Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts

Sunday, 14 April 2013

Black n white...mostly

 Daylesford. What do you call these things that sit at the top of columns?


 Here's some more in Bendigo 


 And some more


 Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo


 Lamp post in front of Bendigo court house


Sacred Heart Cathedral again 




Tuesday, 15 June 2010

Girl in New York: beautiful buildings #2



View across Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir


A closer view of the two towers on the right above


I think this was Fifth Avenue near the Guggenheim


Fifth Avenue again. Ukrainian embassy perhaps?


Behind the Museum of Modern Art

Awesome building on Broadway, no idea what it is


A closer view


The Southern end of Central Park


Forget where this was....maybe Central Park West

Monday, 14 June 2010

Girl in New York: beautiful buildings #1



A section of the McGraw Rotunda at the New York Public Library


The Rose Main Reading Room of the NYPL


Bryant Park Hotel




The Flatiron Building


I think this is City Hall


The Chrysler Building


Close up of the Chrysler Building

Sunday, 6 June 2010

Girl in New York: the Empire State Building

Views from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, and one from the Top of the Rock.

The beautiful Chrysler Building


The habour and Statue of Liberty


Hudson River on the left and a bit of Central Park at right





I don't know what this building is, but I love it. You can see it in the photo above, middle left.


The Flatiron Building on the left and Fifth Avenue


The Chrysler Building (far left) and Empire State Building (far right) from the Top of the Rock Observation Deck at the Rockefeller Centre...Not a very sharp photo thanks to two Long Island iced teas

Sunday, 21 March 2010

Open wide...

Come inside...it's Parliament House.

The ornate ceiling of the Upper House (Legislative Council)



Ceiling detail


Old law-type books


A gargoyle statue thing in the Parliament House garden

Thursday, 4 February 2010

If this isn't...

...the most beautiful bank in Melbourne today, I'd like to see what is. It's the ANZ Bank on the corner of Queen and Collins Streets. Beautiful inside....


and out.

Monday, 8 June 2009

Century Building

Corner Swanston and Little Collins Streets

Friday, 24 April 2009

Saturday, 11 April 2009

Monday, 16 February 2009

Stone heart

Old warehouses backing onto Guildford Lane, in the middle of the city

Tuesday, 20 January 2009

A Melbourne jewel

Nicholas Building, Swanston Street
 
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