I do too.
Probably a bit of unnecessary compulsiveness, but I want to rotate it a few degrees clockwise to get the windows pointing into the corner of the frame.
Scott
I'm with Scott on wanting to rotate it a little, but then again, I'm kind of OCD prone.
I'd like to know the material beneath (or is it above?) the windows. It appears to be cement, but I'm thinking it could be metal as well. Also, the surface next to the stairs (or is it fan?) looks like plaster.
I know, these may seem like odd questions, but that is one aspect and beauty of photography and the shot you've shared: I'm taken to a place I'll never likely see otherwise, and so I have questions.
Thanks All!
This was taken in a building that was built from 1929-1938, the Glencairn Mansion. Glencairn was the home of Raymond and Mildred Pitcairn, built in the Romanesque style between 1928 and 1939. Prior to this time Raymond Pitcairn, who had no formal training in architecture, had supervised the erection of the acclaimed Bryn Athyn Cathedral, a Gothic and Romanesque style complex. Arthur Kingsley Porter, a noted architectural historian, wrote that the Cathedral "alone of modern buildings, is worthy of comparison with the best the Middle Ages produced."
Pitcairn's fondness for medieval architecture inspired him to revive a building process unknown since the Middle Ages:
"Growth of designs that develop with the building is inherent in the creation of living architecture.... Artistic guidance applied continuously, and designers and craftsmen who work side by side, see eye to eye, and strive ever to build better and to produce work more beautiful, are needed for real building. The use of local materials, the study and development of designs by the aid of tridimensional models, the trial of materials in place before their final building in, and a determination to abandon even finished work if this will lead to something better -- all contribute to building in the Gothic way."
The material is all stone and the glass is set in metal. I was not prepared for what was there to photograph when we showed up, I am hoping to go back!
