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The Young Mausoleum is another of Woodlawn's classically styled mausoleums. Imposing columns with Ionic capitals give this strucure a sober and serious appearance. The natural color of the stone has been changed slightly with a brownish tint.
Union Station, Washington, D.C. 1903–1908, William Pierce Anderson, Daniel Burnham (D.H. Burnham & Company), restoration 1988
The premier mercantile family of Detroit is memorialized in this Greek Revival-style mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery.
A view across the junction of Market Street and Bank Street in Newton Abbot, graced by the town public library where the pedestrian zone gives way to a low-traffic road.
September 2013.
Open House is the annual opportunity to explore hundreds of buildings in London for free and see the architecture. Many of the buildings are not normally open to the public.
The main Foreign Office building in King Charles Street was built by George Gilbert Scott in partnership with Matthew Digby Wyatt. George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the overall classical design of these offices, but Matthew Digby Wyatt, the India Office’s Surveyor, designed and built the interior of the India Office. It was built with rich decoration to impress foreign visitors.
Actually this is an outdoor classical theatre designed in 1997 as a new addition to the Getty Villa by Rodolpho Machedo and Jorge Silvetti.
Title
Interview Series, Boylston Street between Berkley and Arlington Streets, Arlington Street Church, Office and East Facade
Contributors
researcher: Gyorgy Kepes (American, 1906-2001)
researcher: Kevin Lynch (American, 1918-1984)
photographer: Nishan Bichajian (American, 20th century)
Date
creation date: between 1954-1959
Location
Creation location: Boston (Massachusetts, United States)
Repository: Rotch Visual Collections, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
ID: Kepes/Lynch Collection, 55.13
Period
Modern
Materials
gelatin silver prints
Techniques
documentary photography
Type
Photograph
Copyright
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Access Statement
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Identifier
KL_001173
DSpace_Handle
El Odeón de Herodes Ático es un edificio para audiciones musicales, erigido en el año 161 gracias a la gran fortuna del cónsul romano Herodes Ático, que lo hizo construir en memoria de su mujer, Aspasia Annia Regilla, muerta el año anterior.
Descripción
Se emplazó junto al Teatro de Dioniso, en el extremo oeste de la pendiente sur de la Acrópolis de Atenas. Su construcción duró aproximadamente diez años, porque ya estaba terminado en 174, cuando Pausanias lo ve y lo describe.1 2
Su planta es similar a la de un teatro romano, con la diferencia de que el odeón estaba cubierto. Era más bien pequeño, tenía un aforo en sus gradas para cinco mil espectadores; la población de la ciudad ascendía a unos 290.000 habitantes.3 El escenario era de mármol blanco y cipolín (un tipo de mármol) y tenía una longitud de 35 metros.
La construcción fue extremadamente cara, hecho confirmado por testimonios antiguos, que mencionan la madera de cedro usada en el techo. Parece que el techo de la cávea, con 38 m de radio, no tenía soportes internos, ya que no hay rastro de tales soportes, lo que constituye un alarde constructivo, incluso hoy en día.1
Estado actual
El Odeón fue destruido en el año 267, como consecuencia de la invasión de los Hérulos. A diferencia de otros edificios que sufrieron daños, nunca fue reconstruido.1
La excavación del monumento se inició a mediados del siglo XIX, por la Sociedad Arqueológica y el arqueólogo K. Pittakis, eliminando toneladas de tierra. El edificio fue restaurado en 1952-1953. Desde 1957 alberga diversos espectáculos artísticos, como conciertos, teatro, óperas y espectáculos de baile.1
El Festival de Atenas4 se celebra allí cada año de mayo a septiembre. Este festival le ha forjado una reputación internacional. Entre los eventos celebrados allí destacan: el certamen Miss Universo 1973, el Yanni Live at the Acropolis de Yanni en 1993 y la actuación de Nana Mouskouri en 1984 tras 20 años de ausencia de su país.
This Greek Revival mausoleum is a memorial to members of a family (the Webbers) who headed the J.L. Hudson department store for many years.
Admiralty Arch is a large office building in London which incorporates an archway providing road and pedestrian access between The Mall, which extends to the southwest, and Trafalgar Square to the northeast.
The building was commissioned by King Edward VII in memory of his mother Queen Victoria, although he did not live to see its completion. A Latin inscription along the top reads:
: ANNO : DECIMO : EDWARDI : SEPTIMI : REGIS :
: VICTORIÆ : REGINÆ : CIVES : GRATISSIMI : MDCCCCX :
(In the tenth year of King Edward VII, to Queen Victoria, from most grateful citizens, 1910)
For more info - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiralty_Arch
The only remaining church in Taiwan built with fish scale roofing tiles
Chè-lâm Presbyterian Church was originally built exclusively for the Japanese colonizers of Taiwan along with wealthy local merchants. The church is one of the few remaining early Christian architectures in Taipei and the only remaining church in Taiwan adorned with fish scale roofing tiles.
Coffered dome of the Harrison Auditorium at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
My daughter's class had a personally guided tour of the Steve Peter's personal apartment and the Legislative Assembly - he's the present Speaker of the House in the Ontario Legislature. The young lady in the centre, who is a personal friend of my daughter is the Personal Assistant to Mr Peters. Mr. Peters was extremely personable and charming and related well with the children.
Washington Monument ticket booth/book store/gift shop, obelisk design competition 1836, built 1848–1854, 1877–1888, Robert Mills, National Mall, Washington, D.C.
The mailbox follows the estate's classical architecture. Wish it had been closed.
I'll try for a better shot and replace this photo if I can.
Interior of San Giacomo in Augusta. A 14th c. church was reconstructed and enlarged at the end of the 16th c. The facade was begun by F.da Volterra and finished by C.Maderno. Interior of the church has a fine elliptical plan and vault fresco by Silverio Capparoni. The name derives from the nearby Mausoleum of Augustus.
The Halászbástya or Fisherman's Bastion is a terrace in neo-Gothic and neo-Romanesque style situated on the Buda bank of the Danube, on the Castle hill in Budapest, around Matthias Church. It was designed and built between 1895 and 1902 on the plans of Frigyes Schulek. Between 1947–48, the son of Frigyes Schulek, János Schulek, conducted the other restoration project after its near destruction during World War II.
From the towers and the terrace a panoramic view exists of Danube, Margaret Island, Pest to the east and the Gellért Hill.
Its seven towers represent the seven Magyar tribes that settled in the Carpathian Basin in 896.
The Bastion takes its name from the guild of fishermen that was responsible for defending this stretch of the city walls in the Middle Ages. It is a viewing terrace, with many stairs and walking paths.
A bronze statue of Stephen I of Hungary mounted on a horse, erected in 1906, can be seen between the Bastion and the Matthias Church. The pedestal was made by Alajos Stróbl, based on the plans of Frigyes Schulek, in Neo-Romanesque style, with episodes illustrating the King's life.
It was featured as a Pit Stop on the sixth season of The Amazing Race.
For more info and photos - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherman%27s_Bastion
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