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The porch that housed a homeless person in 2019 is now entrance to the marketing suite for a nearby billion-pound residential and retail development.
And I still find it so hard
To say what I need to say
But I'm quite sure that you'll tell me
Just how I should feel today - New Order
though this bridge is named Jubilee Bridge to celebrate 50 years of nation building. I called it friendship bridge as it will bring about meetings and gatherings of friends here.
Rise of a new moon on a Friday dawn over looking the city as seen from the tallest residential building in Singapore.
my first capture for 2017 was just fabulous! The after glow was so beautiful it seems unreal. What an amazing Sunday!
President Barack Obama in a portrait tribute, painted days before the 2008 US Election by expressionist artist Stephen B. Whatley.
The photograph taken in the artist's London studio shows the montage of selected photographs that inspired the oil painting - including the TIME magazine cover of 2006. Coincidentally this painting would be published in the TIME magazine Person of The Year issue of Dec 2008-Jan 2009.
The original work of art is owned by an American property developer living in London, UK; but signed prints of the portrait can be ordered from the artist's website.
Last night, January 10, 2017, in Chicago, President Obama delivered a brilliant farewell speech to the nation, which the artist watched live on the BBC from London UK.
He stated that America was in a better place than 'when we started' - and reassured the US 'citizens' ('the office we all share'), maybe with a veiled reference to the impending change of Presidency, that 'change can only happen when ordinary people come together'; that 'democracy can buckle if we give into fear' and emphasised the need for 'solidarity' - that 'we are all in this together'. His last words: "God bless The United States of America"
Barack Obama. 2008
Oil on canvas, 30 x 24in/76 x 61cm
Private collection, London, UK
Zaha Hadid's first condominium design in Singapore. This amazing Architect passed away on 31/03/2016 at the age of 65.
Protesting outside the London Real Estate Forum, where deals are made to sell off public land for private profit,
June 2018
That's me wearing a loose shirt and a hat, standing in the road.
The Pinnacle@Duxton are the world's tallest public housing buildings.The project consists of seven connected 50-storey towers, labelled 1A to 1G, with a total of 1,848 units. The project features the world's two longest sky gardens of 500 metres (1,600 ft) each, on both the 26th and 50th floors.The idea to redevelop Duxton Plain was put forward by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew in August 2001.
VERTICAL VILLAGE
Ole Scheeren’s design generates an extensive network of private and shared social spaces in a radical reinterpretation of contemporary life in a community. Instead of following the default typology of housing in dense urban environments – clusters of isolated towers – the design turns vertical isolation into horizontal connectivity and reinstates the notion of community as a central issue in today’s society.
31 apartment blocks, each six stories tall, are stacked in a hexagonal arrangement around eight generous courtyards. The interlocking blocks create a multitude of shared outdoor spaces, forming a dramatic topography of inhabitable terraced gardens across the stepped volumes. Partly resting, partly floating, the blocks hover on top of each other to form an expressive “interlaced” space that connects the individual apartments with an accessible and inclusive community life.
The design generates a multiplicity of qualities and choices for its inhabitants and gives a sense of multi-layered richness and freedom of possibilities for living. source - buro-os.com/the-interlace/
The view from Level 39, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf. Public access due to Open House London weekend.
Bliss Tweed Mill, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.
The Bliss family had already grown rich though producing the highest quality cloth at their woollen mill at Chipping Norton. At the Amsterdam Exhibition of 1867 they received a gold medal. As well as producing the best cloth William Bliss also believed in looking after his workers and for this in 1867 he received a medal from Napoleon III (France).
In 1872 the mill burnt down, a new mill (pictured) was built 1872-3 close by. The architect was George Woodhouse who was from Lancashire, he specialised in mills, this was intended to be the grandest mill in England. The mill was considered to be of exceptional design, rivalling other mills at Bradford and Saltaire. The exterior of the mill was built from local Cotswold limestone, while the interior is brick with some cast iron. The most dominating feature of the mill is the chimney, likened by many to a 'sink plunger'. William Bliss whilst looking after the welfare of his workers was one of the town of Chipping Norton's greatest benefactors, when William Bliss died in 1911 there were so many donations in his will that the Bliss family had to sell the mill to meet the costs of what had been donated. The mill continued in use until 1980.
In the mid-late 1980s work was started to convert the mill into luxury apartments and leisure complex by London based developer Edward Mayhew, with the work only half completed his company went into receivership in 1989. After a gap of a couple of years of no work at the site the mill was bought in 1991 by Andrew Davis who completed the work and started marketing the flats and apartments in 1992. Even back in 1992 the prices of property here were right at the top end of the market, the cheapest were one-bedroom flats, which started at £140,000. Property values are not much higher in this development even today in 2013.
Normally I like to give a few links to further information on the history of sites that I have photographed, The above description of Bliss Mill has been collated from a wide variety of resources on the internet, none of them particularly good/comprehensive – The best place find out about the history of the mill would probably be Chipping Norton Museum, which despite me knowing about it for years and also my living locally, I have not ever quite got round to visiting.
A few relevant sources/links:
Chipping Norton Museum www.chippingnortonmuseum.org.uk
Independent (Newspaper) 19 September 1992 www.independent.co.uk/property/house-and-home/...
Listed Building Description list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1198094
Kite Aerial Photograph
19 January 2013
This is a HDR Jpeg rendered in-camera with my Sony A7R paired with the Sony FE4/70-200 G OSS, Panorama stitched from 4 vertical frames at 70mm f/11 ISO100 2s.
I like this view very much, in the foreground you could see the popular Tiong Bahru Estate built in the 1930s. The Greenery from Pearls Hill City Park, from the left you could also see the brown tall building which is Landmark Tower built in 1985, famous Pearl Bank Apartments 珍珠苑completed in 1976 was one of Singapore's pioneers of high-rise, high-density living, and influenced urban development in Singapore and other cities in southeast Asia. Towards the right is our HDB pride, Pinnacle @ Duxton, right behind stands Singapore 2 tallest residential project SkySuites @ Anson (71 floors) and Altez (62 floors). You could also see public housing in the Tanjong Pagar and Chinatown area.
The backdrop features our ultra modern skyscrapers making up Singapore Financial, Commercial and Residential sectors. Simply love the diversity of Architectures within this Panorama.
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The young woman held some keys in her hand. I saw the indicator lights flash on a mobile home. I was disappointed to see her go into the van; thinking that I had missed my opportunity to meet and photograph her. Thankfully she stepped out again. She now held a drum and stick in her hand. I approached in my usual manner and asked if I might take her photograph. I told her that I liked her hair and that I would like to include her in my on-going project. She agreed and we exchanged names. Meet Corinne…
I suggested that we walk toward wherever Corinne was headed. When she asked where I would like to take the photo, I suggested that we sit under a tree in the nearby churchyard. We sat down and I asked Corinne if she was a local, immediately realising my mistake as I remembered that she had been in a rented mobile home. Corinne told me that she is from Australia and is visiting for a while – a period of time not yet determined. I’m guessing that Corinne will go with the flow.
Back in Australia, Corinne is a property developer. The two properties that she rents out provide an income that allow for this travel. She has a friend that will look after any issues while she is away. Corinne also practices Reiki healing. She told me that past hurts can be identified by the process, old pains are replaced with “seeds of beauty”.
Today Corinne had gone to her van to pick up her drum. She had just finished making it and wanted to purchase a bag for it. It was a really fine, hand held drum; it looked really well constructed. Corinne had not used it yet. She reminded me that drums are an ancient instrument, that their music has a connection with the heartbeat and that drumming may be used to promote healing.
Thank you Corinne for being part of my project. It was great to meet you today. Best wishes for your remaining time in the UK and as you return to Australia.
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A 27-storey designer business hotel is emerging in Tanjong Pagar. Oasia Downtown, a hotel and office tower in Peck Seah Street, is designed by Singapore architects Woha for Far East Organization.
The building will be covered with creepers and flowering plants entwined around grid panels - a "green skin" - which open up on different floors to sky gardens.
It will have a green plot ratio of 750 per cent - garden space over seven times the size of the land.
I stood here witnessing the last Sunset of 2016 set behind the estate and waited patiently for the artificial lights to come on. Photographing with the Voigtländer 10mm Ultrawide was never easy but this composition brought the best out of it. The Ultrawide view allowed me to compose almost the entire estate. Perfectly matched with the superb sensor power of the Sony A7RM2, I took in the scene with 2 exposures balancing the sky and foreground.
Hong Kong is definitely one of my favorite cities for photography.