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Plants have to be pretty hardy to survive the hot dry air of California summer weather. Jade plants rank right up at the top as being up to the task. I have had this plant for 40 years.
Towards the light. Stratosphere, a new East London residential development designed by Stockwool for Telford Homes,
A slightly different version to Simple Abstract 121 (flic.kr/p/2dRyxr4).
Corner detail of new Hackney Wick Station in East London.
Architects: Landolt + Brown
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Facade detail of the soon to be completed new US Embassy in Nine Elms, London. Architects: Kieran Timberlake.
Millbank Tower, Westminster, London.
Architects: Ronald Ward & Partners.
Completed 1963.
Photo taken in February 2025.
This is another view of the Bernini’s spiral staircase, looking up at the residential apartment attached to the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. The “hidden” staircase can only be viewed through a guided tour conducted by the Basilica’s personnel.
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Another detail shot of the 1970s extension to Stockport Civic Offices. Built in 1975. (Same facade, different perspective).
Designed by J.S. Rank, OBE.
Photo taken in April 2025.
Ok, so maybe it’s not such a simple abstract….
Detail shot of the recently refurbished Port Authority Building, Tarragona, Spain.
A brutalist building designed in the 1970s, constructed in 1978, by the local architect Josep Maria Garreta Cusidó that stands boldly on Tarragona’s shoreline.
Chobham Academy, a school in Stratford, London E20. Opened 2013. Architects: Alford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM).
For more of my architectural photos, see here: www.flickr.com/photos/robinmauricebarr/albums/72157645391...
"The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong." - Laura Ingalls Wilder
These past few days have felt like summer with warm temperatures, sunny skies and trees turning that wonderful lime green with new leaves. So I have been distracted from Flickr by doing the things I love to do in the summer. My garden is looking so great. I worked on an art project for my garden as well as tidied up the weeds. I have enjoyed watching all the beautiful birds visit my backyard and a few of them build nests. We have meals on our back deck which feels like camping. We hike long urban hikes which includes our local park. Then last night we camped out all night in our backyard.
The Trilliums are out and I said I wouldn't take any more Trillium pictures because I have so many good ones in my files. However, there was the odd one posed so nicely that it caught my attention. This one had such a gentle Purple/red color compared to the others in its group that I honored it with a portrait. It also made me stop to realize that I normally would take this pictures on the Bruce Trail. With that trail being closed right now I was glad to see the blooms in our own park nearby.
I also realized that it was the simple pleasures of outdoor experiences I love so much and it didn't really matter where these things happened. It can be in our own backyard. The things we see every year can be beautiful each time you see them again if you use fresh eyes.
Detail shot of Whittle Arch, public art installation in Coventry, England. It is dedicated to Sir Frank Whittle, the inventor of the turbojet engine, who was born in Coventry.
The arches are one of two steel complex torsion structures built in 2003 designed by architects MacCormac Jamieson Pritchard.
I believe they were designed to resemble vapour trails.
The building through the arch is 'Millenium View', student accomodation in Coventry, England.
See my other recent photo of this building here: flic.kr/p/2qTsgFv
Architects: Hadfield Cawkwell Davidson.
Photo taken in March 2025.
Another detail shot of the 44-floor (589-foot (180 m)) Erastus Corning Tower in Albany, New York State. Completed in 1973.
The spines of this facade are faced in Vermont Pearl Marble.
Architect: Wallace K. Harrison
Photo taken: May 2024
"I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else."
- Nikos Kazantzakis
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Another photo of the building shown in Simple Abstract 120.
This recently refurbished former Port Authority building in Tarragona, Spain, resembles an abstract crab. It is brutalist building designed in the 1970s, constructed in 1978, by the local architect Josep Maria Garreta Cusidó and stands boldly on Tarragona’s shoreline.