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The 'Caldea' at Escaldes Engordany, on the northeastern edge of Andorra la Vella. One of the most striking pieces of modern architecture I've ever seen.
It was built in 1994 and houses a complex of thermal baths and swimming pools, in addition to a shopping centre and restaurant, on three different levels. The central hub of the building is crowned by the gleaming 'silver' glazed spire, which contains a viewing gallery accessed by lift (unfortunately not operational by the time we got there).
The complex is currently in the process of being enlarged. We didn't get inside the main thermal pool rooms but at least got a taste of the ultra modern interiors from the areas still accessible.
Andorra la Vella, capital of the Principality of Andorra is a largely modern city surrounded by mountain ranges, reflected in the typography of it's street layout which is on several different levels. It was thus never a large city with so little room for expansion.
There are medieval monuments such as the ancient Casa de la Vall (the old council chamber) and the church of St Esteve (mostly rebuilt in more modern times) but the overall flavour is contemporary, owing to modern architecture and sculptures around the city.
Sainik School, Kapurthala, Punjab
Sainik School, formerly known as Jagatjit Palace, constructed between 1900 and 1908, was formerly the palace of the erstwhile Maharajah of Kapurthala state, HRH Maharajah Jagatjit Singh. The palace building has a spectacular architecture based on the Palace of Versailles and Fontainebleau spread over a total area of 200 acres. It was designed by a French architect M. Marcel. Its magnificent Durbar Hall (Diwan-E-Khas) is one of the finest in India and the Plaster of Paris figures and painted ceilings represent the finest features of French art and archiecture.
15 Belshaw Place in Regent Park South, Toronto.
The ongoing redevelopment of the Regent Park neighborhood in downtown Toronto plays like a narrative that could happen anywhere.
The Toronto slums were bulldozed in the 1950s and redeveloped but by the mid to late 1960s these modernist buildings fell into disrepair.
The architect Peter Dickinson designed five fourteen story Maisonette Tower's. Appropriating ideas from Le Corbusier’s Unite d’habitation in Marseilles, Dickinson, then with Page and Steele Architects won the Massey Silver Medal in 1958 for these towers.
15 and 63 Belshaw Place are demolished, Three towers are still standing. The property at 14 Blevins Place is recommended for inclusion on the City of Toronto Inventory of Heritage Properties for its cultural heritage value and interest.
The Grand Shaft is a unique structure in the Western Heights and a very rare example of a triple spiral staircase in fortifications of the same age (early 1800s). When work began in earnest on the Western Heights, it soon became apparent that rapid troop movement from the cliff top to street level was greatly hindered by the distance that the men would have to cover. If an attacking force had tried to make a landing on the harbour or beach at Dover, troops on the Heights would have had to make their way along from the Drop Redoubt or Citadel to the original South Entrance (now the site of the Western Heights Roundabout), along what is now Snargate Street to meet the enemy; a route of almost a mile and a half, when troops were barracked only some 300 feet above sea level! This was hardly an ideal scenario and in 1804 construction started on the Grand Shaft, which had been designed by Lieutenant-Colonel William Twiss. The triple staircase itself is 140ft deep and at the base is a tunnel leading out to a guard room and from there out into the town. At the top is a further single staircase leading up to the parade ground of the Grand Shaft Barracks. This top staircase is inside what is known as the bowl, and was excavated out of the cliff top. The shaft itself was then dug vertically through the cliff and revetted with brick. Windows line the central shaft to allow light into the staircases, approximately every 30 stairs. As the threat of invasion passed, the Grand Shaft became something of a local attraction, and there are stories of a Mr William Leith of Deal riding his horse up the Grand Shaft for a wager! What is clear is that in the Georgian period, there were no class distinctions attached to the triple staircase. It was simply to ensure rapid troop movement, when men of all ranks would have been deployed down any and all of the staircases in the event of an enemy attack. However, as the Victorian period progressed, class distinction became ever more apparent, and while no definitive documentation exists, the most popular theory states that the staircases were divided into “Officers and their Ladies”, “Sergeants and their Wives” and “Soldiers and their Women”. This has been supported by the fact that the Queen’s Regulations of the time clearly stated that there was to be no off-duty fraternisation between the ranks. As well as carrying troops, the Grand Shaft also had to carry the drainage from the Grand Shaft Barracks above. This had rather unpleasant consequences, and it was noted in a commission of 1858 that each time the privies were flushed, the force of the water would force sewer gas up through traps into the shaft, but also unfortunately into houses! The commission noted that a large tank with a foul air pipe was needed at the bottom of the shaft to counteract such obnoxious fumes! The guard room at the bottom of the shaft was part of a walled compound, which was found by the 1858 to be hopelessly inadequate as it was far too small to serve any function effectively. The original guardroom, coal bunker and ash pit were therefore demolished and a new compound constructed with an Officer’s guard room, two cells and a latrine and a gas meter house, which indicates the time that gas lighting was introduced to the Western Heights. Today only the gas meter house remains; all other structures were demolished.
On the third Sunday of the month between April and October, the Grand Shaft will be open free of charge for the public to visit. It will also be open for an extra weekend in September for the Heritage Weekend, and during the Western Heights Preservation Society’s open weekends.
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
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The 'Caldea' at Escaldes Engordany, on the northeastern edge of Andorra la Vella. One of the most striking pieces of modern architecture I've ever seen.
It was built in 1994 and houses a complex of thermal baths and swimming pools, in addition to a shopping centre and restaurant, on three different levels. The central hub of the building is crowned by the gleaming 'silver' glazed spire, which contains a viewing gallery accessed by lift (unfortunately not operational by the time we got there).
The complex is currently in the process of being enlarged. We didn't get inside the main thermal pool rooms but at least got a taste of the ultra modern interiors from the areas still accessible.
Andorra la Vella, capital of the Principality of Andorra is a largely modern city surrounded by mountain ranges, reflected in the typography of it's street layout which is on several different levels. It was thus never a large city with so little room for expansion.
There are medieval monuments such as the ancient Casa de la Vall (the old council chamber) and the church of St Esteve (mostly rebuilt in more modern times) but the overall flavour is contemporary, owing to modern architecture and sculptures around the city.
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Interesting Facts:
Construction of Cologne Cathedral began in 1248 and took, with interruptions, until 1880 to complete.
It is visited by 20 thousand people every day
The cathedral is one of the world's largest churches and the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe.
For four years, 1880-84, it was the tallest structure in the world, until the completion of the Washington Monument.
On August 25, 2007, the cathedral received a new stained glass in the south transept window. With 113 square metres of glass, the window was created by the German artist Gerhard Richter. It is composed of 11,500 identically sized pieces of coloured glass resembling pixels, randomly arranged by computer, which create a colorful "carpet". Since the loss of the original window in World War II, the space had been temporarily filled with plain glass. The archbishop of the cathedral, Joachim Cardinal Meisner, who had preferred a figurative depiction of 20th-century Catholic martyrs for the window, did not attend the unveiling
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
dance -> fashion -> archiecture experiment with Heidi Wikar and Elpida Orfanidou. A living solution so perfect, so primitive, we have always been refusing it... The placenta as architecture and garment...
15 Belshaw Place in Regent Park South, Toronto.
The ongoing redevelopment of the Regent Park neighborhood in downtown Toronto plays like a narrative that could happen anywhere.
The Toronto slums were bulldozed in the 1950s and redeveloped but by the mid to late 1960s these modernist buildings fell into disrepair.
The architect Peter Dickinson designed five fourteen story Maisonette Tower's. Appropriating ideas from Le Corbusier’s Unite d’habitation in Marseilles, Dickinson, then with Page and Steele Architects won the Massey Silver Medal in 1958 for these towers.
15 and 63 Belshaw Place are demolished, Three towers are still standing. The property at 14 Blevins Place is recommended for inclusion on the City of Toronto Inventory of Heritage Properties for its cultural heritage value and interest.