Courtyard

The design of this place is just incredible. Too bad you don't see the same grandeur in most current architecture, but I guess the cost must be prohibitive.

once again, lynne beat me to a comment.....

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the design of this place is amazing. there are alot of weird shadows going on though this shot would be really good if shot at a different time of day . Have you tried shooting at a different time?

I live up here and i just went there last night with my friends, on Wed 3/8/06 i saw a white truck there..my friends were there on tuesday 3/7 and everything was open...wen we went on theuday 3/9 there were new senors on the one door people were using to break in and alot of the other doors were newly boarded up, and brand new POSTED signs were hung all over...it was creepy as hell you have no idea....it was beautiful architecture tho

This place is full of wonderful brick and stone work. I love the "window toppers". I can't seem to remember what these are called. I knew it a minute ago........

Reddll, thats what we call a brain fart.

Some windows in the left centre are bricked up.

I once heard the difference in old-style architecture and modern architecture explained this way: in past centuries, materials were very expensive, but time was cheap. Time was the one thing that most people had in abundance. So when builders went to the trouble of securing the expensive materials, they wanted to show them off with the finest craftsmanship and detail. Today, because of all the technology we have, materials are cheap but time is very expensive. Not to mention that we've become so accustomed to modern technology and decades of accepting as an article of faith the idea that newer ways are better just because they are newer (by now many of us have seen the folly of that assumption) and some crafts and techniques cannot now be re-created. They are lost arts. States also tried to out-do each other when they erected public buildings, whether a capitol or a psychiatric hospital.

Aarrghh, time/cost prohibitive, my sock!!