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Welcome to "Magonia" the shattered world! This is a place where the world shattered thousands of years ago but the atmosphere and life remained! Have fun exploring this world!
Welcome to Magonia The Shattered World! This is a place where the world shattered thousands of years ago but the atmosphere and life remained! Have fun exploring this world!
Malta.Valletta.
National Museum of Archaeology
A PHOENICIAN COFFIN
The Phoenicians buried their dead in a variety of ways. One of these was to put the corpse inside a coffin. Fashioned in wood, terracotta, stone, and marble, coffins consisted of a casket and a lid, and were often shaped like a human figure, a practice that was very popular in pharaonic Egypt. The coffin on display here was found at Ghar Barka on the outskirts of Rabat (Malta) in 1797. Lead poured inside the grooves on the side of the coffin was meant to hold the lid firmly in place.
In the Phoenician homeland, members of the royal family were buried in similar coffins, often re-using ones brought over from Egypt. They would have inscriptions written on the lids to curse anyone who disturbed their eternal sleep.
Ever feel like you're being followed? Like you're under a black cloud? Lady luck's evil cousin The Acursed Follower may be doggin' your heels!
Malta.Valletta.
National Museum of Archaeology
A PHOENICIAN COFFIN
The Phoenicians buried their dead in a variety of ways. One of these was to put the corpse inside a coffin. Fashioned in wood, terracotta, stone, and marble, coffins consisted of a casket and a lid, and were often shaped like a human figure, a practice that was very popular in pharaonic Egypt. The coffin on display here was found at Ghar Barka on the outskirts of Rabat (Malta) in 1797. Lead poured inside the grooves on the side of the coffin was meant to hold the lid firmly in place.
In the Phoenician homeland, members of the royal family were buried in similar coffins, often re-using ones brought over from Egypt. They would have inscriptions written on the lids to curse anyone who disturbed their eternal sleep.
Welcome to "Magonia" the shattered world! This is a place where the world shattered thousands of years ago but the atmosphere and life remained! Have fun exploring this world!
Welcome to "Magonia" the shattered world! This is a place where the world shattered thousands of years ago but the atmosphere and life remained! Have fun exploring this world!
Welcome to "Magonia" the shattered world! This is a place where the world shattered thousands of years ago but the atmosphere and life remained! Have fun exploring this world!
Visual arts student Michael McGlennon's exhibition Oscillutions features a selection of prints and drawings inventing and exploring the life cycle of an imagined trans terrestrial world.
The image based narratives of the show focus on the central themes of evolution and a sense of ecological connectivity. The life cycle of this imagined world is governed by 'Luna' the antropomorphic mood god of music. Flora and fauna transform into a crystalline state during the dark periods of the lunar phase. This transformation (which McGlennon invents the word oscillution to describe) and the symbiotic relationship between the life forms and their moon are depcted in screen prints and drawings with pen and marker.
Malta.Valletta.
National Museum of Archaeology
A PHOENICIAN COFFIN
The Phoenicians buried their dead in a variety of ways. One of these was to put the corpse inside a coffin. Fashioned in wood, terracotta, stone, and marble, coffins consisted of a casket and a lid, and were often shaped like a human figure, a practice that was very popular in pharaonic Egypt. The coffin on display here was found at Ghar Barka on the outskirts of Rabat (Malta) in 1797. Lead poured inside the grooves on the side of the coffin was meant to hold the lid firmly in place.
In the Phoenician homeland, members of the royal family were buried in similar coffins, often re-using ones brought over from Egypt. They would have inscriptions written on the lids to curse anyone who disturbed their eternal sleep.
(Le Corbusier, 1956-1958)
The Internationale Bauausstellung, or International Architecture Exhibition, is a German project carried out with the purpose of introducing new concepts in architecture and urban engineering. In 1957 it was organised in Berlin. In its framework the Hansaviertel area, located next the Tiergarten Park in West Berlin, was thoroughly redeveloped. Only world-famous architects (Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Oscar Niemeyer, Max Taut, Pierre Vago and many others) were invited to participate.
Le Corbusier had realised his concept of Unité d'Habitation for the first time in 1947-1952 in Marseille. It was a must for the organizers of Interbau to have one of such 'machines for living' in Berlin as well. However, the building that Le Corbusier designed for Berlin was too big to fit into the Hansaviertel quarter. Eventually it was built on a small hill near the 1936 Olympic Stadium.
All the five Unités d'Habitation that Le Corbusier designed are characterised by neutral aesthetics, the standardisation of units and an ingenious spatial configuration of these units. The flats of the Berlin building are usually located on two storeys. The entrances to them are from ten corridors, or 'internal streets', which are not only a space for circulation but also for socialisation. In the housing block there is also a kindergarten, a medical facility, several recreational spaces and a garden. It is a 'city within a city', bringing people's every-day needs and activities into the housing block. The Corbusierhaus is also an example of the idea of the 'vertical garden city'. A specific landscaping concept was designed to create a green belt around the building. The building nowadays rises between large trees, its colourful verandas visible from the distance.
The Corbusierhaus differs from the Unité d'Habitation of Marseille in many respects. First, the German building regulations at the time prohibited the use of the Modulor, the antropomorphic scale of proportions that Le Corbusier had developed and regularly used. The regulations made the dwelling units substantially bigger here than Le Corbusier had intended (e.g., floor height 2.5 m instead of 2.26 m). Secondly, the Berlin building is bigger, containing 530 flats in 5 types as opposed to the 337 flats in 23 types in Marseille. Thirdly, in Marseille the upper floors were used by shops, restaurants, bars, laundries and hotels. In Berlin, on the other hand, again because of the limitations imposed by legal regulations, a big shop that was planned could only be placed among the pillars of the ground floor.