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

Mumbai

Heaton park

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?

Topical Moi??

I appologise for the distast this may cause..

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

And back to lighten things up a bit..

On the path up to Ossian’s Cave.

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)

Heaton Park

The entrance to many an interesting evening

😀

FAC51

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.

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.

Oh, and this:

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..

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.

the neolithic temples on malta have always interested me

between 5 and 6 THOUSAND years old 😯

all detailed carving done with flint and obsidian

but we digress 🙂

Good digression (puts malta on future travel list)

This

Is the less than impressive main gate to this…

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…

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..
And..
I ate my first SpagBol there.

Gateway to some decent MTB’ing

A gate what I made: