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In lieu of a unity candle, the bride and groom alternately poured and layered sand into a center container, as the DJ played music.
Unity Temple, 1905-1908, Frank Lloyd Wright, 875 Lake St.
One of the most important Wright's building in the beginning of the 20th century. Many people think it's the first modern building. Concrete only. Double core: the taller side is the Temple, and the shorter side is the House. No window at the street side. Lighting mostly from roof windows with yellow and green stained glass.
Wright said when he designed this building, for the first time he realized that the true soul of a building is not wall but space.
A few shots from Unity Day - I didn't manage much as the child was being very moany.
Canon EOS 60D and Sigma 17-50 f/2.8
Raw Conversion Adobe Camera Raw 7.0
Post processing Photoshop CS6
On my Site: christianbodden.co.uk/hyde-park-unity-day/
I was very lucky to shoot in an empty Unity Temple this week. This is still an active place of worship. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Write and opened in 1908. It is considered the first "modern" building. My photos do no justice to the feeling in this room. Airy, yet quiet, with an amazing warm glow. Truly a beautiful place.
Bronica ETRSI
Ilford PanF
Developed in D76 1:1
Suzanne Malveaux, a White House correspondent for CNN, and Romesh Ratnesar, deputy managing editor of TIME Magazine, interviewed U.S. Senator Barack Obama as he spoke on Sun. July 27, 2008, in the Skyline Ballroom of McCormick Place West on the last day of UNITY '08: A New Journalism for a Changing World. The program aired live on CNN.
May 12, 2019 - Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple located at 875 Lake Street, Oak Park, Illinois. "Commissioned by the congregation of Oak Park Unity Church in 1905, Wright’s Unity Temple is the greatest public building of the architect’s Chicago years. Wright’s family on his mother’s side were Welsh Unitarians, and his uncle Jenkin Lloyd Jones was a distinguished Unitarian preacher with a parish on Chicago’s south side where Wright and his wife Catherine were married. Wright identified with the rational humanism of Unitarianism, particularly as influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s transcendentalism, uniting all beings as one with the divine presence.
Wright’s father had been a Universalist preacher. With their emphasis on a loving God, Universalists were early advocates of abolitionism and were the first church to ordain women. In 1886 Universalist Augusta Chapin became minister of the Oak Park Unity Church, attracting new members to the congregation including Frank Lloyd Wright’s mother Anna. Unitarian Universalist minister Rodney Johonnot succeeded Chapin when she joined the Parliament of World Religions in 1893. A lawyer and graduate of Harvard Divinity School, Johonnot was known for his liberal views, even more extreme than those of Jenkin Lloyd Jones with whom he sometimes took issue.
When Unity Church burned to the ground in June 1905, Wright was awarded the commission, and in 1906 Johonnot published a booklet titled, A New Edifice for Unity Church. He wanted a modern building that would embody the principles of “unity, truth, beauty, simplicity, freedom and reason.”
Wright was a perfect match to these requirements. The design he submitted to the congregation broke with almost every existing convention for traditional Western ecclesiastic architecture. On the novel choice of construction material Wright states, “There was only one material to choose—as church funds were $45,000. Concrete was cheap.” Wright’s bold concept for the building enabled a series of concrete forms to be repeated multiple times.
In harmony with Wright’s philosophy of organic architecture, the concrete was left uncovered by plaster, brick, or stone. Wright’s sensitive handling of materials was a defining feature of his architecture from early in his career. “Bring out the nature of the materials,” Wright insisted in his seminal essay In the Cause of Architecture, “let their nature intimately into your scheme. Reveal the nature of wood, plaster, brick, or stone in your designs, they are all by nature friendly and beautiful. No treatment can be really a matter of fine art when those natural characteristics are, or their nature is, outraged or neglected.”
Unity Temple was a significant commission in Wright’s Oak Park Studio. Charles E. White, who worked as a draftsman for Wright from 1903 to 1906, details the collaborative effort of the Studio to secure the commission, “the chief thing at Wright’s is of course Unity Church, the sketches of which are at last accepted. We have all pleaded and argued with the committee, until we are well nigh worn out. All hands are working on the drawings."
In harmony with Wright’s philosophy of organic architecture, the concrete was left uncovered by plaster, brick, or stone. Wright’s sensitive handling of materials was a defining feature of his architecture from early in his career. “Bring out the nature of the materials,” Wright insisted in his seminal essay In the Cause of Architecture, “let their nature intimately into your scheme. Reveal the nature of wood, plaster, brick, or stone in your designs, they are all by nature friendly and beautiful. No treatment can be really a matter of fine art when those natural characteristics are, or their nature is, outraged or neglected.”
Unity Temple was a significant commission in Wright’s Oak Park Studio. Charles E. White, who worked as a draftsman for Wright from 1903 to 1906, details the collaborative effort of the Studio to secure the commission, “the chief thing at Wright’s is of course Unity Church, the sketches of which are at last accepted. We have all pleaded and argued with the committee, until we are well nigh worn out. All hands are working on the drawings.”
Approached from Lake Street, Unity Temple is a massive and monolithic cube of concrete, sheltered beneath an expansive flat roof. The introspective nature of the building is in part a response to its corner site situated along a busy thoroughfare. No entrance is apparent and the building appears impenetrable, save for a band of high clerestory windows recessed behind decorative piers and shadowed by overhanging eaves.
Entry to the building is via a low hall that connects Unity Temple and Unity House. Above the bank of doors leading into the hall, an inscription in bronze declares, “For the worship of God and the service of man.” The low, dimly lit hall that unites the buildings is a transitional space. To the south it opens directly onto Unity House. Designed for “the service of man,” this secular space includes a central meeting hall, flanking balconies for use as open classrooms, and other special purpose rooms for daily operation. Like Wright’s residential architecture, this congregational parish house is centered on a fireplace hearth.
Situated across the hall from Unity House is the temple. In contrast to the open entrance into Unity House, access to the sanctuary is complex. Wright masterfully manipulates the sequence of entrance; guiding the visitor through low dark passages he termed “cloisters,” before they ascend into the open, brightly lit sanctuary.
The sanctuary is the heart and anchor of the building. At once grand yet intimate, the sanctuary is a masterful composition in light and space. Its elegant articulation and warm colors stand in bold contrast to the grey concrete exterior. Devoid of overt religious iconography, its precise geometric proportions declare a harmonious whole.
The uppermost portion of the sanctuary appears light and transparent. A continuous band of clerestory windows of Wright’s signature leaded glass encircle the flat, coffered ceiling. Set in a concrete grid are twenty-five square skylights of amber tinted leaded glass The effect, Wright states, was intended “to get a sense of a happy cloudless day into the room… daylight sifting through between the intersecting concrete beams, filtering through amber glass ceiling lights. Thus managed, the light would, rain or shine, have the warmth of sunlight.”
While Wright’s innovative use of concrete was chosen for its economy, the completed building ultimately cost nearly twice the contracted price due to complications encountered during construction. In September of 1909, the new building was dedicated. Because its unique design bore little resemblance to the other churches along Lake Street, it was decided to rename it Unity Temple.
The congregation’s board of trustees issued a statement thanking Wright. “We extend to the architect, Mr. Frank Lloyd Wright, our most hearty congratulations upon the wonderful achievement embodied in the new edifice and further extend to him our most sincere thanks for the great service which, through the building, he has rendered to the parish and to the community. We believe the building will long endure as a monument to his artistic genius and that, so long as it endures, it will stand forth as a masterpiece of art and architecture.” Their words were prophetic."
Previous text from the following website: flwright.org/researchexplore/unitytemple
National Equality March for Unity + Pride on Constitution Avenue between 10th and 12th Street, NW, Washington DC on Sunday morning, 11 June 2017 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Gay Men's Chorus of Washington DC League of Voices for Equality (GMCW / L.O.V.E)
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Elvert Barnes 11 June 2017 EQUALITY MARCH DC docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/EqualityMarch2017
I was very lucky to shoot in an empty Unity Temple this week. This is still an active place of worship. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Write and opened in 1908. It is considered the first "modern" building. My photos do no justice to the feeling in this room. Airy, yet quiet, with an amazing warm glow. Truly a beautiful place.
Bronica ETRSI
Ilford PanF
Developed in D76 1:1
Businesses in the city have welcomed news that the iconic Unity Works is set to reopen as a business and conference centre just three months after going into administration.
Unity Bars and Clubs, which already operates The Establishment in the same building on Westgate, has already booked conferences and events at the listed building and is promising to secure the safety of other high-profile events this summer.
Renamed, Unity Hall and Business Space Limited, the company, headed up by entrepreneur Rob Green, is looking to guarantee the future for the 23 businesses currently operating out of the Westgate venue and attract more conferences to the location which was renovated to reflect its 19th century heritage in 2013.
© 2018 Tony Worrall
Artist Statement
The theme for my currency is unity and harmony. This is a universal currency for all people, all as one. Therefore, the name of this currency is called ἐva, which means one in Greek; one currency for one world for a people all as one. The idea for this currency is to bring all people together to become one. In creating this currency many symbols were used.
In the first currency, the unicorn on the right represents purification, healing, wisdom, renewal, eternal life, self-knowledge and power. Thus, the unicorn represents both elements of harmony and what a currency stands for: power and eternity. The origin of the unicorn originated from Greek historian Ctesias. Since unicorns are often seen with or when there is a moon, I have added a crescent moon on the upper left hand corner.
In the second currency doves were used because of their representation of peace or universal peace, the whiteness of the dove is also seen as purification. In the upper right hand corner there is an outline of the world that goes along with the theme of the second currency—universal peace.
Both currencies used similar colors and symbols as a way to tie the two currencies together. The color gold was used to represent the worth of the currency; I imagined that there would be small flakes of real gold in the currency (if brought to life). Colors of golden yellow and amber were used to represent comfort and calmness. Aqua colors gave a positive feeling of refreshing water and coolness. On the bottom left hand corner is a universal symbol representing unity, thus right under it is the World Bank. The symbol behind the currency number is the universal symbol for infinity. In ancient India and Tibet, it represented perfection, dualism and unity between male and female. In occult tarot it is linked to magic and represents equilibrium or balance. But today, this symbol is most known for its representation of infinity in numbers, time and space, relating to eternity. I especially wanted to incorporate circles into the middle background because circles are a representation of continuity, unbreakable as a people all as one. Circles are also an ancient and universal symbol of unity, wholeness and infinity.
I also wanted to put elements of the earth into this currency. Therefore, yellow represents the sun, aqua and the leaves behind the unity symbol represent water and nature, there is the moon and the darkness of the unicorn and doves represent nightfall. In this project I used many tools such as the pen, trace, rectangle, gradient, transparency, align and much more.