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Here’s a bridge for you dear friends! It is so
Polished that all the reflections of the ceiling make its sight a delight. I added an extra twist to make it a bit more whimsical. Northwestern has so many of these bridges, you can almost travel a couple of blocks without going outside. It certainly is helpful in winter times. Thank you for your visit, enjoy the rest of your week :)
The Little Prince is part of the collection of Lello Bookshop and It was highlighted during an exhibit that took place recently. You can still see part of it in this photograph. More: www.livrarialello.pt/en-us/the-little-prince-doomed-love-...
A theme that I gravitate to lately is finding geometry and patterns in nature or manmade creations.
This is the interior of the Hyatt Regency Atlanta - beautiful architecture, designed by John Portman, Jr.. It is a beautiful hotel, with many photo opportunities.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)
Place : Aspire Academy for Sports Excellence
"The New Palais is the largest palace in Potsdam's Sanssouci Park and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site of the “Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin” for 25 years. With its completely preserved original substance and furnishings, it is also one of the most valuable in terms of art and culture palace complexes in the world. It is one of the most comprehensive and at the same time most authentic examples of decorative interior art in the age of Frederick the Great. The New Palace was built after the end of the Seven Years' War between 1763 and 1769 by Johann Gottfried Büring (1723–1788), Heinrich Ludwig Manger (1728–1790) as well as Carl von Gontard and should herald the new size of Prussia. It was designed as a summer residence, which Frederick the Great furnished with apartments for relatives and guests as well as an apartment for himself. [...]"
"The 600 square meter, richly encrusted natural stone floor fits like an ornamental carpet into the architecturally strictly structured marble hall. In terms of its dimensions, its artistic design and its craftsmanship, the floor is a masterpiece of interior decoration that is unique in the European palace architecture of the 18th century.
Frederick the Great valued the decorative effect of colored natural stones and used them above all to decorate the ballrooms in his Potsdam palaces. On the floor of the marble hall, the richly varied and filigree ornament style of the Frederician Rococo, which otherwise adorns walls, ceilings and handicraft objects, was transferred to the large stone surface. [...]"
"The execution of the floor in the years 1766 and 1767 was carried out by the artistically and entrepreneurially versatile Johann Melchior Kambly (1718-1783) and the decoration sculptor Matthias Müller (from 1745 to 1774 in Potsdam), whereby the former is certainly responsible for the overall management. [...]
A special feature of the marble hall is the enormous span of the supporting structure for the floor. This flat truss construction with shear teeth spans 18.40 meters and, contrary to the warnings of the builders, who had planned a massive flat vault for the grotto hall below, was designed as a wooden beam ceiling. Frederick the Great was expressly in favor of this cheaper option. But the construction had to be extensively renovated as early as 1774. [...] In 1791 further renovation measures were necessary. [...]
During the investigations into the renovation of the ceiling under the neighboring Great Chamber in February 2008, the structural wood of the ceiling between the grotto and marble hall was damaged so severely that its load-bearing capacity was no longer sufficient. The marble hall had to be closed to visitors. Protective roofs were erected in the grotto hall to protect visitors from falling stucco. The two ballrooms of the palace could only be visited to a limited extent and there was an urgent need for renovation. [...]"
"The Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg [Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg] (SPSG) has completed the restoration of the marble hall in the New Palace in Potsdam, which began in May 2013. [...]"
(translated from www.spsg.de/nc/presse-foto-film/2016-04-11-wiedereroeffnu...)
Grand Room of SAAM; a beautiful, colorful room and full of history. Word’s out there that once, this was the biggest room in America. #art #smithsonian #smithsonianamericanartmuseum #dc #Washington #usa #ceiling #design #paintedglass #stars #geometricpatterns #layers #architecture #hallway# #interiordesign #artgallery# #triangles #octagon #saam #hallway #interiorarchitecture #reflection #symmetry #longexposure #raw_longexposure #geometry #arch #triangle #grandroom #champions
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