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Pantheon building is circular with a portico of large granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first rank and two groups of four behind) under a pediment. A rectangular vestibule links the porch to the rotunda, which is under a coffered concrete dome, with a central opening (oculus) to the sky. Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43.3 metres (142 ft).
Rome, Italy '13
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Oculus transportation hub at the World Trade Center. Stunning train station designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
Originating in antiquity the 'oculus' is a circular opening resembling an eye in the center of a dome, cupola, or window. A feature of Byzantine and Neoclassical architecture, it is also known as an 'oeil-de-boeuf' or simply a "bull's-eye". The oculus was used by the Romans in the dome of the Pantheon and widely used in the architecture of the Byzantine Empire.
Standing in the lobby at the main entrance to the newly transformed and expanded San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, one only has to look up to see this impressive sky-lighted dome.
Leica M10-R in New York in Prairial
Voigtlander 40mm f2.8 Heliar.
From my blog: rangefinderchronicles.blogspot.com/2023/11/prairial-part-...
Oculus is a multi-function building in New York City, it's a shopping mall, subway station and connects to the 9/11 Memorial. Each of the ribs weigh ~56 tons.
This oculus is found at Fulton Center transit hub in Manhattan New York City. It pulls natural light into the subway station.
Winged dove or beached whale carcass? These are just two of the descriptions being used for the $4 billion structure that encloses the World Trade Center Transportation hub in New York.
Designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, I think it is a beautiful glass and steel structure. Consider it a modern - very modern - Grand Central station update. People still gaze in awe at Grand Central and people will still gaze at this structure for decades to come.
The Oculus. © Copyright 2021 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
The central skylight of the Oculus, World Trade Center, New York City.
Almost exactly two years ago we were in New York City for a week spent visiting relatives, making photographs, eating out, and generally wandering about as we pleased. Yes, this was before the Great Transition that came in March of 2020. (We recently visiting New York City again in the post-transition world, and it isn’t the same experience at all. I’m looking forward to a time when it is once again.) To be precise, we were there for most of the period between about Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
At some point — perhaps while on a long walk or possible at the termination of a subway ride — we ended up in Lower Manhattan in the vicinity of the World Trade Center, where this fascinating Oculus structure is located. It is a combination of shopping area and transit terminal, but it is also an arresting architectural presence. Its organic, rib-like structure contrasts with the cubic forms of most of the surrounding buildings. Inside, especially if you lift your eyes above the lower floor shopping area, it is a remarkable interior space that, in many ways, suggest some sort of light-filled cathedral.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
Olympus OM-1w M.Zuiko 7-14/2.8 Pro
ISO80 f/11 7mm -3,-2.3,-1.7,-1 and -0.3ev
Five frames raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 9, stacked and blended in Affinity Photo 2.6.3, colour graded in Nik 8 Color Efex and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT
The oculus window in the south-east transept of Canterbury Cathedral, dating originally from around 1177.
The overall diamater of the window is about four and a half metres.
The stained glass panels were reconstructed using original glass where possible by George Austin, the Cathedral's glazier from 1848 to 1862, and then further restored by cathedral's Cathedral Studios in 2013.
In the central square are depicted Christ and Ecclesia, surrounded in a diamond-shape by faith, hope, charity and humility, with in semicircles round the inner circle the four apostles Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
The twelve apostles form the outer circle.
Views of Canterbury Cathedral: www.flickr.com/photos/191876035@N02/albums/72177720296162782
- image © by Phil Brandon Hunter - www.philbhu.com - P2010192a