‘Crafted by Scottish master masons in the 1790s, the richly detailed carving of the White House (north door and over-door detail) remains largely as constructed’ - Jack Boucher, HABS.
#WhiteHouse #architecture #architecturalsculpture
Photos by Charles Swaney © Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2013 images from https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/department-justice-jennewein-sculptural-elements-washington-dc/
Dept. of Justice Building, Washington DC. Sculpture designed by #PaulJennewein.
- Two Bas-reliefs
- ‘QUI PRO DOMINA JUSTITIA SEQUITUR’ Bas-relief, pediment. 1935.
#CPaulJennewein #AmericanArt #DOJ #sculpture #basreliefs #architecturalsculpture
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Made of bronze and twice life-size, as far as I know, it's the only suspended public sculpture in the UK.
#glasgow #sculpture #architecture #architecturalsculpture #architecturalphotography #gorbals #thegorbals
The Gatekeeper on Kidston Terrace in the Gorbals area of Glaagow. It was created by Matt Baker in 2002 to mark the 3rd complete rebuilding of the local area in the last 150 years.
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One of ths rather wonderful keystone masks on the former Commercial Bank of Scotland on Gordon Street in Glasgow. Designed by David Rhind and built in 1854, the sculptural work was by Handyside Ritchie.
#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #sculpture #keystonehead #architecturalsculpture
Stewart and McDonald, standing guard at the entrance to 146 Argyle Street, Glasgow for the last 102 years. They were sculpted by William Vickars and were installed in 1903.
#glasgow #sculpture #atlantid #atlas #architecture #argylestreet #architecturalsculpture #architecturephotography
Love these sculptures around an oriel window on John A. Campbell's 1902 eight storey commercial office block on West George Street in Glasgow.
#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #sculpture #windows #architecturalsculpture #edwardianarchitecture
Medusa carving on the Royal Palace walls
Serpent-laden Adornment on the walls of the Royal Palace in Stockholm.
#ArchitecturalDetails #ArtOfArchitecture #SculptureArt #StoneCarving #ArchitecturalSculpture #TravelThroughArt #WanderTheStreets #TravelBackInTime #MoodyTones #DetailShot #WallsWithStories #TravelPhotographer
A bird, a fish, a bell and a tree on the facade of a 1905 tenement designed by A.B. McDonald on Stockwell Street in Glasgow. One of many examples of these four symbols all over the city.
#glasgow #glasgowcoatofarms #sculpture #architecturalsculpture #architecture #architecturephotography
Neptune and Ceres above the entrance to 177 Trongate in Glasgow. Dating from 1925, the sculptor is unknown, but the quality is fantastic.
#glasgow #sculpture #architecture #glasgowbuildings #trongate #publicart #architecturalsculpture #neptune #ceres #architecturalphotography
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I love all the little Green Men that are all over James Miller's 1896 St Enoch Subway Station building in St Enoch Square in central Glasgow. It probably has more than any other building in the city.
#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #architecturalsculpture #greenman #jamesmiller
There's really no functional reason for them to be there, but they help make the building so much more interesting to look at.
#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #sculpture #architecturalsculpture
Love the Green Men on the corbels of this upper floor window on the West Regent Street facade of the 1898 Castle Chambers in central Glasgow.
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This is the one for Gemini, and the slightly surprised expression on the faces of the two fish always makes me smile.
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Love the Zodiac-themed column capitals on the 1890s former Sun Life building on the corner of West George Street and Renfield Street in central Glasgow.
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It was constructed in the 1890s and the sculptures were by William Birnie Rhind.
#glasgow #architecture #architecturalsculpture #greenman #architecturephotography #sculpture
Love this stern-looking Green Man on a corbel above the door of the former Sun Life building on the corner of West George Street and Renfield Street in central Glasgow.
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The four main groups of statues on what is now the rear facade of the Mitchell Library in Glasgow. Originally part of the St Andrews Halls, they were created in the 1870s by John Mossman.
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This rather cute little dragon can be found clinging to the corner of a window of the Liverpool and London and Global Insurance Building on Saint Vincent Street in Glasgow.
#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #sculpture #architecturephotography #architecturalsculpture
About half life-size, it's not a typical subject for an ecclesiastical decoration.
#glasgow #church #glasgowchurches #bigcat #woodlands #architecture #architecturalsculpture #architecturephotography
I love this sculpture on the Church of Saint Jude's Congregation on Woodlands Road in Glasgow. Designed by John Burnet Senior, it was built in 1874.
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Really pleased to hear that #MoisseyKogan’s relief, The Last Supper (Het Laatste Avondmaal) is currently featured in an exhibition at Museum Catharijneconvent Utrecht 1/3
#concreterelief #architecturalsculpture #modernistsculpture #tussenhemelenoorlog
Science by William Burnie Rhind. Created in 1898 as one of eight allegorical figures to adorn the roof of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in the west end of Glasgow.
#glasgow #sculpture #kelvingroveartgallery #glasgowbuildings #architecture #architecturephotography #architecturalsculpture
John Storrs was a leading American modernist sculptor in the 1920s and 1930s. Although he moved to Paris in 1911 and spent much of his career there, he grew up in Chicago and studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ceres is a smaller version of the figure Storrs designed for the top of the Chicago Board of Trade Building. In his efforts to make the sculpture symbolic of the building’s purpose, Storrs turned to the Classical subject of Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain, alluding to the board’s activity as the world’s biggest grain exchange. He depicted Ceres holding a sheaf of wheat in one hand and a grain sample bag in the other. Storrs also synchronized his sculpture with the building’s Art Deco architecture, emphasizing the figure’s streamlined form and employing modern materials. Ceres garnered a great deal of praise; a contemporary review stated that “this work has been described by some of the nation’s leading architects as one of the finest pieces of architectural sculpture to be found in America.” Perhaps in reaction to such favorable notices, Storrs produced smaller versions of the sculpture, such as this one.
Ceres
copper alloy nickel and chrome plated
1928
John Bradley Storrs
(American, 1885–1956)
#artdeco #art #sculpture #ceres #johnstorrs #americanartdeco #architecturalsculpture #chicago
Love these sculptures on 1889 former North Fire Station on Saint George's Road in Glasgow.
#glasgow #woodside #architecture #glasgowbuildings #glasgowarchitecture #oldfirestation #firestation #architecturephotography #sculpture #architecturalsculpture
Love these rather cute little lions on a corner of Mercantile Chambers on Bothwell Street in Glasgow.
#glasgow #sculpture #architecture #architecturephotography #architecturalsculpture #lion
How on earth they managed to carve the folds in material quite so exquisitely, I really don't know.
#glasgow #sculpture #stonemason #stonecarving #architecture #architecturalsculpture #architecturephotography #pollokshields
Love the quality of the craftsmanship on this sandstone sculpture of Jesus as a child on the remains of the 1891 Pollokshields-Gelencairn Church in Glasgow.
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