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The splendid octagonal Chapter House of Wells Cathedral, completed in 1306. Dedicated to St Andrew and built between 1175 and 1490, Wells is considered to be one of England's finest Gothic cathedrals.
This is what the atrium of an abandoned hotel looks during the autumn aura..
When the hotel atrium was not abandoned, there were pots with palm trees placed inside, and the walls were not covered with ivy(I've found old photos in hotel). Due to high humidity and great sunlight, the ivy grew throughout the whole atrium creating stunning scenery.
Oryginal dimension: 178x228cm
Number of photos: 2 photos merged in one
Retouch: Yes (half of the leaves were still green, color changed to post-production)
Not 'the place of kings' really, but a nice discovery nonetheless. A business office I visited turned out to be also a fine theatre / concert / gallery venue: cool!
Testing a new phone app: FotoIr. Why do all apps with more interesting filters have to cripple file size? Why do we buy phones that shoot in 8Mp (and more) only to end up with 600x800 $#!+ ?!..
Philologische Bibliothek der Freien Universität
Berlin
Norman Foster, arch. 2005
...didn't quite hit the center of this one. But we were late getting there, and as such had all of 15 minutes to get to see the entire building, so careful framing was not really an option.
The GUM (Moscow, Russia).
The ornate Neo-Russian facade of GUM, Moscow's "State Department Store", takes up almost the entire eastern side of Red Square. Built between 1890 and 1893 by Alexander Pomerantsev, the building features an interesting combination of elements of Russian medieval ecclesiastical architecture and an elegant steel framework and glass roof, reminiscent of the great turn of the century train stations of Paris and London. This modern 3-story arcade is the largest shop in Moscow and was built to replace the old hall of the Upper Trading Rows, which existed earlier on the same site but burnt down in 1825. The original hall contained some 1,200 separate shops and stalls and was one of Moscow's liveliest markets. After the 1917 Revolution the arcade was nationalized and renamed GUM. Commercial activity continued there until 1928 when the committee in charge of Stalin's First Five-Year Plan took over the building to use as office space. The GUM building was used again in 1932 to display the body of Stalin's wife, Nadezhda, after she committed suicide and was used to assemble the various banners, photographs and Soviet propaganda materials used during parades on Red square.
GUM boasts an elegant turn-of-the-century interior, comprising three parallel arcades centered on a fountain and overlooked by galleries. Light floods in through the building's glass roof and souvenir stands, foreign stores and designer boutiques fill the arcades.
Light floods the atrium of the Park Hotel Tokyo lobby on the 25th floor of the Shidome Media Tower.
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The mall, a public pedestrian space between the ICC and Symphony Hall, in Birmingham, England.
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The International Convention Centre.
It all started back in 1987, when construction work on the ICC began on the site originally occupied by Bingley Hall, which was the world’s first purpose-built exhibition space when built in 1850. Rather fitting really, as the desire to be at the forefront of exhibition innovation lies in our very foundations. Quite literally in this case.
Everything about the building was thought through and exudes quality. The Halls have been built to withstand noise from the surrounding areas and the main line railway track that runs under the building, with the installation of premium sound insulation. The eagled-eyed of you will have noticed that when you walk into the ICC from canalside it is marked as level 2. This is because the architects gave the installation a whole level of its own. The whole building was thought through to the minute details to give the best customer experience. Even the chairs within Hall 1 and 5 were chosen with delegates in mind, who would be sitting still for long periods of time. Each one cost over £1,000 and provides comfort equivalent to those used for first class air travel.
On 2nd April 1991, the ICC hosted its very first event, the British Small Animal Veterinary Association’s annual congress. We must have done something right, as we’ve hosted this event every year since and will do until at least 2020, though it’s fair to say it’s a much larger affair today. Yet our biggest achievement in that time has been ensuring that no two events have ever been quite the same. That corners have never been cut, or laurels rested on. Instead, we’ve pushed for originality at every opportunity.
A few months later on 12th June, the site was officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II who then attended the International Olympic Committee’s 97th Session taking place at the time. Yet while countless other royals, stars and politicians have generated crowds at the ICC since that landmark opening, it’s the crowds inside our venue we’re truly focused on. And always will be.
Fast forward to 2015 as the venue approached its 25th anniversary, we felt it was time for a change and the right time to refresh the physical look and feel of the space – without taking away from its iconic characteristics – to create an even better experience for The ICC’s customers.
One of the most noticeable improvements was during 2016, as large format digital screens were added throughout the Public Mall and portable screens were installed to make the space more dynamic and interactive. There has also been investment into connectivity with Wi-Fi upgrades, along with modernisation of the lighting throughout the Mall, Registration and Foyer areas.
The programme has also improved the conference facilities for delegates with a facelift to the venue’s largest flat-floored space, the 3,050m² Hall 3, Registration Area and Mall in 2015 followed by refreshes on Halls 4, 9, 10 and 11 along with six of our 10 Executive Meeting rooms to date.
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Symphony Hall
Symphony Hall is a 2,262 seat concert venue in Birmingham, England. It was officially opened by the Queen on 12 June 1991, although it had been in use since 15 April 1991. It is home to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and hosts around 270 events a year. It was completed at a cost of £30 million. The hall's interior is modelled on the Musikverein in Vienna and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. The venue, managed alongside Town Hall, presents a programme of jazz, world, folk, rock, pop and classical concerts, organ recitals, spoken word, dance, comedy, educational and community performances, and is also used for conferences and business events as part of the International Convention Centre.
In 2016 the Concert Hall Acoustics expert Leo Beranek ranked Symphony Hall as having the finest acoustics in the United Kingdom, and the seventh best in the world.
Symphony Hall, widely considered one of the finest in the world, was designed by Percy Thomas Partnership and Renton Howard Wood Levin, (who together formed the Convention Centre Partnership for the ICC) with specialist help from Russell Johnson, founder of acoustic consultants Artec. A particularly innovative feature is the hall's acoustic flexibility. It has a reverberation chamber behind the stage and extending high along the sides, adding 50% to the hall's volume, the doors to which can be remotely opened or closed. The U-shaped reverberation chamber area has a volume of 12,700 cubic metres (450,000 cu ft). There is an acoustic canopy which can be raised or lowered above the stage. Dampening panels can be extended or retracted to ensure that the 'sound' of the space is perfectly matched to the scale and style of the music to be performed. There are also reverse fan walls at the rear of the hall which provide further reflections of sound. All the walls and the ceiling are 200 millimetres (8 in) thick and are made of concrete.
The hall is built only 30 metres (100 ft) from a covered railway line. To prevent the transmission of vibrations, the hall is mounted on rubber cushions, as is the railway track. The hall is also shielded from heavy traffic on Broad Street by double skins of concrete. Large, low-speed air ducting cuts the ventilation noise.
In 2001, a 6000-pipe symphony organ was installed, designed and built by Johannes Klais Orgelbau in Bonn and specially tailored to the hall's reverberation chambers. This is now the largest mechanical action organ in the UK.
Through its management company Performances Birmingham Limited, Symphony Hall alongside Town Hall has charitable status and through an Education/Community department carries out a number of projects for schools, community groups and families, working with around 12,000 young people and 6,000 adults each year.
The central sky lit dome of a resplendent victorian arcade . Melbourne is fortunate to have a number of these grand shopping arcades of the past .
The Block
Melbourne . Victoria
High class Italian elegance came to terms with the Industrial Age in such marvels of engineering as this four-storey shopping arcade roofed with a steel & glass canopy.
life is not only holidays, as we all know, so I interrupt again my Scotland series with some shots of my everyday life... on the way to work...
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