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6-24-2015
Bojangles
I-40/NC 42
Light haze in the structure. Determined to be HVAC unit on the roof.
Cleveland FD, Clayton FD, Garner FD, EMS24, Medic 2
Daniel R. Jackson, President of the North American Division, leads a presentation to the attendees of the North American Division Administrative Conference on Structure during their two day meeting, May 14-15, 2014. Photo by Daniel Weber/NAD Communication ©2014 North American Division
6-24-2015
Bojangles
I-40/NC 42
Light haze in the structure. Determined to be HVAC unit on the roof.
Cleveland FD, Clayton FD, Garner FD, EMS24, Medic 2
The Court of Honor
Behind the portal opened the large courtyard of the palace, the thirty square meter Court of Honor. The northern and southern wings were each lined by rows of arches, between which a clear width of twenty-two meters remained—large enough for several two-horse or four-horse carriages to advance. Coming from the portal, one passed through a portico formed by four pairs of columns in the Tuscan order. The upper floors of the wing structures also had arcades corresponding to the basement, which may have originally been planned as open, but had already received windows during the construction period.
To the right and left of the Court of Honor were two courtyards, the Base Courts. The northern, smaller of the two courts was the so-called “Küchenhof”, or Kitchen Court. Here lay the pastry shop and the large kitchen of the palace, including a septic tank for the kitchen waste and the absences of the servants. The southern courtyard, the “Kutschenhof”, or Carriage Court, was surrounded in the east like a horseshoe by the elongated stables , which offered space for fifty horses, and for an extension for eighty. Adjoining the stable building was a one-story riding hall and a one-story coach house for the horse of the prince himself. A well and a dung pit completed the farm, which in this way clearly distinguished itself from the neighboring Court of Honor. A three-meter-wide passage under the eastern wing of the court of honor joined the two courts together, so that the carriages could advance from the stable directly at the Corps de Logis.
The Corps de Logis
The Corps de Logis, the main building of the palace, closed off the Court of Honor to the east. Its western façade was strictly symmetrical, with a central pediment projecting over both stories, and three window bays to the left and right of it. The surrounding belt cornice divided the facade horizontally, so that the upper floor with the mansard roof seemed to be an independent structure.
The middle pediment consisted of a vestibule on the ground floor, which was flanked by two Tuscan columns and two flat pilasters to the left and right. Upstairs was a large bow window instead of the vestibule. Three ionic pilasters each carried the frontispiece. The coat of arms decoration of this gable triangle was created by the Frankfurt sculptor Johann Bernhard Schwarzeburger with his sons. The two trophies over the corners of the frontispiece are by Paul Egell.
De Cotte also designed a perfectly symmetrical façade out of a total of eighteen window bays in the center: in the middle three-bay dome structure, four window bays to the left and right, and pavilions on the outside corners, slightly recessed, bordered by square corner railings and offset by two transverse mansard roofs with three window bays each. The windows were originally designed on the French model with green painted, hinged shutters. When the shops had worn out around 1850, they had been removed without any replacement. On the first floor, the low-ceilinged windows were protected by wrought-iron parapet grills, which had been removed in 1892 and brought to Regensburg.
For the dome and the rotunda, de Cotte created a dainty, only about 1.60-meter-deep stem to compensate for the oval and to form a parallel to the overall front facade. As on the courtyard side, two low Tuscan pillars each supported the cantilevered lower cornice on the ground floor, with two pairs of Ionic piers on the upper floor. On it lay the cornice running around the whole building, above it a frontispiece, which was covered with a cartouche with the initials of Prince Anselm Franz. The transition from the rotunda to the slate roof of the dome formed a stone balustrade, on whose inner corners sat two stone vases. The gable of the rotunda was originally decorated with two stone vases, which were so weathered before 1880 that they were removed without further ado. The top ring of the dome roof was also crowned with a vase, which was not made of stone for weight reasons, but was driven in copper. Despite its height of eight meters, it seemed light.
Unlike the simple window dormers of the attics of the garden front, the windows of the dome roof were decorated with carved medallion frames. The round arch above the gullwing door through which one entered the rotunda from the garden was particularly richly decorated. Its keystone was a sculpture of a face, from which gilded cornucopia towered on either side.
Finally, the garden façade of the Corps de Logis had to be completely redesigned in order to adapt it to the altered volume of the reconstruction. Since the Corps de Logis no longer extends beyond the width of the street front to the Grosse Eschenheimer Straße, it had to be five windows smaller than the original. Therefore, the restoration of the two end pavilions was renounced. Instead of four window bays, the facades to the left and right of the rotunda each received five instead.
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Suvarnabhumi Airport (Bangkok)
Went to Bangkok on a family trip. Not a very good timing, frankly, considering the political instability in the country at the moment. In fact, on our day when we were scheduled to leave for home, the Red planned to bring it out to the streets another rally. People were advised to stay indoors as massive traffic jam was expected. Luckily for us, we made it to the airport before the rally started. Army trucks could be seen on the highway to the airport. Obviously, they weren't going to be taken by surprise again after the airport showdown in 2008.
The brand spanking new Performing Arts Center at Soka University of America. The building sticks out like a sore, if beautiful, thumb amid what seemed like a carefully designed, balanced and serene campus. It would be more at home at UCI. For one, it pretty much blocks the best view of the Founders Hall there used to be.
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