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Taken at the Bayon, the mysterious, main temple complex in Angkor Thom.
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Decorative column head at the Pergola on Hampstead Heath
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Cairn Column (by David Nash) in Kew Gardens is carved from Sussex oak which has been charred - After burning, Nash sprays the wood with water to let it cool off. He then scrapes the loose char away and re-chars the wood with a propane torch to get an even tighter texture that does not fall off.
To Nash the blackness of burned wood absorbs all light and encourages the viewer to observe the form of the sculpture rather than the detail of wood. 'I've always had an interest in blackness. Black looks bigger when you look into it, it is a very deep space. With wood sculpture one tends to see "wood", a familiar material, before reading the form: wood first, sculpture second. Charring radically changes this experience,' he says.
Trajan's Forum, Rome with Trajan's Column, the Church of the Most Holy Name of Mary and a fortuitous puddle.
The Carlisle Memorial Column is a 19th century monument located at the southern end of the Castle Howard Avenue on the edge of the Howardian Hills. Built to the memory of the 7th Earl of Carlisle after his death in 1864, the column was paid for by public subscription. Four architects submitted designs for the monument, including one by the Yorkshire-based architect Cuthbert Brodrick, but the design by Frederick Pepys Cockerell was chosen.
The monument consists of a central column, over seven feet in diameter and is hollow inside. The central column rests on a square platform with steps leading up on the north side. Around the square base of the column is an inscription to the 7th Earl. At each of the four corners of the platform is a pedestal surmounted with a knight's helmet, and the outer face of each pedestal bears a heraldic shield and sword with, alternately, the arms of the Howard family and the Royal Family, in recognition of the Earl's post of Viceroy of Ireland. The top is crowned by a tripod which supports an urn with flames fashioned from gilded copper. The entire structure is 120 feet high.
In Medina's Masjid Al-Nabawi, every row is filled with simple fare - bread, yoghurt, dates and water - to feed fasting worshippers.
Library of Celsus, Ephesus. Notice the hybrid Roman capital on an unfluted column, combining the Greek Ionian and Corinthian styles: Rome proclaims itself a new world order that surpasses all that was ancient Greece.
The columns are repurposed Ancient Roman columns, intended to support the roof of the incomplete mosque, commissioned by Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur around the year 1190, but never completed. This is adjacent to the Mausoleum of Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco.
Trajan's Column (Italian: Colonna Traiana) is a Roman triumphal column in Rome, Italy, that commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars. It was probably constructed under the supervision of the architect Apollodorus of Damascus at the order of the Roman Senate. It is located in Trajan's Forum, built near the Quirinal Hill, north of the Roman Forum. Completed in AD 113, the freestanding column is most famous for its spiral bas relief, which artistically describes the epic wars between the Romans and Dacians (101–102 and 105–106). Its design has inspired numerous victory columns, both ancient and modern.
The Chesme Colonna in the Catherine Park of Tsarskoye Selo is a monument symbolizing the power and glory of the Russian fleet. Doric column with a height of 25 meters was designed by architect Antonio Rinaldi from Olonets marble and installed in 1776 in the center of the Big Pond.
The Astoria Column has served for over 80 years as a beacon on the Pacific Northwest Coast. It sits in a wooded area 600 feet above sea level on Coxcomb Hill, Astoria, Oregon’s highest point. Majestic views of the countryside surrounding Astoria are the great Pacific Ocean to the west and the mighty Columbia River to the north.
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