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The Wisconsin Dental Association and WDA Foundation marked the half-way point in its second annual Mission of Mercy by delivering smiles to 1,018 children and adults on Friday, June 25, 2010 at Sheboygan North High School in Sheboygan, Wis.
Tuesday, February 15
2011
Took a trip to with Jason and his colleagues to the Protest this evening.
Looking down State Street.
All photos by CindyH Photography, free for media use with appropriate attribution given.
The Wisconsin State Capitol is located in the heart of downtown Madison on an isthmus formed by Lake Mendota to the north and Lake Monona to the south. Accenting the beauty of the Capitol building is the 13.5 acres of Capitol grounds on which it sits. During the summer, there are 15 flowerbeds on the grounds, containing over 25,000 annual plants. The grounds are also home to 154 trees, of which there are 30 different varieties.
Construction of our current Wisconsin Capitol began late in 1906 and was completed in 1917. George B. Post & Sons were the architects for the project. Originally, the Capitol and its power plant cost 7.25 million to build. Today the building is insured for $200 million, not including the artwork and furnishings. The Wisconsin State Capitol is 284.4 feet high from the ground floor to the top of the statue on the dome - just three feet and one-half inch shorter than our Nation's Capitol in Washington D.C.
The exterior of the Capitol is constructed entirely of White Bethel Vermont granite. This material compares to marble in whiteness and general appearance. It is the hardest and most durable stone used in the construction of the Capitol building.
The four wings of the Capitol face the four diagonal streets of the City of Madison. Each wing is one hundred and twenty-five feet wide, eighty-four feet high and one hundred and eighty-seven feet long. The west wing houses the State Assembly. The east wing contains the Governor's Conference Room and the Supreme Court. The State Senate is in the south wing. The North Hearing Room and the GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) Memorial Hearing Room are found in the north wing of the Capitol.
The dome, completed in 1915, is the focal point of the Capitol building. It dominates the four wings and rises 162 feet above them. The Capitol dome is the largest dome by volume in the United States and one of the largest in the world. It is also the only granite dome in the United States. The dome consists of inner and outer structures. The inner dome (coffer dome) is visible from the Capitol rotunda. Three observation decks encircle the outer dome. The lowest observation deck is open for public viewing during the summer months.
On top of the great granite dome stands the gilded bronze statue "Wisconsin" which symbolizes our state motto "Forward". "Wisconsin" has graced the top of the Capitol since 1914 and is 15 feet, 5 inches tall and weighs over 3 tons. In her left hand, "Wisconsin" holds a globe with an eagle perched on it and on top of her helmet is our state animal - the badger. Daniel Chester French of New York sculpted the statue for a cost of $20,325.
Inside the Wisconsin Automotive Museum in Hartford.
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Im Inneren des Wisconsin Automotive Museum in Hartford.
Built in 1997, this Modern building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright between 1938 and 1959, but had its construction overseen by Anthony Puttnam of Taliesin Associated Architects, whom had worked under Wright. It serves as the convention center for the city of Madison, and features a public plaza on the roof, as well as a liner park connecting the building to the nearby intersection of Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive and Wilson Street, providing a clear line of sight of the Wisconsin State Capitol a few blocks to the northwest. The design underwent many iterations during Wright’s later career, though it was heavily influenced by his focus on organic geometric forms that defined his work in the latter portion of his career, departing from the ornamentation of the earlier Prairie style and being more organic than his geometric designs for the Usonian houses built during the same time period. The building’s overall form is very true to Wright’s original concept, though it was made taller and the interior layout and programming are distinctly postmodern or contemporary, making some overtures to Wright’s later work, but featuring materials, details, and elements that make the building very clearly one from 1997, rather than from Wright’s lifetime. Nevertheless, the building is a graceful and spectacular addition to Downtown Madison and the shore of Lake Monona. The convention center came at a high cost in terms of finances, but also in terms of historical relics, with several ancient Ho-Chunk nation burial mounds on the site of the building being disturbed by the construction of its foundation, and the original view from Capitol Square to Lake Monona being forever blocked by the building’s height and rooftop fountain. Nevertheless, the addition of a large public terrace on the roof, a modern convention center, low-profile parking garage, and public restrooms have been a benefit to Downtown Madison and the public.
The building’s exterior facade is relatively simple on the side facing Downtown Madison, with a long linear park and walkway featuring distinctive sculptural lamps designed by Wright, which also are present at the entrance to Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive from Capitol Square, draw visitors to the building. The walkway expands into circular and semi-circular sections and contracts into narrower sections, crossing a bridge over the parking garage and a railroad line below before arriving at the building’s entrance. The entrance features modern storefronts, with a curved concrete parapet and soffit above, which supports a stylish modern fountain above, and is ringed by a semi-circular terrace that wraps around the semi-circular facade, which continues to ramps on either side that provide access to the rooftop terrace above and the parking garage below via elevator and stair towers, which sit at either end of the building and are clad in glass curtain walls. On the rooftop terrace, there are planters with trees, bushes, grasses, and flowers, two food service counters with outdoor seating and their kitchens in circular pavilions, circular pavilions housing restrooms, as well as stairs and elevators to the convention center below, and more sculptural lampposts. The building overall is a large half-cylinder massing with two cylindrical massings partially embedded into the sides, which have two smaller cylindrical massings at the point where the cylinders intersect with the half-cylinder facing the lake, with long wings on the flat side of the building that narrow before terminating at semi-circular ends. The side of the building facing Lake Monona features seven arched curtain walls separated by slender columns, which are recessed from the face of the facade above, and feature a planter at the base of the windows, a long curved storefront at the base that is recessed below the planter with the two circular massings embedded into the sides of the building’s semi-circular main massing being largely blank with cutaway arches at the base that expose the building’s structural columns. Part of the building sits over Lake Monona, and rests on concrete piers that are embedded into the lake bed below, which also support the Capital City Trail, a multi-use path that passes on the lake side of the building. The parking garage sits above John Nolen Drive and a railroad line, and is made of concrete, featuring arched openings and two spiral ramps, which harmonize with the design of the rest of the building. Inside, the building features multiple floors of convention and meeting space, with windows featuring curved bulkheads and soffits, large open atriums between various floors that are semi-circular in shape, which have staircases cascading down to lower levels and feature planters and half-height walls with gracefully curved tops, vaulted ceilings in some areas, red carpeting, decorative cove light fixtures, and large spaces with modern systems and amenities, which manage to embody the spirit of Wright’s design philosophy.
The building is a significant landmark in Madison, dominating the shore of Lake Monona and being a significant feature of the Downtown Madison skyline and cityscape when viewed from almost any angle from the lakeshore. It is the most unique public convention center in the United States, also offering one of the best views and most distinctive interiors of any convention center in the country. The building provided the city with a modern convention center while realizing the design of Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the most notable architects of all time, whom spent much of his life in the vicinity of the city, and symbolizing Wright’s deep connections to the area. The public terrace on the roof of the building added a breathtaking new outdoor space to the city, making the shores of Lake Mendota far more accessible than they had been for generations, creatively bridging the barrier of a large roadway and railroad line that had previously separated Downtown from the lake, and allowing pedestrians to nearly seamlessly walk from the State Capitol to the edge of the lake.
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Wisconsin, the statue on top of the state Capitol in Madison. Yes this one is nearly 12 years old but is still one of my favorites. Here is a case when the light is changing too fast to have preset the shutter speed and aperature to a manual setting. I set to aperature priority, faiirly wide open and let the camera select shutter speed.,
Look what arrived in my mail today! The neatest hand sculpted little badger, with a bonus itty bitty sheep. Lil sheep now watches Mr. Potter the rabbit, throwing pottery on his wheel, while the badger forages amongst the mushrooms.
The badger and sheep were made by Peggy - Flower and Pearl Studios and you can find her shop on etsy.
Photos of the completed Wisconsin Energy Institute building during the last building tour before staff, faculty, researchers and students began moving in.
Photo by Matthew Wisniewski, Wisconsin Energy Institute
Built in 1928, this Art Deco-style skyscraper was built to house the offices of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company. The building is clad in limestone with a classically-inspired tripartite composition. The two-story base of the building is relatively plain with limestone panel cladding, large storefront windows on the first floor, a front entrance with a large decorative transom and a canopy over the sidewalk, smaller one-over-one windows on the second floor, with the top of the base being demarcated by a band of extruded belt coursing at the base of the sills of the third-floor windows, with greek key motif on several portions. Above the base is the shaft of the building’s exterior composition, which features one-over-one windows with the middle bays in groups of three and four featuring decorative recessed spandrel panels featuring depictions of electrical generators, a unique choice and a nod to the building’s original tenant. The spandrel panels end at the base of the ninth floor windows, with the tenth floor windows being detached, forming part of the capital of the composition, with a band of extruded belt coursing around the base of the parapet, with volutes and stepped parapets enclosing the low-slope roof, and carved relief panels. The building has since become known as the Hovde Building, and houses several commercial office tenants.
Inside the Wisconsin Automotive Museum in Hartford.
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Im Inneren des Wisconsin Automotive Museum in Hartford.
Photos of the completed Wisconsin Energy Institute building during the last building tour before staff, faculty, researchers and students began moving in.
Photo by Matthew Wisniewski, Wisconsin Energy Institute
Photos of the completed Wisconsin Energy Institute building during the last building tour before staff, faculty, researchers and students began moving in.
Photo by Matthew Wisniewski, Wisconsin Energy Institute
Front row - Paul Fountaine - Chas. Spencer - Dean Philleo - George Corriveau - Fred Kruger - Walt Wood.
Next row - Belle Mosher - standing - Jennie Webb - Emma Smith - (?) - Laura Biron - seated Buelah Cochran - Celia Compton - Stella Jackson - Clara Webb - standing back Nellie Bell - Maud Thompson - Bert Mennett - visitor - Leonore Mennett - Georgina Arpin - Laura Reeves - Cora Pratt - Emma Bellows - standing next Dennis Bishop - in rear of "visitor" Chas Kipp - Ed Brundage - Tom Taylor - Belle Raymond - Lou Woodworth - Alex Zenier