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The Transamerican Pyramid looks massive and can be seen from different part of San Francisco. It obviously deserved a visit.
And HDR version in here.
Pyramid Club, 1984, NYC
This image is part of my PUNKS & PROVOCATEURS series (http://www.rebelrebelle.com)
Photo © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto.com '09
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Sussex's own pyramid is Mad Jack Fuller's grave in Brightling Church.
Jack Fuller's pyramid is a 25 foot (7.62 m) high mausoleum built in 1811, twenty-three years before his death. It stands in the churchyard of St. Thomas à Becket, Brightling.
The ninth verse of Grey's Elegy is inscribed on one wall:
'The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave
Await alike th' inevitable hour
The paths of glory lead but to the grave'
Local legend had it that Fuller was entombed in the pyramid in full dress and top hat seated at a table set with a roast chicken and a bottle of wine. This was discovered to be untrue during renovations in 1982. Fuller is indeed buried in the conventional manner beneath the pyramid.
On Camera stuff
- Tripod
- Canon 10-22mm
Post Processing in ACR
- Strengthend blacks
- pushed clarity
- pushed vibrance
- overly sharpended image
- Converted to B+W
- Played with colour channels until I got the B+W effect I wanted.
- removed a few dust bunnies
- Added vignette
The South-East face of Pyramid mountain in the Adirondacks, as seen from the summit of Sawteeth. Matt Dobbs and I have developed a couple of climbing routes here, and it was nice to get this great view of our work! Further info on the climbs can be found on Mountain Project: www.mountainproject.com/v/stage-show/112213836
Pyramid Club, 1984, NYC
This image is part of my PUNKS & PROVOCATEURS series (http://www.rebelrebelle.com)
Photo © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto.com '09
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I drove out to Pyramid Lake on the Paiute Reservation with the intention of exploring the area, taking a few photos and camping for the night. I forgot this was the day that 40,000 people would be driving up the same road to Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert a bit up the road. I was caught up in an amazing caravan of every type vehicle known to man. I got to Red Bay around mid day and the light was harsh but I took a few digital photos and got wet. This is some beautiful landscape with a strong natural mystic
Our guide and driver took us to this lookout point for some photo ops, as he figured out right away that photography is a hobby of mine. We were with our guide for about six hours that day, just the four of us. I was able to impress him early on by speaking in Arabic with him about our professions. He asked my husband what he did for a living, and I interjected, “May I? Huwah muhandis.” His eyes about doubled in size with disbelief. He had never met an American who had studied Arabic. Then he and I conversed about my profession, and he tested me on some of the more intricate Arabic signage we encountered. Overall, I believe I was a good cultural ambassador for the country on this trip, and I definitely debunked some stereotypes about American women.
Our driver was great as well. He dressed in a suit and tie, and he was there to open the car door for me before I had taken off my seat belt. Soon we discovered that he had been the personal driver for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat up to his assassination. He was so emotionally disturbed by the assassination that he had to retire as the presidential driver and become a driver for government-run private tours.
(Giza, Egypt)
La chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut, construite sur la colline de Bourlémont à Ronchamp en Haute-Saône, est une création de l'architecte franco-suisse Le Corbusier.
Commencée en 1950 elle fut terminée en 1955. La chapelle a été bénie le 25 juin 1955 par l’archevêque de Besançon, puis consacrée par son successeur en 2005.
La chapelle est construite sur les ruines d'un sanctuaire datant du Moyen Âge, définitivement détruit par des bombardements en septembre 1944, bien qu'il eût subi au cours des siècles de nombreux dégâts causés par les orages et les guerres. Ce sanctuaire chrétien connaît chaque 8 septembre un important pèlerinage pour célébrer la nativité de la sainte Vierge.
Après la fin de la guerre, les habitants de la région de Ronchamp et la Commission d'art sacré de Besançon, décidèrent de la reconstruction de la chapelle et firent appel au célèbre architecte Le Corbusier, alors plutôt connu pour être l'inventeur de l'Unité d'habitation, comme solution aux problèmes de logements de l'après-guerre. Cependant, les premiers contacts entre les religieux et l'architecte furent plutôt rugueux car ce dernier n'était pas très porté sur la foi ; protestant d'origine, il disait avoir des ancêtres cathares, mais se déclarait athée.
À 63 ans, Le Corbusier se lance cependant dans l'aventure de la reconstruction de la chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut à Ronchamp. C'était son premier projet d'un bâtiment cultuel, bien qu'il eût travaillé en 1929 sur les plans de l'église de Tremblay-lès-Gonesse. Lyrique sur la beauté du site, il a dit : « Je n'avais rien fait de religieux, mais quand je me suis trouvé devant ces quatre horizons, je n'ai pu hésiter ».
En 1965, la chapelle ainsi que les bâtiments annexes ont été inscrits monument historique, en 1967 la chapelle a été classée et en 2004 les annexes de la chapelle (la maison du gardien, l'abri du pèlerin et les tables de béton, la cave, la pyramide) ainsi que le campanile de Prouvé ont été classés.
La chapelle est construite avec des pierres de récupération remplissant l'ossature en béton. Les murs sont recouverts de béton projeté enduit de chaux blanche. La coque de béton formant la couverture a été construite à l'aide d'un coffrage en bois ; les empreintes des planches sont encore visibles. Seule l'ossature de béton porte ce toit qui ne touche pas le remplissage de pierre ; ainsi, un vide de quelques centimètres permet à la lumière de passer entre le toit et le mur.
L'architecture toute en rondeur de la chapelle est surprenante pour ceux qui voyaient en Le Corbusier un architecte ne jurant que par l'angle droit. En plan, tous les murs sont courbes. Les clochers le sont également. Ces formes sont issues de la Nature. Le Corbusier s'est inspiré du dessin d'une carapace de crabe pour concevoir le toit. De plus, l'édifice se veut en harmonie avec le paysage vallonné des Vosges : les courbes de la chapelle répondent aux collines environnantes. La possibilité d'organiser de grandes messes en plein air participe de cette communion avec la nature. Les courbes sont également présentes à l'intérieur : le sol est incurvé, tout comme le couvrement.
Ces formes organiques peuvent être liées au contexte architectural des années 1950. Après des années d'Entre-deux-guerres où la droite l'emportait dans la plupart des projets modernes, les années 1950-1960 voient le développement des courbes et contre-courbes. Frank Lloyd Wright avec le musée Guggenheim de New York avait ouvert la voie que suivront Eero Saarinen ou Jorn Utzon. Le Corbusier, qui utilisait déjà des formes organiques dans ses villas des années 1920, a développé cette esthétique à partir de la Cité radieuse de Marseille (conçue en 1947).
La chapelle est pleine de contradictions architecturales, à la fois carrée et ronde, élancée et trapue, basse et haute. Selon Christophe Cousin, le directeur du Musée d'art et d'histoire de Belfort : « Elle a un plan très simple mais quand on est sur place, ce n'est pas du tout évident ». Vaste et ouverte sur l'extérieur, elle devient, le seuil franchi, un tout petit lieu de recueillement. Avec le blanc éclatant de ses murs, elle semble illustrer le grand principe de son architecte, pour lequel « l'émotion architecturale, c'est le jeu savant, correct et magnifique des volumes assemblés sous la lumière. »
Le travail de la lumière est plus sensible encore dans la chapelle. Son intrusion contredit l'épaisseur des murs et la massivité du couvrement. Le mur sud est percé d'une série de pyramides tronquées qui apportent avec une grande subtilité la lumière colorée par les vitraux. Le mur Est est aussi parsemé de jours carrés et d'une niche vitrée renfermant une statue de la Vierge. Par ailleurs, un espace interstitiel entre les murs et la voute de béton permet à la lumière de passer ce qui allège visuellement la masse du couvrement. Enfin, les chapelles bénéficient d'une lumière zénithale indirecte.
A noter que, pour la conception de cette œuvre, Le Corbusier s'est inspiré de l'architecture de la Mosquée de Sidi Brahim, sise à El-Ateuf, en Algérie.
Le travail de Le Corbusier à Ronchamp va au-delà de la conception de la chapelle. Étant peintre, il a dessiné le décor de la porte d'entrée et les vitraux. De plus, le site comprend une ziggourat faite de vieilles pierres, un clocher conçu notamment par Jean Prouvé, une maison d'habitation et un bâtiment collectif à la toiture engazonnée.
Le Corbusier participera à l'édification de deux autres bâtiments cultuels en France : le couvent Sainte-Marie-de-la-Tourette, de 1957 à 1959, et l'église Saint-Pierre de Firminy.
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Great Pyramid at Giza (also called Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops) along with the pyramids of Khafre and Menakaure.
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Pyramid Lake is the geographic sink of the Truckee River Basin, 40 mi (64 km) northeast of Reno. Pyramid Lake is fed by the Truckee River, which is mostly the outflow from Lake Tahoe. The Truckee River enters Pyramid Lake at its southern end. Pyramid Lake has no outlet, with water leaving only by evaporation, or sub-surface seepage (an endorheic lake). The lake has about 10% of the area of the Great Salt Lake, but it has about 25% more volume. The salinity is approximately 1/6 that of sea water. Although clear Lake Tahoe forms the headwaters that drain to Pyramid Lake, the Truckee River delivers more turbid waters to Pyramid Lake after traversing the steep Sierra terrain and collecting moderately high silt-loaded surface runoff.
A remnant of the Pleistocene Lake Lahontan (~890 feet deep), the lake area was inhabited by the 19th-century Paiute, who used the Tui chub and Lahontan cutthroat trout from the lake(the former is now endangered and the latter is threatened). The lake was first mapped in 1844 by John C. Frémont, the American discoverer of the lake who also gave it its English title.
In the 19th century two battles were fought near the lake, major actions in the Paiute War. In the 1960s a marker was placed commemorating these battles.
Because of water diversion beginning in 1905 by Derby Dam, the lake's existence was threatened, and the Paiute sued the Department of the Interior. By the mid-1970s, the lake had lost 80 feet of depth, and according to Paiute fisheries officials, the life of the lake was seriously under threat.
Pyramid Lake is located in southeastern Washoe County in western Nevada. It is in an elongated intermontane basin between the Lake Range on the east, the Virginia Mountains on the west and the Pah Rah Range on the southwest. The Fox Range and the Smoke Creek Desert lie to the north.
In a parallel basin to the east of the Lake Range is Winnemucca Lake now a dry lake bed. Prior to the construction of the Derby Dam in 1905 both lake levels stood at near 3,880 ft (1,180 m).[8] Following the dam completion the water levels dropped to 3,867 ft (1,179 m) and 3,853 ft (1,174 m) for Pyramid and Winnemucca respectively. In 1957 Pyramid Lake level was at 3,802 ft (1,159 m) and the dry Winnemucca Lake bed at 3,780 ft (1,150 m) had been dry since the 1930s.
The lake is the largest remnant of ancient Lake Lahontan that covered much of northwestern Nevada at the end of the last ice age. Pyramid Lake was the deepest point in Lake Lahontan, reaching an estimated 890 feet (270 m) due to its low level relative to the surrounding basins.
The name of the lake comes from the impressive cone or pyramid shaped tufa formations found in the lake and along the shores. The largest such formation, Anaho Island, is home to a large colony of American White Pelicans and is restricted for ecological reasons. Access to the Needles, another spectacular tufa formation at the northern end of the lake has also been restricted due to recent vandalism.
Major fish species include the cui-ui lakesucker, which is endemic to Pyramid Lake, the Tui chub and Lahontan cutthroat trout (the world record cutthroat trout was caught in Pyramid Lake). The former is endangered, and the latter is threatened. Both species were of critical importance to the Paiute people in pre-contact times.
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In geometry, a pyramid is a polyhedron formed by connecting a polygonal base and a point, called the apex. Each base edge and apex form a triangle. It is a conic solid with polygonal base.
An n-sided pyramid will have n+1 vertices, n+1 faces, and 2n edges. All pyramids are self-dual.
When unspecified, the base is usually assumed to be square.
If the base is a regular polygon and the apex is above the center the polygon, an n-gonal pyramid will has Cnv symmetry.
Pyramids are a subclass of the prismatoids....yaawnnn
The Louvre Pyramid is the large glass pyramid at the front of the Louvre museum in Paris. Commissioned by then French president François Mitterrand, it was designed by Chinese born American architect I.M. Pei, and completed in 1989. It reaches a height of 20.6 meters (about 70 feet); its square base has sides of 35 meters (115 feet). The pyramid covers the Louvre entresol and forms part of the new entrance to the museum.