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University College, Oxford
The Shelley Memorial
"Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity."
Shelley, "Adonais".
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792 in Sussex and came from a prominent family being the son of the MP for Horsham.
The Shelley memorial was erected at University College in 1892-3 it lies in the west front quad of the college under a dome painted with stars and is close to The High Street, yet it seems another world. The domed memorial was intended for the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. Curiously Shelley’s memorial is placed in the college from which he was sent down from in 1811 for publishing a “scandalous” document “The Necessity of Atheism”, this had be co-written with his friend Jefferson Hogg. Lady Shelley presented the memorial to University College, who by 1894 had undoubtedly forgiven Shelley’s earlier misdemeanour. Following the disgrace of the pamphlet Shelley eloped with sixteen year old Harriet Westbrook to Scotland, this marriage like Shelley’s tempestuous life was doomed, and Harriet drowned herself in the Serpentine (Hyde Park.) Drowning was to be the romantic poet’s own fate eleven years later when he too was lost, his yacht was sunk in a storm in the Bay of Lerici following a visit to Lord Byron . Onslow Ford’s monument is very “fin de siècle” it was designed to appear as if the muse of poetry and two lions support the drowned poet on a slab of Conemara marble as if floating on an invisible sea. The cold marble of his naked body contrasts with the heavy bronze of its support. The whole edifice is behind a grille and is locked so one usually observes it from eye level. The monument and its architectural surround was described by Pevsner as “extremely lush.” (P.211 Oxfordshire The Buildings of England , Yale Press) The memorial is an intriguing piece of work and is not generally open to public view. Basil Champneys (1842-1920) who was the architect was also responsible for Newham College Cambridge and Mansfield College Oxford. His work is often cited as late gothic, however in this case his influences appear more classical in keeping with the mausoleum.
It is worth comparing the University College monument with Weekes’ 1854 one of Shelley (In Christchurch Abbey). This monument was intended for St Peter’s Bournemouth where the poet’s heart is buried. (NT)
Non-HDR shot taken from a different angle of University of Texas' Main Building Tower.
First photo posted with my new Lumix DMC-TZ7 (went with it for the extra zoom capability, as used here).
Austin, Texas.
Main building of the University of Debrecen.
Taken with my homemade 6x12 anamorphic pinhole camera.
Film: Kodak Ektar 100 (120 roll)
Exposure time: 2 min.
Created these custom figures featuring an Adult walking their Kolter Kid to school. The Adult is wearing their favorite regional college sweater.
Plant Hall, the main academic and administrative building for the University, already had an extraordinary history. Formerly the Tampa Bay Hotel, the building represented, and still remains, a symbol of the city and its history. Local historians credit its builder, railroad and shipping magnate Henry B. Plant, with the transformation of Tampa from a sleepy fishing village to what would become a vibrant city of the 21st century.
Built between 1888 and 1891, the hotel was designed to surpass all other grand winter resorts. At a cost of $3 million, the 511-room giant rose to a flamboyant height of five stories, surrounded by ornate Victorian gingerbread and topped by Moorish minarets, domes and cupolas.
The rooms that once hosted Teddy Roosevelt, the Queen of England, Stephen Crane and Babe Ruth (who signed his first baseball contract in the hotel’s grand dining room) are now classrooms, laboratories and administrative offices–the heart of The University of Tampa and a landscape for state-of-the-art student learning environments. Today, The University of Tampa serves more than 7,200 undergraduate and graduate students, and Plant Hall remains the foundation of a 105-acre, 58-building campus that successfully blends the historic with the mode -
Commenced in the mid 19th century, The original Sydney University buildings where styled in the Gothic Revival manner of the time. Here an entrance door & surround mimics the medieval architecture.
Harvard University reflecting on the Charles River
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Princeton University, founded in 1746, has graduated many notable alumni, among them 41 Nobel laureates, two U.S. Presidents, 12 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and numerous living billionaires and foreign heads of states. Princeton has also graduated many prominent members of the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Cabinet, including eight Secretaries of State, three Secretaries of Defense, and two of the past four Chairs of the Federal Reserve. First Lady Michelle Obama attended Princeton University, graduating cum laude in 1985.
Alexander Hall is a 900-seat Richardsonian Romanesque assembly hall at Princeton University. It is home to both the Princeton University Orchestra and the Princeton Symphony Orchestra.
Melbourne University Old Arts Building - love the architecture of this place, a lovely old building. A re-processed version of an old image.
Burlington, VT. October 2016.
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Electra House, 84 Moorgate, built by John Belcher in 1902, topped by a sculpture of young Atlases supporting a zodiacal globe by F.W. Pomeroy.
Popularly known as " "The London Met" It moved into thede premises in 1940 following the detruction of it's former building at nearby White Street by German bombers in WW2
The building is at present undrgoing massive restoration See link to Street View.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5182026,-0.0882897,3a,75y,156.8...
Logistics bridge & ring road
Aarhus University Hospital (AUH), Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark, by C.F. Møller Architects, Cubo Arkitekter & Schønherr Landscape 2019
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87 Byres Road.
Traditional Italian cafe established in 1918 by the Verrecchia family and not tampered too much with since.
As visited by Nicola Sturgeon on a campaign visit:
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Johnny Beattie obituary (The Scotsman) Tuesday 14th July 2020:
'As a teenager, Johnny spent many evenings in Glasgow’s University Cafe, where he’d eavesdrop on the conversations of a group from an amateur dramatic society who frequented the cafe following their rehearsals. He was surprised when one evening, the society’s director approached him, saying they were looking for someone tall to play the role of a policeman and wondered if he would be interested. When recalling the incident, Johnny said that having been “eyeing up the talent”, he decided to take up the offer and in his words “That was the start of it.”'
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