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... of the Agriculture Museum, Budapest, Hungary, 2010
Original image, not post processed, not cropped.
Sechelt Hospital’s decade-long transformation into a state-of-the-art hospital for people living on the Sunshine Coast is now finished with the completion of its new Ambulatory Care Unit.
The $44.3-million expansion project, first announced in 2007, features a new emergency department, single-patient rooms in the new tower, new medical/surgical beds, more clinical space for ambulatory care and radiology, and the highest standard of infection control.
“We’re happy to celebrate the completion of the Sechelt Hospital expansion project, which is a significant milestone for people’s health-care needs on the Sunshine Coast,” said Nicholas Simons, Powell River-Sunshine Coast MLA, who attended a celebratory event on behalf of Health Minister Adrian Dix. “The new Ambulatory Care Unit means more residents are able to access the treatment and services they need without having to travel to Vancouver.”
Ceiling of the impressive church of St John Fisher at West Heath, near Longbridge, south Birmingham.
The church of St John Fisher in West Heath has served the Catholic community in Longbridge, south of Birmingham since it opened in 1964. Designed by architect Ernest Bower Norris, it is one of the most impressive modern churches I have seen.
The core of the building is formed by a vast central block (a cube made an uneven octagon by the corners being lopped off) which has a copper low pyramid roof and forms a kind of squat tower, adding much to the building's presence without, and enormously to the sense of space within. From this central space, with it's colourfully decorated ceiling, are the four limbs one would expect to find in a cruciform church, with a short nave, chancel and shallow transepts, but it is the 'crossing' space here that takes centre stage (the true 'nave') as the heart of the building. The style throughout seems to successfully fuse Romanesque and Byzantine elements in a modern idiom.
The church is richly adorned with artwork, and all the work of Welsh artist Leonard Jonah Jones, who designed the stellar decoration of the main ceiling, the dalle de verre stained glass windows, the engraved Stations of the Cross and three fine statues above the altars of the side chapels (a further statue of St John Fisher seems to have been removed from the exterior more recently for reasons unknown).
I was most impressed with this church, a superb building filled with inspiring contemporary artworks and was made very welcome when I called in after Sunday mass (the church isn't normally open outside of services but the locals are friendly and rightly proud of their church).
www.stjohnfishers.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&...
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The Benedum Center for the Performing Arts, Pittsburgh, PA.
"The 3,800-seat Benedum Center is the crown jewel of the Cultural District and is one of the most utilized theaters in the nation today." - Source: Wikipedia
Since I got bitten by the photography bug, whenever I've been in an airplane, I have looked at the sweeping curves and the hidden lights of the ceilings above the hand luggage compartments and thought that there must be some great abstract shots hidden there.
This time I was seated far back, and I saw the opportunity.
To the rear of the cabin, there was a box hanging from the ceiling - with the "occupied" lights - I held the camera above my head against that, pointed the lens as straight down the aisle as I could and got the shot.
I used this shot in this riddle.
Hehe - according to scout this has been #500 on Explore - barely above the limit :-)
Ceiling Bavo cathedral Haarlem The Netherlands. Taken with Google Pixel 2 metering on the bright sides of the scene. Edited in Photomatix.
The ceilings in the hermitage are not your ordinary painted ceilings, but hand painted murals framed by gilded frames and other art work.
Continuing on our visit last summer to St. Petersburg, Russia. Another highlight was the Hermitage, formerly known as the Winter Palace of the Russian Czars.
The State Hermitage (Russian: Государственный Эрмитаж) is a museum of art and culture situated in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest[1] and oldest museums of the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise nearly 3 million items, including the largest collection of paintings in the world. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors. Apart from them, the Menshikov Palace, Museum of Porcelain, Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya and the eastern wing of the General Staff Building also make part of the museum. The museum has several exhibition centers abroad. The Hermitage is a federal state property. Since 1990, the director of the museum has been Mikhail Piotrovsky.
Out of six buildings of the main museum complex, four, namely the Winter Palace, Small Hermitage, Old Hermitage and New Hermitage, are partially open to the public. The other two are Hermitage Theatre and the Reserve House. The entrance ticket for foreign tourists costs several times as much as the fee paid by Russian citizens. However, the entrance is free of charge first Thursday of every month for all visitors and daily for students and children. The museum is closed on Mondays. Entrance is in the Winter Palace from Palace Embankment or the Courtyard.
the ceiling at the recently abandoned saint matthews church in buffalo, new york. you can see some of the of the saints looking down from above where the pews use to sit. there are even pictures of saints that are not as well known (sorry i'm not religous so i don't know how to say it correctly) in the smaller circles in the center of the dome.
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The ceiling of the Hypostyle Hall at Dendera Temple is enriched with an incredible amount of figurative detail carved in low relief and painted in subtle shades against a blue background. The subjects include numerous deities and hybrid figures (some familiar, others much less so) and even astrological elements, such as recognisable figures from the zodiac.
Over the centuries the ceiling had become so darkened by dirt and soot to become heavily obscured and hard to read, and this is how I saw it for the first time in the 1990s, when many visitors probably missed it altogether. Now it has been fully cleaned and restored it shines again not only as one of the glories of the temple but one of the most remarkable surviving decorative schemes of ancient Egypt. The contrast with its previous blackened, unrestored condition is dramatic, giving an entirely different impression from our previous visit.
The Temple of Hathor at Dendera is one of Egypt's best preserved and most beautiful ancient shrines. This magnificent edifice dates to the Ptolemaic period, late in Egyptian history, though the site long had been the cult centre for the goddess Hathor for centuries before (the earliest extant remains date to c360BC but a temple is recorded here as far back as c2250BC). Most of the main building dates to the reigns of the last Cleopatras and further decoration and building work within the complex continued in the Roman period up to the reign of Trajan.
The dominant structure in the complex is the Temple of Hathor, an enormous structure with a rectangular facade punctuated by the Hathor-headed columns of the hypostyle hall within. This hall is an architectural wonder, a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian design and decoration, which covers every surface and has been recently cleaned, revealing a superb astrological ceiling in all its original vibrant colours.
Sadly there was much iconoclasm here during the early Christian period and most of the reliefs of the walls and pillars have been defaced. Worse still is the damage to the 24 Hathor-head capitals: not one of the nearly a hundred huge faces of the goddess that once smiled down on this hall has been left unblemished, most with their features cruelly chiselled away.
The main temple building is otherwise structurally intact, and extends into further halls and chapels beyond, again with much relief decoration (much of which is again defaced). In one corner is an entrance to a crypt below, an unusual feature in Egyptian temple architecture consisting of several narrow passages adorned with carved relief decoration in good condition.
There are further sanctuaries and chapels above on the roof of the temple, accessed by a decorated staircase and including the room where the famous Dendera Zodiac was formerly located (today its place in the ceiling taken by a cast of the original, now displayed in Paris). The highest part of the roof complex is no longer accessible to tourists, but I can still recall making the ascent there on our first visit in 1992.
Several other buildings surround the main temple, the most impressive of which is the mammisi or 'birth-house'. This consists of a large rectangluar hall surrounded by a colonnade near the entrance to the site and has some well preserved relief decoration on its exterior. Most of this structure dates to the Roman period, but the ruins of its predecessor built under Nectanebo II (Egypt's last native pharoah) stand nearby.
Dendera temple is one of the most rewarding in Egypt and shouldn't be missed. It is one of the most complete and evocative ancient monuments in the country and its recent restoration has revealed a surprisingly extensive amount of colour surviving within (we were amazed by the dramatic contrast with the soot-blackened ceiling we'd beheld on our previous visit in the 1990s). Despite its relative youth (in Egyptian terms at least!) it is easily one of my favourite sites in Egypt.
yes, i was on my back in the middle of the floor for this one.
not sure they'll ever ask me to chaperone a school trip ever again.
; )
Peterborough Cathedral’s four-manual Hill organ is one of the finest of its kind in England. It can be traced back to 1894 when William Hill built this organ by incorporating some pipework from previous instruments. Hill was one of the two most celebrated organ builders of the nineteenth century.
This was a tricky picture to take, because the range of light was quite extreme from the windows to the darker ceiling. Eventually I was able to get it right with 6 exposures.
Blue light filtering from the outside in contrast with yellow light from the bulb inside ... Chicago Cultural Center, Washington St. side. The building originally housed the Chicago Public Library.
Additional information: This basically is the ceiling of the lobby of the Washington St. side of the Cultural Center - one of the building's showpieces described in their new brochure as "a dazzling light-filled space finished with Cosmati work, or mosaics set into stone in the style of the Italian masters in the palaces of Europe."
More from the brochure:
"The soft-surfaced marble is white Italian Carrara marble, the most expensive available, taken from the same quarries used by Michelangelo for his sculptures. It was selected for its non-reflective finish to contrast witht he sparkling mosaics of glass, gold leaf, mother-of-pearl, and precious stone. The space extends up three stories with a symphony of cris-crossing staircases and expanding spaced decorated with themes relating to books and authors."
And to think this building was scheduled for demolition to accommodate larger library facilities.