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Calgary City Hall and Calgary Municipal Building (No. 2)
Calgary City Hall (often called Old City Hall or Historic City Hall), is the seat of government for Calgary City Council, located in the city's downtown core of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The historic building completed in 1911 serves as the offices for Calgary City Council, consisting of the office of the Mayor, fourteen Councillors and municipal Clerk. Calgary City Hall originally housed the municipal council and portions of administration from its completion in 1911 until the construction of the Calgary Municipal Building adjacent to Old City Hall in 1985, which currently houses the offices of 2,000 civic administrators.
Calgary City Hall is designated a National Historic Sites of Canada, as well as a Provincial Historical Resource, and Municipal Historical Resource.
Calgary City Hall was designed by architect William M. Dodd to reflect Calgary's role as the urban centre in Southern Alberta. Dodd was known partnering with Edward Collis Hopkins to design Regina City Hall (which was demolished in 1965), along with his other designs in Calgary caught the attention of Calgary City Council. Dodd designed the building to embody Richardsonian Romanesque architectural style, with a symmetrical form with an elevated main floor, and includes a single clock tower with a Seth Thomas Clock installed, heavy stone exterior walls, bands of recessed windows, a recessed main entrance, stone arches and keystones above many windows and entries carved with the City's coat-of-arms. Notable interior elements include a highly ornamental cast-iron staircase and sky-lit rotundas.
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#Calgary Municipal Building#New City Hall#800 Macleod Trail SE#Christopher Ballyn#Old City Hall#Historic City Hall#716 Macleod Trail SE#Romanesque Revival#William M. Dodd#Calgary#Alberta#Canada#summer 2024#travel#original photography#vacation#tourist attraction#landmark#cityscape#architecture#downtown#memorial to Calgary's fallen police officers and fire fighters#clock#Police Officers and Firefighters Tribute Plaza#Lantern of Light
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#basel#city hall#architectural historical#art#old building#my photography#travelling#switzerland#europe#original photographers#photographers on tumblr
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City Hall of Kyiv, Ukraine
Russian vintage postcard
#vintage#tarjeta#briefkaart#kyiv#postcard#photography#hall#postal#carte postale#ukraine#sepia#ephemera#historic#russian#ansichtskarte#postkarte#city#city hall of kyiv#postkaart#photo
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Palazzo Pubblico, Siena
Dec. 2016
#Palazzo Pubblico#15th century#siena#italy#italia#original photography#photographers on tumblr#photography#lensblr#historical architecture#architecture#travel#art history#art#fresco#fresco painting#museum#city hall#palazzo#palace#wanderingjana
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If you aren't reading KJ Charles's books I sincerely do not know what you're doing with your life.
#kj charles#the first sins of the cities book is still the only dud in her whole body of work#well as much as i've gotten through anyway#i've finished:#the society of gentlemen#the charm of magpies#(lord lucien crane should be the breakout character of a much bigger and deeper franchise. i fucking love him)#the lillywhite boys#(holy plot twists batman! DELICIOUS! SO CLEVER!)#i've also finished#an unnatural vice#which was awesome#and now halfway through#an unsuitable heir#also goddamn engrossing#next onto the will darling adventures and the art of fortune hunting series#i think she might be better than alexis hall but honestly they're too different to compare#except for his one attempt at historical romance which was absolute cringe#i just think that if you're going to write a historical romance for trans people you should actually care about the genre first#kj charles's prequel novella to the lillywhite boys was soo much better historical trans rep#and asexual rep too#i wonder whether she's written anything else trans-centric#she should because her trans side characters are so well done#so are her queer characters of colour. so unself-conscious#historical romance#queer fiction#book recs#book recommendations#knee of huss#mlm romance
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i haven't been "the new person" in a place in soooo long. this first weekend by myself was cozy and wonderful bc i am fully, 1000% exhausted. but just knowing that on future weekends i have to like...go out....and meet people....?? sounds fake!
#also men???#if it's meant to be he'll find me in city hall etc#i have historically made friends v easily#(whether they're great ones is different 🙃)#bc i am outgoing and tbh people are curious#but it's launching that's the hardest lmao#'okay now GO' but what abt my candle and blankie tho??
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1943 William Allen and W. George Lutzi, Burbank City Hall, Burbank, California. Art Deco Architecture.
National Register of Historic Places
#1943#architecture#art deco#art deco architecture#william allen#w. george lutzi#burbank city hall#burbank#historic places#california#National Register of Historic Places#allen#lutzi
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I wish I could post some of my photography from today, but it's a bit too specific so I don't wanna dox myself shkfkgkg but ahhhh man I love taking pics whenever I go to the city 🥰
#i love taking pics when im w other people#cause theres a group mentality w taking pics yknow?#<- like if you see someone take a pic of smth your brain is automatically like 'ah! i should take a pic too!!'#but i picked my phone particularly for the camera#so inevitably the other person always ends up being like#'ill leave the photography to you. send the pics later?'#the pics i took today are such good wallpaper material#but unfortunately im p attached to my f1 backgrounds#but my friend said they were good wallpaper material#and i finally got back home and checked and ahhhh not to brag but my framing is so good :)#*also abt my day out 🤭#i love classical music and its so cool seeing it live BUT#unless its a loud dramatic piece(ex. Holst's Mars) or one you know pretty well#oh my god it puts me to sleep i feel so bad 😭#its just too cozy and dark in the concert hall and i kept feeling myself drifting off#also i will say. i usually think that: European city architecture > american city architecture#but theres some really beautiful historic buildings in my city#and i realize its really silly for me to think that theres no great sights in america bcs#i get that same 'wow' feeling whenever i see certain buildings here#catie.rambling.txt
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City Hall & Printing House Square.
photography credits to Geo H. Walker & Co., Boston
#new york#new york city#manhattan#nyc#newyorkcity#harlem#victorian#1800s#19th century#victorian era#historical#history#edwardian#early 20th century#edwardian era#city hall#printing house square#reference
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When you want to visit the Alhambra but mom’s like “we got the Alhambra at home”
#niche joke maybe?#unclear how many millennials and elder gen z are familiar with moorish decorative arts#but this is the theatre at New York City center#described in the show program as ‘1943 neo-moorish’#I think theatres need to start having themes again why did we stop doing that#I’m not saying we should randomly model them on landmarks of other cultures#because it’s so fucking weird#like the garde arts center in CT is vaguely Egyptian and it’s like??? that’s a choice#but new build theatres are just like neutral spaces#which I understand completely you don’t want to distract from the production happening onstage#but surely there’s some middle ground we could reach!#some kind of neo art deco revival could be lovely#especially as more and more art deco theatres are getting restored to their historic designs#I don’t know if theatres are this way in other countries but I’m assuming that the American trend at the turn of the century#was influenced by European theatrical tradition#I’ve seen color plates of concert halls and opera houses#so I’m pretty sure our heavily themed theatres built 1900-1950 are a translation of that#unfortunately I don’t really have a knowledge base for American theatres older than that because I haven’t really been to any#well wait that’s a lie I’ve been to ford’s theatre in DC#but I don’t think there was much that stood out stylistically to me I think it was just very bog standard federalist#which isn’t the period most people associate it with because of Lincoln#but I don’t know off the top of my head when it was built and that is likely a modern design choice anyway#this has been another episode of ‘I have approximate knowledge of many things’
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Calgary City Hall and Calgary Municipal Building (No. 1)
The Calgary Municipal Building, often referred to as New City Hall, is the seat of local government for the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The building has been the centre for civic administration for the City of Calgary since it opened in 1985 to consolidate city administration, provide council chambers, and complement old Calgary City Hall, which is used as the offices of the mayor and councillors.
The structure currently houses 2,000 city employees and is open to the public on weekdays.
The Calgary Municipal Building sits on a triangle footprint, with a silver reflective mirror glass curtain wall exterior that expands from the narrowest point of the footprint upwards six steps. Limestone veneer paneling is present on the lower vertical walls. Outside of the building is a ceremonial plaza which extends to the southern wall of Old City Hall.
The central atrium spans 12-stories in height, walled by concrete and glass windows of employee offices, and capped with a rooftop skylight. The atrium connects to the offices of various City of Calgary employees using escalators and glass elevators. The council chambers are housed within a large blue cube on the first floor with the councillors seated in a semi-circle facing the public, with four entrances and capacity for 300 people. A raised corridor connects the council chambers to Old City Hall, allowing councillors to enter and exit.
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#Calgary Municipal Building#New City Hall#800 Macleod Trail SE#Christopher Ballyn#Old City Hall#Historic City Hall#716 Macleod Trail SE#Romanesque Revival#William M. Dodd#Calgary#Alberta#Canada#summer 2024#travel#original photography#vacation#tourist attraction#landmark#cityscape#architecture#downtown#memorial to Calgary's fallen police officers and fire fighters#clock#Police Officers and Firefighters Tribute Plaza#Lantern of Light
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#city hall#old building#dutchview#architectural historical#my photography#lovely city#maastricht#netherlands#citylife#photographers on tumblr#original photographers
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City Hall during the visit of the French President Loubet in St. Petersburg, Russia
Russian vintage postcard, mailed in 1904 to France
#historic#briefkaart#postkaart#city#loubet#carte postale#russian#russia#ephemera#tarjeta#photo#france#postcard#postal#mailed#city hall#postkarte#president#st. petersburg#petersburg#1904#visit#ansichtskarte#hall#french#sepia#photography#vintage
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writing dragon age fanfiction is so so so so hard for me because every time i spot another historical inaccuracy that’s like “i don’t care that it’s fantasy they have the same level of technology this is WRONG” i have to have a moment of like. “kaed NO ONE ELSE will EVER care about this. you watch ‘ranking period dramas on corset accuracy both in construction and writing’ videos on youtube for entertainment normal people simply do not give a FUCK about medieval castle layouts!”
and yet this cycle continues, because the dragon age devs so so so so clearly DID research but they did BAD research and it HAUNTS me. like WHYYYYY is there only one courtyard that isn’t even really a courtyard in castle cousland WHY is the “main hall” huge with no furniture while the great hall “dining room” is tiny as fuck and in a horrible to access spot WHY are there no ovens in the kitchens where the FUCK do they bake the breaaaad!! like ok fine cool servants get beds in thedas i’ll bite. that fucks hard, actually! but WHY are there more servant rooms than rooms for visiting nobles do you honestly think anybody in the middle ages fucking had servant rooms???? they slept on the FLOOR in the GREAT HALL! and WHY is there a fucking library and a ‘treasury’ (which what the fuck is THAT there should be a DON-JON in there you locked your valuables in the TOWER at the TOP, not in ONE room centrally located on the first floor with TWO guards!!) like i KNOW it was for level design i KNOW it was but oh my fucking g-d it’s gonna KILL ME to write out creeping through corridors when there WERE NO CORRIDORS! like look at this. look at this.
castle cousland: stupid, awful design, honestly they kinda asked to be coup’ed with their garbage unsurvivable castle that supposedly nobody sieges regularly even though it’s literally a death trap. there is ONE main exit, no way to trap your enemies, and only one official guard post that i can see. fuck awful.
harlech castle in wales: it took 115 years for someone to successfully take this castle, and it’s withstood COUNTLESS sieges, you can go visit it right the hell now if you go to wales (not at all getting into the evilness of the english building castles in wales, that’s not the point i’m trying to make.) see how the outside makes it so that even if your enemies breach the walls, to actually reach anyone important they have to survive the volleys of arrows from the ramparts? and then presumably kill everyone ON the ramparts, or the minute you go to open a door or try to drag someone out, you’re going to get shot full of arrows. that’s after breaching TWO heavy doors (which would require a battering ram both times) which would wake up the entire castle LONG before they got anywhere NEAR the heir to the castle’s wife and child.
and before somebody says “oh well kaed maybe you just don’t know your castle building periods very well” think again. i know my castle building periods. that style above is concentric (harlech castle’s initial construction was finished in 1289 and was one of the first finished castles in england in this style,) which came after the keep and bailey style, which came after the motte-and-bailey style, which came after the burh (which arguably WASN’T a castle but whatever,) etc. there are no fortified castles in english history that look like castle cousland, because it’s fucking indefensible. now, this does lead to the question of “oh, well, what is the timeline for the game, maybe there’s something you missed!” so let’s examine the time period of origins:
at the very, very latest, origins could be based off of the BEGINNING of the british “wars of the roses” (the civil wars between the various members of the house plantagenet) which began in the 1450s— this is personally what /i/ think origins is based off of, for a couple reasons. 1) trevelyan was a real person— g.m. trevelyan was a british historian who wrote about the wars of the roses, and in one instance there’s a quote of his the devs almost verbatim used for the design of the free marches: “the Wars of the Roses were to a large extent a quarrel between Welsh Marcher Lords, who were also great English nobles, closely related to the English throne…” they ixnayed the part about the marcher lords being ferelden nobles, i imagine because it was too complicated, but trevelyan? marcher lords? a close relationship with this country? (i.e. like somewhere that might take in their refugees after a catastrophe?) cmon. 2) because ferelden is fucking huge and the histories are kinda weird, because they aren’t 1 for 1, i’m gonna say that we have to use the norman conquest of england as our unification date. in other contexts i wouldn’t try to argue this, but in this one, i’m saying 1066 is the unification date of the anglo-saxon kingdoms into england. calenhad gives us a hard unification date for ferelden— the first landsmeet was in 5:42 exalted, ergo origins is 388 years later. the wars of the roses started in 1455, 389 years after the norman conquest ended. 3) the wars of the roses happened because of a succession crisis— admittedly, these two succession crises are very, very different, but there are definitely parallels between loghain and henry vi and alistair and edward iv. henry vi was crowned at a young age (loghain largely ruled for maric at various points in his life, starting when he was very young,) and was very ineffectual— he suffered from an unknown mental illness which made him extremely unstable and unable to rule for large periods of time. loghain, on the other hand, ruled when the /theirins/ weren’t stable, so you argue he had the opposite— meanwhile, his policies WEREN’T sustainable, whatever you might think of him. loghain is too shaped by his own experiences to be a truly good leader, and by the time his rule/anora’s rule is threatened by cailan, he’s sacrificed enough of his principles that he’s willing to commit atrocities (notably, margaret of anjou ruled during the worst parts of her husband’s mental instability, which again could apply to loghain OR anora, as they ruled fairly jointly after a certain point.) edward iv was the son of richard of york, who was eligible for the throne at a very young age (18 to alistair’s 19) because his father was dead. he was coaxed and led into battle by his cousin, the earl of warwick (also known as the kingmaker— sound like a protagonist you might know?) that’s about where the similarities end, but that’s largely because alistair is a grey warden— if he weren’t, he’d probably be able to have kids and end the question of succession. but he can’t, which, assuming the devs eventually remember, WILL lead to another civil war. hence why i say this is at the BEGINNING of the wars of the roses.
another option that could be argued but makes much less sense and i have no evidence for is that alistair has similarities to edward ii (second son who only became king because his brother died, married a more powerful woman to consolidate power, not very good at ruling, no offense to alistair,) but that still puts origins at like 1307-1327. in either case, they would have been using concentric castles— and given what time period castle cousland was originally built in, it would have been built as a motte-and-bailey, which would NOT have lasted four hundred years. so the castle had to have been rebuilt, and bryce cousland would have had to update that rebuilt castle, because no one lived in it during the orlesian occupation. so where the hell does this winding, weird multi-level design come from?
i GUESS— and this is SO charitable— they could have designed castle cousland based off of a country house design from the mid 1500s, but none of them look like that, either. they’re exclusively rectangular, for one thing, and one of the huge bragging rights of owning one was that they weren’t fortified— they came into fashion during a period of relative stability under the tudor rule, when it was considered guache and maybe even treasonous to build a fortified castle. ferelden is NOWHERE NEAR a period of stability, if anything at the end of origins they’re entering their greatest period of INstability, given what happens in inquisition, and that no matter who ends up on the throne, there’s no way for them to have children. so there’s NO way this castle is a country house, or inspired by one.
leaving us with the final conclusion that a) the game devs definitely did do research into the time period because i can fairly directly trace a line between the event i think inspired origins and the plot, but they didn’t do enough research to figure out what the everloving fuck the BUILDINGS looked like. so these castles make no fucking sense and can’t possibly be called historically accurate even with the fantasy defense, and b) i care WAAAY too much about this for somebody who isn’t even a medieval historian. my area of expertise is the paleolithic, i have no clue why this bugs me so bad i spent four fucking hours writing this post.
#anyone: so what are you getting up to on spring break? me: uhhhhhhhhhhh *spends four hours writing a bioware calloit post about their#historically inaccurate castles* Normal Things#it took me four hours bc i had to pare it down like 8 times btw. i could have kept going#btw there are image descriptions on the maps#dragon age origins#dragon age#long post#actually i take it back i DO know why it bugs me and it’s because they made this g-dawful design part of the plot on every single occasion#like highever? would never have been sacked if not for this design. redcliffe? whole story is about infiltrating this castle through these#extensive dungeons they never would have fucking built bc there’s no use for them. the palace in denerim (which doesn’t even have a name)#is so so so fucked. we can’t even get into it but i HATE it. denerim is a city small enough that not all the banns arls and teyrns can have#their own estates in the city meaning they would need rooms in the palace dedicated to them. where are those rooms??? if’s tiny as hell. all#they needed to do was to put up some extra wings you can’t go into that’s all they needed. i’m so so so annoyed by this it’s such a pet#peeve of mine. especially since skyhold is SOOOOOO good if’s the pinnacle of dragon age buildings no one else will ever be her#there’s multiple courtyards. there’s a garden. there’s the stables centrally located there are concentric walls there’s that weird palace#thing in the center with the world’s hottest great hall. there’s a FORGE there’s a keep there’s a guest wing there’s a tabern there’s#ANOTHER tower you can build there are sentry posts there’s a gatehouse there’s a bridge no one will ever replace her in my heart i know this#skyhold baby you are so so so sexy and delicious and everything a fantasy castle in a video game should be MWAH
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I finished all the Will Darling books and want to cry. I NEED MORE OF THESE CHARACTERS. I need more Charm Of Magpies. I need more Sins Of Cities and Lillywhite Boys. I need more Society Of Gentlemen. I NEED 75 BOOKS OF EACH OF KJ CHARLES'S SERIES. IT'S LIKE DEVELOPING A DIFFERENT DRUG ADDICTION EACH TIME KNOWING YOU'RE GONNA GET CUT OFF
#SHE HAD A BLACK EARL IN WILL DARLING AND THE ENGLAND WORLD BOOKS ARE ABOUT HIS UNCLE#A BLACK EARL BECAUSE BRITISH BLACK ELITE ALWAYS EXISTED AND YOU DON'T NEED TO BRIDGERTON HISTORY FOR IT#going into the England World books and there's only TWO of them. not even three anymore#there's only two Doomsday Books and Green Men books as well#and then we'll be down to STANDALONES. it's going to be bloody TORTURE#that's it im gonna rank kjc over alexis hall dont @ me#book recommendations#book recs#queer fiction#historical fiction#queer historical fiction#historical romance#mlm romance#will darling adventures#a charm of magpies#sins of the cities#lillywhite boys#society of gentlemen#england world#kj charles#knee of huss
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Alexandria, City Hall
Alexandria, Virginia
Old town Alexandria is a must to visit, when you are near Washington Dc.
#alexandria#virginia#virginia is for lovers#city hall#historic buildings#historic house#east coast#travel photography#photographers on tumblr#traveling#old town#north east coast#history#architecture#architecture phtography#architecture photographer#Virginia is for lovers
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