Images George Rex: May 2022

Tuesday, 31 May 2022

Norman Castle / Aci Castello

Castle built on a magma outcrop in 1071-1081, by Norman conquerors Robert Guiscard and Ruggero D’Altavilla. Now a museum. Aci Castello, Catania, Sicily, Italy.

Monday, 30 May 2022

Via Maria Callas / Sign

Street sign next to the Catania opera house, Sicily, Italy.

Sunday, 29 May 2022

Via G Perrotta / Catania

Graffiti on Via Giuseppe Perrotta. The street is close to Catania's opera house. Catania, Sicily, Italy.

Saturday, 28 May 2022

Catania Odeon / II

Curving arcade within the smaller of the two ancient theatres in Catania constructed in the Roman era circa C2AD.

Friday, 27 May 2022

Odeon / Catania

Roman Odeon, believed to date from C2AD, located close to the larger theatre of the same era. Interior detail shows use of basalt ("lava-stone") blocks and brick. Catania, Sicily, Italy.

Thursday, 26 May 2022

Ancient Theatre / Catania

Ancient Roman theatre thought built in C2AD near the site of an earlier Greek one. Designed for about 7,000 spectators. Catania, Sicily, Italy.

Wednesday, 25 May 2022

Bellini Garden / Bandstand

Bandstand in the Villa Bellini Garden, made of cast iron in the "Moorish style", built in 1879. Catania, Sicily, Italy.

Bellini Garden / Catania

Large public garden opened in 1883, here showing part of the monumental entrance off Etnea Street. Catania, Sicily, Italy.

Tuesday, 24 May 2022

Architect: Giovanni Battista Vaccarini, 1730s, utilizing a basalt elephant, possibly of the Roman era, and an even older Egyptian obelisk. Positioned over a marble fountain in the Piazza del Duomo, Catania, Sicily.

Monday, 23 May 2022

Umbrellas / Catania

Near the fish market, Cantania, Sicily, Italy.

Palazzo dell'Università / Catania

Palazzo dell'Università, much of which dates from C18. Designed in the Baroque style by F.Battaglia, A.Battaglia and G.B.Vaccarini. Siculorum Gymnasium, Piazza dell'Università, Catania, Sicily.

Sunday, 15 May 2022

Festival Pier / London

River boat stop on the Thames, serving the South Bank complex. London.

Saturday, 14 May 2022

Catalpa / Whitehall Gdns

Ancient Catalpa tree in Whitehall Gardens, with wooden props making it reminiscent of a Dali painting. Victoria Embankment, City of Westminster, London.

Friday, 13 May 2022

Women of WW2 / Monument

Sculptor: J W Mills (b.1933 London), installed on Whitehall in 2005. Bronze memorial to the 7 million women who contributed to the war effort. Westminster, London.

Thursday, 12 May 2022

Bankside Lofts / 2022

Architects: CZWG, 1999. Showing the residential tower with large steel windows in an orange rendered frame. Bankside, London Borough of Southwark.

Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Blavatnik Building / Detail

Architects: Herzog & de Meuron, 2016. RIBA London Award 2017 and RIBA National Award 2017. Tate Modern, London Borough of Southwark.

Tuesday, 10 May 2022

Blavatnik Building / Looking up

Architects: Herzog & de Meuron, 2016. RIBA London Award 2017 and RIBA National Award 2017. Tate Modern, London Borough of Southwark.

Monday, 9 May 2022

Southwark Bridge / 20220430

Road bridge opened in 1921, designed by architects Sir Ernest George and Basil Mott. Five steel arches are supported by granite piers. Viewed from London Borough of Southwark.

Vintners Place / EC4

Neo-classical commercial office building completed 1993 by a consortium of developers, including the Vintners' livery company. Ionic portico faces the river Thames. London.

Sunday, 8 May 2022

Borough Yards / III

New mixed-use development around the railway arches near Borough Market, designed by SPPARC. Neon artwork by FRA Creative. London Borough of Southwark.

Saturday, 7 May 2022

Old Red Lion / SE11

Mock Tudor public house built 1933, replacing an earlier one of c.1750. Style described as Tudorbethan in the Grade II listing. London Borough of Southwark.

Friday, 6 May 2022

Dome / Kennington Station

Underground station of 1890, exterior designed by TP Figgis. The large lead dome originally housed the workings of a hydraulic lift. Grade II listed. London Borough of Southwark.

Thursday, 5 May 2022

Civilian Memorial / Richard Kindersley

Sculptor: Richard Kindersley (b.1939 UK), Caithness stone memorial installed in Kennington Park in 2006. Commemorates the loss of over 100 local people when a 50lb bomb hit an air-raid shelter near this spot in 1940. London Borough of Lambeth.

Wednesday, 4 May 2022

Christ Church / Brixton Road

Architect: Beresford Pite in Byzantine style, 1907, Grade II* listed. Brixton Road, London Borough of Lambeth.

Tuesday, 3 May 2022

Park Heights / Lambeth

Architects: PRP, 2015, for Network Homes. RIBA London Regional Award 2017. This residential tower was originally clad with the same ACM as Grenfell Tower. Recladding completed 2021. London Borough of Lambeth.

Monday, 2 May 2022

Elmore House / II

Six-storey block containing 63 dwellings, designed by the LCC Architect's Department, Housing Division, 1955. Part of the Loughborough Estate development which provided over 1,000 dwellings in medium and low-rise modernist blocks of flats and maisonettes. Loughborough Junction, London Borough of Lambeth.

Sunday, 1 May 2022

Southwark Cathedral / Tower

Ashlar tower dates from C14-C15 with early C19 pinnacles added by George Gwilt Jnr. Grade I listed. Once the Medieval Augustinian priory of St Mary Overie and an Anglican cathedral since 1905. London Borough of Southwark.