Tag: Building

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Pictures without words

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Occasionally on this blog I will post a photograph without saying anything about it. I could try and bluff my way through this and claim that “the picture speaks for itself“, or something similar, but that would be – pardon my French – bullshit.

What it actually means is, usually, one of two things:

  1. I have writer’s block and can’t think of anything to say.
  2. I don’t have time to write anything.

Option 2 is the usual culprit. I’ve either been doing something that has kept me from the computer, or I’ve been doing something else on the computer (or PlayStation…) and the time has gotten away from me. Either way, the result is the same, a picture without words.

Today was going to be a similar thing, but then I wrote this.

So here’s a picture that has words, they’re just not connected to its contents whatsoever…

Across the road in front of the trees

Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°

Taken on 24 March 2024

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Bridgewater Place – a windy Dalek

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Two views of Bridgewater Place, a residential and office building in Leeds, UK.

It stands beside the River Aire, alongside which I was walking on the day of my visit. The 32-story building was completed in 2007 and within a month of its opening had been nicknamed “The Dalek” after the race of fascistic aliens made famous by the Doctor Who TV show (because of the building’s shape, not because it contains fascists).

Bridgewater Place

While crossing the road in front of the building I noticed some strange metal structures by it’s side. I didn’t pay these any heed, thinking they were perhaps some sort of architectural flourish. It was later that I discovered that they are actually wind baffles. You see, it was found that when the building was completed it was causing a significant wind microclimate with gusts being recorded comparable to hurricane speeds when the wind was blowing from the west.

These gusts resulted in a number of injuries and accidents, including a woman suffering a torn liver when being thrown into a wall, a pushchair containing a child being blown into the road, someone being lifted off their feet and deposited across the street, and most seriously, a man being killed when the wind caused a lorry to overturn on him.

As a result, a wind mitigation scheme was put in place, with various structural changes being implemented, as well as a re-routing of high-sided traffic on occasions when the wind speed was high. Although the architects were found not liable for the death of the pedestrian, they were made to pay over a million pounds to the council to cover the cost of the traffic measures that had to be put in place.

One of the wind baffles is just visible in the bottom right of the first image and there are warning signs next to the building telling of danger from gusts of wind.

Backlit Bridgewater Place

Olympus OM-1N, G-Zuiko AUTO-W 28mm f/3.5 & Ilford FP4+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 10mins.

Taken 14 October 2023.

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Like somewhere Buzz Lightyear might live

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The building you can see in the two photos here today stood out in Lido di Jesolo by dint of its height when compared with most other structures. It has a distinctly futuristic look, like a retro rocket launch pad or something. I think it’s an apartment building though.

It will turn up in the background of a least one of the pictures to come in the next few days.

Lowrise - Highrise
White stripes

Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 6 May 2023.

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Living on stilts

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This interesting building sits atop the EuroSpar supermarket in Lido di Jesolo. It was pointed out to me that it was designed by Stefano Pujatti of ELASTICOFarm. This doesn’t mean much to me being somewhat unfamiliar with the world of modern architecture, but I was happy to see more pictures of the structure and find out more about it via this link: https://www.elasticofarm.com/architecture/le-batiment-descendant-lescalier/

I had no idea that the swimming pool was there on the occasions we visited the supermarket!

Above the EuroSpar

Olympus Trip 35 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 5 May 2023.

4x5 Large Format · Film photography · Photography

The old school

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Being eager to shoot more pictures with my 4×5 camera I visited this old school which I had passed by before.

Previously it was looking run down and somewhat bedraggled but, in the interim, it has been renovated and turned into homes (or maybe one big, fancy home). While this re-purposing of the old structure is good, from a photographic standpoint it doesn’t look half as interesting as it did before. Still, having driven up there I decided to make the shot anyway.

The old school

Chroma 4×5. Fujinon NW 135mm f/5.6 & Fomapan 100. Fomadon R09 1+50 9 mins @ 20°

Taken February 2023. (I can’t remember the specific date. I normally look at my Google Timeline to check such things but remember that I forgot to take my phone out with me on this occasion so it didn’t record the trip).

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Office space rainbow

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On the morning I took this, I’d hoped for clear skies and an autumnal golden-hour, but this was somewhat scuppered by a fast approaching band of rain. But because the wet weather was approaching from the west, it made for an attractive rainbow, and the front of this otherwise mundane office building was thus transformed.

Office space rainbow

Fujica GW690 & Kodak Portra 400. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 15 October 2022.