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The area around St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London.
A couple of heads on columns. There was two more like this.
Building is Juxon House.
The city of Pompeii was an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples, Italy. Pompeii was mostly destroyed and buried under 4 to 6 m of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Pompeii's excavated ruins are one of the most significant proofs of Roman civilization.
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This column was raised in May 1894 in honor of His Majesty Charles I, king of Romania, during the inauguration of improvement works of the European Commission of the Danube.
“These 22 Corinthian sandstone columns were among 24 that were part of the east central portico of the US Capitol. Architect Charles Bulfinch oversaw construction of the portico using a design handed down by his predecessors, William Thornton and Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Completed in 1826, these columns provided the backdrop for presidential inaugurations from 1829 (Andrew Jackson) to 1957 (Dwight Eisenhower) and were the site of many speeches protests and rallies. In 1958, when the portico was widened [these were removed.]” Source: Sign near the columns in the National Arboretum, Washington, D.C.
Columns of Markthalle Altenrhein ("Altenrhein market hall") in Staad, municipality Thal SG, canton Sankt Gallen, Switzerland.
Markthalle Altenrhein is one of the many architectural projects of the famous Austrian painter and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser (December 15, 1928 – February 19, 2000).
Born Friedrich Stowasser in Vienna, Austria, he later called himself Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (literally: rich in peace / rainy day / dark colorful / hundred water), shortly Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
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Hundertwasser's original and unruly artistic vision expressed itself in pictorial art, environmentalism, philosophy, and design of facades, postage stamps, flags, and clothing (among other areas). The common themes in his work utilised bright colours, organic forms, a reconciliation of humans with nature, and a strong individualism, rejecting straight lines.
He remains sui generis, although his architectural work is comparable to Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926) in its use of biomorphic forms and the use of tile. He was also inspired by the art of the Vienna Secession, and by the Austrian painters Egon Schiele (1890–1918) and Gustav Klimt (1862–1918).
He was fascinated by spirals, and called straight lines "the devil's tools". He called his theory of art "transautomatism", based on Surrealist automatism, but focusing on the experience of the viewer, rather than the artist.
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Istanbul Turkey. Bronze Column from the front of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. Located in the Hippodrome it was brought here. It is said to have been created from the melted Persian shields. The snake heads are missing but one head is in the archaeological museum.
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Digital fabrication of a column prototype using 1mm cardboard sheet. (Not rendered!) Column is 2.7 meters high, 50cm mean diameter. Further images and description:
www.michael-hansmeyer.com/projects/columns.html
Form is generated and sliced using Processing.Fabrication carried out in ETH's CAAD group using the university's RapLab. See www.caad.arch.ethz.ch/ and also www.mas.caad.arch.ethz.ch/
Gloomy day at Minnetrista in Muncie, Indiana,
but it's never gloomy at Jack's Camera Shop. : )
Yesterday I was talking to a man at Jack's from Windsor, Ontario!
www.minnetrista.net/index.html
Beautiful Flickr slideshow of weddings around Minnetrista.
www.flickr.com/photos/minnetrista/sets/72157622370795879/...
Columns at Princeton Battlefield State Park, Mercer Road, Princeton, NJ
Colonnade designed by Thomas Walter, the architect of the US Capitol.
Back to work this morning - somewhat knackered after a weekend of fun and activity. Had another nice surprise this afternoon when my friend James called to say he was going to pop into the office to drop off the sunglasses I left at Center Parcs yesterday. So many encounters with lovely friends recently! :)