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Antiguo Hospital Provincial San Carlos, hoy Museo Nacional,Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid / Spain
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The back facade of a building at the corner of Hristo Botev blvd. and Pirotska str. This was the first time I've seen stained glasses on such type of building. Usually in Sofia you can see such mostly on at least a century old houses. And...again tree growing from the balcony...
Today we made some pictures for the invitation of Sofia's Japanese birthday party.
I don't know which is my favourite.....
Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
The Arc Deco Sofia Brothers Warehouse was designed by the firm of Jardine, Hill & Murdoch as one of two Kent Automatic Parking Garages. Built in 1929-30, the garage used a patented automatic parking system in which an electrical "parking machine" engaged cars by their rear axles and towed them from the elevator platform to parking spots. As the use of automobiles increased after the First World War, the creation of parking facilities became a necessity in urban areas and the design of garages a new field for architects.
However, in September of 1931, the Kent garage enterprise failed, and the company was reorganized without the Kent Brothers. The building was operated as a garage until 1943, when the Central Savings Bank (holder of the mortgage), sold it to the Sofia interests, who removed the garage apparatus blocked up the original vehicular entrance on Columbus Avenue, and converted the building to a storage warehouse. The architect of the alteration was George S. Kings ley.
The Sofia Brothers Warehouse occupies a prominent site on Columbus Avenue near the southern edge of the Upper West Side. - It was only towards the end of the 19th century (in the 1870s) that the development of New York City extended north of 59th Street into the then-rural Upper West Side. Though the rectangular street grid had been superimposed over the entire island as early as 1811, it wasn't until the construction of the Ninth Avenue El that the Upper West Side experienced large-scale urban expansion.
While older village centers existed at Harsenville near 72nd Street, and Bloomingdale at 86th Street, rowhouses for affluent residents were built near public improvements such as Riverside Park and Drive. Other houses and tenements were constructed near the elevated railway stops at 72nd , 81st and 93rd Streets.
Throughout much of the 19th century, the West Side, south of 60th Street, was the home of Manhattan's black population. By 1900, the black community had spread as far north as 64th Street, west of Broadway. The area between 60th and 64th Streets, consisting mostly of dilapidated tenement housing, small industrial buildings, and groups of stables, was known as Columbus Hill because of its proximity to Columbus Circle until it became the scene of bloody racial riots involving veterans of the Spanish-
American War and was renamed "San Juan Hill."
This this area served as a transitional zone to the more exclusive rowhouse blocks to the north. The continued presence of the Ninth Avenue El did not enhance the desirability of the San Juan Hill neighborhood as a place to live. An attempt was made to change the neighborhood's image by changing the names of Ninth and Tenth Avenues to Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues.
As the. 20th-century progressed, the neighborhood changed to light industrial uses. The 1936 tax map shows gas stations, garages, auto dealerships, and factory service centers lining the streets from West 59th to West 70th Streets, especially between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The Sofia Brothers Warehouse, then the Kent Parking Garage, erected adjacent to the Packard Motor Car Company warehouse and showrooms.
The area retained its fragmented character until the erection of Lincoln Center in the 1960's just to the north and related redevelopment of the Upper West Side during the past two decades.
The Kent Parking Garage; now the Sofia Brothers Warehouse, was designed in the increasingly popular Art Deco style which.... "through the late 20s and early 30s...was being applied to an ever greater range of building types. It seems likely that for this location the client sought an Art Deco design with its implications of modernity and progress to indicate the innovative nature of the new parking system housed within the building.
The Art Deco movement on the Upper West Side had been first manifested in such apartment buildings as No. 336 Central Park West at 94th Street (1928, Schwartz & Cross;, the Master Apartments on Riverside Drive at 103rd Street in (1928, Heinle, Corbett i Harrison and Sugarman & Berger) and the Eldorado on Central Park West at 90th Street (1929, Margon & Holder) .
The Kent- Parking Garage, dates from 1929-30. Other major Art" Deco buildings of 1929 are the Daily News Building on 42nd Street by Howells & Hood and the Salvation Army Building on 14th Street by Voorhes, Gemlin & Walker.
The firm "of Jardine, Hill & Murdock, which designed the Kent Automatic Parking Garage was the successor firm to D & J Jardine, later, Jardine, Kent & Jardine, and Jardine, Kent & Hill. The Jardine firm was especially active in the last quarter of the 19th century in the design of rowhouses, apartment buildings, and commercial buildings, including the cast-iron B. Altman & Co. store at Sixth Avenue and 19th Street.
The successor firm continued in the commercial tradition, designing a number of Manhattan office buildings including No. 50 East 42nd Street (1915), No. 465 Fifth Avenue (1917 No. 335 Broadway (1925), No. 341 Madison Avenue (1926), and No. 40 Worth Street (1927).
These buildings, which are faced with brick and terra cotta, are articulated by a variety of Renaissance-inspired detail. An unusual mixed-use structure of 1929-30 at 123 West 57th Street houses both the Calvary Baptist Church and the Salisbury Hotel. Here the firm chose to use Gothic detail to enhance the facade. For the Kent firm, Jardine, Hill & Murdock also designed a parking garage built in 1928 at 209 East 43rd Street, (still extant but refaced in 1961) which displayed modest Renaissance-inspired detail in keeping with the dignified character of Midtown Manhattan. The Kent Garage on Columbus Avenue of the following year is the only known design by the firm in the Art Deco style.
The impressive 24-story brick and terra-cotta Sofia Brothers warehouse building is located on the corner of Columbus Avenue and 61st Street and features setbacks on its main Columbus Avenue facade at the 15th, 21st, and 23rd stories. A major feature of the Columbus Avenue facade is the entrance through which cars were originally driven. This entrance has been given an elaborate two-story treatment of ornamental polychromatic terra cotta of chevrons and medallions which is based, like much Art Deco design, on Aztec motifs. The upper stories are simply articulated with orange brickwork, black horizontal brick bands delineating the stories, and slightly projecting vertical brick piers defining the central window bays.
The windows contain twelve-paned metal sash. Some have been replaced by one-over-one sash. The spandrel areas the windows from the 15th story up are unified by paired horizontal or vertical bands of black brick. The crenellated parapet areas of each setback, including the roof, are capped by cream and royal blue colored terra-cotta and cast stone ornament, echoing that of the main entrance.
The 61st Street facade is a sheer, 24-story wall nearly devoid of windows. Although the stepped-back profile of the tower was originally meant to be symmetrical, the step-back on the south elevation was never built. It does, however, appear in the original plans.
The original elevator tower which is centrally located on the wall and projects one bay from the body of the building is strikingly defined by linear, geometric ornament executed in black brick and extending almost the full length of the tower. This wall ornament is one of the chief distinguishing architectural features of the building and provides an instantly recognizable identification for the building to those approaching from the south.
The horizontal black bands of the main facade extend around the corn-to form part of the 61st Street wall. "U.S. Bonded, Free, Sofia Brothers, Inc. Fireproof Storage Warehouse" appears in painted block letters along these extend bands Through the use of such brick bands to articulate the floor levels as well as metal sash, the designers were following the precepts for "appropriate expression for garage design" articulated by the Architectural Record.
A series of one and two-story entrances, decorated with brick, terra-cotta, and cast stone in a similar "fashion to the main facade, project from the base of the side elevation forming low office wings.
The Sofia Brothers Warehouse, now one of the very few commercial buildings surviving in its neighborhood, is a notable, example of the Art Deco style. In the Lincoln Center area, which -has been extensively developed in recent years, it is a reminder of an earlier era, enhancing the area with its architectural quality and distinctive character.
- From the 1983 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
First night in Sofia, and am dragged to a temporary cardboard box city being made on a pedestrian crossing - to highlight some illegal developments being made in Bulgarian wilderness. The most relaxed police I've ever seen let the crowd play for as long as we were there...
The Russian church “St. Nikolay” is located in the center of Sofia, at the intersection of Rakovska and Tsar Osvoboditel streets. It is one of the most remarkable buildings in Sofia. It was built in the period between 1907 and 1914 by a project of the Russian architect M. Preobrazhensky on the initiative of the Russian Embassy and on his land.
The wall paintings are works of Russian artists, under the directions of Vasiliy Perminov. There are 4 icons on the iconostasis, which are copies of the icons in the Kiev cathedral “St. Vladimir”. The five small domes of the church are covered in gold, and the bells were donated by the Russian Emperor Nikolay the 2nd. Until 1947 in the temple worked monks from the so-called Russian Orthodox church abroad and the temple was а center for the numerous Russian emigrants in Bulgaria. It was handed over to the diocese of the Moscow Patriarchate after 1947, who has been managing it to the present day.
The grave of Archbishop Seraphim Sobolev is laid in the temple crypt. The archbishop was considered a miracle maker by many orthodox Christians. Even nowadays many people write letters to him, asking for help, and leave the letters near his grave, believing that he will help them. He led the Russian Orthodox communities in Bulgaria from 1921 to 1950.
Taken on 02 October 2017 in Bulgaria around Sofia-Plovdiv (Poligona, Sofia, Bulgaria) (20171002-DSC_6256)
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