Tag: building
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The Union Building
Built in that distinctive Art Deco style, this building started life in the early 1930s as a hotel. Nowadays it functions as an (admittedly cool looking) office block.
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Is that Gringotts?
This building, the CEC Palace in Old Town, Bucharest is the site of the first bank in Romania. Looks a lot like the wizarding bank, Gringotts, to me.
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The Man on the Roof
Another newly edited image, please forgive me whilst I re-find my feet with all this photography stuff. Partly due to the Covid pandemic and partly due to quite a few life changes over the last 5 months, I have been a little busy and unable to work through my photography archive (I haven’t actually taken…
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Bits of Building
If you look up in just the right spot, you can see these two buildings pointing up into the sky, in Malta.
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The Chinese Theatre
If you know anything about Hollywood history, you’ll have heard of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. The theatre opened in 1927, showing Cecil B. DeMille’s The King of Kings. 50 years later, the premier of Star Wars happened here, in the summer of 1977.
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Roof Top
There was something about the light, and the shapes in this image that I really liked. It feels a bit like a painting. Well, I think it does anyway… enjoy! This particular rooftop stands on the edge of Trafalgar square, and in researching this area of London I discovered that the site upon which the…
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Jumeirah Beach Residence
These tall, sandy coloured skyscrapers can be found in the JBR region of Dubai. There are something like 6917 apartments in the area. The JBR region of Dubai started construction in 2002 and completed in 2010, at an approximate cost of 6-billion dirham (or over 1-billion pounds sterling!)
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London Shaped
When you close your eyes and think of London, of the shape of the city, the architecture… do you visualise St Paul’s? I do. What did this image teach me? This photo was taken several years ago, and I would like to go back and try this again, perhaps with more going on in the…
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The Sand Coloured Skyscrapers
These tall buildings can be found in the JBR region of Dubai. What did this image teach me? I am a fan of lens flare, though I know lots of people are not.