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Phyllis and I loved the 16th Avenue Tiled Steps -- a beautiful, community-created mosaic running up the steps at 16th and Moraga in San Francisco.
In 2003, Artists Aileen Barr and Colette Crutcher led the creation of 163 mosaic panels that were applied to the step risers, over 300 neighbors helped make them, and over 220 neighbors sponsored handmade animal, bird and fish name tiles embedded within the mosaic. They successfully completed the project two years later, in 2005.
This collective art project is one of San Francisco’s little-known gems that’s well worth the trip: it is a sight to behold, as these photos suggest. The spiral patterns that run through all the steps are exquisite and tie it all together. What a wonderful way to make art with your neighbors!
Learn more: www.tiledsteps.org/
The Sixty Steps were designed by Alexander "Greek" Thomson in the 1870s to provide access to the origianl Queen Margaret Bridge, connecting Kelvinside Terrace and Garriochmill Road. Unfortunately the Queen Margaret Bridge no longer stands and all that remains are the brick foundations on either side of the River Kelvin.
The Lobkowicz Palace today
The Palais Lobkowitz (also: Palais Lobkowitz-Dietrichstein) is a Baroque palace in the first Viennese district Innere Stadt. It is located on the square that was named after it on Lobkowitzplatz and is one of the oldest palaces in Vienna. The palace is the first major Baroque city palace after the second Turkish siege, when the nobility did not have to invest its money for military purposes only.
The facade of the palace, unlike its interior, still largely preserved in its original state from the time of construction.
History
The Palais Lobkowitz (left) in 1760, painted by Canaletto
Staircase
The today Lobkowitz square was to 1716 called Pig market, since by the end of the 17th Century the Viennese "hop-picking" was held. This was at the time also a Viennese execution site.
The original house on the site of today's palace was sold by Leopold Freiherr von FelĂŸ to the imperial Oberststallmeister (Colonel Stable Master) Philipp Count Sigmund von Dietrichstein in 1685. The Count also bought the adjacent bathhouse and let both buildings demolishing. 1685-1687 it was then the present palace built by Giovanni Pietro Tencala. Stonemason Ambrose Regondi from Kaisersteinbruch supplied hard stone quarry for the steps of the main staircase.
The Family Dietrichstein later commissioned several rebuildings of the palace. 1709 Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach for the main portal found in Vienna a unique solution, it was surmounted by an ornate, three-dimensional bow tiara. These carvings were by Giovanni Battista Passerini and Elias HĂ¼gel from Kaisersteinbruch carried out. Son Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach also was awarded a contract.
After several changes of ownership (including Wenzel Count Gallas), the palace in 1745 by Ferdinand Philipp FĂ¼rst von Lobkowitz was purchased. The palace was from then on until 1980 in the possession of the Lobkowicz family.
At the turn of the 19th Century Ludwig van Beethoven was a frequent guest in the palace, as the former owner Franz Joseph Maximilian von Lobkowitz was an important patron of the composer. Beethoven dedicated his third Symphony (originally appropriated Napoleon and therefore called "Eroica"). In 1804 it was (what was later called the "Eroica Hall") in the ballroom of the palace under the direction of Beethoven performed for the first time in Vienna.
After two concerts in the Winter Riding School of the Vienna Hofburg on 29 November and 3 December 1812 established Friends of Music a Society of Friends of Music (now known worldwide as the Wiener Musikverein). At the Palais Lobkowitz was the list available in which on the foundation membership interested could inscribe. The first office of the company was in the palace.
During the Congress of Vienna many festivals and balls were held in the Palais. Around the middle of the 19th Century moved the headquarters of the Lobkowicz family to the ancestral castle Raudnitz north of Prague and gave the palace in Vienna free to hire.
1869 to 1909 the house was exploited as a French Embassy. 1919-1938 here was Czechoslovak Legation housed, 1939-1945 (after adaptation by Josef Hoffmann), the "House of Fashion". After the Second World War the house was used as the seat of the Viennese Institut français. In 1980 the palace was finally purchased by the state and founded in 1991, after extensive renovation, the Austrian Theatre Museum (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Museum of Art History In Vienna Association of the Scientific Institute) used.
Steps lead down to one of the many rectangular tanks of Hampi. The tank was formerly the common meeting place in every South Indian village and city... now, many of them are choked with weed and trash, but in Hampi they are still pristine mirrors of the sky.
Phyllis and I loved the 16th Avenue Tiled Steps -- a beautiful, community-created mosaic running up the steps at 16th and Moraga in San Francisco.
In 2003, Artists Aileen Barr and Colette Crutcher led the creation of 163 mosaic panels that were applied to the step risers, over 300 neighbors helped make them, and over 220 neighbors sponsored handmade animal, bird and fish name tiles embedded within the mosaic. They successfully completed the project two years later, in 2005.
This collective art project is one of San Francisco’s little-known gems that’s well worth the trip: it is a sight to behold, as these photos suggest. The spiral patterns that run through all the steps are exquisite and tie it all together. What a wonderful way to make art with your neighbors!
Learn more: www.tiledsteps.org/
Sheffield's Shepherd Wheel former grinding workshop in Bingham Park has a set of millstones made into steps up to the dam.
Minolta srT101
Shift CA Rokkor 35mm f/2.8
Kodak Ektar 100
... a vertically shifted (perspective corrected) view of my building at golden hour, Todoroki.
Joshua Tree NP, CA
I probably hate these photos tomorrow and will remove them, wondering what the heck came over me, but right now they describe my mood pretty accurately...
Sunday, May 27
Alright, it's "tomorrow" and I still like it. :-P
I came across these steps on my way to the Barker Dam. Somebody must have decided to make things easier for lazy tourists and have them walk up a few steps rather have them climbing over the rocks. Although, do lazy tourists really walk that far in the sweltering heat? It's over a mile (ooh) to get to the dam and back again and it was hot...
I managed to get a few shots of Thomas learning to walk. This is the X100s shooting into a very backlit scene. Exp Comp was on +2. The AF worked much better than I was expecting and the hit rate was pretty impressive.
Water pours down a series of step high up a mountain ridge in a remote area of Vancouver Island near Tahsis.
Minolta x-300s, Cosina 20mm/f3.8 lens, Ilford Delta 3200 film, processing with Ilford chemicals, editing in Lightroom 4 & GIMP
This is the church wall of Sankt Nicolai church in Simrishamn, SkĂ¥ne, Sweden. Churches in Sweden are struggling to keep their members since more and more people choose not to attend services. Sweden is one of the least religious countries in the world.
I just liked how this ladder was simply hung straight on the wall :)
travel.siliconindia.com/news/Least-Religious-Countries-of...
sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankt_Nicolai_kyrka,_Simrishamn (Swedish)
Once people would live side by side & only a garden fence would divide them.
Now people live on top of one another, and are divided by stairs with poor lighting.
"Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps."
Apple store, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
We visited the Spanish Steps when we in Rome the first time, but they were closed off. We didn't know what was happening but didn't think too much of it. Once we came back we realized it was opening weekend for the newly renovated stairs. Luckily we came back!View this photo on my blog here.