A few nice business checking images I found:
Art and business
Image by Darkroom Daze
HAMILTON CITY HALL AND ARTS CENTRE (9)
Local office worker in Bermuda business clothes walks past local artist Bill Ming's sculpture, Family Circle, in the atrium of Hamilton City Hall and Arts Centre.
During the day, the atrium is used as a short-cut as there is a door to the streets outside both to L and R of this view. I wish the background in this shot was sharper, but I had to grab my chance and didn't have time to check my camera settings.
Although similar clothing is worn in some other parts of the world, the characteristics of Bermuda business attire are (according to Wikipedia): "shorts made of suit-like material and worn with knee-length socks, a dress shirt, tie, and blazer." Shorts of this length everywhere, whether casual or smart, now seem be called universally 'Bermuda shorts', so it seems that along with Bermuda rig of sailing boats, this is something that Bermuda gave the rest of the world.
The City Hall was completed in 1960. It is the the seat of the City of Hamilton's corporation. It is also the Bermuda National Gallery and home of the Bermuda Society of Arts. It has a theatre for stage, music, and dance productions. The art gallery and exhibitions, many of them devoted to works by local as well as visiting artists, are free to the public and always worth visiting. The architect was Wil Onions, local to Bermuda. His hallmark was revival of local vernacular 'cottage' style, though this is less obvious here as the scale is grander. The staircase is made of endemic Bermuda cedar (Juniperus bermudiana Linnaeus).
Wikipedia gives a useful summary of Bermuda's distinctive traditional architecture.
Hamilton city (not to be confused with Hamilton Parish) is in Pembroke Parish and is the capital of Bermuda.
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Attendees check out the Dell workstations
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Attendees check out the Dell workstations
