So, you just inherited a huge pile of shingles...and don't know what to do............The answer is that you use them all! The Art of Roofing in Carmel, Ca. Like Car Art, the beauty is in the details!

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This photo was taken in Nakatsuchi, Otari village in early autumn on the way to Kamaike (鎌池) pond in the same community. Forests are still lush at this altitude of 600 m.

Susuki (Chinese silvergrass, Miscanthus sinensis) is a perennial herbaceous grass found in East Asia. The Miscanthus genus is found all over Eurasia and Africa.

Susuki has been a subject of Japanese art and literature often associated with autumn, solitude and bleakness, although this photo is not intended for such sentiments.

It used to be important as a roofing material.

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Architects/Collaborators

Weary & Kramer, Akron (architects)

Doerzbach and Decker, Sandusky (builders)

Style

Richardsonian Romanesque

History

The construction of Baldwin Cottage, a small-dorm complement to stately Talcott which rose more or less simultaneously next door, began soon after the 1886 fire which destroyed the Second Ladies Hall. It was named for Elbert Baldwin, a Cleveland dry goods merchant from whom Adelia Field Johnston, Oberlin's leading woman administrator, extracted a gift of $20,000. The village paper announced that Baldwin would be done "in the Queen Anne style, with broken roof lines, with the effect of earlier colonial houses" -- language suggesting that wonderfully elastic range of "Queen Anne". Weary and Kramer's design reached for the informal intimacy of a cottage look through variety in massing, texture, and detail. The studied unexpectedness of Baldwin's shapes--its squat tower, its low double-arched entry porch, the broad and gentle slopes of its roof lines, the episodic placement of its windows and dormers--made it a local triumph in the art of organic irregularity popularized by Henry Hobson Richardson. The roofing material, a warm red diamond-shaped tile, introduced a theme that would govern the campus building projects for the next 45 years. Dark, rich woodwork helped carry a friendly "nook-and-cranny" mood through the interior, making Baldwin one of the most durably popular living places on the campus.

Natural slate from Welsh slate quarries is globally recognised as the finest roofing slates in the world. It is the heritage and durability which sets Welsh Slate roofing tiles apart from other roofing slates, this is derived from its density and the unique geological formation found exclusively in North Wales.

Part of a new series:

"Welsh slate quarries":

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ISO 100, 24mm f 6.8, 1/250 sec. handheld

Een zeszijdige bakstenen vervallen pauwenhok met gecementeerde afwerkingen ,rondbogige openingen onder de kunstleien bedaking.

Daarachter voormalig knechtjeswoning met stallingen, heden schrijnwerkerij.

A dilapidated, six-sided brick peacock coop with cemented finishes and round-arched openings beneath the artificial slate roof.

Behind it, a former servants' house with stables, now a carpentry workshop.

Ein verfallener, sechseckiger Pfauenstall aus Backstein mit Zementverkleidung und Rundbogenöffnungen unter dem Kunstschieferdach.

Dahinter ein ehemaliges Dienstbotenhaus mit Stallungen, heute eine Tischlerei.

Un poulailler à paons en briques hexagonales, délabré, aux finitions cimentées et aux ouvertures en arc de cercle sous un toit en ardoise artificielle.

Derrière, une ancienne maison de domestiques avec écuries, aujourd'hui un atelier de menuiserie.

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An old red roof spotted on Constitution Dock.

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Slate roofing on the boat houses at Llyn Gwynant, North Wales.

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Stone Island, Mazatlán, MX

Two streets over from us here in town.

A new house with shadows on its side, with angled roofing beyond. A colour shot with only whites and greys.

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Just a quick sketch while waiting in the car.

ink, pencil and some nice brown recycled sketchbook paper.

Thank you for taken your time to visit me, comments or faves are always much appreciated!

The sharp angles of the contemporary church at Olafsvik on the Snaefellsnes Peninsular.

Iceland, May 2016. © David Hill

gazebo architecture

captured in the abandoned Villa Vehicle. (2014)

One side of the roof has been completed. I hesitate to say how long it took, but the effect will be excellent.

Everything will be interchangeable between the framed house and the finished house.

Chocolate Wattled Bat ?

Kangaroo Island

South Australia

It was so hot this day that this little bat came out from under the roofing iron and rested on the fascia of the building. We had observed them coming and going in the evenings.

昭和な雰囲気の用品店さん。「たばこ」のフォントが昭和。

@Udatsu roofing street, Mino, Gifu. （岐阜県美濃市 うだつの上がる町並み）

partial roofing over an open-air corridor between the Annie Lennox and Alex Ferguson buildings in Glasgow Caledonian University

#Roofing

[Having returned late last night from a two-week trip to England and a family visit in Normandy, I resume my uploads today. I know that over the coming three or four months, I will be quite busy as I need to shoot a significant number of monuments and sites to illustrate a book on the first 25 years of activity of the Fondation du Patrimoine in the Auvergne–Rhône-Alpes region. I will nevertheless attempt to keep uploading new material to Flickr every day, but please don’t be mad at me if I miss a day here and there...!]

The church of Sainte-Marie de Léoncel is all that is left of the Cistercian abbey that was founded in this valley of northern Drôme (southeastern France) in 1137. The church was quickly built, as it was consecrated in 1188. However, some remodeling and alterations took place until around 1230. Most of the church is pure Romanesque, but as you will see, the roofing of the nave features a budding form of rib vaulting which announces the age of the Gothic.

The abbey was ravaged during the Hundred Years War; only the church was left standing. The cloister and other abbey buildings were never rebuilt. Monastic life endured (albeit down to a substantially degraded degree) until the French Revolution, when the church became parochial —hence the opening of a door in the western façade, and the walling up of some lateral doors. Since 1974, a community of Dominican sisters has taken over what is left of the abbey and thus monastic life has begun anew.

The typically Cistercian, austere, no-frills western façade. The shape of the gable, as well as the minimal decoration surrounding the central window, show the influence of Provençal Romanesque.

The church was regarded as important enough to be listed as a Historic Landmark on Prosper Mérimée’s very first list of 1840.