WHY CONSTRUCTION DESIGN DETAILS ?

Because I think they are beautiful, interesting, creative and often personalized. Starting in 2004 my wife, Tracy, and I started building Colonial Style Homes in Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico. As we designed the homes and selected the construction and design details, I started photographing construction, or design, details, that interested me in Patzcuaro. These included Door Knockers, Metal Door Hardware, Wooden Carved Doors & Columns, and many other details. Then as we traveled throughout Mexico & the USA and to Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Croatia & Italy, I expanded my list of building details and my photo library grew exponentially.

Now friends have started sending me interesting photos from their travels. I trust that you will enjoy these photos. Some of the designs are centuries old and one finds many of them in exact replica throughout the New World, Europe & the Middle East.

If you have some building design detail photos that you feel would compliment the photos on this blog. Please send them to me at: glen.novinger (at) gmail (dot) com

Sunday, June 27, 2010

France - Building Design Details

Each country, and each region, has its particular building designs and the details or particular details of design that are evident in the buildings, doors, windows, wells, fountains and more.  But underlying the differences from country to country is the even more remarkable similarity that is evident as one compares Building Design Details.

Following are some examples of Buildings from France.

Sologne, France (10) 

Sologne, France (15)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sologne, France (7)

La Courtairie (12)

Water Pumps & Wells of France,

Houssay (10)  Sologne, France (31)
 Houssay (22) Houssay (17)

And, Doors of France,

Tours, France (93) - Copy Tours, France (62) - Copy

Lavardin, France (12) - Copy

Blois (9) - Copy

To see other Building Design Detail photos such as the Door Knockers below, go to my Flickr Album at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/organize/?start_tab=sets

Tours, France (104) Tours, France (22)

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