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Showing posts with label curtain wall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label curtain wall. Show all posts
Sunday, November 16, 2014

Glass curtain wall reflections

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click photo to enlarge It's almost become a reflex action, a tic that I can't stop. I pass a tall office block or other large bui...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Is grey the new magnolia?

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click photo to enlarge I ask the question posed in the title not because I'm some sort of fashion sage or guru, or an arbiter of tast...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Inequality

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click photo to enlarge Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) , a man who was on two occasions the prime minister of Great Britain, once said, ...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Autumn in London

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click photo to enlarge When I engaged in paid, daily work I always regretted that I didn't have the time to watch the seasons change ...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Price, value and Oscar Wilde

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click photo to enlarge "Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." (from "The Picture of Dori...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Double the value

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click photo to enlarge In one of my early posts - in March 2006 as it happens - I extolled the advantages of a west-facing coast. I happ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Into the city canyons

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click photo to enlarge The other day I ventured into the canyons of the city of Peterborough. All large cities have these places, precinc...
Friday, December 07, 2012

Staring at stairs

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click photo to enlarge When I looked in my edition of the Oxford English Dictionary I initially couldn't find the word "stairwel...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Reflecting on Holy Trinity, Hull

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click photo to enlarge The advent of the world wide web opened up so many avenues and repositories of information on such a wide variet...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Getting the best photograph

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click photo to enlarge One of the joys of digital photography is the ease and lack of extra expense involved in taking multiple shots of...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Curtain walls and coincidences

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click photo to enlarge It would be great to believe that the modern world had done with the concept of "good luck", that the s...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Grids and reflections

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click photo to enlarge What I consider to be one of my better photographs shows a regular grid of glazing bars holding tinted glass tha...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Blue glass and anonymity

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click photo to enlarge There's quite a lot to dislike about the building in today's photograph. It is faceless, it tells us nothing ...
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Towers of power

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click photo to enlarge Some architectural historians would have us believe that the first building with a glass curtain wall was Oriel Cham...
Friday, May 16, 2008

Reflecting the world

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click photo to enlarge I don't know the first architect who used mirror glass in a curtain wall, but I imagine he felt pretty pleased wi...