regional jurisdiction.
1773 was a large, formerly stairway and the door Rococo
Ins Auge fiel mir bei unserem Hannover-Ausflug diese alte, hellblaue Eingangstüre.
Photo No. 5D037844
ISO200 | f/2,8 | 1/250 sec | 50 mm
Canon EF 50mm f/1,2 L USM | EOS-1D MarkII N
Aperture | PTLens | BorderFX