Streamline Moderne

I've wanted to practice taking pictures at night of this particular building for some weeks now, since I learnt a little about the M and B settings on my camera. The various lights on the building do a great job in keeping the horrible garish yellow street lights at bay, mostly.

This is the Strand Cinema in east Belfast, built in 1935. You can see in the distance on the right, the red lights atop the now redundant cranes of the Harland & Wolff shipyard. I say redundant, but they've recently been "listed" and are now protected by law and will serve for many years to come as a symbol of Belfast's shipbuilding heritage and dominate the "Titanic Quarter" of Belfast which is currently being tarted up by developers to turn a fast buck and by the Belfast City Council to help attract tourists to the site of the building of the ill-fated Titanic and her sister ships, the Britannic and the Olympic.

I mention this as the design of the Strand was influenced greatly by it's proximity to the shipyards with it's curved walls and portholed foyer. According to Wikipedia, the building underwent various unsympathetic renovations in the 60s and 70s but was restored properly in 1999. Check out the STERN view.

I may well Blip it again at night, as I was a in a bit of a hurry on my way home, and felt a bit rushed!

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