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Magical Lantern Festival
Wednesday 3 February 2016 - Sunday 6 March 2016.
Evenings from 5.00pm.
Daytime photos of works installed ready for evening display
A Luna marble relief depicting the facade of an Ionic temple with a battle scene in the pediment. The fragment belongs to an altar that is thought to have closely resembled the Ara Pacis in Rome. The fragmentary reliefs, including this one, depicted a procession and sacrifice. One hypothesis is that the panels belonged to an altar set up in honor of the emperor Claudius's return from his campaigns in Britain (decreed by the Senate in 43 CE): the Ara reditus Claudii. Other panels from this altar are on display in the Ara Pacis Museum and on the exterior wall of the Villa Medici in Rome (the so-called Della Valle-Medici panels). The panels may have been reused in the early fourth century; the original altar is thought to have stood on the slopes of the Capitoline Hill, perhaps on the side facing the Theater of Marcellus.
Ara Pacis Museum inv. 1386.
Greek Ionic column capitals of The Mail Exchange Building facáde on Bourke and Spencer Streets corner, Melbourne, Australia.
This is now The Mail Exchange Hotel.
672-696 BOURKE STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
The Former Mail Exchange, completed in 1917, was designed by Commonwealth Home Affairs architect John Smith Murdoch. The seven-storey, steel-framed building was constructed in a beaux-arts style.
Drawing its name and spirit from the ancient traditions of Ionia,
birthplace of the Homeric poet-priests, and of Heraclitos,
Democritos and Pythagoras, The Ionic Centre is an organization
aspiring to create a place where academic learning and
spiritual development meet in harmony.
Το όνομα και το πνεύμα του Ιωνικου Κέντρου ανάγονται
στην αρχαία παράδοση της Ιωνίας, γενέτειρας του Ομηρικού
λόγου, της επιστημονικής αντίληψης του Δημόκριτου
και της σοφίας του Ηράκλειτου και του Πυθαγόρα.
Το Ιωνικό Κέντρο τιμά το πνεύμα αυτής της παράδοσης
και του δίνει σύγχρονη μορφή, με τη δημιουργία ενός χώρου
όπου η επιστημονική έρευνα, η ακαδημαϊκή μάθηση
και η πνευματική ανάπτυξη θα συμβιώνουν.
another view of the ionic colonnade relic at mckinley park. this building was once park of a complex that included a boathouse and 150x300 ft. swimming pool and sand beach. it was built circa 1900, shortly before the massive central manufacturing district buildings were constructed across from the park.
see a postcard showing the building around the turn of the century: chuckmanchicagonostalgia.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/postcar...
Although the Temple of Saturn was one of the oldest shrines in Rome, the superstructure we see today belongs to a late period, perhaps 800 years after the original building had been built on its site at the base of the Capitoline Hill. Much of the temple was apparently severely damaged by a fire during the reign of Carinus in 283 CE (the same fire that destroyed the neighboring Senate House, or Curia, of the Forum). Carinus's builders cobbled together a rather crude reconstruction. "Probabilmente a questo restauro appartiene quanto resta dell'elevato, otto colonne e il frontone principale (in gran parte costruito con materiale di recupero)" (F. Coarelli, Roma, 1985). Here the Ionic columns, poorly matched with recycled granite column shafts, recall their classical ancestors, while breaking ranks with that same classical tradition (compare with earlier columns in this album).
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The Rains of Castamere, Red Coral Beach (80, 106, 27) - Moderate
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...a fine example of the ionic order in the neoclassical architecture style(more on this in the next upload.)
The Ionic order column forms one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and the Corinthian. (There are two lesser orders, the stocky Tuscan order and the rich variant of Corinthian, the Composite order, added by 16th century Italian architectural theory and practice.)
The Ionic order column originated in the mid-6th century BC in Ionia, the southwestern coastland and islands of Asia Minor settled by Ionian Greeks, where an Ionian dialect was spoken. The Ionic order column was being practiced in mainland Greece in the 5th century BC. The first of the great Ionic temples was the Temple of Hera on Samos, built about 570 BC–560 BC by the architect Rhoikos. It stood for only a decade before it was leveled by an earthquake. It was in the great sanctuary of the goddess: it could scarcely have been in a more prominent location for its brief lifetime. A longer-lasting 6th century Ionic temple was the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. -wikipedia!
thanks for reading all this history. but we do need to get in touch with our former lives =)
The ionic temple on Rievaulx Terrace in North Yorkshire. Built in 1758 and intended as a banqueting hall. The local toffs would use this as a venue for their summer barbecues and garden parties. The basement had to have its own kitchen becasue as it was so far away from the big house.
840 Conti Street, New Orleans
The Valentino-Conti House, designed by architect James Gallier in 1835, has been restored and is now used for banquet and event space by the Valentino family, owners of the Prince Conti Hotel next door.
Ionic temple dedicated to Athena, Poseidon, Erechtheus, and other chthonic deities of Attica, 421-406 B.C.
Ionic temple dedicated to Athena, Poseidon, Erechtheus, and other chthonic deities of Attica, 421-406 B.C.
Architecture[edit]
The entrance facade and ionic portico (9 on plan).
The West Wing; its interior remained unfinished until 2006
As one of England's more unusual houses, Ickworth has been unflatteringly described as resembling "a huge bulk, newly arrived from another planet" and as "an overgrown folly".[3] It is now being architecturally reassessed and recognised as the only building in England comparable with the monumental works of Boullée and Ledoux.[3]
The design concept was based on the designs of Italian architect Antonio Asprucci, most noted for his work at the Villa Borghese, which the Bishop-Earl had seen. Asprucci's plans were adapted and the building work overseen by English architects Francis Sandys and his brother Joseph Sandys.
The façades are of brick covered in stucco; beneath a roof of slate and lead. The central rotunda is 105 ft. high with a domed and balustraded roof. the building is entered through the central entrance ionic pedimented portico.
The rotunda is decorated with pilasters, which on the lower floor are Ionic and Corinthian above. The ground and first floor and the third floor and the balustraded parapet are divided friezes bas-relief.
The rotunda is flanked by segmental single story narrow wings (appearing as a blind arcade) linking, in the palladian fashion, to two terminating pavilions; these segmental wings are broken at their centre by projecting bays which house the Smoking Room and the Pompeian Room, both later 19th century additions.
Unlike the design of a true Palladian building, the terminating pavilions, rather than minor balancing appendages, are in fact large wings, complementary in weight to the rotunda which becomes their corps de logis. The East Wing, a small mansion in itself, was designed to be the everyday living quarters of the family (which it remained until 1998), thus permitting the more formal rooms of the rotunda to be reserved for entertaining and display. The west wing, intended as an orangery, sculpture gallery and service rooms remained an unfinished shell until the beginning of the 21st century. For much of the time it was used as agricultural storage. wikipedia
Architetture "discutibili" a Massafra
Massafra è una bella città dell'arco ionico, con bellissimo centro storico e una sua architettura tradizionale fatta di materiali e di colori molto ben riconoscibili. Tuttavia, nella parte moderna, qualche progetto scellerato riesce a imbruttire, a parer mio, questa bell'impianto urbanistico. Non riesco proprio a capire come possano tali progetti essere stati approvati dal Comune.
Taormina is a comune and small town on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy, in the Province of Messina, about midway between Messina and Catania. Taormina has been a very popular tourist destination since the 19th century. It has popular beaches (accessible via an aerial tramway) on the Ionian sea, which is remarkably warm and has a high salt content. Taormina can be reached via highways from Messina from the north and Catania .Just south of Taormina is the Isola Bella, a nature reserve. Tours of the Capo Sant' Andrea grottos are also available. Taormina is built on an extremely hilly coast, and is approximately a forty-five minute drive away from Europe's largest active volcano, Mount Etna.A stay at Taormina is not just a seaside vacation. This area, rich in charm and history, must be experienced in a spirit that is outside the ordinary, and for one simple reason: here, everything is extraordinary. Every stone is a thousand-year-old piece of history, the glorious sea reflects Taormina's beauty, as it shapes and marks the passage of time, and the places that enchanted the Greeks create to this day a vibrant and exciting ambiance. But trying to describe in words what makes Taormina unique is truly difficult.
Taormina ist eine Stadt mit 11.076 Einwohnern (Stand 31. Dezember 2010) an der Ostküste Siziliens. Die Gründung der Stadt geht auf die Sikuler zurück, die schon vor der griechischen Kolonisation auf den Terrassen des Monte Tauro siedelten. Im 4. Jahrhundert vor Christus wurde die Stadt griechisch. Die heutige Stadt ist eine Neugründung aus dem Mittelalter, nachdem die Araber die antike Stadt zerstört hatten.Auf Grund der malerischen Landschaft, des milden Klimas und zahlreicher historischer Sehenswürdigkeiten entwickelte sich die Stadt im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert zu einem der wichtigsten Touristenzentren Siziliens. Besonders bekannt und sehenswert sind das antike Theater mit Blick auf den Ätna und den Golf von Giardini-Naxos und die kleine Insel Isola Bella vor der Küste Taorminas.
Taormina (griego antiguo Ταυρομένιον, Tauromenion, latín Tauromenium) es una ciudad situada en la costa este de la isla de Sicilia (Italia), en la provincia de Mesina, a medio camino entre Mesina y Catania. Cuenta con 10.991 habitantes.Está casi en el límite de la provincia de Catania, se extiende por el monte Tauro, a 200 m de altitud, y se halla en un balcón sobre el mar, enfrente del volcán Etna. Es un centro turístico muy importante desde el siglo XIX.Posee magníficas playas (accesibles mediante teleférico) y un patrimonio histórico muy rico, cuyo máximo exponente es el célebre teatro greco-romano. Además, se conserva un castillo árabe, que ocupa el lugar de la antigua ciudadela o Arx.Taormina y el volcán Etna al fondo, desde el teatro griego.La ciudad fue fundada por los griegos en el 736 a. C., con el nombre de Naxos.La leyenda cuenta que los marinos griegos que pasaban por la costa oriental de Sicilia olvidaron realizar sacrificios en honor a Poseidón, y él, encolerizado, les hizo naufragar. El único superviviente, Teocles, llegó al Capo Schico, próximo a Naxos, y volvió a Grecia para contar las maravillas de Sicilia, convenciendo a sus compatriotas para instalarse en la isla.
Taormine, en italien Taormina, est une commune de la province de Messine en Sicile (Italie).Taormine est située sur la côte est de la Sicile, à peu près à mi-chemin entre Messine et Catane (50 km), presque à la limite de la province de Catane.Elle s’étend sur le Mont Tauro à 200 m d’altitude. La ville est en balcon sur la mer face à l’Etna. La Calabre, distante d'environ 30 km, est visible par temps clair ainsi que la nuit.La légende dit que des marins grecs, passant sur la côte orientale de la Sicile, avaient oublié de sacrifier à Neptune. Celui-ci, en colère, fit chavirer leur embarcation. Le seul survivant, Théocle, parvint au Cap Schiso, non loin du site de Naxos (aujourd'hui Giardini-Naxos). Il retourna ensuite en Grèce pour narrer à ses compatriotes les merveilles de la Sicile. Certains, convaincus, décidèrent de venir s’y installer.
Taormina è un comune di 10.991 abitanti della provincia di Messina. E' uno dei centri balneari di maggiore rilievo di tutta la regione. Il suo aspetto, il suo paesaggio, i suoi luoghi, le sue bellezze riescono ad attirare turisti provenienti da tutto il mondo.Situata su una collina a 206 m di altezza sul livello del mare , sospesa tra rocce e mare su un terrazzo del monte Tauro, in uno scenario di bellezze naturali unico per varietà e contrasti di motivi , splendore di colori e lussureggiante vegetazione.Il clima è dolcemente mite.Molto belle le mezze stagioni , Primavera e Autunno infatti vantano un clima idealmente mite.La storia di Taormina è sicuramente costellata da molteplici dominazioni, e questo è possibile vederlo passeggiando per le strade del centro storico che mostrano i segni lasciati dai vari popoli passati per Taomina. Essendo situata al centro del mediterraneo la Sicilia fu sempre una preda ambita per la sua posizione strategica di passaggio,situata sulla parte est e in posizione fortificata su una collina permetteva già da allora di controllare buona parte della costa ionica e ha sempre rappresentato un ottimo punto di fortificazione e controllo nelle stradegie di guerra. Dopo aver attestato l'esistenza di una sede di siculi ( antichi abitanti dell'isola, detti anche sicani) presso Taormina, per certo vi passarono e vi lasciarono le loro tracce I Greci, i Romani, i Saraceni, dunque gli Arabi, i Bizantini ,I Normanni , Gli Aragonesi , e per ultimi i Borboni.Un soggiorno a Taormina non è semplicemente una vacanza al mare. Questi luoghi, pregni di storia e di fascino, chiedono infatti di essere vissuti con uno spirito diverso da quello comune e la ragione è semplice: qui tutto è fuori dall'ordinario.Ogni pietra reca in sé una storia millenaria, il mare meraviglioso su cui Taormina riflette tutta la sua bellezza, condiziona e scandisce lo scorrere del tempo ed i luoghi che furono l'incanto dei greci trasmettono tutt'oggi un'atmosfera vibrante di emozioni. Ma tentare di descrivere con le parole ciò che rende unica Taormina è davvero difficile.
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No2 Terrace walk - Bridgewater House. Opened in 1750 as Parade Coffee House before becoming Crowbrow's India House, purveyors of 'works of art, antiques, curios'. Door case with its semi Ionic columns and broken pediment is original, as are the architraved first floor windows.
The inscription, carved in the Ionic alphabet, contains a decree concerning an alliance between Athens and Kios, a city on the Asian coast of the Propontis (Sea of Marmara). It was passed in 406/5 BC when the Eponymous Archon was Kallias whose name and official rank we read in the second line.
[Ἐρ]ωτίων ἐγραμμάτευεν Ἐλ[ευ]-
[σί]νιος·
[Κ]αλλίας Ἀγγελῆθεν ἦρχεν
[IG I³ 124]
Erotion from (the deme) Eleusis was secretary.
Kallias from (the deme) Angele was the Archon.
The decree most likely relates to particular aid that Kios provided to Athens that year: several Athenian ambassadors had been taken hostage by the Persians and Kios assisted in bringing them home safely. The figural relief on the stele’s upper part portrays the goddess Athena shaking hands with Kios, the eponymous hero of the city of Kios who was Herakles' companion.
Surce: Museum WEB notice
Marble stele
Height: 3.0 cm; Length 26.0 cm.
406/5 BC
From Athens, Propylaia.
Athens, Acropolis Museum, Inv. EM 6928
Either end of Devonshire House, Mayfair Place, off Piccadilly, with the coat of arms of the Cavendish family (Dukes of Devonshire). This is an office building built on the site of the demolished original.
I passed the back of this house, Ionic Villa, on a walk along the Regent's Canal this morning and I felt compelled to take a look (and a photo) round the front, which is also here on Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/kevertonphoto/46422545684/in/photos... It is one of six villa houses in Regent's Park by Quinlan Terry. Designed in a range of classical styles, they look as though they have been there for many, many years. However they are relative new builds, having been constructed between 1988 and 2002.
I understand that Ionic Villa may be owned by Dr Apurv Bagri, who combines commanding interests in metal trading with a directorship of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and academic roles at City University and London Business School (a short stroll from Ionic Villa through Regent’s Park).
His late father, Baron Bagri was the former owner of Hanover Lodge, a larger house, next door and over the fence, which was sold to Russian oligarch Andrey Goncharenko for £120 million in 2012.
Greek columns, aren't they great. the children worked in groups to produce them, think they learned quite a lot about Greek Architecture too!
Ein Adler, das Wappentier der Freien Reichsstadt, schlägt dazu mit den Flügeln.
Die Uhr im Alten Rathaus zu Esslingen ist eine astronomische Uhr und die älteste funktionierende schmiedeeiserne Turmuhr Deutschlands.
Sie wurde von der Denkmalstiftung Baden-Württemberg zum „Denkmal des Monats März 2007“ ernannt.
Das Alte Rathaus wurde um 1420 als städtisches Kauf- und Steuerhaus errichtet und gilt mit seinem prächtigen Fachwerk-Südgiebel als Hauptwerk des alemannischen Fachwerkbaus. 1586 bis 1589 wurde vor der Nordseite durch Heinrich Schickhardt eine Giebelfront mit zierlichem Uhrentürmchen im Renaissancestil errichtet.
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more of the gable: View On Black
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A volute is a spiral scroll-like ornament that forms the basis of the Ionic order, found in the capital of the Ionic column
1592 kam eine astronomische Uhr mit den allegorischen Figuren Justitia und Temperantia dazu, die sich bei jedem Stundenschlag bewegen.
Anlässlich einer Renovierung 1926 wurde von den Esslinger Bürgern ein Glockenspiel mit 24 Glocken gespendet. Durch eine weitere Bürgerinitiative 1976 wurde das Glockenspiel noch einmal erneuert und um 5 Glocken erweitert.
Damit verfügt es über einen Tonumfang von mehr als zwei Oktaven. Zur Verfügung stehen mehr als 200 Lieder, die mit Lochbändern gesteuert werden. Das Glockenspiel ist jeden Tag um 8:00, 12:00, 15:00, 18:00 und 19.30 Uhr zu hören.
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"city hall" "town hall" "Rathaus"
-The Old Town Hall was built around 1420 as an urban and purchase tax house and is built with its magnificent half-timbered south gable of the main plant as Alemannic "Fachwerkbau".
[alemanic timber frame construction ]
1586 to 1589 was off the north side by Heinrich Schickhardt (famous architect) gabled front with a dainty watch towers in the Renaissance style.
1592 was an astronomical clock with the allegorical figures Justitia and Temperantia about the hours at each shock move.
An eagle, the heraldic animal of the Free Imperial City,
proposes its wings.
The clock in the Old Town Hall to Esslingen is an astronomical clock and the oldest functioning wrought iron clock tower in Germany.
During a renovation of 1926, citizens of the Esslinger a carillon with 24 bells donated. Another citizens' initiative in 1976, the chimes once again renewed and extended by 5 bells.
Thus, it has a range of more than two octaves. Available to more than 200 songs, with the hole bands can be controlled.
The carillon is open every day at 8:00, 12:00, 15:00, 18:00 to 19:30 clock to hear.
-Colossal marble statue of a recumbent lion; carved with inlaid eyes originally probably of glass, but now missing.
-Lion of Knidos, an enormous marble sculpture, originally part of a funerary monument on the Ionian coast of Turkey.
Nikon D90
On a downtown Calgary building. The architect and builders of this modern building were clearly paying tribute to ancient Greece.
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The Three Graces - Liverpool Waterfront.
All Grade II* listed buildings (apart from the nearby modern buildings).
The Three Graces: Royal Liver Building, The Cunard Building and The Port of Liverpool Building
SJ 3390 GEORGES PIER HEAD
L3
27/501 Port of Liverpool
Building and stone
balustrade,iron gates
and piers(formerly
12.7.66. listed as Offices at
Mersey Docks and
Harbour Board)
G.V. II*
Office building. 1907. Arnold Thornely. Portland tone.
Basement and 5 storeys, 13 bays wide with canted corner
bays, ll-bay returns. Rusticated basement ground and 1st
floor window round-headed, 1st floors, and corner bays.
2nd, central and 12th bays break forward. Ground floor
window round-headed, 1st floor windows in eared architraves.
2nd and 3rd floors recessed behind attached Ionic colonnade
with entablature and central open pediment containing bulls
eye and dolphins, at ends round open pediments containing
attic window. 3rd floor window of 3 lights, with
colonnettes supporting open segmental pediments, and
balustraded balconies. 4th floor window of 3 lights with
colonnettes, centre and end bays have Diocletian windows.
Attic has round-headed window with projecting panelled
blocks between. Entrance in tunnel-vaulted recess with
keystone and pediment, flanked by statues on plinths with
ships in cornucopias over. End octagonal towers with tall
glazed drums and coupled Ionic columns supporting domes.
Central dome on 2-stage drum. 1st stage with Ionic
colonnade and 4 projecting aedicules containing niches, 2nd
stage recessed behind balustrade. Copper dome surmounted by
lantern with 4 aedicules and obelisk. Interior has full
height octagonal hall with coffered dome. Round-arched
openings to galleries with iron railings and solid balconies
with lamp standards to alternate floors. Mosaic paving. 2
square stone piers opposite the entrance, with dentilled
cornices and globes with gilded continents; 4 iron gates and
gate piers. Also stone balustrade across whole front,
curving from entrance piers, with stone lamp holders on
ends, and continuing round the whole building with stone
lamp holders at intervals, in the form of naval monuments
with draped urns on top. Also iron gates and piers at each
end of forecourt.
Listing NGR: SJ3392290208
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage