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Wikipedia: The Hess triangle is a triangular tile mosaic set in a sidewalk in New York City's West Village neighborhood at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Christopher Street. The plaque reads "Property of the Hess Estate which has never been dedicated for public purposes.
The plaque is the result of a dispute between the city government and the estate of David Hess, a landlord from Philadelphia who owned the Voorhis, a five-story apartment building. In the 1910s the city claimed eminent domain to expropriate and demolish hundreds of buildings in the area in order to widen Seventh Avenue and expand the IRT subway. According to Ross Duff Wyttock, writing in the Hartford Courant in 1928, Hess's heirs discovered that, when the city seized the Voorhis, the survey had missed this small corner of the plot and they set up a notice of possession. The city asked the family to donate the diminutive property to the public, but they refused and installed the present, defiant mosaic on July 27, 1922.
In 1938 the property, reported to be the smallest plot in New York City, was sold to the adjacent Village Cigars store for $1,000, approximately $2 per square inch. The new owners left the plaque in place, and, as of 2015, it remains.
Justin
A full view version is available in the Fractal Drawings set www.flickr.com/photos/flights_of_fancy/sets/7215761097336...
I have provided a translation of some of the tags I use on Flickr which you may find interesting www.flickr.com/photos/flights_of_fancy/6973610225/
The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.
Galileo Galilei
This is in the front of the old Tulsa Club Building, a hot spot during Tulsa's oil boom. It was built in 1927 but has been abandoned for the past 20 years. It recently sold to a gentlemen that dreams of refurbishing the building and bringing back the rooftop dining it once had. It will be nice to see the building come back to life again.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as "A Square", Abbott used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to offer pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture.
The story is about a two-dimensional world referred to as Flatland which is occupied by geometric figures. Women are simple line-segments, while men are regular polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a humble square, a member of the social caste of gentlemen and professionals in a society of geometric figures, who guides us through some of the implications of life in two dimensions.
-Wikipedia
A delicious blend of triangles from my Fat Quarter Shop bundle and a few extra fabrics including some hoarded AMH fabrics. Made and completed for my husband for Father's Day 2013.
Experiment: cropping photos in a triangle, with a duotone which in my opinion matches the setting and composition of the photo.
For my next step in this experiment I'd like to make prints, cut out the triangle, and glue them to foamboard.
The main glass pyramid at Le Louvre, Paris. I've wanted to see this for years and wasn't disappointed.
More and more triangles can be added.
Byriah Loper has also made this model.
The pocket angle at the bottom intersection is 54.7 degrees, at the side 32.3 degrees and at the top intersection 18.4 degrees.
Folder: Dirk Eisner
Designer of the units: Dirk Eisner
12 units - 2 different modules
last unit: 06.01.2012