Architectural Photographs

Post by **TIGG** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:38 pm

eborr

I love the OLD buildings best of all architecture.

Post by **PrinceAlarming** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:39 pm

Undergourd housing is the way to go. Fuel efficient and protects you from fallout!!!

http://www.williamlishman.com/underground.htm

Post by **Trazúviel** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:22 pm

Reminds me of Earthship Biotecture that my husband and I looked into a few years ago. Very hobbity.

Post by **eborr** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:22 pm

Small farmhouse in Boschendal end 18th C

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:40 pm

That's just beautiful, eborr. I'd love to step into that photo.

Post by **Griffon64** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:43 pm

Oh, Cape farmlands!!!!

One of the prettiest spots in South Africa, which I can say with complete prejudice is one of the prettiest countries in the world

Post by **eborr** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:50 pm

Homesick Griff ? I was lucky enough to be there last week a

couple more

Post by **eborr** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:48 pm

You know how it is, every now and then you get the urge to leave your modern dwelling, and got to a really old building, it got to me today at about 4 pm, I wanted something really old - so I went here

I think the colour on the stones looks fantastic in the picture

Post by **truehobbit** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:09 pm

The sheer size of them comes out very well in the last one, too.

Hehe, couldn't get much older than that, I guess.

Are you within such a short distance from Stonehenge, then?

Post by **Griffon64** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:13 pm

Ooooh, loved Stonehenge when I went there. Really want to visit England again. There is a special atmosphere about it, especially out in the rural areas. An atmosphere of domestication, tameness, gentleness, kindness to humans even, that I haven't felt in the wilds of South Africa, or even America. It just feels like land that's become accustomed to humans in a way the New World hadn't

Post by **vison** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:43 pm

The South African farmhouse!! Neat. There is one about 5 miles from where I live, actually. The fellow who built it was from Holland and called it a Dutch farmhouse and while it looks much like the South African one, it is pink and grey rather than white with black trim.

The farm it is on was recently sold and I suppose some idiot will pull it down and that will be that. If I remember to take my camera, I might try a photo. But I am a truly wretched photographer.

As for Stonehenge, that is a place that I, like so many others, would like to see. It always brings Thomas Hardy to mind, of course.

Post by **eborr** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:58 pm

Folks the stonehenge is approx 1 hour drive from home, interesting comments from different perspectives Griff see's England as homely and domesticated, but for me Salisbury plain is a bit of a wilderness and the henges, including Durrington walls always give me a feeling of other worldlieness - if you just turn through 360 degrees from looking at Stonehenge the landscape is full of barrows.

Funny that Vision should mention Hardy in the context of stonehenge, many years ago I was applying for undergrad course's I went for interview at Cardiff, and met the Prof there Richard Atkinson, who was then and still is ( albeit posthumously) the greatest authority on the henge, his series of excavations gave us a pretty clear understanding of the site, in terms of the occupation layers and cultural relationships of the place, as part of the interview he enquired what were reading for A level english, and we started to talk about The Return of the Native which was one of the set books, with all the arrogance of youth, I told him that the Victorian writers said little to me, this very wise man who must have had his fill of presumptious young people, proceeded to tell me how as a boy he had been introduced to Hardy....... exit eborr thinking he had screwed the chance.Not so I later learned

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:02 am

I saw Stonehenge more than thirty years ago, when you were still allowed to walk around inside it, so I've touched it.

Those stones are immense, but it's their age that took my breath away.

And that second photo, especially, is just wonderful, eborr. I agree about the colors of the stone.

Post by **vison** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:59 am

I think it is the best picture of the Henge that I have ever seen. Every other photo I've seen, or TV image, makes the stones look smoother, more polished. That photo shows them as primitive, ancient, and, to my mind, much more impressive in every way. Thanks!

Post by **eborr** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:59 am

looking at the shots in the cold lght of day, the stones have an otherworldly quality to them, reminiscent of the CGI ruins in the Fellowship - strange

Post by **Lalaith** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:13 pm

Sigh.

Lovely!

Old building, to an American, means 1700s. You might find a few things here and there older, and there are plenty of Indian mounds around (especially here where I live), but no buildings per se.

http://www.miamisburg.org/7-9-02%20Mound%20Park2.JPG

http://www.miamisburg.org/7-9-02%20Mound%20Park16.JPG

I'm sure the Indians would appreciate us walking all over their mound and the nice park we put up around it.

(ETA: But it is better than destroying it. At least this way, it's preserved. The Serpent Mounds are about 1.5-2 hours from here. They are pretty cool, too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_Mound)

Lali

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:07 pm

And to a West Coast American, at least in the Northwest, "old" means mid-1800s. In 1850 Eugene was still called "Skinner's Mudhole" and consisted of a few log cabins.

Post by **Lalaith** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:26 pm

That's true, Prim.

Centerville (where I live) was founded in 1796 and there are buildings from that time still around. There is a historical park in Dayton with some of these buildings. I was looking for some of my own pics, but I can't find the right photo album. So here's what they have on the website:

http://www.carillonpark.org/settlementpage.html

Lali

Post by **eborr** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:34 pm

pedant mode

to put things into context- the henge component - which in fact is not the sarsen - which is the ditch and mound - sometimes called causewayed camps appears to have had two main phases, Starting out around 3500 bc with a later phase of 3000 BC, which included some woden post settings. Possibly the Aubrey holes are from this period.

The sarsen trillithons could be interpreted as coming from between 2400 and 2200, with the blue stone ring from the period 2000 - 1900 bc

What this means is that the earlier phases of stonehenge are 500 years older than the pyramids

Post by **truehobbit** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:26 pm

Didn't Hardy set the showdown in Tess at Stonehenge?

Wow, I had no idea there were over a thousand years in the making of Stonehenge.

I tend to feel that English landscape mostly has something gentle and friendly, too, although there seem to be wild places as well - I've just not been there.

I think the 'wildest' I've been to were Dartmoor and some places in Cornwall, which were ragged or forlorn and a little spooky, but in a charming more than scary way.
I think Griff has a good point that these places have all been 'used' by humans, and that this makes a difference. This may be so long ago that it becomes a bit uncanny, but at least you get a reassuring feeling that says something like: 'someone was here before me', or, a lot more comforting, 'people come here at times'.
I could imagine that the vastness of 'unused' space in other continents would just scare me.

How old are the mounds, Lali? Are they burial places?