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Beauty cascades all around you inside the enchanting Bellagio lobby. Peer overhead and discover a ceiling adorned in a breathtaking display of 2,000 hand-blown glass flowers - the Fiori di Como, created by world-renowned artist, Dale Chihuly.
Today I went to two different churches and looked up at their ceilings. Can you tell which has the traditional and which has the contemporary worship style?
One of the many sumptuous ceilings in the galleries of the Louvre, formerly the royal state apartments.
The ceiling of the Hypostyle Hall at Dendera Temple is enriched with an incredible amount of figurative detail carved in low relief and painted in subtle shades against a blue background. The subjects include numerous deities and hybrid figures (some familiar, others much less so) and even astrological elements, such as recognisable figures from the zodiac.
Over the centuries the ceiling had become so darkened by dirt and soot to become heavily obscured and hard to read, and this is how I saw it for the first time in the 1990s, when many visitors probably missed it altogether. Now it has been fully cleaned and restored it shines again not only as one of the glories of the temple but one of the most remarkable surviving decorative schemes of ancient Egypt. The contrast with its previous blackened, unrestored condition is dramatic, giving an entirely different impression from our previous visit.
The Temple of Hathor at Dendera is one of Egypt's best preserved and most beautiful ancient shrines. This magnificent edifice dates to the Ptolemaic period, late in Egyptian history, though the site long had been the cult centre for the goddess Hathor for centuries before (the earliest extant remains date to c360BC but a temple is recorded here as far back as c2250BC). Most of the main building dates to the reigns of the last Cleopatras and further decoration and building work within the complex continued in the Roman period up to the reign of Trajan.
The dominant structure in the complex is the Temple of Hathor, an enormous structure with a rectangular facade punctuated by the Hathor-headed columns of the hypostyle hall within. This hall is an architectural wonder, a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian design and decoration, which covers every surface and has been recently cleaned, revealing a superb astrological ceiling in all its original vibrant colours.
Sadly there was much iconoclasm here during the early Christian period and most of the reliefs of the walls and pillars have been defaced. Worse still is the damage to the 24 Hathor-head capitals: not one of the nearly a hundred huge faces of the goddess that once smiled down on this hall has been left unblemished, most with their features cruelly chiselled away.
The main temple building is otherwise structurally intact, and extends into further halls and chapels beyond, again with much relief decoration (much of which is again defaced). In one corner is an entrance to a crypt below, an unusual feature in Egyptian temple architecture consisting of several narrow passages adorned with carved relief decoration in good condition.
There are further sanctuaries and chapels above on the roof of the temple, accessed by a decorated staircase and including the room where the famous Dendera Zodiac was formerly located (today its place in the ceiling taken by a cast of the original, now displayed in Paris). The highest part of the roof complex is no longer accessible to tourists, but I can still recall making the ascent there on our first visit in 1992.
Several other buildings surround the main temple, the most impressive of which is the mammisi or 'birth-house'. This consists of a large rectangluar hall surrounded by a colonnade near the entrance to the site and has some well preserved relief decoration on its exterior. Most of this structure dates to the Roman period, but the ruins of its predecessor built under Nectanebo II (Egypt's last native pharoah) stand nearby.
Dendera temple is one of the most rewarding in Egypt and shouldn't be missed. It is one of the most complete and evocative ancient monuments in the country and its recent restoration has revealed a surprisingly extensive amount of colour surviving within (we were amazed by the dramatic contrast with the soot-blackened ceiling we'd beheld on our previous visit in the 1990s). Despite its relative youth (in Egyptian terms at least!) it is easily one of my favourite sites in Egypt.
Internal view of the Bunker room
Historic Environment Record for H BUILDING, Malvern, UK
The building, having military purposes and designated locally as H building, sits on a former Government Research site in Malvern, Worcestershire at Grid Ref SO 786 447. This site was the home of the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) from 1946. It has been owned by QinetiQ since 2001 and is in the process (October 2017 to February 2018) of being sold for redevelopment.
This unique building has at its heart a ‘Rotor’ bunker with attached buildings to house radar screens and operators as well as plant such as emergency generators. Twenty nine Rotor operational underground bunkers were built in great urgency around Britain to modernise the national air defence network, following the Soviet nuclear test in 1949. Two factors make H building’s construction and purpose unique; this prototype is the only Rotor bunker built above ground and it was the home to National Air Defence government research for 30 years.This example of a ROTOR bunker is unique instead of being buried, it was built above ground to save time and expense, as it was not required to be below ground for its research purpose.
H Building was the prototype version of the Rotor project R4 Sector Operations Centre air defence bunkers. Construction began in August 1952 with great urgency - work went on 24 hours a day under arc lights. The main bunker is constructed from cross bonded engineering bricks to
form walls more than 2 feet thick in a rectangle approximately 65ft x 50ft. The two internal floors are suspended from the ceiling. The original surrounding buildings comprise, two radar control and operator rooms, offices and machine plant.
The building was generally in good order and complete. The internal layout of the bunker remains as originally designed. The internal surfaces and services have been maintained and modernised over the 55 years since its construction. The first floor has been closed over.
There are some later external building additions around the periphery to provide additional accommodation.
In parts of the building the suspended floor remains, with 1950s vintage fittings beneath such as patch panels and ventilation ducts.
The building has been empty since the Defence Science & Technology Laboratories [Dstl] moved out in October 2008
As lead for radar research, RRE was responsible for the design of both the replacement radars for the Chain Home radars and the command and control systems for UK National Air Defence.
Project Rotor was based around the Type 80 radar and Type 13 height finder. The first prototype type 80 was built at Malvern in 1953 code named Green Garlic. Live radar feeds against aircraft sorties, were fed into the building to carry out trials of new methods plotting and reporting air activity
A major upgrade of the UK radar network was planned in the late 1950s – Project ‘Linesman’ (military) / ‘Mediator’ (civil) – based around Type 84 / 85 primary radars and the HF200 height finder. A prototype type 85 radar (Blue Yeoman) was built adjacent to H Building in 1959. live radar returns were piped into H Building.
Subsequently a scheme to combine the military and civil radar networks was proposed. The building supported the research for the fully computerised air defence scheme known as Linesman, developed in the 1960s, and a more integrated and flexible system (United Kingdom Air Defence Ground Environment or UKADGE) in the 1970s.
The building was then used for various research purposes until the government relinquished the main site to QinetiQ in 2001. Government scientists continued to use the building until 2008. Throughout its life access was strictly controlled by a dedicated pass sytem.
Notable civil spin-offs from the research in this building include the invention of touch screens and the whole UK Civil Air Traffic Control system which set the standard for Europe.
Chronology
1952 - Construction work is begun. The layout of the bunker area duplicates the underground version built at RAF Bawburgh.
1953 - Construction work is largely completed.
1954 - The building is equipped and ready for experiments.
1956-1958 - Addition of 2nd storey to offices
1957-1960 - Experiments of automatic tracking, novel plot projection systems and data management and communications systems tested.
1960-1970 - Project Linesman mediator experiments carried out including a novel display technique known as a Touch screen ( A World First)
TOUCHSCREEN
A team led by Eric Johnson in H building at Malvern. RRE Tech Note 721 states: This device, the Touch Sensitive Electronic Data Display, or more shortly the ‘Touch Display’, appears to have the potential to provide a very efficient coupling between man and machine. (E A Johnson 1966). See also patent GB 1172222.
Information From Hugh Williams/mraths
1980-1990 - During this period experiments are moved to another building and H building is underused.
1990-1993 - The building was re-purposed and the bunker (room H57) had the first floor closed over to add extra floor area.
2008- The bunker was used until late 2008 for classified research / Joint intelligence centre
2020 - The building was demolished as part of the redevelopment of the site.
Information sourced from MRATHS
The Chantry Chapel of Bishop Thomas Langton, Winchester Chathedral, Hampshire
Thomas Langton was Bishop of Winchester 1493-1501
in hid illstrustrious carer Langton was Chaplain to Edward IV and Richard III as well as ambassador to both France and Rome.
It was under his episcopace that the Channel Islands became part of the diocese.
He was elected by popular election to the post of the Archbishop of Canterbury amatter of days before suddenly dying of the plague.
His death from plague would go some way to explain why his chest tomb is so large and thickly walled.
Still figuring out how to use Photomatix. I like more of the natural look. This was 3 shots, +/-2 & 0. I tried to get the "flare" out of the light so you could see more detail, but didn't have much luck. I'll have to try masking it out of the best exposure in Photoshop, but not sure how. I LOVE wide angle and would never have thought to take this shot if I wasn't just "looking around" through the lens. This shot is almost straight up. View On Black
This is the ceiling in one of my favorite places: Thomson House at McGill University. I had to take this photo five times before I got it to look right. The angle is odd, and I wanted to get the chandelier hanging properly.
The lighting in the room on that particular day was amazing. And it has never been that way since I took the shot.
Added to Cream of the Crop as my personal favourite photo.
This image was created with FractalWorks, a high performance fractal renderer for Macintosh computers. You can purchase FractalWorks in the Mac App Store
St Nicholas's Parish Church in Nuneaton provides the sort of stately and attractive landmark architecture this town sorely needs, though it is sadly somewhat marginalised by the current road layout, which has left it separated from the town centre by part of the ring road.
Most of the present building dates from the fifteenth century, and is a grand example of a prosperous looking town church, with aisles to nave and chancel and an elegant nave clerestorey (inside spanned by the original gorgeous panelled ceiling).
The interior is elegant, attractive and very light, owing to whitewashed walls and a lack of stained glass (all the Victorian glass was destroyed by wartime bombing, except for one window in the south chapel).
As in common with most churches in this part of Warwickshire, the church is generally kept locked outside of services.
The carved ceiling of the Hall of the Lilies, as this room is usually called, decorated with fleur-de-lys, and the Statue of St. John the Baptist and Putti are all by Benedetto da Maiano and his brother Giuliano. The goldenfleur-de-lys decorations on blue background on the ceiling and three walls refer to the (short-lived) good relations between Florence and the French Crown.
Florence, Italy '13
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Why wait for Thursday for a throwback? I had the distinct pleasure of rolling through Tokyo Station mere weeks after its renovation in 2012. Imagine what it is like to spend 14.5 hours in an airplane, navigate Narita Airport, find and successfully board the Narita Express, then encounter THIS. I gasped. I gaped. I took an off-center photo because you couldn't get near the center of the room for all the people doing the exact same thing.
Beautiful ceiling detail on the platform of the new London Crossrail (Elizabeth Line) at Liverpool Street. The complexity of these 3 dimensional panels will probably go unnoticed and unappreciated by most passengers. For some strange reason these panels are called 'tusks'.
i took this photo while wandering round the depths of durham cathedral... before being asked to stop taking photographs! i got told off by one of the officials!
(Ano 2008, Painel em caneta de prata e ouro e cristais sobre tela acrílica preta, 90x70 cm)
(Year 2008, Panel in Silver and Gold Ink Pen and crystals on black Acrylic canvas, 90x70 cm)
Baghdad Pavilion Ceiling, Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
Best viewed Large on Black
According to Wikipedia, The Baghdad Pavilion or Kiosk is situated on the right side of the terrace with a fountain and was built to commemorate the Baghdad Campaign of Murad IV after 1638. It closely resembles the Yerevan Kiosk and the three doors to the porch are located between the sofas. The façade is covered with marble, strips of ornate stones. The marble paneling of the portico is executed in Cairene Mamluk style while the interior is an example of an ideal Ottoman room. The recessed shelves and cupboards are decorated with early 16th-century green, yellow and blue tiles. The blue-and-white tiles on the walls are copies of the tiles of the Circumcision Room, right across the terrace. With its tiles dating to the 17th century, mother-of-pearl, tortoise-shell decorated cupboard and window panels, this pavilion is one of the last examples of the classical palace architecture. The doors have very fine inlay work. On the right side of the entrance is a fireplace with a gilded hood. In the middle of the room is a silver charcoal stove, a present of King Louis XIV of France. From the mid-18th century onwards, the building was used as the library of the Privy Chamber.
The Topkapi Palace (or Topkapı Sarayı) was the primary residence of the Ottoman Sultans for approximately 400 years (1465-1856) of their 624-year reign. As well as a royal residence, the palace was a setting for state occasions and royal entertainments. It is now a major tourist attraction and contains important holy relics of the Muslim world, including Mohammed's cloak and sword. The Topkapı Palace is among the monuments contained within the "Historic Areas of Istanbul", which became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985, and is described under UNESCO's criterion iv as "the best example[s] of ensembles of palaces [...] of the Ottoman period.". The palace complex consists of four main courtyards and many smaller buildings. At its peak, the palace was home to as many as 4,000 people, and covered a large area with a long shoreline. It contained mosques, a hospital, bakeries, and a mint. Construction began in 1459, ordered by Sultan Mehmed II, the conqueror of Byzantine Constantinople and was originally called the New Palace to distinguish it from the previous residence. It received the name "Topkapı" (Cannon Gate) in the 19th century, after a (now lost) gate and shore pavilion. The complex was expanded over the centuries, with major renovations after the 1509 earthquake and the 1665 fire. Following the end of the Ottoman Empire in 1923, Topkapı Palace was transformed by a government decree dated April 3, 1924 into a museum of the imperial era. The Topkapı Palace Museum is administered by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The palace complex has hundreds of rooms and chambers, but only the most important are accessible to the public today. The complex is guarded by officials of the ministry as well as armed guards of the Turkish military. The palace includes many fine examples of Ottoman architecture. It contains large collections of porcelain, robes, weapons, shields, armor, Ottoman miniatures, Islamic calligraphic manuscripts and murals, as well as a display of Ottoman treasures and jewelry.
Baghdad Pavilion Ceiling, Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
El Palacio de Topkapi (Topkapı Sarayı)
İstanbul, Türkiye
Ceiling of the new Saint Lawrence Church, Ayot St Lawrence, 1 January 2013. A Grade I Listed Building in Hertfordshire.
I went to the cinema this afternoon, though I usually go in the evening. I saw The Front Runner . It's about Gary Hart's presidential campaign in 1987. I gave it ⭐️⭐️⭐️
These are the ceiling lights seen as the final credits are rolling.