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Shiny byzantine domes are visible for miles. Although this church is hemmed in by trees on the west and south side, I imagine it was clear back in the day and visible for miles in every direction.
Church of the Holy Trinity
East Elevation
Sept 2018 - I was recently asked by m.spain if they could paint a watercolour of the above photo. Naturally I agreed and they have sent me a link to the finished painting. It's excellent, follow the link below and take a look.
www.flickr.com/photos/mtspain/44204771404/in/pool-1193729...
The Low Memorial Library is a building on the campus of Columbia University in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York City, United States. Designed by Charles Follen McKim of the firm McKim, Mead & White, the building was constructed between 1895 and 1897 as the university's central library. The building was funded with $1 million from university president Seth Low, who named the edifice in memory of his father, Abiel Abbot Low. It houses the central administrative offices of the university. Located near 116th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, Low is arranged in the shape of a Greek cross.
Three sets of stairs on the south side of the building lead to an Ionic-style colonnade with a frieze describing the library's founding. The steps contain Daniel Chester French's sculpture Alma Mater, a university symbol. Inside, Low contains four stories, the most prominent of which is the raised first floor, which has an entrance vestibule and an ambulatory around an octagonal rotunda. The ambulatory leads to offices on the outer walls. The rotunda has four Vermont-granite columns on each of four sides, as well as a sky-blue plaster dome. The library's stacks were meant to store 1.5 million volumes; the east wing hosted the Avery Architectural Library and the north wing hosted Columbia's law library.
The library was built as part of Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus, which was developed in the 1890s according to a master plan by McKim. When Low Library was completed, it was poorly suited for library use, being overcrowded as early as the beginning of the 20th century. However, Low's central location made it a focal point of the university's campus. Following the completion of the much larger Butler Library in 1934, the building was converted to administrative offices. Low was designated as a New York City landmark in 1967, with the first-floor interior being designated in 1981, and the building was also designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1987.
Low Library is at the center of the Columbia University campus in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It carries the official address 535 West 116th Street, though the section of 116th Street between Broadway to the west and Amsterdam Avenue to the east is part of the private College Walk. Low is raised above the northern portion of the campus, which itself is a terrace above the South Court to the south. The library building occupies the highest point of the original campus.
The building is surrounded by Miller Theatre and Lewisohn Hall to the southwest; Earl Hall to the west; Mathematics and Havemeyer Halls to the west; Uris Hall to the north; Schermerhorn, Avery, and Fayerweather Halls to the northeast; St. Paul's Chapel to the east; and Buell, Philosophy, and Kent Halls to the southeast; Earl Hall and St. Paul's Chapel are both designed along the same west-east axis as the library building. This arrangement is part of McKim, Mead & White's design for the campus.
The terrace is connected to the South Court by two flights of steps; the library proper is approached by another flight above the terrace. Known as "the Steps", the "Low Steps", or the "Urban Beach", they are a popular meeting area for Columbia students. They also serve as a connection between the northern and southern sections of Columbia's campus.
The flight from the South Court to an intermediate landing is 325 to 327 feet wide. The flight from the intermediate landing to the terrace is narrower, at about 134 to 140 feet. This flight itself has an intermediate landing containing the Alma Mater sculpture by Daniel Chester French. The statue depicts a woman, personifying the traditional image of the university as an alma mater. Hidden in the statue's leg is an owl symbolizing knowledge and learning; college superstition has it that the first member of the incoming class to find the owl will become class valedictorian. The centers of the stairs are curved slightly upward to remove the impression that they were sagging. As a result, the center of each step is about 3.5 inches taller than the extreme ends. Smaller sets of staircases connect the intermediate landing to passages at terrace level on the west and east.
Architecture critic Paul Goldberger said of the Steps in 1987: "The building itself, for all the power of its immense scale and huge dome, seems almost to recede, deferring to the stairs before it." During commencement speeches, Columbia's "graduation mace" is customarily carried down the stairs. The stairs have also been used for other speeches, such as a 1991 speech by novelist Salman Rushdie after the Iranian government targeted him for assassination.
Old stuff from 2009. I did a small circular panorama for this dome in some building my workplace; Didn't have what it takes to do a panorama back then. Later, I peeled the circular image by Photoshop to make it flat.
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De koepel van onze schitterende Passage. Gebouwd in 1890 en inmiddels het oudste overdekte winkelcentrum van Nederland. In elk geval van Den Haag.
It continues the series Dome, but this time in the great outdoors in a field of rapeseed Next step Undergroun and street ..... Coming soon ...
8 meters in diameter, 4 meters high.
No photoshop but lightpainting
(Canon EOS 60D, trepied Vanguard & sigma 10/20mm f/4-5,6 DC EX HSM,Fenix flashlight halogen-type & other tools by Néon Flexible - Led, électroluminescence, fibre optique.)
Explored 7.October 2008 #327 - This Domed Window is in a covered Passage that links various Streets in The Hague in Holland. The passages where build in 1885.
Dome Skylight with Blue Sky and White Clouds, pics by Mike Mozart of TheeToyChannel and Jeepersmeda on Youtube
Mosta Dome. The Church of the Assumption of Our Lady, commonly known as the Rotunda of Mosta or Rotunda of St Marija Assunta (sometimes shortened to as The Mosta Dome) is a Roman Catholic church in Mosta, Malta. It is the fourth largest unsupported dome in the world and the third largest in Europe.
Built in the 19th century on the site of a previous church, it was designed by the Maltese architect Giorgio Grognet de Vassé. Its dome is among the largest in the world, with an internal diameter of 37.2 metres (122 ft).The rotunda walls are nearly 9.1 metres (30 ft) thick The rotunda dome is the third-largest church dome in Europe and the ninth largest in the world.
Dome Skylight with Blue Sky and White Clouds, pics by Mike Mozart of TheeToyChannel and Jeepersmeda on Youtube
One more shot of the Texas State Capitol in Austin. I took this one toward the end of the visit when the sky was a little brighter than in the previous photo.
The dome of the Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston. This was my one of my first times borrowing a Nikon Series E 70-210 lens that my girlfriend picked up at a thrift store. For a 35 year old zoom she got for pretty cheap it's really a joy to use.
Lens: Nikon Series E 70-210 f/4.0 adapted using Fotodiox F to EF
The CSX executive train is running westbound through Berea, Ohio, with Moonlight Dome in the consist.
National Gallery Singapore is a new visual arts institution which oversees the largest public collection of modern art in Singapore and Southeast Asia. The Gallery is housed in two national monuments—former Supreme Court and City Hall—that have been beautifully restored and transformed into this exciting venue in the heart of the Civic District.
Reflecting Singapore’s unique heritage and geographical location, the Gallery will feature Singapore and Southeast Asian art in its long-term and special exhibitions. It will also work with leading museums worldwide to co-present Southeast Asian art in a wider context, positioning Singapore as a regional and international hub for the visual arts.
[Source: www.nationalgallery.sg/about/about-the-gallery]
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