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I took this photo last year. I'm not sure, but I think it was the San Francisco unified school district office building . Curiously, The sculpted man in the foreground is clutching a mallet as he pores over a book -- on stone masonry, perhaps -- and the demonic-looking fellow is intensely examining a rock or a lump of something.
San Francisco, California
Here is a shot showing the massive exterior of the Castillo de San Marcos. This is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States (built between 1672-1695). It was originally built by the Spanish to defend Florida and the Atlantic trade route.
You can read more about the history of the fort on the NPS website: www.nps.gov/casa/index.htm
Castillo de San Marcos
St. Augustine, Florida
Perpendicular, interrupted strips of bricks form the facade of Goes town hall. They play a role in the complex energy management system of this building.
Design (2001): Rudy Uytenhaak.
Llenroc is a Gothic revival house constructed for Ezra Cornell just below the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States. It now houses the Cornell chapter of the Delta Phi fraternity.
Llenroc was built for Ezra Cornell between 1865 and 1875. It is a fine and well preserved example of masonry Gothic Revival architecture.
The house is constructed of "Llenroc limestone", a name used for the limestone quarried as building material taken from west of Libe Slope. Artisans from around the world created the many elaborate fixtures of the house including: English woodcarvers responsible for the carved interior molding on the first and second floor and stonemasons from Germany completed the exterior stonework. Irish, Scottish, Italian, and Indian craftsmen also made significant contributions. Eight complete marble fireplaces were also imported from Europe to be plac 242
Having been referred to as a “cluster of tree houses”, a “crumpled paper bag” and an “urban sandcastle”, the Dr Chau Chak Wing building’s unique masonry façade—contorting and twisting in a three-dimensional plane for the full height of the 14-storey structure—created structural engineering challenges requiring innovative solutions.
In collaboration with UTS and the brick supplier, AECOM (an infrastructure consulting firm) developed a unique brick, tie, mortar and backing system that solved the load, constructability and complex geometrical issues, allowing a near impossible feat of engineering to be realised. This unique solution makes this brick facade one of its kind.
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July 12, 2022
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18 of 50 of my ongoing series of images taken from the home this is 18 of 50 hopefully more each day.
Stay safe everyone and hopefully this will all be over soon.
It is amazing in this kind of traditional architecture made by masonry walls, to look how many sizes of stones are used and what a difficult work is to fit it all. This is an old house in a village at Madrid mountains region, Spain.
Focus stack (50 images) Shot with single off-camera strobe (Godox AD200Pro/XPro II trigger), bare bulb, mounted on overhead boom, bounced off 32 inch white umbrella.
Shot for Macro Mondays - spiral
62 mm (l) x 10 mm (dia)
masonry drill bits differ from normal drill bits in that they have a hardened cutting tip (usually tungsten carbide) that is used to chip/grind hard materials such as masonry, brick or stone rather than cut through the material. The deeply fluted spiral shape that of the bit helps to remove dust and debris from the hole that is formed. Masonry bits are tippically used in hammer drills that use a combination of percussion and rotation to create a hole of the desired dimension
Death, Doom & Gloom, we're all going to die, and no one gets out alive, not even you !!!.
Victorian Cemetery.
LR3470
The church incorporates in its chancel arch masonry dating from c.1200. To this early building a south aisle and south chapel were added in the earlier 13th century; the chancel may also have been lengthened at this time. By the early 19th century a south porch and west tower, constructed of timber, had been added. Restoration of the church took place in 1854-5 under the direction of T.H. Wyatt, when the external walls were rebuilt. In 1933 the south chapel was extended eastwards and an aisle was added to the northern side of the church.
St. Andrew's Church was a chapelry within Downton ecclesiastical parish until 1915 when it was annexed to Odstock parish. Arguments by the inhabitants of Nunton and Bodenham that the church should be detached from Downton parish had arisen since the latter half of the 16th century; at numerous points in the 17th to 19th centuries the scarcity of services was noted.
In 1553 there were three bells, which remain in the church today. Parish registers date from 1672; baptism registers from this date to 1906 are held at the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre in Chippenham, as are marriage registers from 2000, with a brief gap between 1764 and 1759. Burial registers held at the Centre date from 1672 to 1965. Later registers than those cited here remain with the church.
Escuaín, Sobrarbe, Huesca, Aragón, España.
Escuaín es una localidad perteneciente al municipio de Puértolas, en la provincia de Huesca, comunidad autónoma de Aragón, España. En 2020 contaba con 3 habitantes.
Escuaín se encuentra sobre un llano, junto al pueblo se encuentran unas gargantas excavadas durante siglos por el río Yaga. Estas gargantas son uno de los cuatro sectores del parque nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido.
Escuaín presenta un paisaje diseminado, casas de mampostería, algunas de ellas con dinteles y ventanas con fechas de entre 1650 y 1686.
Escuaín is a town belonging to the municipality of Puértolas, in the province of Huesca, autonomous community of Aragón, Spain. In 2020 it had 3 inhabitants.
Escuaín is located on a plain, next to the town there are some gorges excavated for centuries by the Yaga River. These gorges are one of the four sectors of the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park.
Escuaín presents a scattered landscape, masonry houses, some of them with lintels and windows dated between 1650 and 1686.
House from outside:
canmore.org.uk/site/92391/culross-the-cross-the-study
The building known as 'The Study', stands in a picturesque corner of the town beside the Market Cross. On plan it is L-shaped and consists of a main block of two storeys and attics, with crow-stepped gables, while a stair-wing projecting from the southern wall, in alignment with the west gable, is carried up a storey higher and has a crow-stepped gabled roof free from the main roof. Only part of the house is occupied, the rest being bare and dilapidated. In the re-entrant angle is a door with roll-and-hollow moulded jambs and lintel, which has now no discoverable connection with the ground floor of the main block, but which leads to a turnpike, giving access to the floors above. The doorway on the first floor has an edge-roll, and that on the second floor has rounded arrises like those on the windows. At the head of the stair, a small turret-stair is corbelled out on the western wall and leads to a chamber on the top of the wing. This apartment is traditionally called "The Study," in the old sense of a small private room, and from it the whole house takes its name.
The room off the stair on the first floor was handsomely panelled in oak. The panelling is now stripped from the walls, but a portion of it, preserved in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, consists of three bays in three horizontal divisions. The lowest division, probably of later date, is a range of lockers with lids forming a bench. The middle division is arcaded, the semi-circular arched heads having scalloped inner edges, and being separated from one another by fluted Renaissance pilasters above which is a rail, inlaid with holly wood and bog oak, bearing the letters I.A. and A.P. in monogram, with the date 1633, both inlaid in holly wood. The uppermost division is a plain panelled frieze, separated also by fluted pilasters. On the upper panels of a door in this chamber were carved the initials I.A. and A.P., and the date as above (cf. Details of Scottish Domestic Architecture, ed. James Gillespie, p. 17 and PI. .66).
The building itself is probably somewhat earlier than the panelling, being of a type common about the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th. In the south wall at street level, a door, which may be an insertion, bears the date 1633 between the initials I.A. and A.P. worked in cement on the cemented lintel. None of the dormer windows are now pedimented, nor are any of the floors vaulted. The masonry is rubble, probably once harled, but now cemented.
RCAHMS 1933, visited March 1928.
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland.
Every year on the last weekend of August the small town of Bad Wimpfen - residence of the German emperors in the middle ages - hosts its annual Zunftmarkt (Guild Market). It's a reenactment for medieval crafts. It's a very fine spectacle - especially in a town that still reflects about 900 years of history in its streets and townscape.
I had originally tried to capture this scene with a reflection of the arches but with my limited knowledge of DOF at the time I stuffed it up well enough to warrant having another go and besides, the lack of clouds was hardly going to impress anyone either!
On my eventual return though, to my disappointment I discovered a newly erected fence right in front of the lake on the west side of Lion bridge preventing access to the same view.
So, knowing this has now become a rare perspective of the house here's the half that ain't half bad. Can anyone lend me a sky?
Thank you for wading by :)
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From one of the well-preserved Roman houses at Mons Smaragdus, an emerald-mining town on the flanks of the Wadi Sikait.
Egypt, Eastern Desert, Wadi Sikait: primarily late Ptolemaic through late Roman activity
obviously this building predates a a terrible time in history.....found this facade in Thermopolis, Wyoming.
The Styrum Water Tower was built in 1892/93 by August Thyssen to supply his iron rolling mill.
In 1912, the building became the property of the newly founded RWW Rheinisch-Westfälische Wasserwerksgesellschaft mbH. At this time, the Styrum Waterworks supplied the following companies with approximately five million cubic meters of water per year: AG Phönix for Mining and Metallurgy; Arenbergsche Bergwerksgesellschaft; Gewerkschaft Mathias Stinnes; and Thyssen. Until its decommissioning in 1982, the tower primarily supplied process water, initially to Thyssen and later to Mannesmann. In addition to its function as a water reservoir, the water tower also served as a residence for a long time. At the end of the 1980s, RWW decided to preserve the water tower as an industrial monument and convert it into a museum.
A report by the Lower Monument Authority dated March 13, 1989, states:
"The Styrum Water Tower exhibits architecture modeled on a defensive tower, typical of early industrial architecture. It is a three-story brick building with an octagonal base tapering at the bottom, structured by several horizontal masonry bands and a stepped cornice. Above it rises a cylindrical tower shaft with eight window axes. The tower shaft is divided by horizontal zigzag bands of yellow clinker brick. The pitched roof supports several pointed dormers and a compass rose."
Der Wasserturm Styrum wurde 1892/93 von August Thyssen zur Versorgung seines Eisenwalzwerkes erbaut.
1912 geht das Gebäude in den Besitz der neugegründeten RWW Rheinisch-Westfälische Wasserwerksgesellschaft mbH über. Zu dieser Zeit versorgt das Styrumer Wasserwerk mit circa fünf Millionen Kubikmeter pro Jahr folgende Betriebe: AG Phönix für Bergbau und Hüttenbetrieb; Arenbergsche Bergwerksgesellschaft; Gewerkschaft Mathias Stinnes; Thyssen. Bis zu seiner Stilllegung 1982 lieferte der Turm vorwiegend Betriebswasser, zunächst an Thyssen, später an Mannesmann. Neben seiner Funktion als Wasserspeicher diente der Wasserturm auch lange Zeit als Wohnung. Ende der achtziger Jahre beschloss RWW, den Wasserturm als Industriedenkmal zu erhalten und zum Museum auszubauen.
In einem Gutachten der Unteren Denkmalbehörde vom 13.3.1989 heißt es:
"Der Styrumer Wasserturm läßt eine am Vorbild eines Wehrturms orientierte Architektur erkennen, die typisch für die frühe Industriearchitektur ist. Es handelt sich um einen dreigeschossigen Backsteinbau mit achteckigem, sich unten verjüngendem Sockel, der durch mehrere waagerechte Mauerwerksbänder sowie durch ein abgestuftes Kranzgesims gegliedert wird. Darüber erhebt sich ein Turmschaft in Zylinderform mit acht Fensterachsen. Der Turmschaft ist durch waagerechte Zick-Zack-Bänder in gelbem Klinker aufgeteilt. Das Spitzdach trägt mehrere Spitzgauben und eine Windrose."