#lost architecture

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Pickfair was a sprawling estate in Beverly Hills, California purchased and further renovated in 1919 by silent film actress Mary Pickford and her husband Douglas Fairbanks, the "Queen and King of Hollywood." The 25-room mansion was named by combining parts of their last names ("Pick" + "fair").

Pickfair was considered one of the most celebrated private homes of America, and became a famous symbol of Hollywood glamour and excess in the 1920s/30s. It hosted iconic parties with famous guests like Charlie Chaplin, Albert Einstein, Amelia Earhart, Helen Keller, F. Scott Fitzgerald and presidents Coolidge and Roosevelt. Life magazine described it as “a gathering place only slightly less important than the White House… and much more fun.”

After divorcing Douglas Fairbanks in 1936, Mary Pickford married actor Charles "Buddy" Rogers and continued living in Pickfair until her death, in 1979. A new owner, actress Pia Zadora, eventually demolished the mansion in 1990, despite some outcry. Zadora later claimed the place was haunted: “You can deal with termites, and you can deal with plumbing issues, but you can’t deal with the supernatural.”

A new mansion stands on the site bearing no resemblance to the original Pickfair.

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St. Peter's Hospital, Bristol, England. Built in the late 14th century as a merchant's house, destroyed in the Bristol Blitz in 1940.

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It might have taken me 20 hours but I have a new lockscreen!!!

You know the drill close ups under cut

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A trip down memory lane! Though the tower seems to have changed…

Celestial tower! Built during the direct aftermath of the Founding Unovan Civil War, it remains a cultural landmark in memory of those lost in the fire and storm.

Time has dulled the scars left behind by the twin dragons. Today, the tower is primarily used as a mausoleum (the preferred method of burial are urns) and, well, a tourism site. Legend says if you climb to the top of the tower and ring the bell, you can lay your ghosts to rest. But mostly? You can ring a GIANT bell.

Course, you gotta GET to that bell first.

Masterpost for more pokemon shenanigans here!

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honestly the funniest part of tmagp 8 is the poor ta who had to grade that paper. "see me" is code for "i cannot say 'what the fuck' in the official gradebook"

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Green House, Tottenham, London, United Kingdom,

Hayhurst and Co

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Abandoned TB Sanatorium, Buch bei Berlin

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Дача Гаусвальд - первое в России здание в стиле модерн.

Dacha Gauswald is the first building in the Art Nouveau style in Russia.

Дача Гаусвальд — это особняк, расположенный на Каменном острове в Санкт-Петербурге. Она здесь появилась в 1898 году и отражала свежий стиль — модерн. Дача была построена архитекторами Владимиром Чагиным и Василием Шене для жены булочного мастера Густава Гаусвальда, Евгении Карловны.

Архитектура дачи Гаусвальд воплотила многие характерные черты стиля модерн. В ней была подчёркнута асимметрия, отлично прослеживались изломанные линии портала и крыши. Прообразами здания послужили изысканные английские коттеджи. Здание — 2-хэтажное, его основной объем — деревянный, построенное на подвалах, с высоким каменным цоколем. Дача частично — кирпичная, выполнена сложная объемно-пространственная композиция из разновеликих объемов. Отделка фасадов имитирует фахверк — каркасное строительство из несущих столбов и балок, которые видны с наружной стороны дома, что придало ему характерный облик средневекового колорита. Северо-восточные части здания украшают парапетное ограждение террасы и угловая стилизованная башня, сложенные из кирпича. При отделки использовали различные материалы: бутовый камень, облицовочная керамическая плитка "кабанчик", известняк, дерево, керамическая черепица, поливные полихромные изразцы.

 Впоследствии, в 1910 и 1916 годах дача претерпела перестройки.  Самые серьезные изменения она претерпела в 1984 году после проведения в ней капитального ремонта, в результате сего были утрачены некий внешний декор и отделка интерьеров. В то время здесь неоднократно снималось кино. После она долгое время пустовала и к 2008 году находилась в аварийном состоянии. Около 85 % конструкций было уничтожено разрушающим древесину белым домовым грибом.Однако в 2017 году начались работы по восстановлению. В ходе реставрационных работ была сохранена большая часть исторического здания, также специалисты покрасили дом в оригинальный оливковый цвет. Внутреннее убранство практически не сохранилось, поэтому его кропотливо восстанавливали. 

Dacha Gauswald is a mansion located on Kamenny Island in St. Petersburg. It appeared here in 1898 and reflected a fresh style - Art Nouveau. The dacha was built by architects Vladimir Chagin and Vasily Shenet for the wife of bakery master Gustav Gauswald, Evgenia Karlovna.

The architecture of the Gauswald dacha embodied many of the characteristic features of the Art Nouveau style. The asymmetry was emphasized in it, the broken lines of the portal and roof were clearly visible. The prototypes of the building were exquisite English cottages. The building is 2-storey, its main volume is wooden, built on basements, with a high stone plinth. The dacha is partly made of brick; a complex volume-spatial composition is made from volumes of different sizes. The decoration of the facades imitates half-timbered construction - frame construction from load-bearing pillars and beams that are visible from the outside of the house, which gave it a characteristic appearance of medieval flavor.The north-eastern parts of the building are decorated with a parapet fence of the terrace and a corner stylized tower, made of brick. Various materials were used for finishing: rubble stone, ceramic facing tiles "boar", limestone, wood, ceramic tiles, glazed polychrome tiles.

Subsequently, in 1910 and 1916, the dacha underwent reconstruction. It underwent the most serious changes in 1984 after a major renovation was carried out, as a result of which some external decor and interior decoration were lost. At that time, films were filmed here several times. Afterwards it was empty for a long time and by 2008 was in disrepair.About 85% of the structures were destroyed by the wood-destroying white house fungus. However, restoration work began in 2017. During the restoration work, most of the historical building was preserved, and specialists also painted the house in its original olive color. The interior decoration was practically not preserved, so it was painstakingly restored.

Источник:://peterburg.center/story/dacha-gausvald-v-peterburge-pervoe-v-rossii-zdanie-v-stile-modern.html, //www.221b.ru/geo/7-gausvald.htm,//www.citywalls.ru/house1603.html?s=7kmm6pd2i9i0dm9uficg32j3of.

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One of the first skyscrapers and the headquarters to the namesake newspaper, the New York Tribune Building was first completed in 1875 and then further expanded, reaching its maximum size in 1907. At the time, it was the second-tallest building in New York City, only losing to Trinity Church.

It was demolished in 1966, and replaced by the 1 Pace Plaza building.

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United Artists Theater Detroit Michigan. 1928 - 2022. Demolished for surface parking.

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Why do you always have to leave?

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Spanish Trail Motel

Lost Highway series

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Ektar 100iso

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the pink outpost

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The Dove’s Lost Necklace طوق الحمامة المفقود (Nacer Khemir, 1991)

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 Prague, St. Nicholas Church