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Students joined with members of the community in the annual Unity March on Monday in conjunction with a week of events honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
1905-08, Frank Lloyd Wright
In 1905, after the original Unity Church burned down, the Universalist congregation of Oak Park, Illinois turned to architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design them a new structure. The result was Unity Temple. Wright was not only living in Oak Park, but was a Unitarian - which faith then had many beliefs in common with Universalism. The congregation needed a space of worship, as well as a community room. There were several immediate problems that the architect had to work with in order to satisfy the client. The budget for the Universalist congregation was rather small for its needs: $40,000 US dollars; and the proposed building site was long, but not very wide. Additionally, the building site stood on a busy street. And finally, the architect was expected to design not only the structure, but furniture and stained glass for the building. Charles E. Roberts, an engineer, inventor and an important early client of Frank Lloyd Wright, served on the church's building committee and was a key figure in seeing that Wright's vision for the church became a reality. For Roberts, Wright also remodeled Roberts' home and the Charles E. Roberts Stable.
To accommodate the needs of the congregation, Wright divided the community space from the temple space through a low, middle loggia that could be approached from either side. This was an efficient use of space and kept down on noise between the two main gathering areas: those coming for religious services would be separated via the loggia from those coming for community events. This design was one of Wright's first uses of a bipartite design: with two portions of the building similar in composition and separated by a lower passageway, and one section being larger than the other. The Guggenheim Museum in New York City is another bipartite design.
To reduce noise from the street, Wright eliminated street level windows in the temple. Instead, natural light comes from stained glass windows in the roof and clerestories along the upper walls. Because the members of the parish would not be able to look outside, Unity Temple's stained glass was designed with green, yellow, and brown tones in order to evoke the colors of nature. The main floor of the temple is accessed via a lower floor (which has seating space), and the room also has two balconies for the seating of the congregation. These varying seating levels allowed the architect to design a building to fit the size of the congregation, but efficiently: no one person in the congregation is more than 40 feet from the pulpit. Wright also designed the building with very good acoustics.
The design of Unity Temple represents a leap forward in design for Wright. In recounting his experiences with Unity Temple, he stated that this design was the first time he ever realized that the real heart of a building is its space, not its walls. Indeed, architectural historians have commented on Wright's genius in creating and manipulating space in his designs; in his book The Master Builders, Peter Blake entitled the section on Wright "The Mastery of Space."
In addition to being very accomplished with making the most out of the space he had, Wright also found the concept of "Unity" was very prominent mainly because of how he managed to fuse together space, experience and the material world. This was key to Unity Temple which has both a common meeting area and the congregation of church-goers. The sanctuary space gives the best example of this according to practicing architect Robert McCarter.
The building was completed in 1908 and officially dedicated on September 26, 1909. The original Universalist (now Unitarian Universalist) congregation still owns and uses Unity Temple, although a separate and secular organization, the Unity Temple Restoration Foundation, is in charge of the building's multi-million dollar restoration effort. Chicago restoration architect Gunny Harboe is in charge of the restoration with CTLGroup providing the engineering and materials technology expertise. In April 2009, Unity Temple, due to water seepage, was added to the National Trust for Historic Preservation's 11 most endangered historic places.
This is one in a set of HDR photos taken along the self-guided walking tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's neighborhood in Oak Park, Illinois. The set includes many of his designs and a few other examples of homes designed in the same period.
Unity Temple is a Unitarian Universalist church in Oak Park, Illinois, and the home of the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation. It was designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and built between 1905 and 1908
Once you try to enable Unity again in the CCSM you get a lot of conflicts. I found the top bar never displayed again correctly but everything else seemed to work. I logged out and started a new session to get Unity back properly. --- This was uploaded after some comments on my Ubuntu article at DanLynch.org/blog
Gathering Before 28th POLICE UNITY TOUR Arrival at National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial along F at 3rd Street, NW, Washington DC on Sunday afternoon, 12 May 2024 by Elvert Barnes Photography
POLICE UNITY TOUR website at policeunitytour.com/
National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial NATIONAL POLICE WEEK 2024 at nleomf.org/memorial/programs/national-police-week-2024/
Elvert Barnes 33rd NATIONAL POLICE WEEK 2024 at elvertxbarnes.com/police-week
Elvert Barnes May 2024 at exbphoto.com/2024
Elvert Barnes former Police Unity Tour docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/PoliceUnityTour.html
The Unity Now anti-racism event in Ravenscourt Park a few weeks ago. It came after a vile racist attack on the area's beloved POSK centre, (where my school held our school plays), in the days following the EU referendum.
Nick Grimshaw and Reggie Yates to host star studded concert
ELLIE GOULDING JOINS LINE UP WHICH ALREADY INCLUDES
EMELI SANDE, RIZZLE KICKS, LABRINTH, PLAN B, JAMIE CULLUM, JESSIE J, TINIE TEMPAH, RUDIMENTAL, ED SHEERAN, RITA ORA & BEVERLEY KNIGHT
JAHMENE DOUGLAS AND LONDON COMMUNITY GOSPEL CHOIR WILL ALSO PERFORM
In aid of The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust
"I would like Stephen to be remembered as a young man who had a future. He was well loved, and had he been given the chance to survive maybe he would have been the one to bridge the gap between black and white because he didn't distinguish between black or white. He saw people as people” Doreen Lawrence
In just two weeks time Ellie Goulding will take to the stage alongside some of the biggest names in British music for ‘Unity – A Concert for Stephen Lawrence’. Also performing at the concert will be Jahmene Douglas and the London Community Gospel Choir.
Ellie said: "I am thrilled to be joining the line up alongside amazing artists for such a worthwhile event - to be able to use music for a good cause is a dream for me so I hope that everyone who comes has a fantastic night and that the message will help to make positive and meaningful changes to peoples' lives. This is about all of us uniting for social empowerment."
The concert aims to unite communities and bring people of all backgrounds together through the common language of music. It marks the 20th anniversary of Stephen Lawrence’s murder. Through the work of Stephen’s mother, Doreen Lawrence and The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, Britain is changing but there is still much more to be done. The SL20 campaign, set up by the Trust to mark this important anniversary, aims to highlight Stephen’s legacy and the vital work undertaken by the charity in his name. This concert will play a pivotal role in the SL20 initiative.
Check out the Spotify playlist featuring songs from artists performing at the concert.
#SL20
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Wendy Taylor C.B.E.
The rings represent a symbol of collective strength and solidarity, which links UNISON with the work of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and all pioneering women everywhere.
Commissioned by UNISON in 2010.
(Sculpture by Wendy Taylor CBE outside the Unison building in Euston Road.)
Luminar Leisure Ltd was granted a licence to open the 'Oceana' nightclub in 2006, which involved converting Unity House into the venue.
There were concerns, however, from the police that it might increase crime, anti-social behaviour and noise in the city centre.
In April 2008, the plans for this 2,000-capacity superclub in Wakefield have failed in the High Court.
Unity House was formerly the headquarters of the 'Wakefield Industrial Co-Operative Society'. Some twenty years after this building was built co-op became a household name!
Panoramic view of what you would see at the lectern at Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Men standing in front of the Unity Pool Room, located at 795 Main Street (between the C.P. Railway and Jarvis). This building also housed the Railway Porter's union (a primarily black occupation) for many years.
Many men in Winnipeg's small black population were employed as porters, and many in the early and mid-20th century lived along Sutherland and Higgins Avenue, close to the C.P. station. This small neighborhood within a neighborhood was invariably known as "the Black Belt" or "the Loop," and anchored by the Porter's Union and businesses at 795 Main, and Pilgrim Baptist Church on Maple and Macdonald Avenue, which still exists as a thriving, largely black congregation at this location.
Photo is from the book "Musical Ghosts" by Owen Clark.
Taken for the KLickr Weekly Challenge # 39: Love & Unity
www.flickr.com/groups/kl-meetup/discuss/72157606013515814/
Camera: Olympus E-3
Lens: ZD 12-60mm SWD
Location: LRT Masjid Jamek, Kuala Lumpur.
Date: Mon, 14th Jul 2008.
After a most interesting & satisfying day of meeting & photographing people it was dinner time with my beloved bride-to-be who always puts a smile in my face (whether she realizes it or not). What a way to end a days shoot ... :-D
Its a convent (Aasramam) at Ooty. It well depicts the unity in India's diversity. You can see a Christian chapel, a Mosque and a Hanuman temple at the same campus, next to next.
I tried out various angles but couldnt include all the three in the same frame. This one is the best I got.
I love finding sculptures tucked away, particularly in busy areas. The sculpture Unity by Ivan Klapez is situated in Alban Gate, 125 London Wall and would never been seen if you walked at street level along the road.