Showing posts with label Concrete. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Concrete. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Oldbury Canal

As a leg-stretcher after driving to Oldbury (Birmingham area), I took a walk along the Oldbury Canal to where it runs under the M5 and where a lot of reconstruction work is being done.

 

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Christmas Walk at Bridlington

We decided to drive to Bridlington on Christmas Morning and enjoyed a walk in sunshine along the beach and around the harbour. Since I last visited quite a few years ago, they have built a very impressive Leisure Centre - a good addition to my collection of architectural studies of concrete buildings!

Sunday, October 31, 2021

UEA Monochrome

 This is the final post from our trip to University of East Anglia and is my favourite I think in showing the elegant lines of the Brutalist building. I was using the set to practise the new and very sophisticated masking facilities in Lightroom 11. Not quite mastered all the features but certainly being able to used multiple masks in combination is a very strong feature.



Tuesday, October 26, 2021

UEA Through a Pinhole

Yesterday I introduced Barry to the 'concrete city' that comprises the University of East Anglia. opened in 1970 it is one of the best examples of Brutalism Architecture in the UK (see blog from last visit). This time I decided to use a pinhole lens for some of the time, which worked well when the sun was shining but not so good in duller light. Here some of the better shots with shutterspeeds from 0.5 to 1/15th second.

Sunday, August 8, 2021

UEA, A Brutalism Megastructure

The University of East Anglia campus was designed by Denys Lasdun and constructed in 1970.  The teaching block is a long, winding ribbon with copper hued windows. The horizontals are broken up by concrete housed vents and lift shafts jutting above the roofline. The library and students’ union building are an arrangements of boxes that continue the horizontal thread. The campus is completed by the student accommodation, the ziggurats seen through the sculpture in the infrared images. connected to the rest by long concrete walkways. 


Saturday, February 13, 2021

Park Street Car Park Cambridge

As we had to be out in the car, we took our exercise in the Chesterton area of Cambridge - a delight not to be battling with our local mud and ice! Park Street Car Park is such an anomaly and yet has all the intrigue for me of concrete structures. It was built around 1960 and was due for closure and redevelopment to a hotel and car park  this spring. However, the contractors have dropped out so at the moment it has a reprieve - a relief in some ways I am sure for the local residents. 


Ann Miles Photography - My Favourite Images of the Past10 years or so