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Italy. Firenze - Florence.
The Filippo Strozzi Chapel is situated on the right side of the main altar. The Strozzi Chapel was the place where the first tale of the Decamerone by Giovanni Boccaccio began, when seven ladies decided to leave the town, and flee from the Black Plague to the countryside. The series of frescoes from Filippino Lippi depict the lives of Philip the Apostle and James the Apostle. They were completed in 1502. On the right wall is the fresco St Philip Driving the Dragon from the Temple of Hieropolis and in the lunette above it, the Crucifixion of St Philip. On the left wall is the fresco St John the Evangelist Resuscitating Druisana and in the lunette above it The Torture of St John the Evangelist. Adam, Noah, Abraham and Jacob are represented on the ribbed vault. Behind the altar is the tomb of Filippo Strozzi with a sculpture by Benedetto da Maiano (1491).
Palacio de los Cordova is a XX century reconstruction of a XVI century palace with all of its preserved treasures returned to the new building. The palace now houses the City Historical Archives. Construction of the Palace of the Cordovas began in a different location in approximately 1530, and was completed in 1592. However, due to the urban transformations suffered by the city at the beginning of the 20th century, the palace was demolished in 1919, although much of its materials of historical and artistic value were kept and preserved. Thus, between 1960 and 1967, the palace was rebuilt in its present location thanks to preserved plans and drawings.
Architecturally, the palace has a Mannerist façade topped by a large flight wing, and the Renaissance courtyard with its singular use of the orders, where Gothic elements and the Mudejar coffer ceiling are found.
The palace is surrounded by beautiful gardens and vegetable plots.
Granada, Spain, 2015
The Legislative Council chamber of the Queensland Parliament. This room is no longer used for legislating, since the upper house was abolished in 1922. It's still fitted out as a parliamentary chamber, but is now used only to host functions and VIP visits.
The lighting balance was a killer for this shot. We have daylight streaming in the windows, tungsten lighting from the chandeliers, and strips of fluorescents around the edges of the ceiling (making that greenish glow).
A masterpiece of late Gothic architecture: the ceiling of the Divinity School at the Bodleian Library Oxford.
Coimbra library ceiling .
The reason that the ceiling looks pristine is that the library is unlit, no light is permitted so no flash on the camera also no noise so no shutter, but my camera has an e-shutter and I cradled it upwards and pressed the shutter. The library is kept in near darkness to preserve the books some of which are centuries old i.e. over 500 years. Also you have limited time inside to limit the humidity from your breath, so if you visit be aware of the limitations that you will face.
Danish Museum of Art & Design (Designmuseum Danmark), Bredgade, Copenhagen, Denmark. København, Danmark.
For a second, I was wondering if perhaps I wasn't in the Sistine Chapel? LOL!
(The Sistine Chapel is in Rome, not Venice - but go ahead, just "google" up a few images for Sistine Chapel)
Believe me! You can see amazing detail in ORIGINAL SIZE
These are two photos with a little variation in lighting. I let a tad more light in this shot. I could not decide which was best, so I posted both. May be we can have a contest...
Igreja de Sta.Maria
St.Mary's Church
Bragança
Portugal 2007
Historic Environment Record for H BUILDING, Malvern, UK
The building, having military purposes and designated locally as H building, sits on a former Government Research site in Malvern, Worcestershire at Grid Ref SO 786 447. This site was the home of the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) from 1946. It has been owned by QinetiQ since 2001 and is in the process (October 2017 to February 2018) of being sold for redevelopment.
This unique building has at its heart a ‘Rotor’ bunker with attached buildings to house radar screens and operators as well as plant such as emergency generators. Twenty nine Rotor operational underground bunkers were built in great urgency around Britain to modernise the national air defence network, following the Soviet nuclear test in 1949. Two factors make H building’s construction and purpose unique; this prototype is the only Rotor bunker built above ground and it was the home to National Air Defence government research for 30 years.This example of a ROTOR bunker is unique instead of being buried, it was built above ground to save time and expense, as it was not required to be below ground for its research purpose.
H Building was the prototype version of the Rotor project R4 Sector Operations Centre air defence bunkers. Construction began in August 1952 with great urgency - work went on 24 hours a day under arc lights. The main bunker is constructed from cross bonded engineering bricks to
form walls more than 2 feet thick in a rectangle approximately 65ft x 50ft. The two internal floors are suspended from the ceiling. The original surrounding buildings comprise, two radar control and operator rooms, offices and machine plant.
The building was in generally good order and complete. The internal layout of the bunker remains as originally designed. The internal surfaces and services have been maintained and modernised over the 55 years since its construction (Figure 3). The first floor has been closed over.
There are some later external building additions around the periphery to provide additional accommodation.
In parts of the building the suspended floor remains, with 1950s vintage fittings beneath such as patch panels and ventilation ducts.
The building has been empty since the Defence Science & Technology Laboratories [Dstl] moved out in October 2008
As lead for radar research, RRE was responsible for the design of both the replacement radars for the Chain Home radars and the command and control systems for UK National Air Defence.
Project Rotor was based around the Type 80 radar and Type 13 height finder. The first prototype type 80 was built at Malvern in 1953 code named Green Garlic. Live radar feeds against aircraft sorties, were fed into the building to carry out trials of new methods plotting and reporting air activity
A major upgrade of the UK radar network was planned in the late 1950s – Project ‘Linesman’ (military) / ‘Mediator’ (civil) – based around Type 84 / 85 primary radars and the HF200 height finder. A prototype type 85 radar (Blue Yeoman) was built adjacent to H Building in 1959. live radar returns were piped into H Building.
Subsequently a scheme to combine the military and civil radar networks was proposed. The building supported the research for the fully computerised air defence scheme known as Linesman, developed in the 1960s, and a more integrated and flexible system (United Kingdom Air Defence Ground Environment or UKADGE) in the 1970s.
The building was then used for various research purposes until the government relinquished the main site to QinetiQ in 2001. Government scientists continued to use the building until 2008. Throughout its life access was strictly controlled by a dedicated pass sytem.
Notable civil spin-offs from the research in this building include the invention of touch screens and the whole UK Civil Air Traffic Control system which set the standard for Europe.
Chronology
1952 - Construction work is begun. The layout of the bunker area duplicates the underground version built at RAF Bawburgh.
1953 - Construction work is largely completed.
1954 - The building is equipped and ready for experiments.
1956-1958 - Addition of 2nd storey to offices
1957-1960 - Experiments of automatic tracking, novel plot projection systems and data management and communications systems tested.
1960-1970 - Project Linesman mediator experiments carried out including a novel display technique known as a Touch screen ( A World First)
TOUCHSCREEN
A team led by Eric Johnson in H building at Malvern. RRE Tech Note 721 states: This device, the Touch Sensitive Electronic Data Display, or more shortly the ‘Touch Display’, appears to have the potential to provide a very efficient coupling between man and machine. (E A Johnson 1966). See also patent GB 1172222.
Information From Hugh Williams/mraths
1980-1990 - During this period experiments are moved to another building and H building is underused.
1990-1993 - The building was re-purposed and the bunker (room H57) had the first floor closed over to add extra floor area.
2008- The bunker was used until late 2008 for classified research / Joint intelligence centre
2019 - Visual Recording of the buildings interior by MRATHS. Be means of a LIDAR scan and photographs being taken. The exterior was mapped with a drone to allow a 3D Image of the building to be created via Photogrammetry. This was created in Autodesk Photo Recap.
2020 - Building demolished as part of the redevelopment of the site.
Information sourced from MRATHS
Ok, I'm taking a break from the music shots for a bit.
This is the ceiling of the House of Representatives Chamber in the Texas State Capital building.
Nikon D300 with Nikon 50mm 1.8 lens
Het museum is genoemd naar Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702-1778), een zeer rijke laken- en zijdefabrikant. Als aanhanger van de Verlichting liet hij in zijn testament opnemen dat zijn collectie en vermogen in een stichting ondergebracht zouden moeten worden. De stichting zou tot doel moeten hebben kunst en wetenschap te bevorderen.
Mother church of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). By Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and Giacomo della Porta, completed in 1580. Nave ceiling with fresco of 'The Triumph of the Name of Jesus', by Giovanni Battista Gaulli, known as Il Baciccia, 1672-83
With a construction cost of over US$3 billion, 302 rooms and 92 suites, the Emirates Palace is reputed to be the most expensive hotel ever built [1]. Much of the interior decor is in gold and marble. The main central area houses an expansive marble floor, balconies and a large patterned dome above, picked out in gold.