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Completed in 1133, Durham was the first building in England to be entirely covered by ribbed vaults. This technique allowed for greater height, stability, and visual drama. The nave stretches 66 feet wide and the vaulted ceiling soars to 73 feet high, making it one of the largest Norman cathedral interiors in Europe
Bats on the ceiling of an outdoor canopy at a rest stop at Kruger National Park. People hadn't notice these bats and were eating their lunch blissfully unaware of these poop machines hanging above their heads. Once I started taking these photos, people looked up, took their lunches and bolted.
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Inside the Cabinet War Rooms.
During the Second World War, a group of basement offices in Whitehall served as the centre of Britain’s war effort. The complex, known as the Cabinet War Rooms, was occupied by leading government ministers, military strategists and Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Following the devastation of the First World War, military planners feared up to 200,000 casualties from bombing in the first week of a future war.
Plans to evacuate the prime minister, cabinet and essential staff from London were drawn up as early as the 1920s, but concern that Londoners would feel abandoned if the prime minister and government were in a safe place, and issues about the speed of evacuation, led to a search for an emergency shelter in central London.
In June 1938 the New Public Offices building was selected. It was near Parliament, with a strong steel frame and a large basement.
The basement was adapted to provide meeting places for the War Cabinet during air raids and also housed a military information centre based around a ‘Map Room'. Here, vital information for King George VI, Prime Minister Churchill and the armed forces was collected.
The Cabinet War Rooms became fully operational on 27 August 1939, a week before Britain declared war on Germany.
Churchill’s War Cabinet met here 115 times, most often during the Blitz and the later German V-weapon offensive.
The Cabinet War Rooms were in use 24 hours a day until 16 August 1945, when the lights were turned off in the Map Room for the first time in six years.
[Imperial War Museum]
LISBON, PORTUGAL - JULY 25: Symmetrical black and white composition of the ceiling of rich decorated Pantheon, with the grave of fado singer Amalia Rodrigues and Cenotaph of Vasco da Gama, on July 25, 2014 in Lisbon, Portugal.
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
To me as an atheist churches are just interesting architecture, loved this modern take on a vaulted ceiling.
Copyright Andy Cavell 2014
Although this picture is not part of Millennium Park, I added this to this set simply due to the fact that the Chicago Cultural Center is located in the vicinity.
Chicago Cultural Center - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Cultural_Center