#archictecture

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[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!

[enighui]

Nuremberg U

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[nudeartpluspoetry]

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

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State of Illinois Center, Chicago, May 2018

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[therefugeofbooks]

— Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Brontë.

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Lina Bo Bardi

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

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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.

[enighui]

Munich Underground

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