South Lanarkshire Council HQ at dusk,Almada St, Hamilton ML3 0AA

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Contributor:
Tony SmithImage ID:
HK3H55File size:
44.3 MB (2 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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3648 x 4248 px | 30.9 x 36 cm | 12.2 x 14.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
24 January 2017Location:
Almada St, Hamilton, Scotland, UK ML3 0AAMore information:
. This dated editorial view of Almada St, Hamilton, Scotland, UK ML3 0AA in 2017 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The photograph centres on South Lanarkshire Council HQ at dusk, Almada St, Hamilton ML3 0AA. The locality and subject together evoke adaptive reuse, period architecture, social history, period building, architectural detail, visual archive, regional identity, conservation architecture, everyday life, documentary photography, period detail, local history, contemporary social history, and conservation interest. The wider contemporary story combines redevelopment pressure, planning control and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character. Future viewers can use this scene from Almada St, Hamilton, Scotland, UK ML3 0AA to compare local activity and public use with whatever follows after altered transport patterns. A second descriptive layer includes archival record, place identity, architectural character, heritage asset, historic townscape, changing streetscape, before-and-after reference, and historic streetscape. References to Hamilton, Council, Almada, and Lanarkshire give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. Around Almada St, Hamilton, Scotland, UK ML3 0AA, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. Another strand within the photograph is redevelopment pressure and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character within the real-world context of Almada St, Hamilton, Scotland, UK ML3 0AA. The setting also helps illustrate redevelopment pressure and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character within the specific setting of Almada St, Hamilton, Scotland, UK ML3 0AA. The image fixes a local visual benchmark before later change alters the scene.