UK - Oxford - Tower of the Winds spiral stair 02_mono flipped sq_DSC0454
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Inspired by M.C.Escher I've flipped one of my previous uploads of the Tower of the Winds stair and upped the contrast and textures to give a nod towards his iconic artworks. Whereas his works featured endless Mobius loops mine feature stairs that go nowhere.......
I'd always wanted to get inside the Green Templeton College Tower of the Winds and luckily during last years Oxford Open Doors event I was able too. Oxford doesn't have that many spiral stairs surprisingly so it's always good to shoot a new one. I think particularly like shooting them with my 8mm Samyang fisheye.
Click here to see more of my 'flipped' images : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157627889661743
From Wikipedia, "The Tower of the Winds is the prominent octagonal tower on top of the old Radcliffe Observatory building in Oxford, England. The building now forms a centrepiece for Green Templeton College, one of the colleges of Oxford University.
The tower is based on the ancient and smaller Tower of the Winds in Athens, Greece, built c.100–50BC by Andronicus of Cyrrhus for the purpose of measuring time. It is of octagonal stone construction, with eight relief images of Greek mythological wind gods at the top of each side of the tower, carved by John Bacon the Elder in 1792–4. The tower was completed by James Wyatt in 1794. On the top are Atlas and Hercules supporting a globe in white, also by John Bacon. The reliefs of the signs of the zodiac above the windows on the first floor are made of Coade stone by J. C. F. Rossi. Inside the tower, there are three main rooms on top of each other.
The Tower of the Winds is situated in prominent view just to the north of the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter (ROQ), an area for Oxford University departments including the Blavatnik School of Government, and south of Observatory Street, named after its former use as an observatory. To the south is the Mathematical Institute building and Somerville College, juxtaposing the new 21st-century architecture of the buildings with the old 17th-century style of the observatory. To the west is the Jericho Health Centre and beyond that Walton Street, with a view of the tower in the distance from the southern end looking north along the street. To the east are the Woodstock Road and the front entrance of Green Templeton College, with St Anne's College opposite."
© D.Godliman
UK - Oxford - Tower of the Winds spiral stair 02_mono flipped sq_DSC0454
My Website : Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : Photocrowd
Inspired by M.C.Escher I've flipped one of my previous uploads of the Tower of the Winds stair and upped the contrast and textures to give a nod towards his iconic artworks. Whereas his works featured endless Mobius loops mine feature stairs that go nowhere.......
I'd always wanted to get inside the Green Templeton College Tower of the Winds and luckily during last years Oxford Open Doors event I was able too. Oxford doesn't have that many spiral stairs surprisingly so it's always good to shoot a new one. I think particularly like shooting them with my 8mm Samyang fisheye.
Click here to see more of my 'flipped' images : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157627889661743
From Wikipedia, "The Tower of the Winds is the prominent octagonal tower on top of the old Radcliffe Observatory building in Oxford, England. The building now forms a centrepiece for Green Templeton College, one of the colleges of Oxford University.
The tower is based on the ancient and smaller Tower of the Winds in Athens, Greece, built c.100–50BC by Andronicus of Cyrrhus for the purpose of measuring time. It is of octagonal stone construction, with eight relief images of Greek mythological wind gods at the top of each side of the tower, carved by John Bacon the Elder in 1792–4. The tower was completed by James Wyatt in 1794. On the top are Atlas and Hercules supporting a globe in white, also by John Bacon. The reliefs of the signs of the zodiac above the windows on the first floor are made of Coade stone by J. C. F. Rossi. Inside the tower, there are three main rooms on top of each other.
The Tower of the Winds is situated in prominent view just to the north of the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter (ROQ), an area for Oxford University departments including the Blavatnik School of Government, and south of Observatory Street, named after its former use as an observatory. To the south is the Mathematical Institute building and Somerville College, juxtaposing the new 21st-century architecture of the buildings with the old 17th-century style of the observatory. To the west is the Jericho Health Centre and beyond that Walton Street, with a view of the tower in the distance from the southern end looking north along the street. To the east are the Woodstock Road and the front entrance of Green Templeton College, with St Anne's College opposite."
© D.Godliman