#archictecture

[callunavulgaris]

Cozy architectural drawings! These are sketches of places I think fairy people might live: Round clay huts with thatched roofs & glowing fire-lit windows, a layered stone home built into a grassy hillside spilling mysterious yellow & green smoke, a stately castle with a flowing banner, & an inviting stone tavern that beckons you in to have a cool drink on a warm summer's night!

[nikswonderland]

[devilous-ov-noir]

[andulkaphoto]

[nudeartpluspoetry]

The Chauncey Griggs House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, near Tacoma, Washington, USA.

[kodachrome-net]

State of Illinois Center, Chicago, May 2018

[hometoursandotherstuff]

This is amazing. Where else could you get a mansion like this for $1.5M, except Philadelphia, Pennsylvania? This stunning 1909 home was dubbed “Maison Rex,” by its current owners, and has 7bds., 5ba., and 2 half ba.

Isn’t this grand? Can you imagine walking thru your front door to this? 

Cozy smaller sitting room.

This is gorgeous. The fireplaces in this home are stunning.

This room could be just about anything, but I love that piano.

The dining room is so beautiful. Look at the niche above the fireplace.

Love the kitchen remodel. 

There’s a small pantry with some storage.

Look at the wood work on that wall. You can see one of the 1/2 baths there.

The stairs and landing are so dramatic and stunning.

This is probably why they’re selling- they have a lot of unused bds. There are wonderful fireplaces in most of them.

In this bath they placed a w/d, which is convenient.

This bath has a nice vintage look.

The attic is finished and this looks like a cedar closet.

Even the attic has a fireplace.

There’s another vintage bath up here.

Beautiful bar in the basement has a great stone fireplace.

This is so fabulous- a greenhouse. 

What a porch. Look at the outdoor fireplace.

Here’s a pool.

These are typically beautiful estate grounds.

Surrounded by trees on a 1.46 acre lot.

https://www.foxroach.com/ListingDetails/8700-SEMINOLE-ST-PHILADELPHIA-PA-19118/PAPH2188582

[pwh3]

The Chrysler Building, NYC.

[skadario]

Lost Kingdom

[enighui]

Nuremberg U

[cusaqphotos]

[therefugeofbooks]

— Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Brontë.

[fiveswansandthemoon]

l’hôtel particulier de robert mallet-stevens (1927) photographed by germaine krull

[ross-hori]

Seen up in the old Foreigner Settlement, Kobe.

I like the way the overhangs form this small shelter spot.

[vittamina]

The sunken temple of the salt goddess

[theknitpotato]

Canongate Tolbooth, Royal Mile, Old Town of Edinburgh.

The Tolbooth was built in 1591 and would have formed the local hub for the Canongate burgh, along with the nearby Mercat Cross where merchants met and conducted their business. The Tolbooth would have had many functions, serving as courthouse, burgh jail and meeting place of the town council. The building was constructed for Sir Lewis Bellenden, the justice-clerk for the burgh, and his initials can still be seen over the archway to Tolbooth Wynd.

As the Canongate’s main public building it was designed to look impressive and express the burgh’s pride in its long history. The tower over Tolbooth Wynd has small turrets added, known as ‘bartizans’, as well as gun loops to give a sense of ancient battlements. Next to it is the courthouse block, with a staircase, or ‘forestairs’, leading up to its main entrance on the first floor. Look out for the plaque celebrating King James VI as well, complete with latin inscription and a large thistle.

The ground floor was used as a prison, mainly for those unable to pay fines or for minor misdemeanours, but on occasion it was used to hold people on behalf of the government. Certainly during the 17th century many captured Covenanters were held in the Canongate Tolbooth, accused of treason.