REGIONAL STYLE HOUSE - LIPNICA MUROWANA - LESSER POLAND

Another one of older typical houses in town from early XIX century, made of timber construction but with stone and brick plinth.



I am presenting it only because I would like to highlight  that this is what the contemporary regional architecture of Lipnica should draw from.Such a usuall house but with so nice proportions and fits in rather good within the surrounding buildings of town.

LIPNICA MUROWANA - MANOR HOUSE OF BZOWSKI FAMILY

A neo- classical manor house in Lipnica Murowana bulit in early XIX -th century  by noble man ( Kazimierz) Kasimirus Bzowski.



It is a rendered, two storey building with  a central two storey nish and a balustraded balcony over arcaded entrance porch with four columns.House is covered with a rather shallow four pitched roof  with slate.The building was erected in a style reminding of the french suburban or countryside mansions' style of the XIX century.



At the foront od the house you can see the stone lions which remained from the entrance gate pierce of the non existing front wall.The building is located centrally to the market square at the other end of the street.



It is proved that blessed Mary Theresa and Ursula Ledochowski lived there.

























          

LONDON - ALBION RIVERSIDE - DEVELOPMENT OF ALBION WARF

Three buildings linked together by the public squares, designed by famous architectural office - Foster and Partners, located on the south bank of the Thames in close proximity to Battersea Park.




The most characteristic of them is eleven storey, mixed use development
which since its completion in 2003 has become another beautiful landmark of London.




It is very asymmetrical in a shape of a huge pretzel( at least from a distance) and with its wings opened to the river creating the open public space.



The architectural elements that were created of curved lines were a light motive in this unusual design.



Typical floor layout contains twenty eight apartaments arranged around four common areas - staircases.There are 183 apartments proposed in total in range of two to four bedroom flats.



Horizontal curves of the elevation, fully glazed balconies, use of glass, aluminium and concrete also design of the landscape architecture ( bu Speirs & Major ) make the edifice complete and as contemporary as it gets.


If you like to see more buildings on Foster & Partners on this blog please see also:
http://architectureofeurope.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/london-canary-wharf-underground-station.html

NOWY WISNICZ( NOWY WIŚNICZ) BAROQUE- MANERIST TOWN SQUARE

NOWY WISNICZ( NOWY WIŚNICZ) BAROQUE- MANERIST TOWN SQUARE IN POLAND
The town of Nowy Wisnicz was laid out in 1616 and the fact of creation of the new seatlement
was proclaimed and approved by the monarch, king Sigismund III Vasa (Zygmunt III Waza) for the request of the owner of the lands, noble and a wealthy man, magnate Stanislaus Lubomirski ( Stanislaw Lubomirski)
 


Lubomirski invited an italian architect Maciej Trapola to be the major architect of his court and a newly created town and thanks to his talent the town became one of the most interesting little towns in lesser Poland of that time.



He rebuilt the castle( see my previous posts), built the baroque monastery for carmelite monks ( partly demolished during the second world war by germans occupating the territory) designed and built a baroque church and most importantly he traced the scheme of new streets in the checkers arrangemet with the central town square and a town hall.

Many of buildings were of timber log structure, many inhabited by wealthy jewish comunity .

Unfortunately all of the houses were burnt in a great fire in XIX century.

There is no remainings of those picturesque houses nowadays, but there are some contemporary buildings in town where you can see the architects attempt to keep the character of the previous buildings or even a replicate the past houses.

I am not judging the quality of the buildings but thought it would be interesting to show it in this article.


One of the captured replicated houses is even Maciej Trapola's - architect's house, replica in- situ.

I am also attaching the pictures taken by others of what the town looked like in early XX-th century and sketches of famous polish painter Jan Matejko ( he also used to spend his holidays in Nowy wisnicz)

The town was also a place of birth of another polish painter Juliusz Kossak who lived and created there as well.

Unfortunately one of not many remainings of  jewish culture, is a cemetery located on one of Wisniczs hills.The remainings of the camedules cloister located to the right of the castle where adapted to a new quite opposite function, a prison for prisoners convicted for most cruel crimes - it became a kind of Alcatras of lesser Poland - you can see the picures of the prison/former monastery on the pictures - some of them showing the cloister in its original form, some, the building after terrible violating conversion.

                 







You will find some more information also on:

http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/nowy-wisnicz/3,local-history/

http://www.nw.com.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1314&Itemid=257

http://gorskiewedrowki.blogspot.com/2011/11/miedzy-wisniczem-lipnica.html

http://www.genealogia.okiem.pl/foto2/displayimage.php?album=67&pid=30000

http://katarzyna-monika.blogspot.com/2011/10/nowy-wisnicz-koscio-pw-wniebowziecia.html

http://www.bochenskie.republika.pl/karmel.html

I would like to thank to shetl.org.pl and nw.com.pl websites thanks to which courtesy I could publish some of the pictures.

QUIRINAL HILL - PALAZZO DEL QUIRINALE & PALAZZO DELLA CONSULTA

Quirinal Square and Palazzo del Quirinale & Palazzo della Consulta



The palazzo built in 16th century, comissioned by Pope Paul V on one of the Roman ancient hills - Quirinale.



The building was supposed to be a summer residence for the pope, situated away from the smelly river Tiber (as there was no foul drainage at the time and the all waste were directed staight into the water)became not only a residencebut also a workplace of sevaral popes, kings and presidents nowadays.



The Palace at first was built by Ottaviano Mascherino/ il Mascarino in a renessaince style with porticoed parallel wings and internal courtyard and some time later with the new pope, westwards of the buildings were extended by Domenico Fontana.




Later, the builing gained a bell tower and a chapel designed by Carlo Maderno and Francesco Borromini, richly decorated with frescoes. Carlo Maderno was also a father to the central portal of the building and a balcony above supported by two statues of St Paul and St Peter.




The building also consists a beautiful gardens form 18th century.



In mid 18th century there was another building constructed called Palazzo della Sacra Consulta, to the right hand side of the Palazzo del Quirinale.



Palazzo della Consulta was raised upon the ruins of baths of Constantine and its present facade was designed by Ferdinando Fuga.In early 20th century the building used to be the Mussolini's ministry of colonial affairs.



The piazza del quirinale also features a gigantic Roman marble "Horse Tamers" representing Castor and Pollux, found in the nearby Baths of Constantine .