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The Alyscamps is a large Roman necropolis, one of the most famous necropolises of the ancient world.
Located outside the city of Arles.
The name is a corruption of the Latin Elisii Campi(that is, Champs-Élysées or Elysian Fields). They were famous in the Middle Ages and are referred to by Ariosto in Orlando Furioso and by Dante in the Inferno.
Roman cities traditionally forbade burials within the city limits. It was therefore common for the roads immediately outside a city to be lined with tombs and mausoleums; the Appian Way outside Rome provides a good example. The Alyscamps was Arles' main burial ground for nearly 1,500 years. It was the final segment of the Aurelian Way leading up to the city gates and was used as a burial ground for well-off citizens, whose memorials ranged from simple sarcophagi to elaborate monuments.
The Alyscamps continued to be used after the city was Christianised in the 4th century. Saint Genesius, a Roman civil servant beheaded in 303 for refusing to follow orders to persecute Christians, was buried there and rapidly became the focus of a cult. Saint Trophimus, possibly the first bishop of Arles, was buried there soon afterwards. It was claimed that Christ himself attended the ceremony, leaving the imprint of his knee on a sarcophagus lid.
The area became a highly desirable place to be buried and tombs soon multiplied. As early as the 4th century there were already several thousand tombs, necessitating the stacking of sarcophagi three layers deep. Burial in the Alyscamps became so desirable that bodies were shipped there from all over Europe, with the Rhône boatmen making a healthy profit from the transportation of coffins to Arles.
The Alyscamps continued to be used well into medieval times, although the removal of Saint Trophimus' relics to the cathedral in 1152 reduced its prestige. During the Renaissance the necropolis was systematically looted, with city councillors giving sarcophagi as gifts to distinguished visitors and local people using funerary stones as building material. It was further damaged by the arrival of the railway and a canal in the 19th century, both of which sliced across the site.
In late October 1888 Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin chose the Alyscamps as the first site for their expeditions where they painted side by side.
It has since been somewhat restored as an open-air museum.
So it was onto the spare D5500 for the next one. 66557 is off into the night having just got the road up the Sutton Park Line at Water Orton heading 4M52 the 16:36 Hartlepool P.D. Ports to Grain Thamesport conveying HS2 tunnel segments, diverted via the Midlands due to engineering work on the East Coast main line.
Excerpt from wellingtoncityheritage.org.nz:
Built in 1910, this three storey Edwardian Baroque edifice has significant architectural value for its lively and decorative Beaux Arts façade and is one of the most distinctive buildings in the Cuba Street Heritage Area.
This building has historic value for its association with the Barber family, who operated their dye business from this site for over 70 years, and also for its designer, notable Wellington architect William Crichton. This building also has a long history of use as a physical culture and dance studio, has been home to Footnote Dance since the 1980s.
This distinctive building is part of a significant group of Edwardian commercial buildings on Cuba Street which make significant contribution to the Cuba Street Heritage Area.
The building façade has had relatively few intrusive modern alterations and retains substantial areas of original building fabric.
The Barber’s Building is a three storey Edwardian Commercial building and the lively, decorative Edwardian Baroque /Beaux Arts façade is one of the finest and most elaborate in the Cuba Street Heritage Area.
The original ground floor shop fronts and rusticated columns have unfortunately been replaced in a mish-mash of styles and finishes, but the façade above verandah level is substantially unaltered. The façade here is carefully articulated and the windows and ornamentation are deeply modelled. The unique pair of top storey lunette windows high-light the symmetrical composition of its façade and make a singular contribution to the character of the street. The square-headed and segmentally-arched windows on the upper floors are also prominently moulded and recessed. The façade is notable for the combination of rendered brick ornamentation, and for the polychromatic bands of rendered and plain facing brick, and three of these elaborate polychromatic pilasters tie the central window elements together. Although the polychromatic effect has been altered at the base of the pilasters where the brick and render has been over-painted. The building is capped by an arched pediment, with a heavily-decorated cornice below, and stucco festoons. This intriguing façade makes a strong positive contribution to the lively Edwardian character of the Cuba Street precinct.
The building is comprised of two separate retail units on the ground floor, and dance/ ballet studios on the floors above. The interior retains significant areas of original building fabric particularly in the stairwell which features a fine timber stair, skirting, panelled doors (including ironmongery) and the t&g timber wall linings.
chocolate custard topped with orange segments
custard blended with chocolate powder during the cooking
small fresh oranges peeled and cut into small segments
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skimmed milk powder www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/marvel-dried-skimmed-...
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photo is in a square format
i've been experimenting with this photo. i didn't like the framing i chose, removed it and probably messed up the photo. i'll leave it for now but may remove the photo on another day
just one thing with michael mosley
food special with professor tim spector
7 days 30 different plant based foods
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ngjx
ps i'm not recommending any of these cookery adventures. they suit my personal taste. photographing to encourage myself to eat more healthily ...
i've created a group www.flickr.com/groups/cooking_is_my_hobby/ to gather ideas and encourage myself to continue with healthy eating by learning from others if you're interested in cooking, sometimes or a lot, or enjoy the cooking of others, you're always welcome ...
Program:Aperture-priority AE
Lens:18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 G VR
F:11.0
Speed:1/160
ISO:100
Focal Length:105.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 157.0 mm)
Focus Mode:AF-A
AF Area:Dynamic Area (21 points)
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame, Auto ISO
VR:On
EV:-1
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
WB:Auto1
Picture Control:Standard
Focus Distance:5.62 m
Dof:1.26 m (5.06 - 6.32)
HyperFocal:49.88 m
It was hard to get a decent composition with these amazing birch roots, but I think this works ok. This is right off the new White Cedar IAT segment boardwalk.
Segment "Oldies but Goldies" - Maroc
Imilchil.
Nikon F2 / DPII
Nikkor 43-86 f: 3,5
Pellicule Ektachrome 100 iso
Scanner Canon.
A man cycles along Bernauer Strasse, behind the metal bars of the Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer, a representation of the Berlin Wall.
Since last week they've put up three more arch segments for Span 3 and off loaded the rest of the segments from the barge to the work pier. Note also how the river - which is running 3 to 4 feet higher than last week - has changed from the nice contrasting blue to brown.
Installing all three pairs of arches that will support Spans 3-5 of the bridge will take about four months, with work generally progressing from West to East. Follow the progress at Sellwood Bridge website and photos in the Sellwood Bridge flickr group where you will also find tips on photographing the bridge. i4s10710
A test segment of a launch interface ring – used to secure a satellite in place during its flight to orbit – produced by 3D printing of aluminum-magnesium-scandium alloy by laser melting deposition. It was made as part of an ESA project to improve this technique.
The Launch Interface Rings by Additive Manufacturing, LIRAM project took place with Belgian companies Sonaca, CRM and SIRRIS, supported through ESA’s General Support Technology Programme, readying promising technology for space and the open market, as part of ESA’s Advanced Manufacturing initiative.
As a follow-up, the production of a complete launch interface ring is planned for 2023.
Credits: ESA
Forster-Tuncurry Bridge.
With apologies to my contacts for being away so long - looking forward to checkin' out your stuff!
'Museum Ritter' - Do you know 'Ritter Sport' chocolate? The square one? This is the place where the chocolate comes from. And they run a beautiful and interesting museum of modern art as well.
Some advertisement ;-) - Ritter Chocolate.
..and here's the way to the museum: Museum Ritter
What you see here is a segment from an illustration by Henry Holiday to The Hunting of the Snark and a portrait of Mary Throckmorton Lady Scudamor by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. Here Holiday's creativity and playing with zoomorphism gave life to a skarf. There is more:
285 But the Butcher turned nervous, and dressed himself fine,
286 With yellow kid gloves and a ruff--
287 Said he felt it exactly like going to dine,
288 Which the Bellman declared was all "stuff."
Literary reference in pictures is what you expect from an illustration to a poem. The colouring of the gloves I added to Henry Holiday's illustration (image on the left side) based on Lewis Carroll's poem. The Beaver's color I just guessed ;-)
Holiday could not use colour. But he could refer to a painting where yellow gloves caught the attention of the beholder. This is a pictorial reference. I don't know, what came first: Carroll's text or Holiday's idea to take reference to Gheeraert's painting. It is known, that the Dodgson (Carroll) and Holiday mutually inspired each other when they were working on their Snark project.
Henry Holiday made most of his arts business with quite customer friendly stained glass windows. That was honest craftsmanship. (Some of the windows I also like.) But something must have been boiling in him: When illustrating Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, he allowed himself to go a bit crazy. He hid his "graphical quotes" from other artists well; yet he was not a plagiarist, as he left clear and detectable traces. The result of his Snark work are beautiful conundrums and witty graphical puns.
Excerpt from aecom.com/projects/hong-kong-zhuhai-macao-bridge-and-hong...:
The Hong Kong Port connects to the HZMB from a site with approximately 130 hectares of reclaimed land. The port’s Passenger Clearance Building (PCB) is iconic, with aesthetically striking architecture. Its long span curved roof mimics the surrounding sea and offers unobstructed views. Its skylights filter natural light to minimize power usage for the whole building. Tree-like columns support the roof and provide an airy feel inside.
Given the project’s proximity to the airport, our team had to overcome airport height restrictions and limited space onsite, together with the mandate to complete the PCB in 30 months whilst the whole Port was to be completed in about four years. The design and construction of the PCB roof were the most notable innovations to meet these challenges.
Its key features include:
•The integration of BIM and 3D scanning. In 2014, the use of digitalization in civil engineering was still in its infancy in Hong Kong. By overlaying the complex roof design and as erected models, any out of tolerance areas could be readily identified and rectified.
•Pre-fabrication of a total of 81 roof segments, with all necessary fittings and building services including pre-installed MEP completed offsite, form the roof that stretches to the size of nine FIFA football pitches. The largest segment measures 61 meters x 25 meters and weighs 680 tons and remains the largest and heaviest spatial structural frame for a building as of 2022.
•First ever use of installation by vertical lifting and then horizontal jacking of this scale in Hong Kong. This not only overcame the space and height limitations but also allowed parallel construction of the concrete works below to accelerate project time. On-site safety was also enhanced by the subsequent reduction in the need for working at height.
Since then, innovative construction methods, including Modular Integrated Construction (MiC) and MiMEP, inspired by Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) have become important elements in Hong Kong’s construction industry.
Sustainable features at the Port such as the District Cooling System, and the use of treated effluent from the onsite tertiary sewage treatment plant for toilet flushing helped earn the project two platinum and one gold BEAM Plus awards.
The port also contains other associated infrastructure and auxiliary facilities, such as:
•Cargo clearance facilities
•Road network
•Transit interchange
•Traffic control surveillance system
•Accommodations for frontline departments such as Immigration and Customs and Excise
Awards and Recognition:
•HKIE Grand Award 2023 – Grand Prize (Infrastructure Category)
•Hong Kong Green Building Council BEAM Plus Award 2020 – Platinum
•The Lighthouse Club Safety Leadership Awards 2016 – Gold (Architect-Consultant Category)
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Brick Stew is where im going to vlog about lego related things like new content, lego related perks, and also read through comments
Stone arch bridge at Santa Bárbara Castle in Alicante, Spain, made of rough-hewn and brick masonry. The structure showcases a robust, ancient architectural design with weathered stones. Blue sky and distant mountains form the background. The bridge connects segments of the historic castle, illustrating medieval construction techniques typical of fortifications in the region. The scene captures the rustic beauty and strategic importance of this historical site, blending natural and man-made elements.
Sue Bishop gave an excellent talk yesterday at Connect Ten, so this morning I ventured into he garden to try a few shots following Sue's influence