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5. The Littlefield House outside of the Univ. of Texas at Austin (© 2007 (CC) Larry D. Moore)  Oh that place is fantastic. I've seen it before but not in such a great picture.. |
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5. The Littlefield House outside of the Univ. of Texas at Austin (© 2007 (CC) Larry D. Moore) Oh that place is fantastic. I've seen it before but not in such a great picture.. Yes, I've used that picture several times (desktop background for my steamed laptop). The building has passed through several hands including a sorority, fraternity and now it's used as an office  Although I believe the place is well maintained by the university. Note the red hand-carved limestone blocks mixed with fired brick (a type of coral-limestone which is almost extinct now in favour of yellow limestone in Texas -a consequence of marine transgressive-regressive cycles during the Phanerozoic, Cenozoic and Paleozoic eras). Lieutenant George Washington Littlefield was an important financial contributor when the university was founded in 1883, and being a former Confederate soldier he had a reputation for being eccentric. Legend has it that he made his servants illuminate the garden at night from the second balcony for fears of a new Yankee invasion  He instituted the rule that all main entrances to college buildings and statues should face the south!!! The rule was rescinded later in the 20th. C. but as a result we have a lot of South-facing entrances at the university!! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Littlefield_house_2007.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Littlefield |
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I really love the sense of drama and occassion the Victorians and Edwardians managed to design into the spaces inside their buildings; their use of double height spaces, wide arch spans, rich materials, elaborate carvings harking back to an earlier age.... something that today tends to be costed out by jobsworth accountants at the 'sketch' stage of the design.
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« Reply #83 on: July 27, 2012, 04:48:42 am » |
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Here is Sydney there are plenty of great old buildings but one of my favourite locations is the Glebe Tram Sheds. It's where old trolleys went to die after motoring lobby groups brought an end to the light rail network. It's a popular haunt for the homeless and the artistic.  It's a great fusion of old and new and is a favourite location of edgy photographers...  |
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And while I'm on a roll.... The old Galdesville Pychiatric Hospital down the street from me boasts some fantastic old Victorian ruins amid still functioning sandstone buildings. The old garden folly is beautifully overgrown these days. It looks like a ruined church and boasts a small arched stone door cut into the rock wall at the rear... I'll get some pix of my own down there one day soon.  There's also an old ruined stair in the bush that leads to nowhere... This is the only pic I could find but it's beautiful and very spooky!  |
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I have decided since I have exhausted efforts in buildings, to begin adding features and objects I would find in a steampunk city. I invite anyone to add anything they please, as long as it is appropriate.
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These should be included in the collection I think: 1. The "Cathedral" from one of the most steampunk movies made the 1995: "The city of the lost children" by Jeunet & Caro (if you have not got the dvd already go and get it). In 2005 this piece of the set apparently still stood on the backlot of the Pathé Joinville Studios in France:  The Neverwas Haul which qualifies as both a house and a vehicle:  |
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Hmm… D'you suppose that Cathedral set could be disassembled and moved?  |
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The Leverkusen Institute of Paleocybernetics is 5838 km from Reading
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That is one odd-looking oriel window.... I do like it though *steals idea for own portfolio*
As an architect of -- what would you call your style? -- you might enjoy James Gurney's website. He illustrated 'Dinotopia,' which has the amazing Waterfall City in it, and he travels the world sketching arches and unique corners of buildings. He reports that there are plaster models of many such features in museums around the world which have outlived the structures themselves. He incorporates these ideas in his paintings. A really appealing style called Imaginative Realism which looks a lot like your drawings of concepts. Dinotopia 'First Flight' includes a lot of machinery that looks like ultimate Steampunk to me. |
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