cee’s fun foto challenge – old buildings

“How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50!
One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, “I could have done that!”
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“New ideas often need old buildings.”
Jane Jacobs

Not all old houses have to fall apart. This is the oldest house in Bruges “Bonifacius” by the Groenerei canal. A16th-century house that today is a 5* B&B. – September 2017

“If you survive long enough, you’re revered –
rather like an old building.”
Katharine Hepburn

The Tbilisi Oldtown (Dzveli Tbilisi) – it looks worst then it’s – behind the decay, there are beautiful modern homes at most places. It is a part of Tbilisi that any camera loves – December 2018

“Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes
become respectable with age.”
Mark Twain

The yellow Ottoman style building on the Yerebatan Cad., Sultanhamet district of Istanbul was a Police station. But in February 2015 a female suicide bomber blew herself up inside the building and it has since then been emptied, today it is being rebuilt – June 2015

“Old buildings whisper to us in the creaking of floorboards
and rattling of windowpanes.”
Fennel Hudson

My friend Ann-Christin’s (Leya) powder room at their lovely cute summer house in Blekinge – July 2017

“An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building.
And the building tells you how to redo it.”
Cameron Mackintosh

Willa Szai Światłowskiego, another magnificent old building … that has been looked after. Today located in Plac Zabawa’s open-air museum in Łódź, Poland. The former 19th-century villa (summer resident) of Szai Światłowski was moved from Ruda Pabianicka (south Łódź) to its current location next to the White Factory in 2008 – October 2017

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: All about buildings: Old buildings, barns, sheds, houses