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FRIDAY,  MARCH 5, 2022



The  614th Edition

TRIANGULAR

BUILDINGS

ALL OVER THE PLACE 

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Indianapolis circa 1905. “Knights of Pythias Building.” Last glimpsed here, 10 years ago! 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

Triangular Lodge, Rushton, Northamptonshire.jpg

This amazing triangular building was designed by Sir Thomas Tresham (father of one of the Gunpowder Plotters) and constructed between 1593 and 1597. It is a testament to Tresham’s Roman Catholicism: the number three, symbolising the Holy Trinity, is apparent everywhere. There are three floors, trefoil windows and three triangular gables on each side.On the entrance front is the inscription ‘Tres Testimonium Dant’ (‘there are three that give witness’), a Biblical quotation from St John’s Gospel referring to the Trinity. It is also a pun on Tresham’s name; his wife called him ‘Good Tres’ in her letters

New York Flatiron triangular building – panoramio.jpg

Gastown Buildings on Cambie Street – panoramio.jpg

Saint-Petersburg. Apartment house of V. A. Ratkov-Rozhnov. Embankment of the Griboyedov Canal, 71.jpg

Boat hause-Shimon Levi house-Tel Aviv.jpg

Shimeon Levi house, 56 Levanda St, Tel Aviv Built 1934-1935 commonly known as “Ship building” Architects: Shimon Hamadi Levi, Arieh Cohen. Bauhaus.

Rue Breguet & Rue Boulle, Paris October 2012.jpg Rue Breguet & Rue Boulle, Paris October 2012.

Triangular office block at London Wall – geograph.org.uk – 643161.jpg

http://P1330656 Paris VI rue de Rennes rwk.jpg

Gebäude Ecke Appelstraße – Herrenhäuser Kirchweg.jpg

Hay Building, Portland, Maine.jpg

Hay Building, also known as the Charles Q. Clapp Building, is a historic commercial building on Congress Square in downtown Portland, Maine. It occupies a prominent triangular site at the junction of Congress, High and Free Streets. Built in 1826.

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