[Closed] It's Elfin's Tuesday Architectural Appreciation thread! Doorways and gateways.

Carlo Scarpa's gate to the Venician School of Architecture
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It doesn't actually exist as a building - and this picture doesn't explain it properly, but...... Diller and Scoffido's 'Slow House' is designed so that when you stand at the door (red bit) the shape of the rest of the building means the whole house hides behind the door. So the sense is of just standing in front of a lone door in the landscape, and when you open it there house is inside. Like a reverse Narnian wardrobe.

12C door Torbryan Chuch House Inn, Devon

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It's a bit early in the morning to be getting all Georgia O'Keefe on us Mr Safety !

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Excellent start already!

Gaudi was good at gates and entrances and that:

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Warrington Town Hall gates. Designed and built for Buckingham Palace, but Vicky decided she didn't like them, so they were cast out to the provinces to have drunken Bazza and Tommo's vomiting on them

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and some Parisian gorgeousness

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This is a church near me. I have always loved these gates:
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Brandenburg Gate

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Venice Police Station

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Ankor Watt

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Mosque

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HoP

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Area 51 entrance, that doesn't exist, phah.

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Entrance to Auschwitz

And of course...

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Entrances on a grand scale

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Welcome to Rhodes.
The Colossus of Rhodes - scale has been exaggerated for artistic effect. The actual statue is believed to have been 30m high.

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Welcome to America.
Statue of Liberty.

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In Patrick Keiler's film [url= http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdmgfl_london-1994_shortfilms#from=embed&start=408 ]London[/url], Robinson goes to Vauxhall Park to listen to the gatepost (6.04mins). Later, in the aftermath of the 1992 election, the talking gateposts fall silent. It think it probably the only time a picture of gatepost has made me feel really sad.

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Entrance to Narnia

muppetWrangler - Member
Entrances on a grand scale

Is that the Biffin Bridge? 😆

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Oh...erm... could you use the back door please Mr Murdoch

Entrance to Eau Rouge

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Built in honour/fear of Louis XIV
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Oh...erm... could you use the back door please Mr Murdoch

He's been making free and frequent use of the back door of the residents of that residence for about 40 years

This is the front door to a house my sister and her husband had built. It's 5.5m tall, but I'm rather ambivalent about the door, and the house in general.

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Video here, if anyone's interested in the architect talking about the design (and her husband talking about "making a statement" :lol:)

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Vernon gate in Derby.

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In 1827, the new County Gaol opened at the end of Vernon Street. The name changed to HM Prison Derby in 1886 and for more than 100 years, was home to generations of thieves, fraudsters and murderers. Crowds flocked from outlying villages; some even came by train to watch the victims being brought from the prison on to the scaffold for their execution. The more notorious the criminal, the bigger the crowd. At first executions took place in the middle of the road at the far end of Friar Gate and then in front of the Old County Gaol.

The last public execution at Derby of Richard Thorley for the murder of Eliza Morrow took place in 1862 and the last judicial execution in 1907. In the 18th and 19th centuries, public executions attracted a great deal of attention and came to be regarded by some members of the community as a ‘good day out.’

From 1919 to 1929 the prison acted as a military prison.

In 1933, it literally went to the dogs. Derby Greyhound Stadium was opened by the Preston Greyhound Racing Association Ltd, with a track boasting two "very palatial" clubs, one on the grandstand side and one on the popular side. It gave the area a new lease of life and Derby people their first opportunity to enjoy dog racing. And many of them grasped it with both hands.

All that remains today of the former prison is its façade; hiding the beautiful offices within.

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The original design for the Arch de Triumph - it looks like the toilets has a window pointing out of the elephant's arse. "garde à l'eau!"

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Stow Church

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Belas Knap longbarrow - entering the womb of the neolithic underworld

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The Alhambra in Spain

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Santo Domingo church. Soria. Castilla y León. Spain

yossarian - that's Garry Neville's house isn't it?

NASA V.A.B.

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Cardington

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Gaping Gill

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Tracy Island

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My house (just to annoy Elfi 😉 )

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Holy Villiage entrance, London

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Not that grand, but worth a mention for how they're currently treated 🙁

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Mumbai

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Heaton park

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Some excellent stuff here. Can't post pics now but will add a set of lovely wooden garage doors when I can. They're so nice I want to buy the house they're attached to.

Elfin I've walked through your first post....... as an expert witness not a felon before you start.

lol at binners

can we do one on vanished architecture? Hanging Gardens of babylon other lost cities/civilisations that kind of thing?

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Topical Moi??

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I appologise for the distast this may cause..

Here are the loading bays at Woolworths. It is not open any more.

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And back to lighten things up a bit..

On the path up to Ossian's Cave.

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Vinny's sister's house is interesting and impressive but doubt they have any muddy mountain bikes there or dogs or ..... Looks like one would need two houses!!

The Adrenalin Gateway (Lee Quarry)

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Heaton Park
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The entrance to many an interesting evening

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😀

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Happy days... I think.

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Witha forum full of IT gonks I'd've expected this a lot earlier in the thread.

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Lenton Lodge, gateway to this stately pile where they are currently filming the latest Batman film. I used to love visiting here as a kid.

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Oh, and this:

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As with any gateway you pass through and don't stop.

All front no back just next.

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Away w work again so can't post pics at mo but -

The is a doorway on a backstreet in Rome behind the forum, I think it's to a monastery, just a plain unassuming gate with a keyhole in, look though the keyhole and there is a perfectly aligned view of the Vatican beyond the monastery gardens framed With an archway of vines, truly a magnificent and secret view, I'll post the pic on Thursday when I'm back

My second is a small iron doorway in Prague with loads of hands cast into (out of) it, one is the knocker, another the door handle and to open it you almost shake the hand, but which one?! (it's opposite captain nemos underwater themed strip club)
Both architecture on a small scale but show excellent attention to detail

Ooo oooh Its the first tiem I have ever wanted to post on this thread, and I cannot believe no one has posted these. Guess where they are..
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Toys19 - Pompeii?

Yossarian, Yay well done.
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You had a try but no it isn't pompeii..

ah ok I know where it is now!

i was looking at the second photo and thinking roman 🙂

Do tell..

Its Mycenae in Greece and the top pic is the lion gate which is the entrance to the city.

I think.... 🙂

Yeah top pic is the Lion Gate Gate at Mycenae, but what about the bottom pic..

Clue. Next year.

(Lion gate was built 2350 years ago, that blew my swede when I stood under it.)

Olympia and thats defo a roman arch

Yay! Olympia. Also awesome. Dunno anything about the arch but its the atheletes gateway to the stadium.

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the neolithic temples on malta have always interested me

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between 5 and 6 [b]THOUSAND[/b] years old 😯

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all detailed carving done with flint and obsidian

but we digress 🙂

Good digression (puts malta on future travel list)

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Is the less than impressive main gate to this…
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Apparently they hadn’t invented the wheel so the gate only had to be wide enough for a man and a mule.

The Romans however had to get horses, carts, chariots etc through…
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Porte Palatine, Turin.

Malta is ace BTW. When I went to the above temple it was hotter that the surface of Mercury. Also, Valletta has the best bus station in The World!

Malta is a great place to sail around too..
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I ate my first SpagBol there.

Gateway to some decent MTB'ing

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A gate what I made:

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