architecture – Page 9 – Black and White

web architecture

spider night — orb-web spider.
Unlike most arthropods, spiders have no extensor muscles in their limbs and instead extend them by hydraulic pressure–Wikipedia

Frontage zone, the new ugly

meter box — Our City embarked, some time ago, on a Code Audit and the “Streets that Work” plan. Staff, Boards, Commissions, Advisory Committees, many people involved. We’ve been visited by smart coders, enlightened engineers and other luminaries. The gradual transition to a lovely Commons is in process.
Since electrification at the beginning of the 20th C we’ve grown accustomed to the overhead infrastructure. The utility poles block our sidewalks, the wires divide the sky.
Stormwater and wastewater infrastructure was in the ground.
But oh, what is this? A handy above ground casket, looks like New Orleans.

30 x1028 px box — Used to be, the water meter was in the right of way, under the sidewalk, accessed by a meter cover (visible in Google’s 2008 Street View photo). The water meter has risen! Into a concrete box. Why?

pair formation

anderson brothers building — Spring is here. Pair formation. Grackles abound. Students move into spring territory, on the ledge of the Anderson Brothers Bookstore building.

Oh! On the subject of Architecture! Read about Andres Duany’s visit to Charleston where he takes on Preservation Groups, the Fire Marshall, the B.A.R., the Zoning Code, Charlotte and Atlanta , Architects and Traffic and Parking

Woolen Mills

WM window sawtooth — In a work session the Albemarle County Planning Commission discussed the Charlottesville Woolen Mills property. Seems like they get it. The buildings and the location are a treasure. More than a place to make license plates. A property whose careful rehab and reuse could be pivotal in efforts to reconnect with the Rivanna River.

Torii redux

house Rhode Island — Sonotube entry feature. What were they thinking?

architect designed?

amateur or pro design? — I walked past this house in Providence RI. Was it designed by the homeowner? By an architect? I think it was desined by a 1970 Buick Estate Wagon interested in easy yard maintenance

strip mall backside

albemarle square backside — the backside of this local mall is more interesting to look at than its front side

day of rest

rocking chair — UVAHSC used to have an informal policy regarding pictures hanging in the hospital: “no pictures of empty chairs”.

Woolen Mills

Window in a stairwell of the Charlottesville Woolen Mills 4 storey building

day of rest

arthur ravenel jr bridge
Michael J Abrahams PE, Chief Gesigner of the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge