Lisnaholic

Two more buildings by Sir GGS. One of them shows an elegant solution to the design problem: in an urban setting, how can you disipate huge quantities of unwanted hot air safely? The other building is a power station.

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Plankton

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://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.



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.

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Lisnaholic

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.


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

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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....

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Plankton

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

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Lisnaholic

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

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Mindy

I agree sir.

Really impressive the size and everything that had to go into creating it.




It's bigger than I thought also.

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Lisnaholic

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:-

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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:-

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Plankton

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

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