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A historic grand hotel in the Chicago Loop district, Holabird & Roche, 1925. Not the sort of place in our usual price range, but we were there for a family wedding. And we spent a lot of time waiting around the lobby for people, so I have a lot of shots of the lobby. :-) I was impressed by the place -- clearly the real thing, not a cheap modern knockoff -- but I didn't realize at the time how historically significant it was. (Or I'd have taken more pictures!) Info at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_House.
The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist is a Roman Catholic cathedral and the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah. Savannah's first parish was established by French Catholic émigrés and called it the Congrégation de Saint Jean-Baptiste. They came to Savannah in the aftermath of the Haiti uprising, and included nobles fleeing the French Revolution. The cathedral as it stands today is the second church, which is of French Gothic style with imposing naves and transepts. It was almost destroyed by fire and 1898 but was rebuilt.
The Plänarsaal in the Reichstag has an impressive roof. Light is brought in by means of a big dome on the roof. The spike in the middle is the ventilation system removing the heated air from the room. Because of the extreme light differences I made three exposures and combined them in this hdr shot.
The Erawan Museum on the south eastern outskirts of Bangkok is an unforgettable sight, taking the form of a giant statue of Erawan, an enormous three-headed bronze elephant, standing upon an elaborate plinth, both of which contain stunning halls that are more shrine than museum.
The main hall is an ornate space located within the pink-hued pedestal, filled with heavily ornamented staircases and crowned by a stained glass ceiling. Above this, in the belly of the bronze behemoth above, is a beautiful contemporary style Buddha shrine, containing various bronze Buddha images and abstract mural decoration, reached by a lift in one of the statue's legs!
Inside the mausoleum of Habib ibn Ali Bourguiba, Tunisia. See reflection on granite floor at - www.flickr.com/photos/hisgett/229233897/in/set-7215759416...
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.
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's Snake Ceiling at the Museum of Fine Arts.
The Boston Globe said it was a "pointedly political" work. Ai created it to commemorate an estimated 5,000 Chinese schoolchildren who perished when their government-built schools collapsed during a 2008 earthquake. Crafted by stitching together 350 identical black-and-white backpacks, the serpentine, ceiling-mounted work is meant to evoke children heading to school — and perhaps the danger of a growth-hungry state.
The ceiling and chandelier in the Grand Hall (former sanctuary) can change colors, thanks to a high-tech lighting system.
La Casa de Pilatos, chiefly built between the 15th and 16th centuries, is an example of an Italian Renaissance building with Mudéjar elements and decorations. It is considered the prototype of the Andalusian palace.
The palace is decorated with azulejo tiling and ceilings of Mudéjar honeycomb.
Casa de Pilatos, Seville, Spain, 2015