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O Forte de Nossa Senhora da Graça, ou Forte da Graça, ergue-se majestosamente perto de Elvas, no Alentejo. Este exemplar da arquitetura militar portuguesa, construído entre 1763 e 1792 durante o reinado de D. José I, sob a direção do engenheiro militar francês Conde de Lippe, integra o conjunto de fortificações de Elvas, classificado como Património Mundial da UNESCO desde 2012. Situado estrategicamente no Monte da Graça, o forte, uma das mais sofisticadas fortificações abaluartadas da Europa, apresenta uma imponente estrutura circular em pedra, coroada por um distintivo reduto central octogonal amarelo. Este reduto, projetado segundo o método holandês de fortificação, alberga a Casa do Governador nos pisos superiores, uma capela no piso térreo e uma cisterna escavada na rocha no subsolo. Combinando função defensiva com elementos estéticos barrocos, a estrutura reforçava as defesas da cidade fronteiriça, sendo o edifício amarelo no topo também o centro de comando militar.
The Fort of Nossa Senhora da Graça, or Fort of Graça, stands majestically near Elvas, in the Alentejo. This example of Portuguese military architecture, built between 1763 and 1792 during the reign of King José I, under the direction of the French military engineer the Count of Lippe, is part of the Elvas fortifications complex, classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2012. Strategically located on Monte da Graça, the fort, one of the most sophisticated bastioned fortifications in Europe, has an imposing circular stone structure crowned by a distinctive yellow octagonal central redoubt. This redoubt, designed according to the Dutch method of fortification, houses the Governor's House on the upper floors, a chapel on the first floor and a cistern dug into the rock underground. Combining a defensive function with Baroque aesthetic elements, the structure reinforced the defenses of the border town, with the yellow building at the top also serving as the military command center.
The Octagon House & Museum
also known as the Colonel John Tayloe III House
parlor, coadestone fire place
architect: William Thornton, 1799
architectural style: Federal
administered by: the American Institute of Architects Foundation
Foggy Bottom neighborhood
1799 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, District of Columbia
ODC-Glass
I went up to the loft in the barn and took this out the window. This is facing my neighbour's yard.
Cathedrale Saint-Sauveur
Aix-en-Provence, France
The baptistery was built at the beginning of the 6th century, at about the same time as similar baptisteries in Fréjus Cathedral and Riez Cathedral in Provence, in Albenga in Liguria, and in Djémila, Algeria. Only the octagonal baptismal pool and the lower part of the walls remain from that period. The other walls and the dome were rebuilt in the Renaissance. A viewing hole in the floor reveals the bases of the porticoes of the Roman forum under the baptistery.
O Forte de Nossa Senhora da Graça, ou Forte da Graça, ergue-se majestosamente perto de Elvas, no Alentejo. Este exemplar da arquitetura militar portuguesa, construído entre 1763 e 1792 durante o reinado de D. José I, sob a direção do engenheiro militar francês Conde de Lippe, integra o conjunto de fortificações de Elvas, classificado como Património Mundial da UNESCO desde 2012. Situado estrategicamente no Monte da Graça, o forte, uma das mais sofisticadas fortificações abaluartadas da Europa, apresenta uma imponente estrutura circular em pedra, coroada por um distintivo reduto central octogonal amarelo. Este reduto, projetado segundo o método holandês de fortificação, alberga a Casa do Governador nos pisos superiores, uma capela no piso térreo e uma cisterna escavada na rocha no subsolo. Combinando função defensiva com elementos estéticos barrocos, a estrutura reforçava as defesas da cidade fronteiriça, sendo o edifício amarelo no topo também o centro de comando militar.
The Fort of Nossa Senhora da Graça, or Fort of Graça, stands majestically near Elvas, in the Alentejo. This example of Portuguese military architecture, built between 1763 and 1792 during the reign of King José I, under the direction of the French military engineer the Count of Lippe, is part of the Elvas fortifications complex, classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2012. Strategically located on Monte da Graça, the fort, one of the most sophisticated bastioned fortifications in Europe, has an imposing circular stone structure crowned by a distinctive yellow octagonal central redoubt. This redoubt, designed according to the Dutch method of fortification, houses the Governor's House on the upper floors, a chapel on the first floor and a cistern dug into the rock underground. Combining a defensive function with Baroque aesthetic elements, the structure reinforced the defenses of the border town, with the yellow building at the top also serving as the military command center.
The timber octagon that sits on the tower of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity at Ely is one of the greatest engineering feats of the Middle Ages. Completed in 1334, it weighs around 400 tons.
Ashby is Suffolk's most northerly parish. The church is on the Somerleyton Estate, in a isolated position in the middle of fields and is reached by a track that is half mile track from the nearest road.
The first recorded rector of St. Mary's was Galfridus de Inglose in 1313.
The building is a long and low flint church comprising of a 13th. century, 54 foot (16.45 m) long nave and a 29 foot (8.83 m) long chancel, covered with a continuous thatched roof, and a round west tower. The nave and round base of the tower date from pre Norman Conquest.
The tower is only round for about 10 feet (3 m) at the base, above this it is octagonal. The upper section has brick quoins, tall brick bell-openings, and a brick embattled parapet.
A medieval will of 1472 states that Thomas Kees bequeathed a sum for a new bell, which was recast in 1859 and inscribed 'J. Warner and Sons, London'.
The church has largely escaped restoration beyond repairs when necessary. There were extensive repairs to the tower in 1924, and restoration of the tower roof and the bell chamber in 1957. The most recent repairs were in 1987 when the hurricane of 16th. October caused such damage to the roof that re-thatching and recapping of the entire roof was needed. The work was complete by May 1989.
Inside the church is a square font of Purbeck marble, dating to the 12th. or 13th. century, with small remains of the original decoration.
The church received Grade: I listed building status on 27th. November 1954. (English Heritage Legacy ID: 282352).
Se trata del edificio más representativo de la ciudad. Su construcción comenzó en 1221 siguiendo los patrones góticos franceses y fue concluida en 1260. Tuvo importantísimas modificaciones en los siglos XV y XVI (agujas de la fachada principal, capilla del Condestable, cimborrio del crucero; estos elementos del gótico avanzado dotan al templo de su perfil inconfundible). Entre sus visitantes es muy popular por inusual el reloj del Papamoscas. Fue declarada en 1984 Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO.
En 2011, la catedral recibió un total de unos 380 000 visitantes. En 1994 comenzaron las obras de restauración. En total, se llevan invertidos 30 millones de euros, lo que le convierte en el monumento europeo que más fondos ha recibido para su restauración y que más se ha prolongado en el tiempo, se espera que esté totalmente restaurado para el año 2021, en su 8.º centenario.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catedral_de_Burgos
Construction on Burgos' Gothic Cathedral began in 1221 and spanned mainly from the 13th to 15th centuries. It has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The west front is flanked by towers terminating in octagonal spires covered with open stonework traceries. The middle section, which serves as an entrance, has three alabaster pilasters, the intercolumnar spaces bearing panel-pictures representing the martyrdom of saints. The façade possesses ornate and fantastic surface decoration.
The octagonal chapel of the Condestable, in florid, thus highly sculpted, Gothic design, has a roof finished with balustraded turrets, needle-pointed pinnacles and statues. In the lower portion, coats of arms, shields and crouching lions have been worked into the ensemble. The exterior of the sacristy is decorated with carved traceries, figures of angels and armoured knights. The elaborate tabernacle is composed of two octagonal sections in Corinthian style.
The Octagon Drawing Room. The scale and opulence of this room is too much for a 15mm lens to capture! Restored to it's 1840's splendour the room itself dates from 1360.
Mogoșoaia Palace is situated in a suburb of Bucharest, Romania. It was built between 1698-1702 by Constantin Brâncoveanu in what is called the Romanian Renaissance style or Brâncovenesc style, a combination of Venetian and Oriental elements. The palace bears the name of the widow of the Romanian boyar Mogoș, who owned the land it was built on. The Palace was to a large extent rebuilt in the 1920s by Martha Bibescu. (Wikipedia)
I hope that you are all holding up ok during the current crisis? I have started the long process of building a new website for myself - which will benefit me in the long run, but my lord is it a pain now. But we all have to find a way to keep busy right?
Image: Looking upwards at a staircase inside an abandoned bank. www.jameskerwin.uk
Trying to get back into the habit of taking pics, been months since i was out with the camera but hoping i'll be more productive and motivated in 2020.
The Octagon Tower at Fountains Abbey has interesting windows. I liked the light coming in through those windows and the resulting shape on the ground.
The interior courtyard of 13th century Castel del Monte near Andria, Italy, displays the building's geometric octagonal structure.
II* Hall-house. Circa 1450, restored 1932. Timber-framing with plaster-infilling; some close-studding in first floor central recess and curved braces over jettied overhangs. Classical Wealden hall-house with first floor jetties and recess in centre over which the roof-eaves are supported on curved side braces and single brace rising from off-centre wall-post. Plain tiled roof, hipped with gablets. Hipped dormer off-centre to right and brick stacks, off-centre to left and at right end. Two storeys; irregular fenestration of seven windows on first floor, (five windows continuously under eaves in recess) and seven windows on ground-floor, (four windows continuously under jetty to right). Front frame lattice casements. Entrances at rear, both C16 boarded and ribbed doors in moulded wooden Tudor arch surrounds.
Interior: evidence of substantial timber-frame. Low arched moulded bressummer over drawing-fireplace. Framed and plaster-infilling smoke bay. Crown-post, collar-purlin roof with moulded octagonal crown-post.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
The church plan is that of a Latin cross with five aisles. The central nave vaults reach forty-five metres (148 feet) while the side nave vaults reach thirty metres (98 feet). The transept has three aisles. The columns are on a 7.5 metre (25 ft) grid. However, the columns of the apse, resting on del Villar's foundation, do not adhere to the grid, requiring a section of columns of the ambulatory to transition to the grid thus creating a horseshoe pattern to the layout of those columns. The crossing rests on the four central columns of porphyry supporting a great hyperboloid surrounded by two rings of twelve hyperboloids (currently under construction). The central vault reaches sixty metres (200 feet). The apse is capped by a hyperboloid vault reaching seventy-five metres (246 feet). Gaudí intended that a visitor standing at the main entrance be able to see the vaults of the nave, crossing, and apse; thus the graduated increase in vault loft.
There are gaps in the floor of the apse, providing a view down into the crypt below.
The columns of the interior are a unique Gaudí design. Besides branching to support their load, their ever-changing surfaces are the result of the intersection of various geometric forms. The simplest example is that of a square base evolving into an octagon as the column rises, then a sixteen-sided form, and eventually to a circle. This effect is the result of a three-dimensional intersection of helicoidal columns (for example a square cross-section column twisting clockwise and a similar one twisting counter-clockwise).
Essentially none of the interior surfaces are flat; the ornamentation is comprehensive and rich, consisting in large part of abstract shapes which combine smooth curves and jagged points. Even detail-level work such as the iron railings for balconies and stairways are full of curvaceous elaboration.
A house with a haunted reputation, the Octagon is located in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
The Thumb Octagon Barn is an historic and unique barn located outside Gagetown, Michigan, in the NW portion of the "thumb" in the lower peninsula.
It was built in 1924 by local businessman James Purdy who hired local builders to construct the barn. Purdy was inspired to build the unique barn when he saw similar barns in Iowa.
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