The Greek Columns of the Pumping Station: Baroque Gables and Waterworks

Architectural photography of an early twentieth-century waterworks pump house in Taipei, Taiwan, in the manner of Moriyama Matsunosuke. A long single-storey classical pavilion fronted by a colonnade of Tuscan columns carrying a heavy entablature, its centre marked by a swelling baroque pediment with scrolled volutes and a cartouche. Cream painted plaster over brick, tall round-arched windows between the columns, a wide flight of stone steps rising to the entrance. Set against a green wooded hillside with mature trees and cicada-loud subtropical summer light, frontal view, photorealistic, 8k. --ar 16:9 --v 6.0