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These columns would have supported a pulpit and are on display in the Medieval & Renaissance galleries of the V&A.
Here I was deliberately imitating some of Gaudi's curved architectural forms that Saadya was talking about. Still continuing on the theme of columns, they're easy to precrease and fun to fold.
A former railway station building from the 19th century. It's the worlds oldest surviving monumental railway architecture.
The station opened in 1838. When New St Station was finished in 1854, Curzon St stopped being a passenger station, put holiday trips continued until 1893. It remained in use until 1966 as a goods station. It was called Birmingham Station until 1852 when they added Curzon St.
It is Grade I listed but isn't in use at the moment.
Curzon Street Station was the terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway which started at London Euston.
The line was engineered by Robert Stephenson
London and Birmingham Railway - Wikipedia
After ceasing being a station for passengers, it was later the called British Rail Goods Office. But it hasn't been that in a very long time.
It was formerly listed as the Railway Goods Office.
1838, by Philip Hardwick. The original terminus to the London-Birmingham railway Ashlar. In the Ionic style. Three storeys, 3 bays and austerely cubic. Portico of 4 really giant Ionic columns to the dentilled entablature with attic. Behind, a carved achievement of arms and swags over the glazed tympanum above the great panelled doors and 2 ground floor single windows. The first floor with 2 windows with blind balconys and cornices on brackets. Second floor with 3 windows in flat surrounds. All windows sashes mostly with glazing bars. To the rear, 2 engaged Ionic columns between square piers. To the left, a length of wall with intermittent balustrading.
These columns would have supported a pulpit and are on display in the Medieval & Renaissance galleries of the V&A.
a view of some of the many columns in the amazing Karnak temple Luxor. Even the end wall is covered in hieroglyphics
HIstory of Hutchins Street Square:
The cornerstone for the new Lodi Union High School was laid on February 13, 1913 on land purchased from Thomas Hutchins just west of the city limits. As the grand buildings rose, people celebrated the promising future Lodi had with the state-of-the-art educational facility. The campus was opened for classes in the autumn of 1913.
Over the years, more buildings were added. In 1923, Principal William Inch oversaw the construction of the science building, shop, auditorium, and a second story swimming pool in the gymnasium which was called "Inch's Folly." As the decades went by, larger and larger classes of students were using the facility. By the mid 1950s, the campus was too small, and another campus was built on Pacific Avenue. The old campus continued to be used for high school classes. The buildings did not meet state earthquake standards, and in 1974 an arson fire damaged the administration building and set the facility's fate.
After the new Tokay High School opened for classes on September 6, 1977, the old, fire-scarred site just four blocks from downtown was abandoned. Meanwhile, the City Council, which had acquired a five-year option to buy the 10-acre site in June 1975, mulled over the suggestion to build a community center on the prime land. Various civic groups supported the idea, and a council-appointed committee agreed that Lodi needed a community center. A private group of volunteers organized themselves as the Old Lodi Union High School Site Foundation and sought donations. The Foundation lobbied the council to buy the site and promised to repay the city.
On March 6, 1980, the council voted to buy the school grounds from the Lodi Unified School District for $475,000 and set the wheels in motion for the community center that eventually became Hutchins Street Square. A public-private partnership between the City and the Foundation was born. The Foundation was given the responsibility of financing and planning the reconstruction projects, and the City agreed to maintain and operate the center.
The Foundation devised a master plan and began fundraising efforts. Field and Fair Day, an annual Labor Day event, began in 1980 as an all-day affair put on by volunteers to raise money. Work began right away to demolish some of the old buildings which could not be saved. Renovation began on the field and plans were drawn for remodeling the remaining original buildings - the girls and boys gymnasiums, cafeteria, and auditorium. Slowly, over the years, the community center which became known as Hutchins Street Square began to take shape.
In addition to Field and Fair Day, there were many other imaginative fundraising events which have been held to raise money for the renovation of Hutchins Street Square. The first fundraiser, held in 1979, was a play production of “Razamataz or Can a Little Girl from Lodi Make it in Tinsel Town?” performed by Lodi High School graduate Dale Lindholm's theater group from Walnut Creek. Other innovative fund-raisers over the years included a bachelor auction, numerous festive dinner/dances with auctions, the sale of a home built by Bennett & Compton, Inc., the sale of “Ruby”, the City's antique fire truck, the sale of personalized bricks to line a plaza at the Square, and the sale of theater seats inside the new performing arts theater.
The various and imaginative fundraisers held over the next 4 years were effective. In 1984, the Foundation paid off its $475,000 debt to the City of Lodi. Fundraising efforts then concentrated on paying for the facility renovation. Each Field and Fair Day and annual Christmas Dinner/Dance saw new improvements made to the Square including the Fine Arts Facility, rebuilt from the shell of the music building and Kirst Hall, which was the old boys' gymnasium.
Over the years, donations from individuals and corporations have enabled many improvements at the Square. The most notable contribution was $2.4 million dollars from the late William G. Holz, a Lodi industrialist. His gift was used in 1987 to reconstruct the girls' gymnasium into the Senior Complex, which today houses the Adult Day Care for the elderly, and the renovated indoor therapeutic swimming pool on the building's second floor.
By 1996, about $6.5 million had been raised through events and donations and was spent on the square reconstruction. The Square was nearly complete, but one project, the most ambitious undertaking, remained. The project to renovate the 73-year-old auditorium and the cafeteria into a state-of-the-art Performing Arts and Conference Center was slated to cost $10 million.
In order to fund this last project and complete the Square, the Foundation and the Lodi City Council returned to their loan arrangement of nearly 20 years ago. The Council unanimously voted to finance the construction by issuing bonds, and the Foundation will continue fundraising to pay off the debt in the future. F and H Construction began work on the Performing Arts and Conference Center in November 1996. After tearing down the inside of the brick auditorium, it was reconstructed with a 789-seat theatre complete with an orchestral pit, a majestic 65-foot rotunda and multi-purpose meeting rooms with connecting lobbies. The project was finished in April 1998, and the plans were rolled up for the final time. Hutchins Street Square was complete.
From its grandeur in the early days of Lodi as an educational center of town, to neglect and decay, then finally, within a span of 20 years, these former school buildings and its 10-acre site have been reincarnated into the City's crown jewel — the cultural, recreational and business center of town.
The temple of Karnak was known as Ipet-isut (Most select of places) by the ancient Egyptians. It is a city of temples built over 2000 years and dedicated to the Theben triad of Amon, Mut and Khonsu.
This derelict place is still capable of overshadowing many of the wonders of the modern world and in its day must have been awe inspiring.
For the largely uneducated ancient Egyptian population this could only have been the place of the gods. It is the mother of all religious buildings, the largest ever made and a place of pilgrimage for nearly 4,000 years. Although todays pilgrims are mainly tourists. It covers about 200 acres 1.5km by 0.8km The area of the sacred enclosure of Amon alone is 61 acres and would hold ten average European cathedrals.The great temple at the heart of Karnak is so big, St Peter's, Milan and Notre Dame Cathedrals could be lost within its walls. The Hypostyle hall at 54,000 square feet with its 134 columns is still the largest room of any religious building in the world. In addition to the main sanctuary there are several smaller temples and a vast sacred lake.
Construction continued on this temple for more than two millennia under the belief that once building ceased, the temple "died." The temple was a closed compound, open only to the priests and the pharaoh. The common people could only enter the courtyard.
The key difference between Karnak and most of the other temples and sites in Egypt is the length of time over which it was developed and used. Construction work began in the 16th century BC. Approximately 30 pharaohs contributed to the buildings, enabling it to reach a size, complexity and diversity not seen elsewhere. Few of the individual features of Karnak are unique, but the size and number of features are overwhelming.
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Die Dreifaltigkeitssäule am Hauptplatz in Linz, Oberösterreich. Und ja, man macht tatsächlich mehr vertikale Fotos wenn man einen Batteriegriff an der Kamera hat.
The Trinity Column on the main square in Linz, Upper Austria. And yes, you do make more verticals when you use a battery grip on your camera.
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Il tempio di Adriano è un tempio romano che si trova a Roma, in piazza di Pietra, che deve il suo nome proprio alla presenza dei resti dell'edificio, nell'antica regione del Campo Marzio.
Il tempio venne eretto in onore dell'imperatore Adriano, divinizzato dopo la sua morte. Fu eretto dal suo successore Antonino Pio nel 145. I suoi resti sono inglobati in un edificio del XVII secolo, eretto da Carlo Fontana. L'edificio era in principio una dogana vaticana, nel 1831 è stato adibito a sede della Borsa Valori di Roma.
L'edificio era in passato conosciuto erroneamente con il nome di tempio di Nettuno.
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O templo de Adriano, na Via del Corso (antiga Via Lata), em Roma, foi mandado construir em homenagem ao imperador romano Adriano, pelo seu sucessor Antonino Pio, em 145 d.C.. As remanescências deste templo estão inseridas num edifício do século XVII, originalmente do Vaticano e completado por Carlo Fontana e seu filho, a cerca de 1690, embora tenha sido radicalmente transformado em 1879 por Virginio Vespignani para albergar a Camera di Commercio e a Borsa Valori: ainda hoje o edifício hospeda a Bolsa, na Piazza di Pietra (praça de pedra).
Na parte superior conserva-se ainda um troço da arquitrave, parcialmente refeito modernamente. A parede da câmara, quadrada, era originalmente revestida de lastre de mármore. O edifício dispunha 8 colunas no lado mais curto e 15 no lado mais longo, precedido a Este por uma escadaria. No interior podem-se ainda observar restos da câmara original, que não dispunha de ábside, decorada por uma série de pilares. Aí constavam representadas em relevo as províncias romanas enquanto que, no espaço intermédio, constavam os troféus. Os relevos encontram-se actualmente expostos no Palácio dos Conservadores: reflectem, pois, a política externa menos agressiva de Adriano (quando comparada com a de Trajano).
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The Temple of Hadrian is a temple to the deified Hadrian on the Campus Martius in Rome, built by his adoptive son and successor Antoninus Pius in 145 and now incorporated into a later building in the Piazza di Pietra (Piazza of Stone - derived from use of the temple's stones to build the piazza). It was once erroneously known as the Temple of Neptune.
One wall of the cella survives, together with 11 of the 15-metre high Corinthian columns from the external colonnade, on a 4m high peperino base. The fixing holes for its original marble covering can still be seen. This facade, along with the architrave (reconstructed after antiquity), was incorporated into a 17th century papal palace by Carlo Fontana now occupied by the Borsa bank. The building was octostyle and had 15 columns on each long side (4 have been lost from the surviving side).
Inside the bank the remains of the non-apsidal naos can be seen, once covered by a barrel vault supported on columns between which were battle-trophies.[1] The base of the columns had reliefs of personifications of the provinces of the empire (some of which are now in the National Roman Museum and Capitoline Museums demonstrating Hadrian's less warlike policy than his predecessor Trajan.[2][3][4][5][6]
The temple had a large square arcade surrounded by columns in giallo antico and which opened onto the Via Lata (now the Via del Corso) through a triumphal arch. This arch has been identified as the one called the "arch of Antoninus" in later sources, but has also been called the "arch of Claudius" and the "arch of the Tosetti", from the name of the family that inhabited Piazza Sciarra (now disappeared due to road-widening of the Via del Corso). Despite having fallen into ruin and been demolished, the arch still gave its name in the 18th century to the 'Via dell'Archetto'.
More and more of these standalone armoured surveillance columns. Also cf the stalactites of sensors sprouting from the ceilings in all the new stations, and being retrofitted into the old.
The Odéon is one of France's six "national theatres", located in the VIe arrondissement, on the Left Bank of Paris, next to the Luxembourg Garden. It was built in 1779-82 to a Neoclassical design by Charles De Wailly and Marie-Joseph Peyre in order to house the Comédie Française (which preferred to stay at the Théâtre-Français in the Palais Royal). The new theatre was inaugurated by Marie-Antoinette on April 9, 1782. It was there that The Marriage of Figaro was premiered two years later. In 1990, the theater was renamed Théâtre de l'Europe. It is a member theater of the Union of the Theatres of Europe.
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Uzuncaburç (Classic Greek: Olba or Ὤλβα, Classic Latin: Diocaesarea or
Διοκαισάρεια), Turkey
The city of Olba was founded by the Seleucid dynasty. It's located at 1200 meters. The ruins are located in and around the small city of Uzuncaburc.
Romans called the N-S oriented streets of their cities cardo or cardus. (Like the avenues is in Manhattan.) The most important cardo was the center of all commercial and economical life. These kind of colonnaded streets were fundamental parts of the Seleucid cities.
This is a hibiscus staminal column showing the filaments, anthers and stigma.
This is my second complete day without my own computer. Sorry if I cannot comment back on your photos for some time until I can buy a new PC. Robbers managed to get into my house and took my desk top computer and accesslories, and some valuable things. I'm using a borrowed laptop so I can upload this photo.. All are not lost though. I'm still around here to enjoy Flickr. Merry Christmas to all!
Nikon D80 + 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G | Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, Greece, 5 Oct 2007
© 2007 José Francisco Salgado, PhD
The Temple of Olympian Zeus (Greek: Ναὸς τοῦ Ὀλυμπίου Διός, Naos tou Olympiou Dios), also known as the Olympieion or Columns of the Olympian Zeus, is a colossal ruined temple in the centre of the Greek capital Athens that was dedicated to Zeus, king of the Olympian gods. Construction began in the 6th century BC during the rule of the Athenian tyrants, who envisaged building the greatest temple in the ancient world, but it was not completed until the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD some 638 years after the project had begun. During the Roman periods it was renowned as the largest temple in Greece and housed one of the largest cult statues in the ancient world.
The temple's glory was short-lived, as it fell into disuse after being pillaged in a barbarian invasion in the 3rd century AD. It was probably never repaired and was reduced to ruins thereafter. In the centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, the temple was extensively quarried for building materials to supply building projects elsewhere in the city. Despite this, substantial remains remain visible today and it continues to be a major tourist attraction. [Source: Wikipedia]