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"DAWN OF DETROIT" A limited edition photograph in which I had the pleasure of taking. Shows the morning light of a hardworking city center and the beaten pavement that has been well traveled by people making Detroit happen day after day.
In the Badaguan area, more than 200 villas of exotic style are scattered among the lush old-growth flora. There are so many villas that the scenic spot is considered a World Architecture Museum. Criss-crossing the scenic area are ten roads built in 1931 and lined with many varieties of trees including peaches, crabapples, pine trees and ginkgo. Eight of the roads are named after the eight great passes of the Great Wall, hence the name Badaguan.
LA is easily one of the most diverse cities in the world architecturally, geographically, culturally, politically, and economically.
Oslo Opera House (2003-7). Striking building designed by international architecture firm Snøhetta following a competition. Winner of the culture award at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona (2008) and the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (2009).
Tourist info: www.visitnorway.com/places-to-go/eastern-norway/oslo/oslo...
Opera house programme: operaen.no/en/
Unusual extended Mansard tower roof.
a copy of the less common Jerkin-head Roof.
The origin of the design dates to medieval times, but was revived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when “Old World” architecture regained popularity. The origin of the name “jerkinhead” is even more unique than the style. While “head” refers to the top, “jerkin” is a reference to a 16th-century medieval sleeveless jacket that was worn as an outer garment by men. The cut-off sleeve concept was then transposed to the gables being cut off, resulting in the “jerkinhead” term.
I photographed this 3XN designed building for the Blue Planet Aquarium. This building won the world architecture festival last year, and its easy to see why. more of my work can be viewed at www.joshuadoolphotography.com
The floor is paved with colored tiles, while the walls are covered 5 ft. (1.5 m) up from the ground with blue and yellow tiles with a border above and below.
The Alhambra tiles are remarkable in that they contain nearly all, if not all, of the seventeen mathematically possible wallpaper groups. This is a unique accomplishment in world architecture. M. C. Escher's visit in 1922 and study of the Moorish use of symmetries in the Alhambra tiles inspired his subsequent work on tessellation, which he called "regular divisions of the plane". Palacio de los Leones (Palace of the Lions).
Alhambra. Granada, Spain. 2015