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Trinity Hall seen amongst the fall color of the changing season on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/Chico State)
22nd Serpentine Pavilion 2023 À table designed by Lina Ghotmeh - Architecture
(June – October 2023)
Inspired by the architect’s Mediterranean heritage and fervent discussions around the table over current affairs, politics, personal lives, and dreams, the Pavilion is titled À table – a French call to sit down together at a table to engage and participate in dialogue while sharing a meal. As such, the interior of the Pavilion features a concentric table along the perimeter, inviting us to convene, sit down, think, share and celebrate exchanges that enable new relationships to form.
Considering food as an expression of care, the Pavilion’s design is a space for grounding and reflection on our relationship to land, nature and environment. By offering a moment of conviviality around a table, Ghotmeh welcomes us to share the ideas, concerns, joys, dissatisfactions, responsibilities, traditions, cultural memories, and histories that bring us together.
Inspired by Ghotmeh’s Mediterranean heritage and lively discussions around the table over current affairs, politics, personal lives, and dreams, the Pavilion is titled À table – a French call to sit together at the table to share a meal and enter into dialogue. As such, the interior of the Pavilion features a circular table along the perimeter, inviting us to convene and celebrate exchanges that enable new relationships to form. Considering food as an expression of care and offering a moment of conviviality around a table, Ghotmeh welcomes us to share the ideas, concerns, joys, dissatisfactions, responsibilities, traditions, cultural memories, and histories that bring us together. 
Ghotmeh defines her approach to architecture as an ‘Archaeology of the Future’. Built predominantly from bio-sourced and low-carbon materials, the Serpentine Pavilion 2023 continues her focus on sustainability and designing spaces that are conceived in dialogue with the history and natural environment that surrounds them. The form of the Pavilion responds to the shape of the park’s tree canopies. Internal wooden beams that encircle the perimeter of the structure emerge as thin tree trunks and the fretwork panels that sit between the beams feature plant-like cut out patterns, aiding ventilation and allowing natural light to come in. The Pavilion’s pleated roof is inspired by the structure of a palm leaf, while the lightwell in the middle furthers the space’s integration with its setting. The modest, low roof takes inspiration from togunas: structures found in Mali, West Africa, that are traditionally used for community gatherings to discuss current issues, and also offer shade and relief from heat. The low-lying roofs of these structures encourage people to remain seated peacefully and take pause throughout discussions.
In this design, Ghotmeh also honours the history of the Serpentine South building, which was originally a teahouse. Designed by James Grey West, the building opened in 1934 and was converted into an art gallery in 1970. In the summer months until the early 1960s, the café’s seating area also expanded to the lawn, which the Pavilion now occupies.
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Jason, Julia, Justin, Brigid, Gretchen and Scot at the top of the 100' fire tower at Mille Lacs Kathio State Park.
The beautiful Nandi hills,..if only outsiders and visitors cared a little about this spectacular place and stopped littering,smoking ,boozing and turning it into a drug fest.
Whoever is from Bangalore and sees my pictures ,kindly make an active effort not to litter.
Thank you.
White stork Ciconia ciconia, adult with chick at treetop nest during reintroduction, Knepp Wildland, West Sussex, UK, May
Beautiful sunny skies today~~the woodlands were alive with color. The White Oak overhead slowly transitioning from green to red while the hickory to the left glowed bright yellow.
Lots of people walking through a strip of "show bag" stands. I don't quite get this "show bag" concept. It's like, these pre-made, themed bags of souvenirs and candy are available to buy everywhere. EVERYWHERE. It seems like that would take the fun out of picking and choosing the things one likes? Maybe it makes it easier on parents? It's also pretty wasteful. Do they have something like this in the States and I've just forgotten about it? Anyway, I did not get a show bag. :-)
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Perth Royal Show 2008. Claremont Showgrounds, Western Australia.
The canopy of twisty turny trunk and branches of trees around the base track on Mount Maunganui. (NZ).
Looking up in a birch trees. Beautiful nature background. Low angle shot. You can purchase this photo for commercial use in high-res and without watermark here: j.mp/greycoastphoto || If you have any issues with finding specific image, please contact me: danr@yandex.com
Gourmet S'mores Campfire Cookoff at Brookside Nature Center on October 2017. Photos by Tony Ventouris.
I'm happy that we were here during the summer. I don't think the area would look nearly as pretty in the winter.
Green Park.
Westminster, England, UK.
From Wikipedia: Crown shyness (also canopy disengagement, canopy shyness or intercrown spacing) is a phenomenon observed in some tree species, in which the crowns of fully stocked trees do not touch each other, forming a canopy with channel-like gaps.
The Hawaii Tropical Botanical Gardens in Papaikou on the Big Island of Hawaii
Kew Gardens-Temperate House from Rhizotron and Xstrata Treetop Walkway. Copyright © by Scott A. McNealy Photographer. www.noboundaryphotography.co.uk
==> JULY-2020: Steven W. Brewer and I HAD THOUGHT this is Cynometra bauhiniifolia. In April 2020 we found a number of individuals in the same locale with laterally compressed fruit, like my March 2016 photos.
In June Steven W. Brewer returned to trees he collected specimens from in April and found the fruit significantly more developed, mature. Steven NOW believes this is NOT C. bauhiniifolia, but a Cynometra species yet to be determined.