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Architectural and Art Photography 🎦

[Totalvista @Totalvista]

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[Architecture Hub @archpng]

This ceiling was carved from stone more than 500 years ago.

Built between 1503 and 1509 as Henry VII’s royal mausoleum, the Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey is crowned by extraordinary pendant fan vaulting—stone ribs, pendants and tracery arranged like suspended lace.

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[Knowledge of London @Knowledgepoint]

The skinny blue property on Goldhawk Road in Shepherd's Bush is said to be the narrowest house in London. Built in the 1870s and formerly a hat shop, this townhouse is just 5.5 feet wide.

[createstreets @createstreets]

Nothing NEEDS to be ugly. We do it to ourselves

[Totalvista @Totalvista]

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
- Gary Snyder.

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

South facing windows should be tall, recessed into thick walls, opening to room with tall ceilings and equipped outside with retractable awnings. This gives us the best possible window designs for both winter and summer. Window height allows for low winter sun to heat room effectively, while awnings block high summer sun from reaching inside. Tall ceiling means warm summer air can raise above the occupants and makes ceiling fans effective. Thick walls keep heat out during day and radiates inside at night, and make windows even better at doing their jobs in both summer and winter. The best windows can be opened by section to fine tune natural ventilation. In larger buildings all internal doors or rooms should have transom windows to allow maximum cross ventilation. An apartment or home built like this will be habitable even during the worst heat waves and off grid.

[Totalvista @Totalvista]

“I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.”
- Elizabeth Gilbert.

[createstreets @createstreets]

Happy semi-quincentennial to our dear American friends. Our friendly advice - Create Row Homes and Town Houses ! Do it beautifully and...

[Totalvista @Totalvista]

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls”
― Ted Grant.

[Nicholas Boys Smith @boys_nicholas]

Train shed. Porch. Mobility storing. Air duct. No function NEEDS to be ugly. We just stopped caring.

[createstreets @createstreets]

What is the worst, most street-unfriendly building you know? Here’s our nomination, a strongly anti-social, place-hating, over-scaled, under-detailed loveless lump, joyless & playless, the logical endpoint of functionalist & “honest” traffic-modernism.

[Nicholas Boys Smith @boys_nicholas]

Form should follow ambition not function. Not even a garage NEEDS to be ugly.

[Lost London @Lost___London]

Shepherds Bush Market, London, UK 1960s.

[Totalvista @Totalvista]

London 'cauldron': Oxford Street and Regent Street hit 56C amid record heatwave - The Standard https://t.co/SOa9hDiemj

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

“My father observed that most buildings, and most buildings that we truly love, are not the work of architects. The agreeable settledness of the old English town, he reasoned, was the work of local craftsmen…”

—Sir Roger Scruton

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

For a time the smallest shop in London was in Soho (1910).

Occupied by a Cobbler it was 6ft long, 5ft high, 2ft deep and the rent was £3 a week.

[Bobbie @bo66ie29]

The Newsagent at Frith Street in Soho, London. The top photo was taken 70 years ago on 14th June 1956. Same corner, but what a difference.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

THE LONDON NOBODY KNOWS (1967)

If you’re a JAMES MASON fan and if the history of London fascinates you you’ll love this.
Here he is visiting the scene of a Jack The Ripper murder…

[Knowledge of London @Knowledgepoint]

In the BBC series Sherlock, the exterior for 221B Baker Street is actually filmed at 187 North Gower Street in Bloomsbury, London. The real-life building features Speedy's Sandwich Bar and Cafe on the ground floor, which often serves as a backdrop when Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson leave their flat.

Production chose this location—located about a mile east of the actual Baker Street—because the real Baker Street had too much modern Sherlock signage and traffic.

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[createstreets @createstreets]

Euston today. Treating humans like ants.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

Two of London’s most iconic neon signs shining as brightly 60yrs ago as they do today.

BAR ITALIA & RONNIE SCOTT’S - Soho (1966)