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An old Bankers Trust building on 14th St between 7th and 8th Avenues in Manhattan. In architecture buildings like this employ a "wedding-cake"style with tiers on the top,one set back from the other below.The tiers are heavily ornamented to resemble "icing" on a cake. The style has been predominant in NYC thanks to the 1916 Zoning Resolution,a former zoning code which forced buildings to reduce their shadows (on nearby buildings) at street level by employing setbacks (the tiers) resulting in a "ziggurat" profile en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding-cake_style
The Royal Eye & Ear Hospital in
East Melbourne, Victoria Parade, Australia.
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The Ziggurats of the University of East Anglia, Norwich.
So named for their external resemblance to Sumerian and Babylonian pyramidal religious structures.
UEA's are student apartments designed by Denys Lasdon for the new ‘plate glass’ university and completed in 1968.
Joined square pyramidal towers, stacked apartments, bare concrete, protruding foyers, high walkway connections. Grade II listed and much admired set into their extensive campus grassland.
A figure stands precariously atop a University of East Anglia' glass and bare concrete Brutalist campus building.
One of three cast iron and life-sized sculptures by prize-winning artist Anthony Gormley, they were erected amid much (continuing) controversy in 2017 as part of his “Another Time” project of 100 life-sized figures around the country. Another group stand on Crosby beach to be twice daily partially submerged by the tides.
Part of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts' sculpture park..
Sentinel, provoking, guardian, threatening, worrying ...?
Ziggurat Gallery, Budapest. Raised in 2002, it was designed by Péter Török (concept), Zoltán Szabó, Réka Kralovánszky (architecture).
Look closely and you can make out the Iron Man Antony Gormley sculpture on the edge of the iconic ziggurat building at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. It is part of the British sculptor's series Another Time, an often controversial, thought-provoking collection of human sized statues around Britain. Gormley is probably best known for his Angel of the North statue off the A1 in Tyneside.
The UEA student halls were designed by English architect Denys Lasdun in 1962. He is also famous for the Royal National Theatre on London's Southbank, similarly in a brutalist style.
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Dammerung (Twilight) // Andreas Gehr // 1984 Installed 2000 Welded Steel
Cambridge Sculpture Garden
Swiss artist Andreas Gehr, uses the timeless, spiralling form of the ziggurat to invite associations with the in-between, contemplative space of twilight and the alternating cycle of dawn and dusk. This piece originally featured lights in the recessed niches when exhibited at Harbourfront in Toronto and will one day have the electrical component restored.
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1437 Market St
Germania Hall Association Building c. 1897
Three and one-half story, three-bay two-part commercial block brick building with second-floor projecting bay. The storefront has been significantly altered/infilled and is sheathed with vertical board siding and stucco. White brick at second and third stories of facade, which is heavily ornamented with rosettes, seashells, and wreath motifs. Double-hung windows are present at all three levels of the south elevation. A front-gabled dormer at the roof level, sheathed in wood shingles, faces Market Street
1433 Market St. c. 1900
3 story, 2 part brick commercial building divided into 3 bays by square pilasters
Vames Building c. 1895
Five-story two-part commercial block building with distinctive ziggurat parapet at faux mansard roof. Divided into two bays by three brick pilasters set at a 45-degree angle. Brick veneer throughout upper levels features flat, half-round, and segmental arches, and is punctuated by rough-cut stone lintels and brackets framing windows. Cottage-style windows present on second and third levels; windows at upper levels are infilled with plywood. Storefront at the street level has been altered and is sheathed with vertical board siding.
1421 Market St
Charles Hanke Building c. 1870
Three-story two-part Italianate commercial block divided into three bays. Double-hung four-pane segmental arched windows with stone headers and sills at upper levels. Scroll brackets at cornice.
Storefront at street level has been altered; sheathed with vertical board siding and brick veneer.
La notion de montée, d’ascension vers le divin, fait partie du fonds commun de toutes les religions. Dans le Livre de la Genèse (28,12), déjà le songe de Jacob dressait une échelle ou rampe à gradins entre la terre et le ciel, à la manière des escaliers reliant les étages des temples mésopotamiens appelés ziggurats.
Le Grand Escalier menant aux Sanctuaires de Rocamadour est un monument en lui-même ! Durant le Moyen-Âge, les pèlerins (nombreux à Rocamadour) l’empruntaient pour se rendre aux chapelles, but de leur pèlerinage. L’itinéraire commençait à L’Hospitalet, une bourgade située en amont de la Vallée de l’Alzou sur le plateau des Causses. Nommée la « Voie Sainte », la route descendait vers Rocamadour et longeait la rue principale par une succession de portes fortifiées. Arrivés au Grand Escalier, les pèlerins faisaient acte de pénitence, s’arrêtant pour prier à chacune des 216 marches.
Les convertis du catharisme devaient « subir » la montée à genou, liés avec des fers !
The notion of ascent, of ascent towards the divine, is part of the common fund of all religions. In the Book of Genesis (28.12), Jacob's dream already erected a ladder or stepped ramp between earth and heaven, like the stairs connecting the floors of Mesopotamian temples called ziggurats.
The Grand Staircase leading to the Sanctuaries of Rocamadour is a monument in itself! During the Middle Ages, pilgrims (many in Rocamadour) used it to get to the chapels, the goal of their pilgrimage. The route started in L'Hospitalet, a town located upstream of the Alzou Valley on the Causses plateau. Named the "Holy Way", the road descended towards Rocamadour and ran along the main street through a succession of fortified gates. Arrived at the Grand Staircase, the pilgrims made an act of penance, stopping to pray at each of the 216 steps.
Converts from Catharism had to "undergo" the ascent on their knees, bound with irons!
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An unplanned stop on the way past. Ducks on the UEA broad with the sunset reflecting off the water and the ziggurats. The willow adds some texture to the sky.
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*The Empire of Nebuchadnezzar II ...
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Boney M - "Rvers of Babylon" 1978 .
(Motion Blur)
Better Full Screen .
A voir au "Musée de Pergame" (BERLIN) ... la "PORTE d' ISHTAR",
Une des huit portes de la Cité intérieure de Babylone. Elle fut construite au nord de la Cité en - 580 (empire néo - babylonien) sur ordre du ROI NABUCHODONOSOR II ..." (wikipedia)
Une vraie merveille .
**Les "TERRASSES de la GRANDE MOTTE" ...
(Flou de bougé)
In my travels round America I have seen few buildings that were genuinely a delight on the eye. The Chrysler building in New York is an exception it must have cost a fortune but this Art deco skyscraper is a masterpiece . I think you have to go into its lobby to fully experience the buildings quality. You won’t be exactly welcomed by the doormen and its very dark inside. I did managed to get one shot which gives an idea of the whole you can see three of the beautifully decorated elevator doors.
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The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper on the East Side of Manhattan in New York City. At 1,046 ft , it is the tallest brick building in the world with a steel framework, and it was the world's tallest building for 11 months after its completion in 1930.
The writer Eric Nash described the lobby as a paragon of the Art Deco style, with clear influences of German Expressionism. Chrysler wanted the design to impress other architects and automobile magnates, so he imported various materials regardless of the extra costs incurred.
The walls are covered with huge slabs of African red granite. The walls also contain storefronts and doors made of Nirosta steel.There is a wall panel dedicated to the work of clinchers, surveyors, masons, carpenters, plasterers, and builders. Fifty different figures were modelled after workers who participated in its construction.
Within the lobby, there are ziggurat-shaped Mexican onyx panels above the elevator doors.The doors are designed in a lotus pattern and are clad with steel and wood. When the doors are closed, they resemble "tall fans set off by metallic palm fronds rising through a series of silver parabolas, whose edges were set off by curved lilies" However, when a set of doors is open, the cab behind the doors resembles "an exquisite Art Deco room". These elements were influenced by ancient Egyptian designs, which significantly impacted the Art Deco style. According to Vincent Curcio, "these elevator interiors were perhaps the single most beautiful and, next to the dome, the most important feature of the entire building."
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With a lockdown in place it is against the rules for me to go to places I like to shoot, so I though I would try to create a series
called Isolated creativity. The series is not intended to be a diary but a way of documenting thoughts and emotions via photography.
I met up with my son for a socially distanced walk around the lake at UEA (University of East Anglia). It was wonderful to see him, but bizarre to have to keep 2 metres away.
The photo is taken outside the Sainsbury Centre art gallery, with sculptures in the foreground. The Building are some of the UEA ziggurats which are student accommodation blocks that were build at the same time as the University. They are now listed.
Looking up at Bank House in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Currently undergoing refurbishment.
This building was originally the regional headquarters of the Bank of England.
Architects: The Building Design Partnership (BDP). They also designed Preston Bus Station in Lancashire (see flic.kr/p/2h9uXPr), The Worsley Building in Leeds (see flic.kr/p/2qip6YS) and Halifax Bank Headquarters (see flic.kr/p/2kjv3LW).
Bank House was built in 1969/1971.
The broad (lake) at the UEA (University of East Anglia), Norwich, England.
The original accommodation blocks at UEA which are ziggurats overlook the lake, The view must prove a distraction to the students.
1429 Market Street, former Erica's Gill and lounge now owned by the city.
Vames Building c. 1895
Five-story two-part commercial block building with distinctive ziggurat parapet at faux mansard roof. Divided into two bays by three brick pilasters set at a 45-degree angle. Brick veneer throughout upper levels features flat, half-round, and segmental arches, and is punctuated by rough-cut stone lintels and brackets framing windows
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The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 3, 1998
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'Brutalist' applies to raw concrete, functional and sharply geometric architecture of the 1950s onwards.
The Ziggurats of the University of East Anglia are a prime example. Here they are seen here through a painted steel sculpture echoing their forms - “Proximity”, 2006 by Ian Tyson.
The distant Ziggurats are named for their resemblance to Sumerian and Babylonian pyramidal religious structures. They are student apartments designed by Denys Lasdon for the then new ‘plate glass’ university and completed in 1968.
Joined square pyramidal towers, stacked apartments, bare concrete, protruding foyers, high walkway connections. Grade II listed, much admired and set into the extensive campus grassland.
A different take on the ziggurat's at UEA. Using the multi image but walking a step and taking a shot (repeat) the full length of one ziggurat. Layered, reducing opacity of each layer and cropping.
My first attempts at the Pep Ventosa method of taking photographs 'in the round'
The Menzies Centre, Hobart, Tasmania.
The Centre is a medical and research training facility in the city. The exterior of the building is intended to represent the contours and waterways of the surrounding nipaluna country.
I also shot this as a long exposure but thanks to slab grey skies, the test shot - with some actual cloud detail - ended up being better :-)
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Westerners would call this architectural structure of a Hindu Temple a steeple. Hindus would call it shikhara. Western Civilization's towers, spires, and domes decorate many churches and structures as well as Islamic minerets via their Roman roots. These are thought to be architectural remnants of ancient Mesopotamian ziggurats. Ancient Sumerians believed the gods honed in on these tall structures, particularly calling the tops of their artificial mountain-shaped ziggurats home.
Shikhara is a Sanskrit word that means mountain peak. The structure in my image above looks like a tall stylized mountain peak. (Hmmm, shikhara sounds to my ears quite similar to the word ziggurat. I wonder if there is an Indus-European language root connection.)
A sacred mountain top is where Hinduism would expect to more easily encounter divinities and receive glimpses into eternal law and right conduct. You know– like the West's Mount Olympus or Mount Sinai.
Meanwhile, back in London town and another from the Alexandra Road estate collection.
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Suffolk Terrace, University of East Anglia, Norwich. Known as the Ziggurats, the stepped blocks of Suffolk Terrace and Norfolk Terrace were built as student accommodation.
Designed in a brutalist style by architect Denys Lasdun. Completed in 1968.
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'Proximity' is a sculpture by artist Ian Tyson. It is part of the Sainsbury Centre collection at the University of East Anglia, and stands in front of the Norfolk Terrace ziggurat buildings (student accommodation).
Yesterday I showed you The National Theatre which was a link between Art Nouveau and Art Deco. Well this is something a little more modern and a world away in style. Brutalism as an architectural style employed the use of raw concrete. They are usually imposing edifaces oozing power. In Australia the high point for Brutalism came in the 1970s, but Henty House (built in the early 1980s) was one of the last of its kind.
In many ways they are the last of the buildings that architects saw as "machines". After this phase architecture reverts to organic forms and more eco-friendly structures. Although this ziggurat form of Henty House is still not popular in Launceston, I'm glad we have it around as an example of this form of architecture.
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Comerford Theater, also known as the Paramount Theater and now known as the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts, is a historic movie theater located at Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1937, and is an Art Deco-Moderne style theater building. The building takes an irregular trapezoidal shape. It is of steel frame and brick construction with a four bay wide, terra cotta and marble front facade. The front facade features a stylized ziggurat composition, a central tower, corrugated steel decoration, and a marquee.
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