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Sign of the Times: Failure of the Fourth Estate
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8 colors: black, white, dark & light gray (blay), trans-clear, -red, -yellow, -orange.
Photography: Matt and Mike Doyle
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From reckless corporate consolidation of the media industry, the Presidential persecution of whistle blowers to the targeting of independent wartime journalists by our military, our system has completely failed us. The continuous stream of sensationalism feeds our addiction to drama, hyperstimulating the senses with fear and novelty. The war drums beat to the tune of our racing hearts – which rage with fury over manipulated messages driven by those in power.
Personally, my advise would be to shut off the TVs – which drive us away from the essence of a meaningful existence. Ignore all mainstream messages – they are rooted in profit. Focus our thoughts and hearts to kindness, forgiveness and tolerance. The Fourth Estate will burn on its own.
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One of the primary new techniques (for me) used in this build was the implementation of Lego nets (71155) for sculpting. By backing each net with smaller plates – set apart by 1 stud – and then using 1x1 round plate pips on the front side (sandwiching the net in between), I had a flexible scrim which I could then build off of. This allowed for the undulating forms in the explosion area.
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Pole barn with farm implements,
Historic Stewart Farm,
Elgin Heritage Park,
Elgin, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
---- some short stories, collected while walking down the street ... in search of fleeting moments ...(they are photographic shots taken one-two months ago, scenes of daily life obviously captured before the current restrictions, implemented to stem the spread of the now worldwide infection caused by the covid-19) ....
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---- alcune storie minime, raccolte camminando per la strada ... alla ricerca di attimi fugaci-s/fuggenti ... (sono scatti fotografici realizzati uno-due mesi addietro, scene di vita quotidiana catturate ovviamente prima delle attuali restrizioni, attuate per arginare il dilagare della infezione oramai mondiale, causata dal covid-19) ....
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My Life (1993) Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman - Original Trailer by Film&Clips
My Life - Great 'Nostalgia' Scene with Michael Keaton
"My Life" - Diagnosis and Anger
My Life - Great 'Nostalgia' Scene with Michael Keaton
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Kanaka Creek Regional Park is a regional park of the Greater Vancouver Regional District, located in the city of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, flanking both sides of Kanaka Creek from its confluence with the Fraser River just east of Haney and extending approximately 11 km (7 mi) up the creek to just south of the community of Webster's Corners. The Maple Ridge Fairgrounds are just east of the lower regions of the park, beyond them is the community of Albion. Derby Reach Regional Park is just across the Fraser in Langley.
A variety of plants and animals can be located in all 3 areas of the park and it is a popular spot for both Black Bear and Salmon populations. Kanaka Creek Regional Park has a rich history- the first purchase of land for the park by the City of Maple Ridge occurred in the late 1970s, and the land is the traditional unceded territory of the Katzie, Kwantlen, Matsqui, Musqueam, Semiahmoo, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Recently, misuse of the land has negatively changed parts of the park. To fix this issue, Metro Vancouver Regional Parks implemented a 20 year management plan in 2004 with the assistance of the Katzie First Nation among other groups, and the University of Victoria (UVIC) completed a restoration project in areas of the park in 2022.
Recreation
Kanaka Creek is widely recognized for its natural beauty, as well as recreational appeal. According to a local newspaper, the Daily Hive, Kanaka is the 8th most popular park in metro Vancouver, with 610,500 visitors in 2022. The park features walking, hiking, and biking trails publicly available to anyone who wants to use them. Along these walks there is plenty of flora and fauna to view. The park also has a lake in which visitors can fish, or canoe. The park is wheelchair accessible, and equipped with parking and public washrooms.
The 400 ha. park has three main areas. The Riverfront area adjacent to the Fraser and BC Hwy 7 has picnic tables and a boat-launch, suitable for launching canoes and kayaks for navigating the slow-moving waters of Kanaka Creek up as far as the 240th Street bridge. The Riverfront Trail winds along this stretch of the creek and has a number of three-story wooden viewing towers. Above 240th Street the stream is shallower and full of snags and not suitable for boating. Above that a popular swimming hole with slickrock slides is at Cliff Falls. There are twin falls on Kanaka Creek, one on each of its upper fork. Much of the upper area of the park is heavily forested, though hiking along the creek beds is feasible and a number of wooden walkways through the forest and along the creek have been established in the area.
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An abandoned villa in the Italian countryside with some nice details in the living areas upstairs and a lot of large barrels in the basement. Unsure on the history of this but seems to have been abandoned for many years.
The man down Italian toll tour. Taking in some Italian delights on a 4 day explore.
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Since the complete implementation of ETCS on the Luxemburg network, Prima locos of the class 27000 are no longer welcome as long as they're not equiped with the ETCS onboard system.
During their conversion, Fret SNCF hires in a couple of CFL 3000's for the Woippy - Bettembourg (L) leg of the Modalohr piggyback trains from Le Boulou on the Spanish border.
This is a northbound service on 15/09/2021, working its last kilometers to the Luxemburg border.
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So sense second life has implemented a few new features I brought out a very old build and redoing all of it! I have built this interior area at the bottom of a old building facade I used for it. So welcome to the new local Spunky Monkey Noodle shop! The only place to be for all your ramen noodle needs in style!
The best part is the locals continue to rave about is the chairs that they just love! ::HIDDEN:: has really amazed everyone with such style options, lighting affect's and endless fun animations included in these! So please go check them out and pick them up at their store! They are so 100% worth is!
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Farm implement near McBaine, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF15-35mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at ƒ/4.0 with a 152-second exposure at ISO 50, processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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Old loading dock door on the abandoned Morenci Water and Electric Building. This building, built in 1897 is having some serious structural issues with the brick work.
Clifton, Arizona, USA. Once a booming copper mining town but now mostly declining or already in decay and the majority of people and business have moved just up the road to Morenci. The Freeport McMoRan copper mine located in Morenci is one of the largest in the world
Cliff dwellings along the San Francisco and Gila Rivers are evidence of an advanced civilization that existed long before Caesar ruled Rome. Many specimens of pottery and stone implements are still to be found in these ancient dwelling places. In the mid-1500s, both Fray Marcos de Niza and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado passed through the area, following the San Pedro north to the Gila River. Geronimo was born in 1829 near the confluence of Eagle Creek and the San Francisco and Gila Rivers.
In 1856 the first mineral discoveries of the Morenci/Clifton area were found by California volunteers pursuing Apaches, and conflicts between the Apaches and advancing Anglo settlers touched off a 26-year-long war. Mining for gold and silver began in 1864, followed by copper in 1872, and the mine at Morenci quickly grew to become the largest copper producer in North America. Clifton's population ballooned from 600 in 1880 to 5000 by 1910, and it quickly earned its reputation as the wildest of the "Wild West" boomtowns. Neighboring Morenci was swallowed up by an open pit mine in the 1960s, but Clifton was preserved, and today Chase Creek Street is still graced with lovely Victorian-era buildings from the town's halcyon days as the place to quickly make and lose a fortune.
In 1983, Clifton survived two nearly fatal blows, first a nearly three-year-long strike that began on June 30, 1983. Then later that same year, on October 2, 1983, Tropical Storm Octave sent 90,900 cubic feet of water per second into the San Francisco River, which burst its banks, destroying 700 homes and heavily damaging 86 of the town's 126 businesse
CTBC bank is also implementing finger vein scanning and facial recognition at its automatic teller machines (ATM), which would allow customers to withdraw money without having to use a bank card or PIN.
The finger vein technique was pioneered by the Japanese firm Hitachi Ltd and is based on the unique pattern of veins inside a finger. Only a living finger is accepted by the scanner, which is believed to make vein recognition a more secure technology than fingerprint scanning.
The finger vein sensor has a false match rate of 0.01 percent, and its accuracy in measuring the blood flow of a user for identity authentication is unaffected by variations in age and physical condition, the bank said, citing findings by US-based International Biometric Group.
The gradual weakening of the Commonwealth at the end of the 18th century led to the conquest, division, and colonization of the country by three neighboring powers – Russia, Prussia, and Austria. Lacking a strong army, the country was unable to implement reforms and resist the three invaders. For Poland, the 123-year period of partition began, when the country disappeared from maps and existed solely in the hearts and minds of Poles.
A scene symbolically depicts this event. In an elegant, classicist palace, three monarchs, leaning over a map, establish the new borders. This is a reference to period illustrations that depicted the partitions in a similar manner.
The third part of the series will cover the period from the loss to the regaining of independence. During these difficult times, Poles repeatedly took up arms, trying to break the chains imposed by force. This period contributed significantly to building national identity, numerous works of art were created, Poles also achieved a lot in a field of science.
Summer is the perfect time to implement many ideas.
⠀ For example, macro photography of insects🐝.
Having found an unusual frame, your picture can be sold for good money. Where and how this can be done, I wrote in previous posts.
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Wedding 💒. Have you never tried it? Get started. If you are going to develop as a photographer. Experience is always necessary.
⠀ Do you like to travel? Try taking portraits of people. We are all different and unusual, and the eyes are a whole story.
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Also in the summer there are various festivals, a biker congress, beautiful sunrises.
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💬What do you want to add to the list? Write in the comments.
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The Tadich Grill is an American seafood restaurant located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1849, it is the oldest running restaurant in California. Based in the Financial District, the restaurant sits on 240 California Street. The dining experience features Croatian-style cooking techniques that include grilling seafood over mesquite- and charcoal-broilers for varying flavor profiles and uniform broiling.
The original restaurant opened in 1849 as a coffee stand on Clay Street in San Francisco, California. It was founded by Nikola Budrovich, Frano Kosta, and Antonio Gasparich, three immigrants from Croatia, who launched their restaurant as "Coffee Stand". The establishment was renamed "New World Coffee Stand", following a move to the New World Market, a local market place in San Francisco.
In 1887, their restaurant was purchased by and renamed after John Tadich, a Croatian hailing from Stari Grad on the Island of Hvar. In 1928, Tadich sold the restaurant to another Croatian family, the Buichs. In 1967, the restaurant moved to its present location at 240 California Street; this was after Wells Fargo bought the Clay Street location for redevelopment. The current space is one-third larger than the original, and the Buiches worked with contractors to recreate the Art Deco interior design that the Clay Street space had. All of the moldings and woodwork were copied, and the original Clay Street bar was moved to the present location. The restaurant reopened within one month of moving.
In 1925, Louis Buich implemented Croatian-style cooking at the Tadich grill, requiring chefs to use a mesquite broiler for cooking seafood. The restaurant's use of the grilling technique became popular, and in a single day the restaurant can go through four 40-pound bags of mesquite charcoal. Little has changed in regards to the restaurant's cooking methods, and the restaurant has had only seven chefs since 1925 (as of 2011). After operating at several locations in the previous century, the restaurant's last move in 1967 was to a location on the California Street cable car line.
In 1999, R.W. Apple called the restaurant, "old-fashioned, a nostalgic shrine to local piscine tradition." According to Apple, the restaurant's best known dish is cioppino, a seafood soup created in San Francisco, and other California seafood specialities like Petrale sole and sand dabs. Herb Caen, longtime columnist of the San Francisco Chronicle, was a fan of Tadich's version of the Hangtown Fry, a Gold Rush era combination of scrambled eggs, bacon and oysters. In The New York Times, Sadie Stein wrote in 2013 that the restaurant is "Festive without being stuffy, it offers a taste of the San Francisco of yore while embracing the present day." The restaurant operated a branch in Washington, D.C. from 2015 to 2018
Shot from One Altitude (level 63, Raffles Place.
New rules at One Altitude for photographers:
Cameras not allowed to extend over the glass parapet. There must have been an incident recently for them to implement this.
I shot this without tripod as the glass parapet is a bit high. Just using my lightweight G12 for convenience.
pp: Topazlab Adjust with blending on CS3ew rules at One Altitude for photoshoot:
Cameras not allowed to extend over the barricade. There must have been an incident recently for them to implement this.
I shot this without tripod as the fencing is a bit high. Just using my lightweight G12 for convenience.
pp: Topazlab Adjust with blending on CS3
file: Keppel IMG_3344_Panorama1.jpg
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The week got away from me so just remembered at 8 last night that I hadn't shot anything for this weeks theme. Rummaged through the kitchen until I came across this handy dandy little gem. A thingamajig to get your olives out of jars and cans.
For the group Collective 52 Photo Project "2015".
Taken on 9 April 1988, China Rail 4-6-2 SL 626 climbs the grade away from Longquan (on the outskirts of Changchun) with Train 95 from Changchun to Jilin. I had also photographed it just three hours earlier working into Changchun on Train 534 from Jilin.
SL 626 was probably built in China's at the Sifang Works in late 1957.
Thanks to Robin Gibbons the headboard can be translated to read something like "Be of one heart and mind to implement the four modernisations!"
Implements including the chain used in an attempt to block the Hudson river and artillery from the revolution made with iron from Ringwood, NJ.
This lovely old building could have been a house in the old days - of the mid 1950's. Upon looking through the window, there were old farm implements and rustic tools left behind.
Darkroom print. Tokyo, one month after the big quake, April, 2011.
Three years on and Fukushima remains a timebomb and the government wants to rush its restart of nuclear reactors without implementing the appropriate safeguards. Humans don't deserve some technologies.
Ría de Punta Umbría (Huelva - Andalucía)
SIgma 10-20 + Cokin filter : Gradual Neutral Grey ND8 (P121)
Due to the invasion of southern and eastern European nations by the Warsaw Pact, the EU has sent back their troops to Europe from America to prepare and strategize a retaliation. Due to this soldiers now have a much more common presence in the daily lives of civilians. All forces will be used to create an advantage, even the Leaning Tower of Pisa will be used as a watch tower in Italy. The preparations are almost complete.
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Doing something very interesting with the leaning tower of pisa was harder than I thought if I wanted it to be pretty accurate, so this is more of a tone scene rather than a detailed one to be more accurate to the area.
Kitchen Tools #2. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
Close up photograph of kitchen implements.
When looking for subjects to test (otherwise know as “get to know”) a new camera or lens, it is amazing what things one can find to photograph! This week I’m trying to get up to speed on a new camera — more about that below — and how it works with some lenses I already have. On this evening I slapped a macro lens on the thing and headed to the kitchen to photograph… a whisk, blender blades, coffee cups, and others stuff that was lying around.
It is important to me to both understand objectively how my camera equipment functions and to develop an intuitive familiarity with it. The former helps me make smart decisions, and the latter is very important in the field, where I don’t want to get stuck wondering how the gear works. In this case, the new equipment is a Fujifilm X-T5 that I got to upgrade from the XPro2 that I’ve been using for my “small camera” photography for the past few years. For this photograph and a few others like it I put the Fujifilm 80mm macro on the camera.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
Seen inside the old barn at the Lynton Homestead (est. 1853).. The actual homestead was built for Governor Sanford who was in charge of the Lynton Convict Hiring Depot nearby.
Hello everyone, it's a beautiful morning today. I hope you're all terrific! - Today I'm showing you a bathroom vanity that I've constructed by using multiple items from different content creators on the grid. To be frankly honest with you, I'm not to fancy with designing bathroom layouts, it's just not something I've mastered, so I'm doing my best to refine that medium. Though, if you do adore or like this scene, or perhaps would like to implement some of it into your home. I'd like to keep you mindful that I've done some heavy modifications.
You all pretty much know how much I love styling kitchens, so coming up in the future I'll be creating a bathroom and kitchen alike, as most homes have the same cabinetry, etc in those two rooms.
Sanded down timber, with a subtle white wash, matte chrome faucets, and piping, a mirror outlined with a chrome finish. A touch of jute to implement and bounce from the wood, soft linen towels, and robe. Going for that woodsy soft winter like emotion. You could, however, create the faucets to be a silver, but you would need something to help balance that.
This month I'll be a little chaotic. I've got a few projects, but I'm also going to be in the hospital for a day procedure on the 15th. I don't like to talk about my health a lot on social media or such. I may speak more on it in the future but it's something I only speak about to a few.
Credits:
Onsu ~ "Walnut" Skybox ~ No Environment~Smaller Texture Version
DIGS - Olsen Television Unit [MESH] - Modified
[ARIA] Vivien concrete sink - Modified
[-BLUE SKY-] "Hudson Open Cabinet Sink" - Modified
Fancy Decor: Crane Sink - Modified
[ARIA] Deloros Bathroom Vanity (PG) - Modified
FD & Commoner: Slater Tray - Modified
Fancy Decor: Roux Soap Tray - Modified
Vase - Dust Bunny X Consignment - Modified
Nutmeg. Hand made Soap - Modified
BIGBULLY Theo Vanity Set - Mirror - Modified
Dutchie bathrobe white
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Heres a shot of my latest find. An old rusty, crusty, planter/ fertilizer made by Moline. I just put the post fence up this evening, and will be planting flowers around it. I love old farm implements. One of the seed decanters is still somewhat in tact, so I put daisys in it.
With it now 5 months since lockdown restrictions were implemented due to COVID-19, airlines are very slowly starting to see demand returning although this maybe scuppered in part due to spikes in cases being reported.
For Finnair, the carrier was supposed to be operating 7 daily or 49 weekly flights for the S20 schedule with 2 wide-body (one Airbus A350-900 in the morning and one Airbus A330-300 in the evening) and 5 narrow-body flights providing the work. That hasn't happened as capacity has significantly dropped with only 15 weekly flights being provided with Airbus A321s being utilised.
Prior to this, Airbus A330-300s became a common sight at London Heathrow following the W18 schedule whereby between 19th November 2018 to 23rd November 2018, Airbus A330-300s replaced Airbus A350-900s on Monday and Friday, and later from 30th November 2018 until 15th March 2019, Airbus A330-300s operated on Fridays only with Airbus A350-900s operating for the rest of the week on AY1331/1332.
For the S19 schedule, Airbus A330-300s got their own dedicated flight from 31st March 2019 when AY1337/1338 was converted from Airbus A320 family aircraft whilst AY1331/1332 retained Airbus A350-900s on all days although Airbus A330-300s would often substitute.
Now, Finnair is only providing a skeleton service between London Heathrow and Helsinki with only 15 weekly flights provided by Airbus A320 family aircraft, mainly Airbus A321s. The vast majority of their Airbus A330-300s are currently in storage at Helsinki whilst their Airbus A350-900s see work providing cargo and limited commercial flights on long-haul sectors.
Currently, Finnair have 8 Airbus A330s, all of which are Airbus A330-300s. So far, 7 out of 8 Airbus A330-300s are currently in short-term storage.
Lima Tango November is one of 8 Airbus A330-300s currently in Finnair fleet, delivered new to the flag-carrier on 24th April 2009, later leased from Novus Aviation Capital between March 2014 until March 2019 where her lease transferred from DVB Bank and she is powered by 2 General Electric CF6-80E1A4 engines. She has not operated a commercial flight since 11th March 2020 and is currently in storage at Helsinki-Vantaa.
Airbus A330-302 OH-LTN on final approach into Runway 09L at London Heathrow (LHR) on AY1331 from Helsinki-Vantaa (HEL).
Trees on a windy day.
Well this was a fun playtime for Sliders Sunday.
The idea and the implementation were relatively simple, but by the time I explain it, you won't be convinced. That will be my fault though in trying to document what I ended up doing :(
And the whole reason for explaining things is to try and encourage other folk to have fun too. Kind of shooting myself with my own rifle...
The idea: trees in woods move a surprising amount on windy days. It's scary looking up and seeing a big beech swaying by ten or twenty feet above your head. Take a series of shots looking up and stack them as a kind of multiple-exposure just to show what goes on.
The implementation: point camera up and hold the shutter in continuous burst mode. This is nine images stacked thuswise.
First mistake: the burst just took over a second according to the camera metadata so not much movement (a tree swaying takes several seconds) - but enough! You can see that the higher thinner branches move more so their patterns are more spread out giving a brushlike effect.
Stacked in Affinity Photo which is really easy. You could also do it in Photoshop.
I actually stacked it five different ways using different mathematical operators (I was just thinking: try them all and pick the ones with pretty colours - AP gives you a preview just mousing over the operator list).
Second mistake: to be honest, that’s overkill. Most of the individual stacking operators produced intriguing results by themselves. I was just trying to make the fun last longer :)
Blended the layers together using different blend modes. Again just keep adding the different stack versions and go for a blend mode that looks pretty or interesting. The Minimum version of the stack gave you nine images of each branch like a rake brush effect which I liked so I emphasised that.
So that got us the basic result. The rest was just finishing.
There seemed to be a problem with the end product - there was a quite a lot of grainy pixelation (inherent in some of the blend modes). So I used a Maximum Blur filter at a low resolution to clump up the pixels a bit. More painterly that way, or so the thinking went...
Then a Curves adjustment in LAB mode to brighten the image and increase the contrast, enhance the colours (the basic strange colours came out of some of the stacking variants, but stacking tends to reduce contrast and saturation too so I tried to counter that).
Then two tweaks I feel naked without: sharpening (with Unsharp Mask) and a vignette (slight dark one here).
And we are done. And I have had fun. And you are exhausted :(
As usual for this group I shall post a link to one of the in-camera originals that were stacked, in the first comment.
Thank you for taking time to look. Especially at one of these Sliders Sundays strange manifestations of captured imagery…
I hope you enjoy it! Happy Sliders Sunday :)
[For what it's worth here are the details of the blended layers, all at 100% opacity.
Base layer: Range operator (Normal);
Next layer: Median operator, Difference blend;
Next: Outlier operator, Negation blend;
Next: Maximum operator, Negation blend;
Top: Minimum operator, Luminosity blend. This was the one with that most emphasised all the stripey branches :)
]
In 1944 Aalto was commissioned to design and implement a town plan for Säynätsalo, a small factory town founded around Johan Parviaisen Tehtaat wood-processing mills, from 1946 operated by Enso-Gutzeit (now part of Stora Enso), whose headquarters in Helsinki he also designed. The town hall would be built at a later date after Aalto won a government-mandated competition for its design. Aalto constructed the building into the wooded hillside of Säynätsalo creating a three-story multi-purpose building surrounding an elevated courtyard.
The design of the Town Hall was influenced by both Finnish vernacular architecture and the humanist Italian renaissance. It was the Italian Renaissance from which Aalto drew inspiration for the courtyard arrangement which informed the name of his original competition entry entitled "Curia." While the main program of the building is housed within a heavy brick envelope, the courtyard is bordered by a glass-enclosed circulation space which can be linked to the model of an arcade-bordered Piazza.
It was important to Aalto that the design represent democracy and the people's relationship with the government which is why he included a large public space, along with sections dedicated to the public.
The town hall is crowned by the council chamber, a double-height space which is capped by the Aalto-designed "Butterfly" trusses. The trusses support both the roof and the ceiling, creating airflow to manage condensation in the winter and heat in the summer. The butterfly truss eliminates the need for multiple intermediate trusses. It also gives call to medieval and traditional styles. The council Chamber is approached from the main entrance hall a floor below via a ramp which wraps around the main tower structure under a row of clerestory ribbon windows.
Aalto constrained his material palate to one dominated by brick and accented by timber and copper. Though Aalto practiced at the same time as Modernist Architects Le Corbusier and others, he rejected the Machine Aesthetic for the majority of his architecture. Instead, he saw his buildings as organisms made of up of individual cells. This principle informed Aalto's use of traditional building materials such as brick which is, by nature, cellular. The bricks were even laid slightly off-line to create a dynamic and enlivened surface condition due to the shadows.
The massive brick envelope is punctuated by periods of vertical striation in the form of timber columns which evoke Säynätsalo's setting in a heavily forested area.
Another distinctive feature at Säynätsalo are the grass stairs which complement a conventional set of stairs adjacent to the tower council chambers. The grass stairs also evoke notions of ancient Greek and Italian architecture through the establishment of a form resembling a simple amphitheater condition.