110 to 126 Colmore Row : 無料・フリー素材/写真
110 to 126 Colmore Row / ell brown
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| 説明 | Various historic buidlings on Colmore Row. Including 110 Colmore Row, 122 - 124 Colmore Row and 126 Colmore Row.No. 126 of 1926 by S.N. Cooke for the North British and Mercantile Insurance. Cleanly articulated, with giant Ionic pilasters.From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy FosterNos. 122-124 are the former Eagle Insurance offices, by W.R. Lethaby & J.L. Ball, 1900. One of the most important monuments of the Arts and Crafts Free Style in the country. The design is essentially Lethaby's; Ball was the executant. Pevsner saw it as an early example of functionalism.Recent research has emphasized Lethaby's interest in symbolism and primitive forms, described in his Architecture, Mysticism and Myth (1892). most obvious here in the eagle, symbolizing the sun god. The structure of loa-bearing walls, concrete floors, and steel joists is expressed directly and simply in the facade. Ground floor banking hall lit by a large mullion-and-transom window carried down to the ground. The doorways have segmental hoods and three-part mouldings deriving from Buddhist temples. Glowing bronze doors with moulded discs representing the sun. Above, three floors of offices with a grid of chamfered pilasters between chunky cornices again with three-part mouldings. Over the top floor a dramatic motif of alternating round- and triangular-headed arches.Godfrey Rubens suggests a re-working of the basic round and pointed architectural shapes Ruskin identified in The Nature of Gothic; Alexandra Wedgwood noticed the primitive, Anglo-Saxon appearance of the triangular heads. Finally a parapet of two layers with a chequer design of alternating wide and narrow brick and stone panels, with more sun discs and an eagle relief in the centre.From Pesvner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy FosterIt is a Grade I listed building.1900, by Lethaby and Ball for the Eagle Insurance Company. Stone with a little brick. Four storeys; 5 bays. Ground floor with a large 5-light mullioned and transomed window and symmetrical doorways left and right with simple 2-light windows and sculptured plaques above. First, second and third floors each with uniform sash windows between pilasters. The 3rd floor windows with a frieze of Romansque derivation in their heads and alternating semi-circular and triangular pediments above. Attic storey with chequer work pattern in which are set plain blank discs and, centrally, an eagle. Original metal doors and much of the interior furnishings and fittings remain.122-124 Colmore Row - Heritage GatewayNos. 118-120 is entertaining but mongrel stucco Italianate of c. 1875.From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster118 - 120 Colmore Row is a Grade II listed building.Late C19. Stucco. Three storeys; 6 bays, the outer 2 broader and slightly advanced. Ground floor with arched entrances with flanking coupled pilasters and, centrally, 4 segment-headed windows. First and second floors with arched window except those of the 2nd floor outer bays. Coarse detailing and listed for group value only.118 - 120 Colmore Row - Heritage Gateway114 - 116 Colmore Row is a Grade II listed building.Listed as Standard House.Early C20, in an Edwardian Baroque style. Stone. Two storeys plus another 2 plus attic represented by a giant portico standing on the segmental pediments of 2 windows with heavy Gibbsian surrounds, and recessed outer bays. The ground floor with a large central arched opening with immense keystone set in banded rustication and 2 entrances, each with a circular window with garlands and a heavy balcony above.114 - 116 Colmore Row - Heritage Gateway112 Colmore Row is Grade II listed.Early C19, altered. Painted stucco. 3 storeys plus modern attic; 3 bays. Ground floor with a modern shop front. 1st and 2nd floors each with 3 sash windows later given frames, those ofthe 1st floor with pediments that project into the 2nd floor region. An apparent altered parapet. 112 Colmore Row - Heritage GatewayNo. 110 is a picturesque and original piece of 1903-4 by Henman & Cooper for the Scottish Union and National Insurance Co. Aberdeen granite, appropriately, and limestone, with inset bands of red brick. Two-storey centre with big semicircular oriel and fine original railing, clamped between three-storey towers with tapering tops, ogee caps and tall finials.From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster110 Colmore Row is a Grade II listed building.1902, by William Henman and Thomas Cooper. Granite with irregularly spaced red jointing bands. Facade and plan are alike complicated. Three bays, the outer ones like square turrets with battered sides, bobbin-like finials at the corners and shallow domes sprouting flag-staffs, the centre one with a large ground floor tripartite window and a 1st floor bow window welling out from the facade and carrying a spiky iron railing. The turrets each have a tall ground noon frame with battered sides and dentilled undulating pediments. In the frames, on the left, the entrance with window above and, on the right, a tall window. Above these, each turret has a simple sash window with detached pedimented cornice and a window set within deeply splayed reveals and behind 'mullions'. The plan with, towards the back, an almost completely circular shape to the left and an octagonal shape to the right.110 Colmore Row - Heritage Gateway |
| 撮影日 | 2009-09-12 12:12:59 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Birmingham, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.005 sec (1/200) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.4 |