Located in the exclusive Melbourne suburb of Toorak, Graeme Mansion, built in 1910 by Melbourne architect P. G. Fick (18?? - 1940) is a Grande Dame of Melbourne's glittering turn-of-the-century past.

Built in elegant Art Nouveau style, Graeme Mansion, made of grey stone, is an imposing building which shuns the world beyond the high fence that protects it from the noise of busy Williams Road which it faces onto, and the railway line which it is situated next to. The mansion's name plaque is situated above the front door, below a fan window, and two sets of bay windows with Art Nouveau stained glass panels feature to either side of the front door.

Graeme Mansion was built for and named by Ballarat born physician Dr. Francis Armand Nyulasy (1862 - 1934). Sadly, Dr. Nyulasy married late in life and had no children, so his beloved home fell into disrepair and was neglected for a long time. Today it has a new lease of life and a new name, "Toorak Manor", as a quality boutique hotel as such a building at such an address deserves to be.

P. G. Fick also designed the All Saints Anglican Church, hall and vicarage on Chapel Street, East St Kilda in 1908.

A dramatic interior shot captures a unique table lamp featuring a polished agate slice as its centerpiece, backlit by the warm glow of a window. The lamp's dark, sculptural metal frame contrasts sharply with the glowing, translucent stone, while the reflection on the glossy tabletop doubles the scene's elegance. The composition uses strong backlighting to create a moody, artistic atmosphere, highlighting the natural beauty of the mineral against the architectural lines of the window.

The former Mining Exchange, 6 Lydiard Street North, Ballarat, is one of the few mining exchanges extant in Australia and is illustrative of a fundamental part of Ballarat's early history. The splendid two storey Victorian building of classical proportions and design was built between 1887 and 1889 to replace an earlier building on the site. Designed by architect Charles Douglas Figgis, who also designed the Ballarat Presbyterian church, it is lined with forty offices, which were once bustling with mining agents, and share brokers. It also housed shops along the ground floor, including Bickart’s Coffee Shop, whose elegantly painted windows with gilt lettering and bobbled curtain swags can still be seen today. There is also a large single storey exchange hall at the rear.

The interior of the Ballarat Mining Exchange is divided into small booths flanking a large hall. A bow fronted cast iron balcony projects above the Lydiard Street entrance. There is a also a secondary, less grand entrance at the opposite end which leads to Camp Street. On the two longitudinal sides of the central hall are arcaded brokers' booths surmountd by arched clerestory windows at the first floor level. Some of the original names and details of the mining brokers may still be seen above the booths today.

When it opened, the Mining Exchange had ninety-eight registered members. However, as gold mining declined as the gold rush turned to bust, the elaborate Mining Exchange found a new life as a garage (the sign for Mobil Oils is still visible on the interior back wall) and was known as the Exchange Garage. Later it became a bus depot. During the Second World War (1939 - 1945), American soliders were billited in the mining exchange. Today is a craft market.

A high-contrast, bitmap-dithered urban street scene depicting a lone pedestrian walking along a sidewalk next to storefronts and modern architectural structures.

Tarndwarncoort.

The first section of this historic homestead was built in 1848 by Alexander Dennis. He was born in England in 1811 and sailed to Williamstown with his wife and daughter in 1840. They soon settled in the Colac district on a small run of about 5,000 acres. Apart from being a property owner Alex Dennis was also one of the first two magistrates of Colac in August 1849 and later a shire councillor. He held several parcels of land in the district and built the first part of his two storey Tarndwarncoort residence in 1848. An upper floor was added over the rear kitchen wing in 1854. Then the large two storey basalt addition was joined to it in 1877.This new Italianate style homestead was designed by Colac architect Alexander Hamilton. Dennis also had properties in the Wimmera and the Mortlake districts. He always tried to help Aboriginal people and was appointed by the Victorian government as the Local Guardian of Aborigines in the 1860s. He resigned this post in 1879 the same year in which reduced his work as a local magistrate. He was President for Colac Shire for several terms and an active citizen of the district. He was a trustee of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Colac which was erected in 1874 and he donated the funds for the Methodist manse to be built in 1884. He was also a member of the Colac School Board of Advice. He died at Tarndwarncoort in April 1892 at 80 years of age leaving a wife and seven living adult children. He left an estate worth over £105,000 and the lands went to his two sons and his three married daughters received £1,000 each and his two single daughters £8,000. He also left a £400 gift to the Colac Wesleyan Church and around £8,000 to his wife. She died at Tarndwarncoort in 1894. She left her estate to her daughters and nothing to her sons. One of his sons Richard Dennis died at Tarndwarncoort in November 1912. His brother Alexander Dennis then seems to have occupied Tarndwarncoort. In 1925 he was appointed as magistrate of Colac when he was residing there. The Dennis family established their Polwarth flock in 1880 and from 1919 to 1926 Alexander Dennis junior was the president of the Polwarth Sheep Breeders Association. Alexander Dennis junior and his brother Richard were deemed as the founders of the Polwarth breed of sheep. Richard Dennis cross bred Lincoln merino ewes with Merino rams at Carrs Plains near Ararat. Richard Dennis controlled the breeding from 1880 to 1902. He died in 1931 and the property passed to the next generation Mr A.W Dennis. The property was featured in Country Life in Table Talk Melbourne 31 May 1934. The property is now known the Tarndie woolshed store and homestead.

Built on the high side of a road, this Victorian weatherboard villa constructed in the late 1890s may be found in the South Gippsland town of Leongatha.

The villa stands proudly amid a beautiful cottage garden, and is surrounded by a white picket fence. Double fronted and sprawling, it has obviously been extended in the ensuing years since it was bult. It features a wonderful bull nosed verandah around three sides of the original residence. The verandah has some very pretty and dainty cast iron lacework and a corrugated iron awning, which matches the roof of the villa. This villa also features some beautiful stained glass widnows featuring diamond patterns in red, blue and yellow.

Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region. The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway. The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town. The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.

Abandoned motel on Maré Island, New Caledonia.

Built on the high side of a road, this Victorian weatherboard villa constructed in the late 1890s may be found in the South Gippsland town of Leongatha.

The villa stands proudly amid a beautiful cottage garden, and is surrounded by a white picket fence. Double fronted and sprawling, it has obviously been extended in the ensuing years since it was bult. It features a wonderful bull nosed verandah around three sides of the original residence. The verandah has some very pretty and dainty cast iron lacework and a corrugated iron awning, which matches the roof of the villa. This villa also features some beautiful stained glass widnows featuring diamond patterns in red, blue and yellow.

Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region. The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway. The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town. The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.

Built between 1908 and 1912 to house workers in the backyard of their place of employment – the large smoke-churning Wieczorek (formerly ‘Giesche’) coal mine – the enclosed residential complex of Nikiszowiec is composed of six compact four-sided three-storey blocks with inner courtyards. Distinguished by its uniformity of style – red brick buildings accented with red-painted windowframing, and narrow streets joined by handsome arcades – the neighbourhood was designed by Georg and Emil Zillman of Berlin-Charlottenburg to be a completely self-sufficient community for 1,000 workers with a school, hospital, police station, post office, swimming pool, bakery and church. Thanks to WWI and the subsequent Silesian Uprisings – during which time Nikiszowiec saw fierce fighting, and was afterwards incorporated into Poland – St. Anne’s Church (Pl. Wyzwolenia 21) wasn’t able to be finished until 1927, but became the crowning glory of the neighbourhood as soon as it was. A welcome diversion from the smokestacks dominating the roofline of the district’s other side, this magnificent building incorporates Baroque design with two belltowers and a timepieced steeple, while blending into its surroundings without any of the ghastly and gratuitous exterior decoration associated with the style; make sure you take a stroll down ul. Św. Anny for the most photogenic views. If you’re lucky enough to get inside, take notice of the amazing 5,350 pipe organ and highly ornate Zillman chandelier. Though it would ironically seem be a socialist planners’ wet dream, Nikiszowiec actually makes a happy, handsome departure from the communist botch-job of downtown Katowice and has become a prized location for amateur photographers and budding filmmakers due to the fact that it has remained virtually unchanged since the Second World War. City marketers have also recognised the district’s uniqueness with increasing efforts to draw tourist attention to the area and a campaign afoot to fasten Nikiszowiec to the UNESCO Heritage List.

This is the window with paper-cutting art in Qiao Courtyard, Pingyao, Shanxi, China,

The red brick Federation-era courthouse was built in Ballarat's Camp Street as the new police court in 1904. It contained a two-story courtroom with clerk's and magistrate's rooms. It features a balcony for the magistrate above the entranceway. The Queen Anne style building features (formerly) white and red banding around doorways and windows.

After 1941, when courtrooms were provided in the new State Government offices, this building housed the Benevolent Asylum's Ladies Committee.

Today it houses the Arts Academy's music theatre studio.

Queen Anne was mostly a residential style inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement in England, but also encompassed some of the more stylised elements of Art Nouveau, which gave it an more decorative look. Queen Anne style civic buildings are a rarity in Australia.

This is a view through a miners stone building window at St Bathans.

I have to admit this photo is "doctored up" as the light was so strong coming in I took two photos and then cut and paste to get this.

New York City apartment porch covered in snow during the winter snow blizzard of 2011, photo taken overnight in midtown Manhattan.

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Restricted view.

This building is in Conwy County Borough in North Wales. It was originally a stable block for a large hotel which was demolished. The stable block has subsequently been used as an employment office and then as a small factory. Although the building needs renovation it is not actually abandoned. Most of the contents of it have been removed, and it is currently awaiting new ownership and occupation.

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Located in the exclusive Melbourne suburb of Toorak, Graeme Mansion, built in 1910 by Melbourne architect P. G. Fick (18?? - 1940) is a Grande Dame of Melbourne's glittering turn-of-the-century past.

Built in elegant Art Nouveau style, Graeme Mansion, made of grey stone, is an imposing building which shuns the world beyond the high fence that protects it from the noise of busy Williams Road which it faces onto, and the railway line which it is situated next to. The mansion's name plaque is situated above the front door, below a fan window, and two sets of bay windows with Art Nouveau stained glass panels feature to either side of the front door.

Graeme Mansion was built for and named by Ballarat born physician Dr. Francis Armand Nyulasy (1862 - 1934). Sadly, Dr. Nyulasy married late in life and had no children, so his beloved home fell into disrepair and was neglected for a long time. Today it has a new lease of life and a new name, "Toorak Manor", as a quality boutique hotel as such a building at such an address deserves to be.

P. G. Fick also designed the All Saints Anglican Church, hall and vicarage on Chapel Street, East St Kilda in 1908.

The £600,000 Gable end restoration at Preston Railway Station, part of the Great North Rail Project

KMZ Iskra 2.

Russian rangefinder folder 1961~1964

Remember the screw from picture (02) ?

Here you can see that it used to push against the windowframe of the rangefinder (red arrow). Makes no sense !

The green arrow points to a post which is used to fasten both rangefinder and Topcover.

There is a difference with that of the Iskra 1. See here :

www.flickr.com/photos/29504544@N08/3040825613/in/set-7215...

© James Dyas Davidson.

Used as an absorbent of nitroglycerin in the manufacture of dynamite. There is a particular kind of moss growing in the Black Moss which was apparently used to line trenches during the First World War. This corrugated iron house was built to house the people who harvested the moss and prepared it for shipment to France and Flanders. Its curious name looks vaguely German-like, and it may have been prisoners of war who were obliged to live and work here.

Kieselgur is the German name of a natural substance, diatomaceous earth, which is used in filtration, and which was once used in making dynamite. Deposits of so-called 'white peat' on Black Moss were worked in the 19th century. In 1885, 200 tons from each of Black Moss and Ordie Moss nearby were extracted. Six tons of 'white peat' yielded one ton of Kieselgur when dried and it was used in the manufacture of dynamite, paint and other commodities. Diatomite was extracted until the end of WW1. There are still substantial deposits left, but the area is now part of the Muir of Dinnet National Nature Reserve, and the only market for it now is cat litter! (Thanks to Dr Peter Craig for a copy of his article on the subject.)

On the corner of busy Williams Road and quiet Rathmines Street in the exclusive Melbourne suburb of Toorak stand the "Park Manor" flat complex.

These wonderful Streamline Moderne brown brick flats with rounded porches and balconies, horizontally styled balustrades and Functionalist windowframes achieve the refreshingly sleek style that was popular worldwide in the mid to late 1930s. Unlike many Art Deco buildings which focussed on a vertical emphasis, Streamline Moderne buildings often featured horizontal emphasis. "Park Manor" does this through its semi circular design around the flat's central driveway, the horizontal windows along the wide expanses of bricks and the porches and balconies that extend from the centralised trapezoid tower.

As when they were built, these spacious flats are for the well-heeled citizens of Melbourne, and they are exceptionally well maintained.

Suzdal, Vladimirskaja oblast, Russia.

The museum of Wooden Architecture, 5th August 2008.

Суздал, Владимирская область.

Музей деревянного зодчесетва.

A man would say, " leave me a message"

and,

A woman would say, " I can't. it's a secret."

Interesting shapes of abandoned window frames

Architest: Chiharu Shiota

Year: 2010

Peering out from the broken shards of glass hanging on to a splintered window frame in the old control room, this view looks out across the width of Pyestock facility's turbine hall. Notice the impressive vertical windows on the opposite wall, which cover the building's whole eastern face and gleam marvellously with light under the right conditions. You can also make out the vertical silhouettes of huge exhaust chimneys outside, which are connected to the compressors here within the hall.

Windows in derelict building at Tokomaru Bay.

Washburne Trade School. Chicago, Illinois

Near Renfrew in Ontario, Canada, there is a ghost town named Balaclava. It use to be a saw-mill town. We decided to visit the place and take a few shots. I got myself shooting mostly windows and old wood and paint textures.

Unfortunately, one of the buildings has a sign on it saying that a permit was requested to destroy the general store building to transform it into a commercial lot.

Most of the shots got re-worked with Topaz Adjust 3 to enhance the colors and contrast.

Enjoy,

Taken out of our hotel window in Paris whilst on holidays in 2004.

Museu Ferroviário - Jundiaí

Now, if I'd have had any sense, I'd have taken one from SE Wing too. But of course, I didn't.

I also wasn't quite able to avoid reflections on the secondary glazing, but haven't tried to lose it...

Located in the exclusive Melbourne suburb of Toorak, Graeme Mansion, built in 1910 by Melbourne architect P. G. Fick (18?? - 1940) is a Grande Dame of Melbourne's glittering turn-of-the-century past.

Built in elegant Art Nouveau style, Graeme Mansion, made of grey stone, is an imposing building which shuns the world beyond the high fence that protects it from the noise of busy Williams Road which it faces onto, and the railway line which it is situated next to. The mansion's name plaque is situated above the front door, below a fan window, and two sets of bay windows with Art Nouveau stained glass panels feature to either side of the front door.

Graeme Mansion was built for and named by Ballarat born physician Dr. Francis Armand Nyulasy (1862 - 1934). Sadly, Dr. Nyulasy married late in life and had no children, so his beloved home fell into disrepair and was neglected for a long time. Today it has a new lease of life and a new name, "Toorak Manor", as a quality boutique hotel as such a building at such an address deserves to be.

P. G. Fick also designed the All Saints Anglican Church, hall and vicarage on Chapel Street, East St Kilda in 1908.

Vintage Christmas Card

York Restoration Corporation building restoration example of an anodized aluminum window frame + window. These higher-technology window setups are amazing. When you replace your windows, the difference between before and after is simply astounding! If you're short on cash, try replacing the windows out of one of the rooms in your home, preferably, the one you spend the most time in (or the one that gets the most noise from outside.) You'll soon start saving for more new windows. Check out other tips from yorkrestoration.com/blog

Something special came today, but it wasn't a Rubik's cube...

Spotted this old window frame at the Hampton Arts and Crafts Festival on Mother's Day and immediately thought of the New Scavenger Hunt! :-)

scavenger25: Something that has been re-purposed (eg a tyre made into a swing, a wheelbarrow with flowers

Architect: atelier PRO (Leon Thier and René Souverijn / Sandra Koetzle)

Restoration and renovation of the most prestigious building of oldest University of The Netherlands: the Academy building Leiden.

Photo: Jannes Linders

More information:

www.atelierpro.nl/en/projects/20/8

www.atelierpro.nl/nl/projects/21/academiegebouw-universit...

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Built between 1908 and 1912 to house workers in the backyard of their place of employment – the large smoke-churning Wieczorek (formerly ‘Giesche’) coal mine – the enclosed residential complex of Nikiszowiec is composed of six compact four-sided three-storey blocks with inner courtyards. Distinguished by its uniformity of style – red brick buildings accented with red-painted windowframing, and narrow streets joined by handsome arcades – the neighbourhood was designed by Georg and Emil Zillman of Berlin-Charlottenburg to be a completely self-sufficient community for 1,000 workers with a school, hospital, police station, post office, swimming pool, bakery and church. Thanks to WWI and the subsequent Silesian Uprisings – during which time Nikiszowiec saw fierce fighting, and was afterwards incorporated into Poland – St. Anne’s Church (Pl. Wyzwolenia 21) wasn’t able to be finished until 1927, but became the crowning glory of the neighbourhood as soon as it was. A welcome diversion from the smokestacks dominating the roofline of the district’s other side, this magnificent building incorporates Baroque design with two belltowers and a timepieced steeple, while blending into its surroundings without any of the ghastly and gratuitous exterior decoration associated with the style; make sure you take a stroll down ul. Św. Anny for the most photogenic views. If you’re lucky enough to get inside, take notice of the amazing 5,350 pipe organ and highly ornate Zillman chandelier. Though it would ironically seem be a socialist planners’ wet dream, Nikiszowiec actually makes a happy, handsome departure from the communist botch-job of downtown Katowice and has become a prized location for amateur photographers and budding filmmakers due to the fact that it has remained virtually unchanged since the Second World War. City marketers have also recognised the district’s uniqueness with increasing efforts to draw tourist attention to the area and a campaign afoot to fasten Nikiszowiec to the UNESCO Heritage List.

Window in old brick and mortar wall

The living area on the upper level with ?Barcelona? chairs by Mies van der Rohe (Knoll International), the lamp ?Arco? by Achille Castiglioni (Flos), a plain white sofa (Ikea) and tables designed by the architect. The metal bar was custom made.

A nostalgic display of three vintage Christmas blow mold figures, including a snowman and two Santa Clauses, seen through a dusty window of a brick building in Montreal.

Chestnut window frames with shutters, installed in the almacen, Riocaliente, Asturias, Spain