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This shot was captured on a guided tour of 700 Bourke Street, which houses 5,000 worker bees for National Australia Bank (NAB) - it is a modern day salt mine with funkiness!!
The workplace design is very modern with lots of special spaces to hang out in different work groups, but I think it is a shame that individual employees do not have a sense of their own space, as no one has their own desk where they can keep a family photo or photos of their kids or pets. Obviously NAB likes to keep all employees on their toes!!
The building is triangular in shape, with wonderful colours that reflect local geology and space. This carries right from the lagre spaces to the decorations on the walls and window shapes.
This shot captures the large triangular skylights that fill the whole atrium from 14 storeys above the ground floor. Lower floors have precarious walkways that allow workers to cross from one side of the building to the other.
Her ser du et atrium, som er et åpent rom i midten av et bygg. Illustrasjon: Nordic Office of Architecture / Nye SUS.
Taken in 2011.
In the atrium of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, on Boston's North Shore. The huge banner announces Golden: Dutch & Flemish Masterworks, a huge exhibit at the time.
In Via Garibaldi 7, Palazzo Podestà /Palazzo Nicolosio Lomellino, Genova, Italy.
The atrium stucco was designed by Giovanni Battista Castello, and was presumably executed by Marcello Sparzo, well after the designer's death, around 1606.
UFA-Kristallpalast
Built in 1997-1998, opened 1998.
8 screens, 2668 seats
Architects: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Koh Samui Airport, situated in the North Eastern corner of Koh Samui about a 10 minute drive to the busiest town on the Island, Chaweng.
The airport is privately owned by Bangkok Airways and took 7 years to build, being officially opened in April, 1989. This serene and unique airport has no built in area apart from some offices and public toilets.
The vehicles that transport passengers to and from the planes from the terminal are a hybrid of a bus, tram and train, hence the nickname, "people movers".
The Chicago Cultural Center, opened in 1897, is a Chicago Landmark building that houses the city's official reception venue where the Mayor of Chicago has welcomed Presidents and royalty, diplomats and community leaders. It is located in the Loop, across Michigan Avenue from Millennium Park. Originally the central library building, it was converted to an arts and culture center at the instigation of Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Lois Weisberg. The city's central library is now housed across the Loop in the spacious, post-modernist Harold Washington Library Center opened in 1991.
As the nation's first free municipal cultural center, the Chicago Cultural Center is one of the city's most popular attractions and is considered one of the most comprehensive arts showcases in the United States. Each year, the Chicago Cultural Center features more than 1,000 programs and exhibitions covering a wide range of the performing, visual and literary arts. It also serves as headquarters for the Chicago Children's Choir.
According to Crain's Chicago Business, the Chicago Cultural Center was the fifth most-visited cultural institution in the Chicago area in 2007, with 821,000 visitors.
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"Stari grad" (Old Town) was one among the castles which were erected across Croatia by aristocratic family Zrinski. The castle consists of two citadels with two interior yards (atrium). At the front of the castle there is a bell tower with a baroque dome, dating from 1790. The church of St Nicholas is a one-nave space, formerly a warehouse for salt, which was adapted for church purposes in the 18th c. The church is a constituent part of this complex and together they present a unique spatial unit. Despite heavy bombing at the end of WW2, the complex has maintained its original characteristics of an early-baroque structure.
The Frankopan town – castle is a mediaeval defensive structure, situated on a hill above the sea. It dominates in its surroundings with its dimensions and shape and it represents a unique architectural accent in the environment. Petar Zrinski started the construction works in 1650 in the shape of a rectangular fortified yard with exterior corner towers of a circular shape. The castle was built on the basis of a late-Renaissance fort, but with numerous Baroque details. The constructor is unknown, but it can be assumed, according to economical and political connections of prince Petar Zrinski and comparative morphological research, that the main constructors were from Veneto.
The castle consists of basement level where there were warehouses, and the first and second storey surrounded by a beautiful atrium. The inner yard with a cistern in the middle (with coats of arms of the Zrinski and Frankopans) is opened with colonnades around it. Jesuits, the owners of the castle from 1883 have annexed the second storey and changed the interior ground plan arrangement.
Even though the castle looks like a fort from the outside, it wasn`t the purpose for its construction, because there was no need for such at that time. Still, according to its interior features it is constructed as a residential castle. It was luxuriously furnished.
The downfall of the Zrinski and the Frankopans after the failure of the conspiracy in 1671, brought to the ravaging of the castle, and numerous further renovations which have changed its appearance (monastery, colegium, hospital). Moreover, the main architectural elements and a large part of manneristic and early-Baroque architectural sculpture have been preserved, what makes the castle one of the most significant historical structures of the wider region. Apart from its cultural and architectural values, it possesses substantial historical, symbolic and associative worth, most of all as a former seat of the most important Croatian aristocratic families, and legend has it that it was the place where the Zrinski-Frankopans conspiracy against the Hapsburg dynasty came to existence.
Kraljevica (known as Porto Re in Italian and literally translated as "King's cove" in English) is a town in the Kvarner region of the country of Croatia, located between Rijeka and Crikvenica, approximately thirty kilometers from Opatija and near the entrance to the bridge to the island of Krk. Its population is 2,897 and a total of 4,579 in the municipality (2001), and it is administratively governed under the Rijeka civil authority.
Kraljevica is a town that was written about as early as the 13th century. Today, in addition to having the oldest shipyard on the Adriatic, Kraljevica's skyline is dominated by two medieval castles and a church of the Croatian nobles Zrinski and Frankopan. Kraljevica's shipyard employed Josip Broz Tito, the former leader of Yugoslavia, during the first half of the 20th century in his early years of organizing for the Communist Party. After he became marshal of Yugoslavia following World War II the shipyard took his name, until democratic changes in the 1990s.
Today Kraljevica is also a popular tourist destination on the Adriatic coast. The Krk Bridge is located nearby, in the southeast part of the city.
Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort and Spa atrium, featuring the ground floor. This area is open to the public and is often busy with people walking around, both day and night. The greenery gives a cool feel to the area, despite the heat outside, particularly the tall palm trees.
Interior of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). Architects include GBQC Architects, Douglas J. Cardinal, SmithGroup, Polshek Partnership Architects, 2005. Postmodern organic design of 7 floors with this huge atrium inside. National Mall, Washington D.C.
Just a few hundred yards from the waters of the great Kanawha River looms the impressive State Capitol Complex of West Virginia. Designed and built by Cass Gilbert, the capitol was completed in 1932, having taken 8 years to complete. The structure features east and west wings with a central block and dome facing the river. The capitol is a remarkable blend of Greek and Roman styles, indicative of the Neo-Classical period of the early 20th century.
The West Virginia Senate Chamber occupies the western end of the main block of the Capitol Building. Gilbert designed the chamber in the tradition of the Roman Basilica, with four prominent archways opening into galleries and upwards to a dome from which hangs a massive crystal chandelier comprised of 10,000 pieces of rock crystal. The desks and diam are constructed of West Virginia black walnut. Lamps of Italian alabaster sit atop Italian brown marble pedestals. A marble clock framed with two eagles sits above the president's chair. The ceiling features coffers filled with plaster motifs of daisies and other West Virginia wild flowers, and a stained glass sky light serves as an oculus for the dome.
In Via Garibaldi 7, Palazzo Podestà /Palazzo Nicolosio Lomellino, Genova, Italy.
The atrium stucco was designed by Giovanni Battista Castello, and was presumably executed by Marcello Sparzo, well after the designer's death, around 1606.
Warning: the five details do not provide the entire view of the ceiling.
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Here's a shoot I made on My way home from work a few years ago, it is as the title says of The Royal Danish Library, also know as the Black Diamond, here's another photo of it, with a short description of why it's called The Black Diamond.
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