Comments about facade

There are 32 comments about "facade"

99¢Dreams: Hey Peter, do you live in Bushwick, or are you just often there? I ask because your post reminds me of a photo project I've contemplated, but never executed: "Bushwick Gates" I'm referring to a quintessential Bushwick......

in response to: Bushwick Portals by Peter

2less2: it's to bad that you guys haven't taken the time to see the actual truths as they relate Las Vegas and all you've managed to find fault with. first, one of the biggest reasons the......

in response to: Viva Las Vegas, Part 1 by aer suzuki

Jimmy Legs: that first boarded-up building may not be a fire victim, a lot of these old buildings get stains on their facades (in this case probably from rust from the fire escape). i mean, it coudl......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

joey: i see the croucher, too - looks like buddha. you know joey. i love reflections. great shot. you can even see the fluorescent lights through the glass facade....

in response to: Reflection by dfwtiger

Diana: Hello Dilletante, We are trying to restore the facade at the left of the photo above, at 143 Newark. Do you have any more historical photos? Or where did you find the photo of 145......

in response to: 145 Newark Ave, Jersey City by dilettante

colavitos ghost: hey man, i love this post. in my eyes it pretty accurately captures the essence of downtown cleveland. however, my understanding about the future of the cleveland trust tower doesn't quite synch up with yours.......

in response to: Jury Duty by procyon

aer suzuki: Put to death? Are you serious? Are you talking about some modern rule or an ancient one? A regular Taiwanese visitor to my photoblog had this to say about the purple wall: "i think it's a......

in response to: A Walk Through the International District by aer suzuki

joey: no chris. please check my other articles. there are many beautiful facades in {Oakland, CA}. this just happens to be a plain one. actually i 'found' this shot in the view finder. it's a zoom in......

in response to: Urban Wilderness by joey

Chris Erb: I certanly hope this isn't the most interesting facade in Oakland....

in response to: Urban Wilderness by joey

EvilGentleman: On May 3, 1999, the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Norman recorded data from the world's fastest tornado, which passed a few miles NW of here. [[http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/storms/19990503/]] Guess it's not **always** boring in these......

in response to: America's Most Boring Towns: 1 by Scott Sargent

elaine: yes, hence the 'UK' shame there was no picture of calton hill to contextualise. lemme see... yep, have a look at the building from various angles [[http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=calton+hill+edinburgh&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images]] it was designed to be a big posh statement building,......

in response to: Edinburgh Graff and Street by Cheesy Member

EvilGentleman: I have to say that is a lot of work to preserve what is in fact the facade to a discount supermaket franchise. I guess Loblaws has been doing better as of late, if they......

in response to: New Use for Urban Ruins? by CE

jeeff: there's a no frills store at dundas & lansdowne in toronto that uses the same technique with an old facade, though on a lesser scale. purely decorative. i'd like to see it covered......

in response to: New Use for Urban Ruins? by CE

EvilGentleman: Actually, you **did** get the new fine arts, or EVA (I have no idea what the acronym stands for) building. It is the one with the "hat" and the obtuse-angled facade on it's upper stories,......

in response to: Tall Buildings of Montreal by CE

Peter: so far, hands down, its "ashleys", the little hole-in-the-wall with the bright orange facade and the plastic chairs out front sitting in the wedge-shaped storefront at/near the intersection of {sterling} and {flatbush}, just up flatbush......

in response to: Bigges by Peter

EvilGentleman: The smashed windows were the least of their worries. I drove by again late this afternoon, and here is the aftermath: [[img:9654]] The appliance store was totally destroyed, and I imagine the stores on either side of......

in response to: St. Patrick\'s Fire by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Those facades must look awesome in a sunrise/sunset situation...

in response to: Old Bank by danielle

Elicar: RBC just renovated their lobby and part of its facade. There was a joke going around. They were trying to recover the gold in the windows!...

in response to: Afternoon Reflection by Elicar

Peter: those are actually from {cental park}, looking south towards the southwest entrance of the park at {columbus circle}. i can tell because i see the dual glass-towers of the {time warner center} building there, rather......

in response to: Trees and Buildings by julie

jed: This 18 footer is conveniently located on a quiet tree lined block in Central Harlem, clean façade and partily renovated all it needs to complete is boiler, floors and rear windows. Qwner will complete or......

in response to: Brownstones in Harlem by joe urb

Myke: I like old warehouses and facades. ...

in response to: The Golden Hour by Peter

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: This is almost a robot building with lots of eyes and broad shoulders. If you have a cold with the snuffles, are you allowed to lick the zinc facade? More Iowa please. (Peter, Bzzzp, Barry, Sine, GGP,......

in response to: University of Iowa Engineering Building by Hobart

Peter: awesome! i love building facades. and {iowa} is a blank slate to me, so its nice to see some photos from your city. im glad youre posting, and echo the other's comments- more {iowa}! also: the......

in response to: University of Iowa Engineering Building by Hobart

Peter: i recently passed two more facades with the same design as this {prescriptions} building, both on 5th avenue in {park slope}: [[img:7321]] [[img:7322]] ...

in response to: Prescriptions by sine

Peter: its fun to find where the patters from the molds repeat in permastone facades. especially if it sa large building. cause the molds are usually only like 6x8' at the largest, heh....

in response to: Orange Truck by GGP

Anonymous (cpe-68-173-202-245.nyc.res.rr.com): theres still totally visible bomb damage on the facade of the JPMorgan Building on Wall St from the anarchist bombing in like, 1922....

in response to: The World Trade Center Site by Peter

joey: wow. i was just thinking about the grace building the other day. the white marble building with the sloping facade. thanks for posting it....

in response to: grace in the city/4th july by elaine

kc: I like progression to the smoky revelation...and the deconstruction/fracturing at the end. It reminds me of this brownstone in Greenwich Village that got blown up, by accident if I remember correctly, in the 1970s, I......

in response to: demolition by elaine

hasslehoff: wow, there's some food for thought. just think. pleasing architecture, stylized then re-applied to the facades of more mundane structures via the medium of {spraycan science}....

in response to: More of the Gherkin Building by Al

hasslehoff: The multitudal colours of the streets facades bring back recollections of Ireland. So vibrant in the summertime....

in response to: Kids Playing on the Sidewalk by Peter

Hasslehoff: They swim through the mists of time, cutting a swathe through the filth of temporal particulates thick as quagmire as it simultaneously invigorates and permeates this common epidermis we hold so dear. They sully our......

in response to: Lascaux by vz

Peter: thanks hool; positive critique really means alot coming from someone who knows their bizness as well as you do. the cam is my new nikon n90s with digital photocoupler attached. the digi tack-on skews the f-stops......

in response to: Cloud by Peter