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La Mole Antonelliana è un monumento di Torino, situato nel centro storico, simbolo della città e uno dei simboli d'Italia.
Prende il nome dall'architetto che la concepì, Alessandro Antonelli. Raggiunge un'altezza di 167,5 metri, ed è l'edificio più alto del profilo centrale urbano della città.
Per lungo tempo, la Mole fu anche la costruzione in muratura più alta d'Europa; tuttavia, nel corso del Novecento, importanti ristrutturazioni rinforzarono la Mole con cemento armato e travi di acciaio, per cui essa non può più considerarsi una struttura esclusivamente in muratura.
Al suo interno oggi ha sede il Museo Nazionale del Cinema, che solo nell'anno 2008 fu visitato da 532.196 persone, risultando così uno dei musei più frequentati.
La forma del monumento è particolare e unica, frutto di un'azzardata e singolare tecnica architettonica eclettica ottocentesca, tipica dello stile artistico misto e rivoluzionario, caratteristico della fantasia di Alessandro Antonelli.La massiccia parte inferiore, costruita esclusivamente in muratura, risulta con una base quadrata di dimensioni maggiori rispetto ai moduli sovrapposti. L'ingresso della struttura viene evidenziato da un pronao esastilo, con colonne in stile architettonico neoclassico, mentre l'austerità dei prospetti del basamento è scandita da pilastri alternati a semicolonne e stemperata da ampie superfici vetrate nel registro superiore. La copertura è a falde ripetute su tutti i lati, che si raccordano al modulo centrale suddiviso in due registri; in quello sottostante vi è il loggiato, che presenta 20 colonne per ciascun lato, mentre quello superiore è caratterizzato da vetrate semicircolari. Entrambi i registri riportano vistose cornici marcapiano.
Al di sopra del basamento si eleva la grande cupola, caratterizzata dalla volta allungata con pareti convesse in muratura autoportante. È formata da una sorta di guscio, costituito da pareti perimetrali inconsuetamente sottili (appena 12 cm di spessore), separate tra loro da un'intercapedine di 2 metri.
La cupola è sovrastata da una struttura denominata "tempietto", che ripropone il tema sottostante del colonnato. Essa è posta a metà altezza, a quota 85,24 m ed è raggiungibile mediante un elevatore senza guide fisse, che risale dal centro dell'atrio sottostante, dando ai visitatori una panoramica interna della cupola a 360 gradi. Di forma quadrata, la struttura del "tempietto" è sorretta da due ordini di 6 colonne per lato ed è disposta su due piani ma l'accesso ai turisti è consentito soltanto a quello sottostante.
Sopra la struttura mediana di si staglia la lunga guglia, costituita da una cuspide assai sviluppata in altezza che si ispira all'architettura neogotica. Per tal motivo, fu giudicata un bizzarro tentativo di mediare tra forme neoclassiche e neogotiche, miste alle innovazioni tecnologiche del tempo. Già lo stesso Antonelli sperimentò l'impiego del ferro, sfruttato in tutte le sue potenzialità strutturali, senza però tralasciare il linguaggio architettonico tradizionale. La guglia venne successivamente rinforzata con l'impiego dell'acciaio a seguito del rovinoso nubifragio del 1953. Il resto della guglia, oggi inaccessibile ai turisti, termina poi con 3 terrazzini circolari a 8 colonne, sovrastati da altri 3 analoghi in metallo e altri 6 piccoli circolari in cemento armato, fino alla stella a 12 punte posta in cima.
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During the 2020 world exposition Expo Keerpunt (Turning point) Amersfoort, dozens of pavilions show the history and current practices of people working on solutions for a sustainable world, experimenting with open source technologies and new forms of democratic decision-making..
Expo Keerpunt (Expo Turning Point) is an initiative by De WAR, the Amersfoort based breeding ground for research an innovation. The location is the former Warner-Jenkinson dyes factory in Amersfoort.
La construction de l'église date de 1060. La façade a été remaniée plusieurs fois. le portail était autrefois précédé d'un porche encadré par les 2 grandes demis colonnes encore visibles. Une tour carrée en torchis abritait les cloches
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The Wrigley Building is a skyscraper located directly across Michigan Avenue from the Tribune Tower on the Magnificent Mile. It was built to house the corporate headquarters of the Wrigley Company. The Chewing Gum Company.
The 425-foot south tower was completed in April 1921 and the north tower in May 1924.The two towers are of differing heights, with the south tower rising to 30 stories and the north tower to 21 stories. On the south tower is a clock with faces pointing in all directions. Each face is 19 feet 7 inches (6.0 m) in diameter. The building is clad in glazed terra-cotta, which provides its gleaming white façade. On occasion, the entire building is hand washed to preserve the terra cotta. At night, the building is brightly lit with floodlights.The Wrigley Building was Chicago’s first air-conditioned office building. wiki
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This is St Mary's in the village of Roxby in North Lincolnshire on a sunny February afternoon in 2018.
Moscow. Building of "Narkomzem" (now the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia) , architect A.Shchusev, Sadovaya-Spasskaya Street, 11/1 (1928-1933)
Built in 1930 the Marine building is a great example of art deco architecture in Vancouver. Towering from the background is the architecture of today; the new 36 floor MNP building. The two landmarks are a contrast in style and design that can spark a lot of discussion when comparing architecture today to that of yesterday.
This quaint old grade 2* listed building is a 600 years old Whealden Hall . It is sited very close to the gatehouse of Battle Abbey - an area steeped in history .
The building is nowadays used as a wedding venue .
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Originally a guest house outside the gates of Battle Abbey. C15 timber-framed
building of Wealden type consisting of a recessed centre and wings with their
first floor overhanging on the protruding ends of the floor joists. The whole
front is close studded except the north wing which is wholly plastered on the
ground floor and above has squares of plaster infilling with some timbering.
The south wing has curved braces on the first floor. The centre has coved eaves,
the upper ends of the studs being curved to form it, and a curved brace on the
south side of the recess. Casement windows and one oriel window of 6 lights with
transom on the first floor. Pointed doorway with original iron-studded door.
Good moulded crown post roof in hall.
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This is from the Rotterdam photowalk series. I recently had an epiphany. I came to the realization that...but more on this later ;) Delhi's been great to so far...met some great people today and went on a photowalk in Old Delhi. Street HDRs at it's best!
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3 handheld bracketed shots using: Canon 7D; Canon 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5,
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3. Post processed (colors, sharpness and so forth) in Color Efex
4. Finally did a little more processing (vignetting and temp and so forth again in Lightroom)
This is my home in Sundernagar, Himachal Pradesh.
The color of the doors and windows keep changing he he
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The Neville Bonner Building on William Street was named after Senator Neville Bonner (1922–1999), the first Indigenous Australian to be elected to the Federal Parliament.
The building of the Riverside Expressway in the 1970s divorced the land and government buildings along William Street from the Brisbane River. Completed in December 1998, the Neville Bonner Building was the first major government building constructed in what had become an unused area.
The building’s architects, Davenport Campbell with Donovan Hill and Powell Dods Thorpe, had to manage a challenging site, bounded on two sides by the Riverside Expressway and the Margaret Street off ramp, with their attendant noise and fumes. On the upstream side was the former Department of Agriculture and Stock (later DPI) building, which had opened in 1866 as an Immigration Depot. To contend with also was a drop of nine metres between William Street and Queen’s Wharf Road.
At the time of its construction, the Neville Bonner Building was considered to be architecturally intelligent and original, with its related spaces establishing new and demanding standards for future government developments. The architects collaborated with artists Barbara Heath, Ron Hurley, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott and Yenda Carson so that pieces of their art could be included in and around the building. The most visible of these is The Net by Barbara Heath. It hangs outside the entrance and references related themes of the area’s original Indigenous inhabitants, including connections between the land and river, and their associated fishing practices. Hence the idea of a net.
Writing for Architecture Australia, Professor Michael Keniger (then head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Queensland) noted that, ‘The simplicity of the planning is masked by the complexity and staccato tactility of the elevations, which are enlivened by an interplay between the inner layer of glass cladding and suspended external screens of precast concrete panels and metal mesh blades’. Not everyone agreed. Jim Soorley, then Brisbane’s Lord Mayor, described it as ‘ugly’.
The building, however, won two architectural awards for design:
• The RAIA (National) Commercial Award 1999 and the
• RAIA (Queensland) F.D.G Stanley Award & Regional Commendation 1999.
At a cultural closing ceremony held in the building in August 2016 it was announced that the yet-to-be-constructed bridge between Queen’s Wharf and Southbank would be named the Neville Bonner Bridge. The artwork from the building will be distributed between Parliament House and 1 William Street.
Source: Historic Queens Wharf.