Showing posts with label y: 1904. Show all posts
Showing posts with label y: 1904. Show all posts

1928. The Hill House at Helensburgh


 













Dear Margaret,

"You must be independent, don't talk so much but 
do more, go your own way and let your neighbor 
go his" (Charles Rennie Mackintosh)

Regards,
R

1821. Siege Memorial to the Honoured Dead, Kimberley













Dear Elon,

The Siege Memorial to the Honoured Dead in Kimberley
was designed by British architect Herbert Baker who
took inspiration for its design from the Nereid Monument
(390 BC) at Xanthos in Lycia, Turkey.

Regards,
R

1731.City Hall Loop, Rapid Transit Tunnel, New York, NY














Dear George,

"The architects of America owe him [Rafael Guastavino Moreno] a debt of gratitude for not only having been a faithful and conscientious contractor, but for having made possible a larger field of architectural design." 
(Peter B. Wight)

Respectfully,
R

1551. Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow, 1904














Dear Alice,

"It's not use going back to yesterday, but I was a different
person then" (Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland)

Best regards,
R

1281. Sanatorium Purkersdorf, Kurhaus
















Dear Johannes,

"Beauty is the result of centuries of care and ordering"
(Josef Hoffmann)

Sincerely,
R