Looking forward to the traditional European Christmas Decorations coming up again as City councils all over Europe race to prep themselves for the merriment. (#sarcasm) https://hell.twtr.plus/media/2e72aa8aee9bc204a75a80e0ebba198893bcc2b019ed749b0a9d8bafa4f1efa2.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9ca55b6fcd28a87f132ce7440fa5c71781e8ce3e250935040702a18c65467fe9.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/d19b6704f8d8904ecf10b45cab3e3b4126e5e3ebe5437cd7818ba30516187020.file
The first properly multistory building in Brazil is the 1821 rammed earth Sobradão, in Minas Novas, renovated in 2021. After two hundred years of neglect it was found that some wooden structures (floor, roof etc.) needed renewal, as well as door and window details. Rammed earth is one of the few building materials we have with potentially unlimited life spans. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/7a54c6d557b62442fde1eb06ae12344f0c49c42936426fd81a952e2f5888a344.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/43b41c6df31bfeceadf0d40afe2fc196ba8ca3ade15562246a61ebb6a1b0cd01.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/2373d4373826898598d3012e8e0af4925000803e7295fd44fe4e92d18152cd8a.file
In Germany in the middle ages each town or village was tasked with caring for its own poor or needy. The town of Gönningen, in Reutlingen in Baden-Württemberg, built or renovated this first almshouse in the 18th c. (possible over a 16th c. building). With industrialization came a wave of new poor and a second home had to be built (second photo) but this was offered for a rent so the tenants were too poor to have their own homes but still some sort of income. Both today are private homes. Timber frame with wattle and daub infill or brick (adobe or fired brick), more recent fired tile roof. Gönningen was relatively well-off due to its skilled seed and dried fruit trade and the town has several well preserved communal or charitable buildings. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/46e490062d49e3f7f989e260cd0e4f6ddabc612d28f00b451a9896d6a1d7aab0.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/47b99006f402752e1894c6b100acab5a3b23ef63b01fe851fe324ff28b013785.file
A radical opinion.
If you always wanted a masculine Gibbs Surround on your front door or windows but didn't have the courage to hew the actual stone? Just lay it in brick roughly and finish out the detailing in plaster. Or leave as is. Not complicated work but it will cut into your TV time. Lovely photos from Instagram accounts katiemc.heritage and architecture_at_deerfield. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/fdca884fe89f5b550a097801ad11e7527ca74373e0b9918b3655c6385688ad5b.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/a0968d41cb29f5695131c48dac1d38f664d2c80e149063c3623a90b7a492411c.file
My understanding might be wrong but I don't think @Banger uses the word "banger" in the correct sense? It seems to be picking up posts that got a lot attention, not actually a "banger" per se. Bangers are usually some sort of pithy or laconic statement or observation, right?
The Hofje van Noblet in Haarlem is an almshouse built in 1761 for 20 single women over 50. Now reduced to 17. The rooms uniquely still have the original guilt leather wall coverings. Imagine if we gave up half a parking lot in our towns and cities and had our people build these almshouses for the worthy poor and elderly? 950m² / 10,150ft². https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9a1cfc11788dfd10dbb996f5d22a867c62d709baea6d9663bfda9512c45a7ac1.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/774a4fb2ac7521849b13fc6f156b268b85b544b9bf4c2a791edf3a2293881244.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/51900f51643a461c7a89943cf31fd32c6e903fe7ae99aef7deb6f7fffb6ee8c7.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/7b50c71dbabf93bea1880738dcff98c9996cfbc343276bacd0d653fe3c3bd94f.file
The Hofje van Staats in Haarlem, built in 1733 as an almshouse to poor single women over 50. Originally 30 women lived here gratis now reduced to 20 women on public rate rents. The main building is let as a commercial office space. It would be peanuts to build these in our town and cities, human scaled and integrated worthy homes for the elderly to live inside the city and not outside, at any level of subsidy, charity or private investment. 2,000m² / 22,600ft². https://hell.twtr.plus/media/54fdf572a4db34079b3544e5e901314f63aaee2184ea4f3f14bd554427020324.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/6e7e933b65779b772e0a267bc06a49fb11913cddfacd06ae3d9b6a2d8737c10d.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/afa4a147a748d57089ff5d451f91b56c1221579edc681cb4db4ebdda65388f94.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/99b7465cdc84f1dafc1e81c60fae5c619ee2ba729ee1e81eff9e1bf79c38c841.file
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Can't find anything to object to here. There is so much misinformation, greed and opportunism in corporate and political environmentalism that one wonders what is actually genuine at all. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f1b53a1a711099e1e33c0b81878b60d36c716ba24c1f61a118491848b9e66859.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5ae4ff566ff2aae06193f576445650c73ba9cb9cf12ab8589762b9ce308929c1.file