(Not all toots are endorsements, just observations! Some things work great, some things are probably not)
‘Dementia murals’ in the Stirling Road / Mei Ling St estate. This neighborhood is very ‘old’ and there is a project to create murals with items that older people will know (like this one is of traditional games). It’s called ‘dementia wayfinding’ murals.
Saint Andrew's Parish Church in the east end of Glasgow. Designed by timber and lead merchant Alan Dreghorn and built in 1739, it's based on James Gibb's Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, which was built in 1722. This was the first large scale classical church in Scotland.
Paid a visit to Place-des-Arts yesterday, and it strikes me how whilst the surrounding area is now looking super modern giving me Tokyo vibes, the arts venue itself has some brutalist design going on. It reminds me a lot of a mini version of the Barbican Centre in London. #Montreal#architecture
The internet has decided — again — that Chris Pratt is the worst Chris, after reports that he and his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, demolished a 74-year-old house by modernist architect Craig Ellwood in order to build a 15,000-square-foot residence. "They also tore up all of modernist legend Garrett Eckbo's original landscaping, effectively turning the nearly one-acre lot into one flat slab," reports Dwell. Here's the full story, including images of the house. To sprinkle some positivity on your day, we want to know, who is Hollywood's best Chris? Tell us in the comments if you're rejecting these options in favor of Rock, Guest, Walken, or some other Chris.
Glasgow is famous for architecture and music, so for a bit of Christmas Eve fun, I've combined the two. These are nine Glasgow locations name-checked in songs by well-known artists or groups. Can you name all nine locations and songs?
There's no prize on offer, just the opportunity to show off your knowledge of the city.
Feel free to post your answers below. There's bonus points on offer if you come up with different songs for these locations to the ones I did.
One of five portrait roundels on the Glasgow Stock Exchange building on Buchanan Street.
Attributed to John Mossman, it depicts a woman doing science, something unremarkable today, but when it was built in the 1870s, science was an almost completely male field of study. I can't say for certain, but it must be one of the earliest public representations of a female scientist.
I seem to have got my eye in recently for spotting gorgeous examples of tenement tiles as I wander around Glasgow. These come from a close in Broomhill in the west if the city.
Cold climate zone buildings are often orientated to the sun. In the northern hemisphere, maximum solar gain comes from the south, and in the southern hemisphere, it comes from the north. Instead of saying north or south facing, our language can become more global if we use the terms equatorial facing, or polar facing. #architecture#PassiveHouse
James Salmon Junior's 1900 Art Nouveau British Linen Bank building is one of the last traditional Glasgow tenements left standing in the Gorbals area of the city. Many tenements were cleared in the 1960s and 1970s to be replaced by high rise flats, which themselves are now being replaced by low rise buildings, like the ones in the bakcground of this photograph. These are effectively modern versions of those original tenements.
Palais de justice historique à #Lyon, dit aussi palais des 24 #colonnes.
Construit entre 1835 et 1847 par Louis-Pierre #Baltard, il abrite un décor classé #MonumentHistorique
Les merveilleux albums de #plans sont conservés aux #Archives du département du #Rhône et de la #Métropole de Lyon, où j'ai eu la chance de les étudier lors de la #rénovation du palais.
Mai 2023
J'ai commencé à me poser une question par rapport à la photo de l'église d'Oddi que j'ai postée hier. Peut-on vraiment dire de celle-ci, ainsi que de la Krýsuvíkurkirkja, qu'il s'agit d'une église et non d'une chapelle, compte tenu de leur petite taille ?
While I applaud Scottish Water for providing these new water points, it seems a major missed opportunity to create something that's not only function, but that's also beautiful and adds to the local environment where it's placed rather than just being plonked on to the streets with little thought or planning.
By far my favourite bit of architectural ironwork in Glasgow, and possibly anywhere in the world! It can be found on D.B. Dobson's 1902 Art Nouveau commercial building at 50 Darnley Street in Glasgow.
Sculpted signs on the Maryhill public baths and wash house in Glasgow (now the Glasgow Club Maryhill). They were designed by A.B. MacDonald and were opened in 1898. They included thirty-six wash-stalls, two washing machines, a sevent-fice foot long swimming pool, twenty-five private baths for men, and only six private baths for women. They proved exceedingly popular and were visited over 400,000 times in the Summer of 1938 alone.
Kelvin Court on Great Western Road in Glasgow. Designed by J.N. Fatkin in late Art Deco style and constructed in 1938, it was essentially the first luxury flat development in the city. It was also the largest residential flat development in Scotland at the time it was built.
Almost anyone who has ever tried to photograph the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona will understand what a difficult challenge it is to make sense through a camera of a building created to be impossible to apprehend even in its full three-dimensional presence?
I've never seen the light there the way it was an hour before sunset tonight. I can't capture the scale or scope of the building in full, but I'll try to post a few impressions of its details in the days to come.
The orangutan's trial has resumed and once again I'm glued to the blow-by-blow reporting by @GottaLaff. With court now in recess for lunch, it's time to post.
Taken a few weeks ago, here is a picture of one of the courtrooms at the James R. Browning Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Yes, this place is as serious as it appears here.