Day 333 – Unmeasurable
“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.” ~ Louis Kahn
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Buildings
29
Nov
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16
Nov
Day 320 – Shaper of cities
“The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. … Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost […]
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27
Oct
Day 300 – Impossible monsters
“Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters” ~ Francisco Goya And if you are curious this was taken in the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia.
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24
Oct
Day 297 – Cesspool
“London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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3
Sep
30
Jun
Day 181 – The Radcliffe Camera
“the most magnificent Structure in Oxford” ~ Thomas Salmon The Radcliffe Camera (Camera, meaning “room” in Latin; colloquially, “Rad Cam” or “The Camera”) is a building of Oxford University, England, designed by James Gibbs in […]
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29
Jun
Day 180 – Spires of Oxford
“I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky.” ~ Winifred Mary Letts These are the beautiful ancient spires of Magdalen college, Oxford
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15
Jun
Day 166 – Buckingham Palace
“It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching ‘Coronation Street.’” ~ Amelia Warner
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14
Jun
10
Jun
Day 161 – Chapel at Magdalen College
“The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it, for it would take a lifetime and more than one to comprehend […]
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