Buildings at Towsley Canyon

Some of the infrastructure at Towsley Canyon.

I imagine homeland security rents these out as over flow housing.  Looks like they used to be dog kennels.

Restroom as monumental building.

Bar the gate, the barbarians are coming, Bar!

So sad what happened to this building.  Bordered up and left to molder.

College of the Canyons Views and Things

Some more industrial side buildings around College of the Canyons (COC).

Two fountains, two doors, two bathrooms and one trash can.  Its not every day you get to enjoy this view!

A second photo of the dark underbelly of the stadium.  Stairs up.  (and down too!)

Pick me, no me, pick me pick me!

After the Valencia fisherman return to the docks at night, the nets are dumped here to prepare for the return journey again the next morning.  And the cycle of life and death continues.

A random wooden bench out by the baseball field.

Mop up!  (Who could resist?)

UCLA Buildings, Early Morning II

Some buildings and some shots of the newly rebuilt bombshelter.

This is one wing of Powell library.  Great balcony, I'm sure it gets lots of use.

And this is the other wing of Powell library.  No balcony, so sad.

A door to Moore.

The California Nano Systems building, view from the new bombshelter.

Seating area, new bombshelter, view from above.

Seating area, new bombshelter, view from the ground.

UCLA Buildings, Early Morning

Shots of UCLA buildings early morning just after the daylights savings time shift.  Suddenly it was early daylight when I arrive on campus.

The Teraski building.  Reflections on trees in windows.

Again Terasaki building.  Many windows.

I've never really appreciated this building, but it does have several interesting architectural features, which I haven't quite managed to get yet.  This is one try.  That round stairwell is an interesting feature.  I'll keep trying to snap it.

Glow-in-the-light entrance to the parking structure.  They try hard to hide these things, make them less than ugly.

Buildings in Athens

Some buildings I found of interest.  Two were rotated by blogger, unasked for by me.  Does anyone else have this difficulty with blogger, that it can't upload pictures correctly?  I deleted one picture, and you can identify the other picture that is rotated fairly easily. 

Nicely rebuilt house, eaves and concrete walls, but the window coverings are dinghy and in need of paint. 

Roofing.  I spend a lot of time in Portugal and in Athens trying to get the right picture of roofs, and this was my first roofing picture, and in the end, one of the best pictures I took of roofing.  

Rotated window.  Notice the graffiti on the right, and the new paint tint starting just above the window frame.  

Interesting choice of window shades.  Not all windows are even still there.  

Another decrepit building, but it appears to still be in use, though some repairs are beginning to take place, given the wooden catch-bin at the bottom of the second story.  

Lisbon Reflections II

I took many pictures, and some of my typical posts will repeat, with new pictures.

A spa along the Belem waterfront, near the Torre.  The boat dock and photographer are visible in the window. 

Expo Parque. An overhead walkway reflecting something obscure, with the two boat buildings in the distance.  

It would be wise to turn left and not drive through the glass.  

The Lisbon Casino -- a solid black glass building.  

Another of the casino, with photographer.  

Reflecting across the street.  

Portuguese Patterns

I love seeing patterns and near patterns in construction.  And the Portuguese definitely leave many patterns visible in their buildings.  Here are some favorites. 

A long moderately tall residential/business building in Expo Parque. 

And across the street, the retaining wall below the street is a favored playground of graffiti artists.  

Glass-railed balconies reflecting the building across the street. 

Reminiscent of gargoyles, drainage pipes for roof water.  As a pedestrian, if its raining, I'd prefer they took the water down directly into the street without it first splashing all over me. 

This building was blocks long.  This is the pedestrian walkway along the street. 

Vasco de Gama mall superstructure.  

A closeup of the Vasco de Gama roof superstructure.  They have water continually pouring down the roof leaving the distinctive coloration and light pattern.  Presumably helps with cooling as well. 

A wall of mosaiced color tiles.  Actually a sculpture with steps that you can climb up and peer over the top wall at the neighborhood. 

I think this was part of the entrance to the aquarium.  

Another park structure in the exposition parque.  

I'm not entirely certain what this tower was.  But it made for a pretty set of patterns.  

Lisboa Edificios / Lisbon Buildings

Buildings in Lisbon. 

A real balcony and glorious carving (headstone?) This is possibly the Coaches museum.  Contains many horse drawn coaches from previous centuries. 

Tiled building that has managed to keep most of its tiles.  With second floor miniature balconies.   

On the one hand the windows and doors are all centered atop each other.  On the other hand, each floor has a different architectural styling, both shape of the door/window and the railing alike.  

Close-up of tiled building.  

In the expo area, a new huge building.  Only a few apartments got balconies here. 

Everything is named Vasco de Gama.  This is the entry to the mega mall built in the expo parque area.  As malls go, it was quite a good looking building. 

Praca Comercio building. 

Buildings in Lisbon

More buildings. 

I hate it when blogger decides to rotate a picture;  I can never get it unrotated.  This is the Teatro Sao Carlos, and the square in front.  We've seen a couple other pictures of this square; this is the theater itself.  They were playing Carmen, but were essentially sold out. 

This building is on the other side of the square.  The sculpture is at the foot of the building.  

The Sowhat house.  

Balconies and shadows in yellow.  

A tile house and top floor balcony.  

Little house next to the big house.