The smoke stack at the Old Joliet Prison reminds me of that a bit. We were even commenting about it while we were there last weekend.

Friend: "What album does that remind you of?"

Me: "Animals, of course."

https://i.imgur.com/lBydJa2.jpg?1

https://i.imgur.com/oRNgfzj.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joliet...ctional_Center

That bulge towards the top is deterioration and there are bricks that fall every now and then, so they've closed off the area around below it somewhat. Other structures are failing as well. The roof of the west administration building on the property has collapsed, and the cost of renovation is over $1M. The east facing façade of it is bowing outward and ready to fall, but if they get funding and do manage to fix it before it falls it'll save them from having to bull doze the entire thing. I met the structural engineer in charge of renovation while I was there last weekend. Great guy.

https://i.imgur.com/si6hzGc.png?1

You can see the damage through the windows of the top two floors. When we first started doing events there 2 years ago, quite a few of the players were up on those floors exploring when they weren't supposed to be. They had it fenced off for a reason.

We're talking about having the course open for an entire week next year, where people buy one-week passes, which will allow more people to be able to experience being within the confines of this awesome piece of history. I just hope they can manage to get the funding to keep it safe. We're helping with our events, but it's a drop in the bucket.

http://i.imgur.com/ad4tRMp.png?1

Nice pictures and a worthy cause, Plankton; not just the cash raised, but that more people realize that they have an attractive local amenity.
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The ex-penitentiary of the city I live in now has been converted into government offices. With a wide pedestrianized street and a park opposite (out of sight to the photographer's right) it makes for a pleasant corner of the city.
https://live.staticflickr.com/7299/2...475ec8c9_b.jpg

Meanwhile, in London, two views of a working prison:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...wfPSg&usqp=CAU.....https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...ts-xw&usqp=CAU

Fancy entrance, but this is a special kind of grim that London is good at: the cold Victorian-built institution; in this case, it's Wormwood Scrubs, whose very name strikes a foreboding chill in the heart....

That London one conjures up images of medieval guards and the like. Off with their heads! lol

That's an impressive, disciplined example of how to do classic! It's the Lincoln Memorial, isn't it?

Thanks for the extra photos -this one particularly shows that it's much bigger than I thought too. I always thought the Lincoln Statue was just a shelf ornament ;)

...and the building is such a good example of the Doric Order that it reminds me of illustrations I used to pour over in pre-internet days:-

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...UIjdw&usqp=CAU....https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...8F-dA&usqp=CAU

The same way a doctor learns a zillion different words in anatomy, architecture also has a name for every bit of classical building: the volutes, the dentils, the ovolu moldings!

What's your favourite Order?
If pushed, I'd probably break the rules and do some mix and match: a Doric entablature on Ionic columns.

In fact, I just noticed that the L M is also an exercise in mix-and-match: Doric columns outside, Ionic columns inside:-

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...RwAQQ&usqp=CAU

Some good info Lisna. I've never gotten that far into those terms and styles. I did happen to visit that very same monument in 1976 though. A family trip to our nations capital during the bicentennial year.

We visited quite a few notable places there during that trip, but the most vivid memory of it was getting lost and separated from my family. My brother and me were told to run ahead to catch the tour bus for the White House, and I got on the wrong one. I ended up sitting in a park watching someone sing and play guitar when a few secret service men came up to me and asked me my name. Boom! They swarmed me and escorted me to a different location where I met up with my hysterical Mom. We were cleared and went on with the rest of our trip, but the shock waves from that day resonated for years to come.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...outh_sides.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House

Music has a bewildering number of genres and subgenres, and if anything, architecture has even more. Why? Because on top of all the historical and stylistic variations that music and architecture have, with buildings there is the additional factor: availability of local building materials.

Two buildings of local stone in Dundee, Scotland:-

https://www.dundee.com/sites/default...?itok=PFX-bizD

The McManus Gallery, a Scottish Gothic Revival art gallery and public library, opened in 1895.

https://www.youssoufobe.com/blog_ima...5652045887.jpg
The Morgan Academy, a Scottish Baronial Revival boarding school, opened in 1866.

Thanks Mindfulness!

Your photo of the inside of a dome was impressive, with its geometry and perspective. I even worked out where it was from:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c8/b6...e4d29b1ecb.jpg

Not so different in style, here are some perfectly detailed Corinthian columns for you: tightly packed in two rows, supporting the front of the Supreme Court building:

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/supr...o-41702124.jpg

A Tale of Two Cities:

Maybe it's my mood, but these two places both seem to have a sad beauty about them. Why not spend 5 mins in each place?



In Detroit, it's the photos and circumstances of abandonment.



In Shaftesbury, it's the music, first of Dvorak, then of Vaughan Williams, and a nostalgia for an England that once was.