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Nature can set up extraordinary shows. The stage is immense, the amazing lights, the infinite extras and the unlimited budget for special effects.
(Yann Martel, The life of Pi)
In reality this photo dates back to the confinement period, walking alone at impossible hours, I never met anyone. So I could also experience this possibility of panoramic with the phone. Then I added texture and processing on photoshop.
The world has resumed its path in just a month here. I don't notice big changes in people, apart from the mask and lack of money. All good intentions, altruism, empathy, vanished in the blink of an eye. And our politicians have never stopped fighting after a first hint of feigned solidarity.
I miss those long timeless walks ....
I hope you are well, I wish everyone a good week.
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As with everyone, Covid has made people put there lives on hold. This is one of my son’s who has been locked down in London for months. To see him run down the beach and run into the sea was quite emotional. I have the feeling that the new normal has arrived. Childhood can be resumed under a new set of rules.
Take care out there.
All the best......
a conversation always resumed exactly where left off :-)
Robert Brault
Happy Caturday!
Frida, one of our 2 adopted Maine Coons, cary, north carolina
Some Hadada ibis maintain a pair bonding throughout the year. Commonly, a female, with her wings half-open, approaches a male and touches her beak to his beak. After this brief mutual beak-to-beak touching, she resumes feeding elsewhere among the party. Billing behavior of pairs includes rattling of beaks up and down and side-to-side while nodding heads. Courtship includes the offering of sticks by each bird to the other 😄, followed by neck intertwining, mutual preening, head shaking
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色々ひと段落しまして、SLも本店を引っ越しました。
まだ新作とか作る余裕がないのだけど、そのうち動きます＠＠
I have completed the move of the Main Store in SL.
Perhaps in a few days to resume production work.
Skin：*MY UGLYDOROTHY -Sophia04(Salmon)
Hair：Tiny Bird - Love You More - Light Ash Brown
Tops：*H+K*(white)ribbon knit tops
Skirt：*H+K*(pink)kilakila OP
Boots：*H+K*(flower-cinnamon)lace-up
When the humans stop playing for a bit, Jasper will plop down on the hearth with a heavy sigh. "How long must I wait for the fun to resume?!?" Poor neglected dog 😜
(Haha, I just noticed that the map no longer says "A mysterious place with no name" But its not the San Tan Mobile Village either.)
Some say the mail carrier motto is "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds".
But what about a tornado? The tornado that tore through Mayfield certainly left its mark on the postal system. According to the Paducah Sun, the Mayfield Post Office partially collapsed and lost 80% of its roof. All of the equipment inside was destroyed. However, the mail must go on. A team from Louisville came down the following day to start the clean up process and secure the building. Incredibly, the postmaster said that only one delivery day was missed. Mail would resume the following Monday for those would could still receive it.
Sadly there is no word on when the Mayfield Post Office will reopen. However workers are making repairs on the building and the post office has been relocated to a temporary location for now.
(This post is a continuation of the Mayfield tornado series)
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Mayfield, Kentucky
Fletcher Granite’s GE Tonner shoves a single gondola to the Pan Am interchange in Westford, MA. This small and obscure operation serves the purpose to retrieve loads of granite, imported from a quarry in Georgia, and deliver them to Fletchers processing plant for cutting and distribution. In 2014, granite shipments by rail ceased. It wouldn’t be till late 2020 that operations resumed and have since stuck around.
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo - Japan / December 2018
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Shibuya is famous for its scramble crossing. It is located in front of the Shibuya Station Hachikō exit and stops vehicles in all directions to allow pedestrians to inundate the entire intersection. The statue of Hachikō, a dog, between the station and the intersection, is a common meeting place and almost always crowded.
Three large TV screens mounted on nearby buildings overlook the crossing, as well as many advertising signs. The Starbucks store overlooking the crossing is also one of the busiest in the world. Its heavy traffic and inundation of advertising has led to it being compared to the Times Square intersection in New York City. Tokyo-based architecture professor Julian Worrall has said Shibuya Crossing is "a great example of what Tokyo does best when it's not trying."
Shibuya Crossing is often featured in movies and television shows which take place in Tokyo, such as Lost in Translation, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and Resident Evil: Afterlife and Retribution, as well as on domestic and international news broadcasts. The iconic video screen featured in the above movies, in particular Lost in Translation with its 'walking dinosaur' scene, was taken down for a period of time and replaced with static advertising, although it resumed operation in July 2013. Contemporary British painter Carl Randall (who spent 10 years living in Tokyo as an artist) depicted the area in his large artwork 'Shibuya', exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London 2013.
On the southwest side of Shibuya station there is another popular meeting place with a statue called "Moyai". The statue resembles a Moai statue, and it was given to Shibuya by the people of Niijima Island in 1980.
Did some long overdue birdwatching over the weekend, so will be "taking a break" from the arboretum pics before resuming again.
Spotted this male Northern Cardinal at the "Blazing Hot Blend" feeder - pepper treated seeds to deter the squirrels and seems to work, too. Mr Cardinal is looking a bit ragged but not sure if it's due to the stress from parenting or because of the extremely hot weather we've had in our area lately? Or something else completely different?
** Mind you, our hot weather is nothing like some other areas are experiencing but still - hot for our area! And no doubt the heat affects wildlife regardless of where they are located.
Hi Flickr friends. I’ve been avoiding Flickr lately and I thought I should explain why. I just can’t find time to participate the way I have in the past. Commenting and answering comments, added to other pressures I have had lately, became a little overwhelming. I would love to be as generous with my time as many of you are with yours, but I just can’t manage it.
I’m going to resume posting pics but I won’t be commenting. I will be favouriting pics when I get the chance.
Thanks for your views, faves and comments.
I’ve just come back from our annual holiday in Cornwall and I’m desperately trying to fit back into my ‘normal’ life! Funny how some time out of your routine makes you evaluate things, (or is that just me?) But that’s for another post.
Anyway one thing that really struck me whilst down there this year is that the buzz that usually accompanies me whilst out photographing was much more elusive this year. Now there could be a multitude of reason for this, (I’ve explored many before) but one of the main ones I feel is that I’m becoming very hard on myself with regards creative expectations. Images that I once would have been happy with now don’t give me that buzz I once had.
I seem to be putting creative pressure on myself to develop, but its backing me into a corner and the harder I push the less and less I meet those punishing expectations. Subsequently this self imposed elitism is ironically making it more and more difficult to produce images that give me that special feeling that got me into photography in the first place.
Anyway I don’t feel like making this a long post, so unusually for me I will be brief. (I can almost hear the sighs!!!) I’m sure normal service will resume shortly... (o:
UN CHÂTEAU ET UN GRIMOIRE MAGIQUE
Quand les Normands, nos pères, vinrent faire la conquête de ce pays, ceux d’entre eux qui s’emparèrent de cette contrée furent longtemps arrêtés par le Château-Fort de Pirou.
Le jugeant imprenable, ils renoncèrent à l’enlever d’assaut et, pour le réduire par la famine, ils en entreprirent le blocus.
Après un siège interminable, ils constatèrent qu’un silence de mort régnait dans le château fort. Craignant un stratagème ils laissèrent passer un jour entier, puis le lendemain tentèrent l’escalade. Le château fort était désert.
Ils ne trouvèrent qu’un vieillard grabataire auquel ils promirent la vie sauve s’il leur disait ce qu’étaient devenus le Sire de Pirou, sa famille et sa garnison. Le vieillard leur expliqua alors qu’à l’aide d’un grimoire le Seigneur et toute sa maison s’étaient changés en oies sauvages pour échapper à leurs assaillants. Les Normands se rappelèrent en effet qu’ils avaient vu, la veille, au lever du jour, une quantité d’oies cendrées prendre leur essor au-dessus des remparts.
On sait que, dans les vieilles traditions populaires de Normandie, le sorcier qui s’est changé en bête doit, pour reprendre sa forme humaine, « délire », c’est-à-dire lire à rebours, la formule qui lui a servi à se « goubliner ».
Au bout d’un certain temps, les oies sauvages revinrent donc pour retrouver le grimoire qui leur permettrait de « délire » la formule de leur goublinage. Hélas, les Normands avaient brûlé le château fort et avec lui le livre de magie. Force leur fut donc de rester oies sauvages… Mais, depuis lors, elles reviennent chaque année au printemps avec l’espoir de retrouver le grimoire, et, sans l’avoir trouvé, elles repartent à l’automne.
Vous pouvez visiter le site du château : www.chateau-pirou.fr
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A CASTLE AND A MAGIC GRIMOIRE
When the Normans, our fathers, came to conquer this country, those of them who seized this country were stopped for a long time by the Château-Fort of Pirou.
Judging it impregnable, they gave up taking it by assault and, to reduce it by famine, they undertook the blockade.
After an interminable siege, they noticed that a dead silence reigned in the fortified castle. Fearing a stratagem, they let an entire day pass, then the next day attempted to climb. The fortified castle was deserted.
They only found a bedridden old man whose life they promised would save if he told them what had become of the Lord of Pirou, his family and his garrison. The old man then explained to them that with the help of a grimoire the Lord and his entire household had changed into wild geese to escape their attackers. The Normans in fact remembered that they had seen, the day before, at daybreak, a quantity of greylag geese taking flight above the ramparts.
We know that, in the old popular traditions of Normandy, the sorcerer who has changed into a beast must, to resume his human form, "delirious", that is to say, read backwards, the formula which served him to “gobble”.
After a certain time, the wild geese returned to find the grimoire which would allow them to “delirious” the formula of their goblinage. Alas, the Normans had burned the castle and with it the book of magic. They were therefore forced to remain wild geese... But, since then, they return every year in the spring with the hope of finding the grimoire, and, without having found it, they leave again in the fall.
You can visit the castle website : www.chateau-pirou.fr
FENCH
Mon troisième jour sur Séoul. Une matinée où je traîne encore dans les quartiers environnants la "Galerie K" où j'expose. L'art me semble présent ici et partout, s'affichant sous de si nombreuses formes. Ici aussi, comme à Tokyo, des immeubles peuvent être entièrement consacrés à une galerie unique. Eaux et gaz à tous les étages. Dans l'un d'entre eux, je ne croiserais pas âme qui vive sur 4 étages. Je finirai sur sa terrasse à succomber à l'enivrement des lieux et de la cité. Après un déjeuner délicieux composé surtout d'une poule cuite au bouillon, farcie de riz aromatisé, je file vers l'ambassade des Etats Unis, en passant par le bâtiment 119, histoire de prendre la température suite à l'énorme manifestation de la veille. Calme plat, flics un peu partout. Là se trouve aussi l'immense Palais royal de Gyeongbokgung. Un lieu où tout est vaste. Ici le mystère s'établit pas à pas devant vos yeux. J'y pénétrerai le lendemain et assisterai même à la levée de sa garde. Un peu plus tard après une nouvelle douche à l'hôtel, je reprendrai ma marche errante dans la nuit de Séoul. Le GPS sera ma boussole en des lieux que je ne saurai nommer, désolé.
ENGLISH
My third day on Seoul. A morning where I still hang in the surrounding neighborhoods "Gallery K" where I expose. Art seems to me here and everywhere, appearing in so many forms. Here too, as in Tokyo, buildings can be entirely dedicated to a single gallery. Water and gas on all floors. In one of them, where I would not cross a living soul on 4 floors. I will finish on his terrace to succumb to the intoxication of the place and the city. After a delicious lunch consisting mostly of a chicken cooked in broth, stuffed with flavored rice, I go to the Embassy of the United States, through building 119, just to take the temperature following the huge demonstration of the day before. Quiet flat, cops everywhere. There is also the huge royal palace of Gyeongbokgung. A place where everything is vast. Here the mystery is established step by step before your eyes. I will enter the next day and will even attend the lifting of his guard. A little later after a new shower at the hotel, I will resume my wandering walk in the night of Seoul. The GPS will be my compass in places that I can not name,sorry.
Former Southern / NS U23B 3935 is spending its final years as a switcher for Martin Marietta at one of their quarries in Camak, Ga. The quarry is idled for now as well the old high hood, but it's ready to be fired up once again when operations here resume.
Yesterday morning our local Swifts were flying over the garden so I went out with my camera for some target practice. This wasn't my best photo of the session, but a Swift feeding is something I've been trying to photograph for ages. They fly around catching flying insects which they store in their crop to take back to the nest. They can catch up to a thousand insects before returning to feed the chicks. David Lack who studied Swifts nesting in a tower at Oxford University counted 312 different species of insect and spider in these bug balls, and found that typically they contain 3-500 insects. Because winged insect food is so variable and unpredictable the youngsters can go into a kind of torpor, dropping their body temperature and arresting their development, then resuming to normal development when the insects start to reappear. They probably hunt at about 25 mph but even at this speed they can differentiate between insects. One swift was found to have caught several stingless drone honeybees but neatly avoided all of the stinging females. It is thought that each Swift may catch 10,000 insects in a day, which makes it surprising that this is the first time I have managed to photograph one feeding.
Stagecoach Oxfordshire / 50443 YX70 LVJ / Oxford Tube Oxford - London Victoria / Hillingdon Western Avenue
Etihad resumed their A380 service on the daily EY31/EY32 flight to Paris CDG. It was nice to see the flight stationned on Hotel apron, allowing a very nice view during departure. What a beautiful aircraft, I missed Etihad's A380s!
End of the Line
An Amtrak Train Station located in Pensacola, FL. The station first opened in 1993, but Amtrak suspended service in 2005 due to Hurricane Katrina. Unfortunately, service was never resumed.
Colors enhanced in post.
I took this photo by putting an iPad in front of my watch. Interestingly, part of the watch was reflected on the dark screen of the iPad and conjoined with the reflection, creating these "Siamese twins".
While in the midst of this “wait a little longer” I am going to hush my incessantly worrying mind and harness opportunity. There is a “resume” button on the horizon. So here we go.
Time to press “resume” and move forward into this year with expectancy. Step into the future.
Do you need to recommence?
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
On the south side of the Gundulic Square a monumental Baroque staircase leads to the Poljana Ruđera Boškovića where the Church of St Ignatius and Collegium Ragusinum, Dubrovnik's reputable Jesuit college, are located. This urban complex many find to be the most representative Baroque example in Dubrovnik and the whole Croatian coast.
Dissatisfied with numerous Italian scholars, Beccaddeli, the bishop of Dubrovnik, asked in 1555, to the newly founded Jesuit order to open a college in Dubrovnik. The idea was not realised until 1647 when the legacy of Marin Gundulić, a Jesuit from Dubrovnik, opened the door for the start of planning the project. In 1653, the Jesuit Rector Gianbattista Canauli made a project which was supposed to regulate the whole urban structure of the suburb in the oldest part of the City and provide space to build the Jesuit church and college. The project planned for demolishing a wide number of houses. The buy off had already started when the destruction of Great Earthquake of 1667 interrupted all work. The project had resumed at the close of the century, for which purpose, Iganzio Pozzo, renowned Jesuit architect and painter was called to the City in 1699. Pozzo had finalized the plans by 1703 and the construction of the church completed in 1725.
The Church of St Ignatius is single nave, with side chapels and a semicircular divided apse, decorated by magnificent Baroque frescoes with scenes from life of St. Ignatius de Loyola painted by Gaetano Garcia. The frescoes fit perfectly in the ambiance of the church and at first sight they are simply breathtaking.
The church belfry houses the oldest bell in Dubrovnik, cast in 1355 by Viventius and his son Viator.
BODY ART AI COLPI FINALI
Riprendo il percorso già affrontato mesi fa che vede la splendida Rebecca sottoposta ad un spettacolare trattamento di body art. E' un lavoro che richiede ore ed ore di paziente immobilità perché anche il semplice respiro può far deviare il pennello dell'artista che la sta colorando.
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BODY ART AT THE FINAL STROKES
I resume the path already faced months ago which sees the splendid Rebecca undergoing a spectacular body art treatment. It is a job that requires hours and hours of patient stillness because even the simple breath can cause the brush of the artist who is coloring it to deviate.
CANON EOS 6D Mark II con ob. CANON EF 50 mm f./1,4 USM
The academic year resumes at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (after the threat of Hurricane Lane)
The Old Inventor has resumed his time travels, discovering a dying planet and making rescue efforts to save a race of peaceful biodiverse beings from extinction. This individual had been drafted by his home planet to defend its inhabitants.
EUR is a Roman neighborhood that was designed in the 1930s to host the 1942 Universal Exhibition, intended as a celebration of the successes of fascism in the face of the world, because of the war the works were interrupted and subsequently resumed with many changes to the original project.
Berlin, "Municipal Baths Reloaded", Video Art and Light installations in the Lichtenberg Municipal Baths": Clock Sense, rotating installation by Florian Görlitz in the Small Hall. I am sorry to say that I forgot to make a video of the changing patterns on the clock.
Als Lichtenberg 1907 in den Rang einer Stadt erhoben wurde und sein erstes Rathaus besaß, plante die Stadtverwaltung auch die entsprechenden städtischen Einrichtungen wie ein Amtsgericht, ein Krankenhaus, ein Entbindungsheim, Schulen und ein Volksbad. Die Kommune erwarb ein 3800 m² großes Grundstück an der Frankfurter Allee und gründete eine Kommission für die Erbauung einer Volksbadeanstalt, besetzt mit sieben Stadtverordneten und sieben Bürgerdeputierten. Architekten lieferten sogar in der Zeit des Ersten Weltkriegs Baupläne für eine solche öffentliche Badeeinrichtung. Der erste Spatenstich erfolgte im Jahr 1919 und die Fundamente wurden gelegt. Weil Lichtenberg 1920 als Bezirk nach Groß-Berlin eingemeindet wurde und seinen Stadtstatus verlor (und sicherlich auch wegen knapper Kassen unmittelbar nach dem Krieg), wurden die Bauarbeiten eingestellt. Erst 1925, nach Überwindung der Inflation, wurde weitergebaut, nachdem die Ingenieur-Architekten Rudolf Gleye und Otto Weis die vorhandenen Pläne aktualisiert hatten. Es entstand ein mehrgliedriger kubischer Baukörper im Stil des Expressionismus mit – nach damaligen Vorstellungen – sehr modernen Ausstattungen:
Die Einweihung des Hubertusbades nahm der Berliner Oberbürgermeister Gustav Böß am 2. Februar 1928 vor. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg beschädigte eine Sprengbombe das Gebäude an der Nordwestseite, es blieb aber noch funktionstüchtig. Außerdem gingen durch die Druckwellen die meisten Scheiben zu Bruch. Das Bad wurde notdürftig repariert. Als im Zusammenhang mit der Errichtung kompletter Neubauviertel in den östlichen Stadtbezirken ab Ende der 1960er Jahre dort auch neue lichtdurchflutete Schwimmhallen entstanden, verlor das Hubertusbad seine über den Bezirk hinausgehende Bedeutung. Hinzu kam, dass nun Baumängel, die bereits seit der Fertigstellung vorhanden waren, immer gravierender wurden, 1988 musste deshalb zunächst die große Halle geschlossen werden. Grund war ein Defekt an der Wasseraufbereitungs- und Heizungsanlage, der sich nicht mehr beheben ließ. Nach dem Mauerfall und dem schrittweisen Zusammenwachsen der gesamten Stadt galten die bisherigen bundesdeutschen Vorschriften für solche Einrichtungen, Geld für Reparaturen stand nun auch nicht mehr bereit. Als 1991 die Hauptwasserzuführung kaputtging, mussten auch die kleine Halle und alle anderen Badeinrichtungen geschlossen werden. Die kleine Halle diente dann zweckentfremdet als Lagerhalle.. Im Jahr 2016 fasste der Senat von Berlin einen Entschluss, der einer Wiederbelebung des Bades einen großen Schritt näher kam: der Komplex bleibt Eigentum des Landes Berlin. Im Auftrag der Stadt kümmert sich seitdem das Unternehmen Berliner Immobilienmanagement (BIM) um Möglichkeiten der Nachnutzung.
Eine Wiederaufnahme des Badebetriebes ist wegen der hohen Investitionskosten und der Unwirtschaftlichkeit eines laufenden Betriebes nicht mehr vorgesehen. Daher soll das Stadtbad Lichtenberg sowohl Veranstaltungsort als auch Begegnungszentrum im Kiez werden. Zur langfristigen Erreichung dieses Zieles wurde ein Zwei-Stufen-Plan beschlossen und unter Beteiligung der Öffentlichkeit in einem Konkretisierungs- und Planungsworkshop vertieft: Im ersten Bauabschnitt, der Anfang des Jahres 2022 abgeschlossen war, wurden aus dem Haus mehrere Tonnen Bauschutt entfernt sowie Elektroanschlüsse und Sanitäranlagen im linken (östlichen) Gebäudeteil wieder hergerichtet. Über das Becken der ehemaligen Frauenschwimmhalle wurde ein Holzboden gezogen, auf dem seit 2022 Ausstellungen und andere Events stattfinden können. Auf diesem Parkettboden können bis zu 200 Personen platziert werden. Hier finden temporäre Veranstaltungen statt, wie die, die wir besucht haben. Sie heißt "Stadtbad Reloaded" und führt die Gäste auf einen spannenden Rundgang durch das Haus, welches mit beeindruckenden Lichtinstallationen und über 157 digitalen Kunstwerken in allen Ecken wieder zum Leben erwacht.
Quelle: Überwiegend Wikipedia
When Lichtenberg was elevated to the status of a town in 1907 and had its first town hall, the town council also planned the corresponding municipal facilities such as a district court, a hospital, a maternity home, schools and a public swimming pool. The municipality acquired a 3,800 square metre plot of land on Frankfurter Allee and set up a commission for the construction of a public baths, consisting of seven city councillors and seven citizen deputies. Architects even provided construction plans for such a public bathing facility during the First World War. The ground-breaking ceremony took place in 1919 and the foundations were laid. Because Lichtenberg was incorporated into Greater Berlin as a borough in 1920 and lost its city status (and no doubt also due to a shortage of funds immediately after the war), construction work was halted. It was not until 1925, after the inflation had been overcome, that building work resumed after the engineer-architects Rudolf Gleye and Otto Weis had updated the existing plans. The result was a multi-storey cubic building in the Expressionist style with - according to the ideas of the time - very modern fixtures and fittings. The Hubertusbad was inaugurated by the Lord Mayor of Berlin, Gustav Böß, on 2 February 1928. During the Second World War, a high-explosive bomb damaged the building on the north-west side, but it remained functional. Most of the windows were also broken by the blast waves. The baths were provisionally repaired. When new, light-flooded swimming pools were built in the eastern boroughs at the end of the 1960s in connection with the construction of entire new neighbourhoods, the Hubertus Baths lost its importance beyond the borough. In addition, construction defects, which had been present since completion, became increasingly serious, and in 1988 the large hall had to be closed. The reason was a defect in the water treatment and heating system that could no longer be repaired.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the gradual merging of the entire city, the regulations for such facilities in vigour in West Germany applied and there was no longer any money available for repairs. When the main water supply broke in 1991, the small hall and all other bathing facilities had to be closed. The small hall was then misused as a warehouse. In 2016, the Berlin Senate took a decision that brought the revitalisation of the baths a big step closer: the complex remains property of the state of Berlin. Since then, the Berlin Real Estate Management Administration (BIM) has been working on behalf of the city to find ways to reutilise the site. Due to the high investment costs and the inefficiency of the operation of the pools, it is no longer planned to resume bathing activities. The Lichtenberg Municipal Baths are therefore to become both a venue for events and a meeting centre in the neighbourhood. In order to achieve this goal in the long term, a two-stage plan was adopted and further developed with the participation of the public in a concretisation and planning workshop:
In the first construction phase, which was completed at the beginning of 2022, several tonnes of rubble were removed from the building and electrical connections and sanitary facilities were restored in the left-hand (eastern) part of the building. A wooden floor was laid over the pool of the former women's swimming pool, which has been used for exhibitions and other events since 2022. Up to 200 people can be seated on this parquet floor. Temporary events take place here, like the one we visited. It is called ‘Municipal Baths Reloaded’ and takes guests on an exciting tour of the building, which comes back to life with impressive light installations and over 157 digital artworks in every corner.
Source: Mainly Wikipedia
Dès 1913 fut décidée la construction d'une église à cet emplacement. La première pierre fut posée en 1914 et l'on bâtit les fondations et une crypte sous la conduite de l'architecte niçois Castel. La mort de ce dernier et la Première Guerre mondiale entraînèrent l'abandon des travaux. En 1926, la construction reprit suivant les plans de l'architecte parisien Jacques Droz. Elle s'acheva en 1933.
L'utilisation de la technique du voile de béton armé, récente à cette époque, a permis une construction de style futuriste, influencée par l'Art nouveau. Trois grandes coupoles en forme d'ovoïdes sont supportées par quatre piliers et soutenues par huit autres coupoles de plus petite taille, ce qui permet l'établissement d'un impressionnant volume intérieur. À l'origine, les coupoles devaient être recouvertes de plaques de cuivre mais elles ne furent pas posées pour des raisons budgétaires.
Le clocher, haut de 64 mètres, à flèche élancée et ajourée est censé représenter le cierge pascal. Sa forme angulaire contraste avec les courbes des coupoles.
L'église est quelquefois surnommée la « meringue » en raison de sa couleur blanche.
Anciennement, le sous-sol de l'église abritait le cinéma Jeanne d'Arc dont l'entrée se trouvait rue Charles Péguy.
From 1913 it was decided to build a church on this site. The first stone was laid in 1914 and the foundations and a crypt were built under the direction of the architect Nice Castel. The death of the latter and the First World War led to the abandonment of the work. In 1926, the construction resumed following the plans of the Parisian architect Jacques Droz. It ended in 1933.
The use of the technique of reinforced concrete veil, recent at that time, allowed a futuristic style construction, influenced by Art Nouveau. Three large ovoid-shaped cupolas are supported by four pillars and supported by eight other smaller cupolas, allowing the establishment of an impressive interior volume. Originally, the cupolas had to be covered with copper plates but they were not put for budgetary reasons.
The bell tower, 64 meters high, slender and pierced arrow is supposed to represent the paschal candle. Its angular shape contrasts with the curves of the cupolas.
The church is sometimes called the "meringue" because of its white color.
Formerly, the basement of the church housed the Jeanne d'Arc cinema whose entrance was rue Charles Peguy.