architectural

The Treasury Building, also previously known as the New Public Offices, is a heritage-listed former government public administration building located at 21 Queen Street, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1886 to 1928 for the Queensland Government. On 21 October 1992, the Italian Renaissance[1] style building was added to the Queensland Heritage Register.[2] The building is located at North Quay, near the northern end of Victoria Bridge. Although officially fronting Queen Street, the building occupies an entire city block surrounded by Queen Street, George Street, Elizabeth Street, and William Street. The Elizabeth Street frontage is opposite the Queens Gardens. In the 1890s and early 1900s, the imposing Treasury Building served as a symbol of self-government and as a focus for celebratory and patriotic displays. It is currently occupied by the Treasury Casino owned by Star Entertainment Group. The Treasury Building, a four-storeyed masonry perimeter block, occupies an entire city block bounded by Queen, George, Elizabeth, and William Streets. It forms the northern edge of the group of important public buildings surrounding Queens Gardens. These include the Lands Administration Building to the southeast of the park, the Family Services Building to the northeast, and on the southwestern edge, between the gardens and the Brisbane River, the Old State Library, and the North Quay porphyry wall.[2] Like the Treasury Building, the gardens, neighboring buildings, and walls are all heritage-listed. William Street facade completed in the first stage, 2014 The view of the William Street facade from the river, although interrupted by South-East Freeway, is enhanced by the elevated position of the site. The building consists of a partly sunken basement and an elevated ground floor or piano nobile above which are two additional floors. It is built to the property alignment around a large central courtyard.[2] The design is consistent with the English practice of the late nineteenth century in employing a classical style drawn from sixteenth-century Italian architecture. Arcades protect the northeast, northwest, and southwest elevations. The arcaded facades are symmetrical with central towers of one additional story surmounted by a pediment. The corners are emphasized with pavilions that step forward terminating the arcades. The basement walls are distinguished by smooth banded rustication. The southeast facade has no arcade and no central tower. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasury_Building,_Brisbane

St Patrick's Cathedral is a dominant Victorian Gothic church built from basalt and located on James Street, Toowoomba. It was designed by James Marks for the then Catholic Toowoomba Mission and was built between 1883 and 1889.[2] The Cathedral is a fine example of the Victorian Gothic architectural style, the distinguishing elements of which include steeply pitched roofs, buttresses, pinnacles, tracery and pointed arches. Also included in the Queensland Heritage Register's entry is the Presbytery, with walls of face brick and a tiled roof, which is sited on the eastern side of the Cathedral building.[2] St Patrick's is cruciform in plan, and almost 61 meters (200 ft) long and 31 meters (102 ft) wide. The main gabled roof contains the nave and features a stone cross at its apex of the front gable parapet. It intersects with the gabled roofs over each transept. All are steeply pitched. The Cathedral's stonework is "hammer dressed square rubble". A brick chimneystack protrudes through the roof at the western end of the building. One large, timber-battened gable end projects off the main roof at the east end of the southern facade. At the west end of this facade, the roof is hipped. The gable end projecting east is clad in chamfer boards. Space only 4 meters (13 ft) wide at its narrowest separates the Presbytery from a recently constructed brick Parish Centre to the south. St Patrick's was originally a modest timber church but following its destruction in 1883 by fire, work began on St Patrick's Cathedral. The building of the Cathedral was an indication of the emerging importance and institutional presence of the Roman Catholic Church in the Darling Downs region, and the development of St Patrick's following the creation of the Diocese of Toowoomba in 1929 reaffirmed the permanency and strength of Catholicism in the region.[2] Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Patrick%27s_Cathedral,_Toowoomba

The Pennsylvania State Memorial at Gettysburg (AKA the Pennsylvania State Monument) is the largest and most complex monument in the battlefield park. It was designed by W. Liance Cottrell (1868-1964), and erected in 1910. The final result closely resembles the design of this tabletop model, but some details (notably the swag decorations on the dome) were omitted or altered. A half-dozen individual sculptors contributed the various statues and bas reliefs that adorn the monument.