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The guided tour shows visually impaired and blind people the manifold connections between art and technology.
Credit: Florian Voggeneder
Visually impaired competitors react after completing a close 200m race during the Athletics competition of the 2017 Invictus Games at the York Lions Stadium in Toronto, Canada, Sept. 24, 2017. More than 550 wounded, ill and injured servicemen and women from 17 allied nations are expected to compete. (DoD Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. James K. McCann)
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Published in: Community Eye Health Journal Vol. 26 No. 81 2013 www.cehjournal.org
The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of six VA national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
This visually-intriguing rock is composed of multiple small to medium-sized, subspherical ironstone nodules (= iron oxide rock). They have become cemented together by a crust of the same iron oxide material. This material could also be called mammillary ironstone.
Provenance: modern fluvial gravel bar in Ohio; mammillary ironstone like this supposedly occurs at the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian unconformity in parts of Ohio
Not my most visually engaging poster, but given the subject matter it really called for a data dump more than anything else.
The interesting stuff is all in the rightmost two columns of graphs. Those are the materials that have less than 10% total integrated scatter from 250nm to 2500nm. If you're looking for materials for stray light control, or that aren't an utter disaster to use around an optical beam, that's your list.
Keep in mind that these are the materials we tested, not a comprehensive list of all of the materials in the world. Some glaring omissions are surface treatments like anodizing, black electroless nickel plating, and exotic blacks like those from Martin Marietta. The first two are covered in another paper that this was a follow-up to, and the reason for omitting the exotics like the latter are explained in the paper.
The four materials that really caught my attention were:
The hook side of Industrial Strength Velcro, which is incredibly black across the entire range. Not the cheapest thing in the world, but the hardware store in town carries it.
Krylon Ultra Flat Black Camo Paint, which has been a mainstay of mine for stray light control for years.
JH Rhodes Uni-Nap 1SF, which is a polishing compound sold for the purpose of polishing silicon wafers. That stuff beats every black flock I've ever seen. A little pricey at $65 a square foot, but unless you're doing large instruments a square foot goes a long way.
City Theatrical Black Tak foil and foil tape. Think aluminum tape, but flat black. It's not quite as cheap as the aluminum tape you can get for duct work at most hardware stores, but it's pretty darned inexpensive for what you can do with it. It's my new favorite thang to keep on the shelf in the lab. Love this stuff.
There are other goodies in there. I had a lot of fun doing this science fair project, writing the paper, and making the poster.
Hand of God is a visually symbolic piece representing a life journey filled with all kinds of strong emotions. Created by Italian sculptor Lorenzo Quinn, the large-scale public installation features a giant hand reaching out from the ground and supporting a slouched, possibly downtrodden, figure resting atop the palm.
The piece encapsulates moments of self-doubt and fear and visually conveys what it is to be human. Many of Quinn's sculptures exemplify our continuous path towards finding balance in life. In his work, he often uses a recurring theme of human hands, stating, "Hands are part of a universal language, they transcend borders." The recognisable form provides a commonality with which viewers are able to identify, allowing every culture to connect with the work on a basic level.
After exploring different types of sculpture, including surrealism, Quinn eventually found great success with a well-received, classical approach. According to his bio, many of his pieces start first as interpretations of quotes, phrases, or poetry that then grow and develop into the final, public installations. This piece was recently unveiled in London's Royal Exchange courtesy of the Castle Fine Art and Halcyon Gallery, and it is open to the public daily and free of charge.
The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of six VA national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
The Nystagmus Network Open Day was held in Reading on the 7th May 2016. Over 170 people attended the event to hear about the work at the charity and latest research into the condition.
Marilyn Rushton, a well-known Burnaby citizen, is awarded with the province’s newest honour, the Medal of Good Citizenship.
Rushton is honoured for her for inspirational life of service to the visually impaired community, her contributions to families with blind and visually impaired children, and her energetic support for the musical community.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016IGR0025-001407
Every summer Ocean Beach Surf and Skate, Ocean Experience Surf School and Indo Board partner with the San Diego Chapter of the Braille Institute to give visually impaired youth the chance to learn to surf. We are stoked that the Indo Board plays a crucial role in helping these visually impaired kids understand the basics of balance and prepares them for an experience that they will never forget.
Photo: POH
Portraits of Hope's massive public art and civic project – involving more than 20,000 kids, adults and volunteers – that visually transformed Manhattan. By recruiting and utilizing more than 5,400 fully operational NYC taxis to participate in the unprecedented 4-month exhibition, the cabs and city streets of New York were transformed into a giant mobile canvas. The unprecedented event integrated two key characteristics that define the City: the saturation of the iconic taxis; and the vertical physicality of Manhattan. www.portraitsofhope.org
Garden in Transit -- A Portraits of Hope Project
Portraits of Hope's NYC Public Art and Civic Project -- NYC Taxis
Conceived and Developed by Ed Massey and Bernie Massey, Founders of Portraits of Hope
5,400+ New York City Taxis
23,000 Children and Adults
200+ Participating Schools, Hospitals, and NYC institutions
700,000 Sq. ft. of paintings
Youth and Program Sessions in NY, CA, NJ, OH, GA, PA
Project-based learning: interdisciplinary contemporary issues and civic education and leadership sessions for schools, grades 2 -12
Creative therapy sessions for hospitalized children and persons with disabilities; including cancer, orthopedic ailments, burn trauma, brain and neck injuries, and other serious conditions
10-month program and collaborative phase
4-month New York City public art exhibition
Youth sessions and exhibition in Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island
Portraits of Hope rings NASDAQ opening bell
Special thank you to Helen Bing and Peter Bing, Vornado Realty, Hotel Pennsylvania, MACtac, Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Cordelia Corporation, Veriflora, Wooster Paint Company, Jenner & Block, Purdy-Bessemer Holdings, FedEx, Hudson River Park Trust, Susan Kohlmann, Debbie and Hal Jacobs, Nazdar, Abbot & Abbot Box Corp. AAA Flag & Banner, Bruce and Nancy Newberg Family Fund, Pillsbury Sutro Shaw Pittman, Davidow Charitable Fund, Joleen and Mitch Julis, Armstrong Nickoll Family Foundation, Polo Ralph Lauren Foundation, Ore Hill Partners LLC, Time Warner, Building Maintenance Services LLC, PTG Event Services, FedEx, NASDAQ
The guided tour shows visually impaired and blind people the manifold connections between art and technology.
Credit: Florian Voggeneder
The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of six VA national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
Blind and low-vision high school students were joined by parents and educators while touring the University of Michigan’s 3D Lab in the Duderstadt Center in Ann Arbor, MI on November 1, 2018.
The tour was part of the program, “21st Century Transportation, Careers for Students Blind and Visually Impaired,” which covered emerging careers in autonomous transportation and what skills and education students would need for a future job in that field. The event was led by Clive D’Souza, an assistant professor of industrial and operations engineering, and also included talks by industry professionals.
Photo: Evan Dougherty/Michigan Engineering
"與立法會議員暢談"—立法會綜合大樓午間音樂表演（表演學校：心光盲人院暨學校）
"与立法会议员畅谈"—立法会综合大楼午间音乐表演（表演学校：心光盲人院暨学校）
"Meeting with Members"—music performance at the Legislative Council Complex (Performing school: Ebenezer School and Home for the Visually Impaired) (2017.10.20)
The guided tour shows visually impaired and blind people the manifold connections between art and technology.
Credit: Florian Voggeneder
Visually sampled album cover depicting me and my association with black American country blues music. soundcloud.com/dav-is
Being visually literate means to see poetic meaning in even the smallest and most pedestrian on details. We are surrounded by object D'Art at every moment. Life is incredibly poetic, however our eyes are veiled in the patina of ephemeral and transitory external events.
The guided tour shows visually impaired and blind people the manifold connections between art and technology.
Credit: Florian Voggeneder
Formal Men Shoes - Mr Angel Shoes formal shoes for men, full range offers some most innovative and visually stunning men's shoes you have ever seen. View more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyRLOmO7F0g.
Tips to Find Affordable Men's Shoes
With changing fashion trends, there are several shapes, designs and styles of men's shoes available. However, buying for attire and accessories may burn a hole in the pocket if not done at the right time and at the right place. Here are some tips for you to remember while buying men's' shoes, so that you can save some money.
Wait for the Sales:
The thumb and basic rule of the world of sales is, eventually, everything goes on sale. Some put up their sales during festivals and occasions, while other put up sales during anniversaries and other personally important dates - but eventually everything goes on a sale. Therefore, it makes sense to wait a while for a festival season or a special occasion to buy footwear that you specifically liked. You will get all kinds of shoes at a sale, right from casual shoes, formal shoes to sneakers and joggers.
With the amount of sales and the number of people that are looking for sales, it is necessary that you make some arrangements before going to a sale, especially at the big clothing store or mall. For example, try to keep the kids at home while going shopping on a sale, and try to carry credit cards instead of hard cash - it makes it easier for you to pay and gives you a better shopping experience.
Don't Buy Just Because of the Sale:
Veteran sales executives will tell you that most of the products on a sale have the same price tag that was before the sale, but is sold just because some people 'think' that it is on a sale. Of course, you cannot remember the price tag for everything that you see, but the best way to solve this issue is to think whether you would or could buy the particular men's' shoes item if it were not on a 'sale'.
Also, while buying from a sale, try to look more minutely at the product, as many times the manufacturer may put defective or seconds' products at the sale. Also, most sales do not offer a refund or service after you have bought the product, so be a bit more careful when you buy from a sale. With the right keen eye, you may buy the best men's shoes available and that too at a very low price.
Go Online:
There are several websites that offer special offers on men shoes and other men attire and accessories. These websites offer a wider range of variety and if you can make do with getting a virtual idea of the product that you are going to buy, online shopping is the best way to save some money while looking for the right men shoe.
There are several websites that offer an e catalog or may even post a catalog to you for free. While shopping online for men's shoes or any other object, make sure that you are dealing with a safe and legal website.
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The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of six VA national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
The guided tour shows visually impaired and blind people the manifold connections between art and technology.
Credit: Florian Voggeneder
Visually Goose Fair is adorned with amazing artwork which possibly gets overlooked. In 2022 I created a short video focusing on it, check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ix1jE9Nt80
These series of photos were taken 28 Sept 2023, the day before the official opening of the fair. People were busy making final adjustments to rides, checking electrics, stock of foods, drinks, gifts and so on.
The Nottingham Goose Fair is an annual travelling funfair held at the Forest Recreation Ground here in Nottingham. This year, 2023, it runs for 10 days, usually it's 3 days.
Album: Goose Fair. Nottingham
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The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of six VA national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
Photo: POH
Portraits of Hope's massive public art and civic project – involving more than 20,000 kids, adults and volunteers – that visually transformed Manhattan. By recruiting and utilizing more than 5,400 fully operational NYC taxis to participate in the unprecedented 4-month exhibition, the cabs and city streets of New York were transformed into a giant mobile canvas. The unprecedented event integrated two key characteristics that define the City: the saturation of the iconic taxis; and the vertical physicality of Manhattan. www.portraitsofhope.org
Garden in Transit -- A Portraits of Hope Project
Portraits of Hope's NYC Public Art and Civic Project -- NYC Taxis
Conceived and Developed by Ed Massey and Bernie Massey, Founders of Portraits of Hope
5,400+ New York City Taxis
23,000 Children and Adults
200+ Participating Schools, Hospitals, and NYC institutions
700,000 Sq. ft. of paintings
Youth and Program Sessions in NY, CA, NJ, OH, GA, PA
Project-based learning: interdisciplinary contemporary issues and civic education and leadership sessions for schools, grades 2 -12
Creative therapy sessions for hospitalized children and persons with disabilities; including cancer, orthopedic ailments, burn trauma, brain and neck injuries, and other serious conditions
10-month program and collaborative phase
4-month New York City public art exhibition
Youth sessions and exhibition in Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island
Portraits of Hope rings NASDAQ opening bell
Special thank you to Helen Bing and Peter Bing, Vornado Realty, Hotel Pennsylvania, MACtac, Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Cordelia Corporation, Veriflora, Wooster Paint Company, Jenner & Block, Purdy-Bessemer Holdings, FedEx, Hudson River Park Trust, Susan Kohlmann, Debbie and Hal Jacobs, Nazdar, Abbot & Abbot Box Corp. AAA Flag & Banner, Bruce and Nancy Newberg Family Fund, Pillsbury Sutro Shaw Pittman, Davidow Charitable Fund, Joleen and Mitch Julis, Armstrong Nickoll Family Foundation, Polo Ralph Lauren Foundation, Ore Hill Partners LLC, Time Warner, Building Maintenance Services LLC, PTG Event Services, FedEx, NASDAQ
Courageous, visually spectacular,emotionally engaging, production of raw, provocative dance theatre, inspired by Japanese Butoh, burlesque and cabaret, performed by infamous Australian physical theatre company Zen Zen Zo. Played to packed houses across Australia. www.zenzenzo.com
Location: Selfridges (inside)
Sponsor: Selfridges Birmingham
Artist: Slobodan Topalovi
This bear is a celebration of the most visually arresting and instantly identifiable parts of Birmingham's architecture and visual identity over the years. It features the wonderful old architecture of the church of St Martin in the Bull Ring, the brutalist 1960Õs concrete structures such as the Rotunda and the unique silver roundels that cover the Selfridge's building. You can view the Selfridge's building in all its glory by going out on the pedestrian bridge on level 3.
Repeating The Big Hoot’s multi-award-winning formula, Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity and Wild in Art have teamed up once again to present The Big Sleuth!
To most people, the word ‘sleuth’ means a private detective, but it’s also the collective noun for a group of bears! Bizarre but true. Birmingham has brought both definitions together this summer by bringing the sun bear, the world’s smallest species of bear (now threatened with extinction), to the region for the second free, public-art trail!
The trail, which culminates on Sunday 17th September, is hoping to attract thousands of families, tourists and residents to the region. Hoping they discover places they’ve never visited before, as well as appreciate the beautiful pieces of art!
Each striking sculpture on the trail tells a different story, whether it is raising awareness of the children’s hospital, the plight of the sun bear, celebrating a community, the city’s industrial heritage or a famous film character or artist.
At the end of the trail, the large bears together with the special celebrity bear cubs will be auctioned off in October to raise vital funds for Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity. The Big Sleuth’s predecessor, The Big Hoot, raised over £500,000 for the charity at auction, and The Big Sleuth aims to do the same.
The Big Sleuth bear has been created specifically for Birmingham.
Created by Guy McKinley and developed by Wild in Art, our bear sculpture has been designed to act as a canvas for artists, schools and communities to showcase the creativity and uniqueness of Birmingham. The world’s smallest species of bear, the Sun Bear is also known as the Honey Bear as it likes to eat vast quantities of it - using its trademark incredibly long tongue to scoop it all up. The Sun Bear originates from South Asia and will bring out the explorer and traveller in all of us to ensure we all get more active to walk, jog, run or cycle the trail.
The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of VA's six national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
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Goal: Visually explain the content of our Christmas series
Audience: Mostly whole congregation; we'll have flyers w/ info on the back they can hand out to their friends.
Direction: The title of the series (Who who who) was inspired by one of JCPenney's marketing campaigns but once we planned out the series content, we took it in a different direction. We wanted it to be simple, but I wonder if it is too simple right now.
Project: Key art for Christmas sermon series
Other important info: Not quite a finished project, but it will be by tomorrow afternoon. The phrase "Who is Christmas!" is on purpose; the series will explain that we have made Christmas a "what" and gotten wrapped up in everything that surrounds that "what," but it is really about a "who."
I couldn't find a good manger scene so I used the lasso tool and paint bucket to make my own that was inspired by polyholly's piece (http://www.flickr.com/photos/phoshmo/5199777346/), which is totally awesome.
Any suggestions are welcome and appreciated. I'm very thankful to have found this place!
Murray Hill, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
The colorful and striking 2 Park Avenue Building, built in 1926-28 on lower Park Avenue, was designed by one of New York’s foremost architects of the first half of the twentieth century, Ely Jacques Kahn. Constructed when this section of the avenue was just beginning to be developed with modern office towers, 2 Park Avenue represents one of Kahn’s finest essays into Art Deco or Modernistic style architecture. The name Art Deco came from the famous show in Paris that introduced the style, the 1925 Exhibition des Arts Decoratifs. In the 2 Park Avenue Building, Kahn was able to successfully integrate a new decorative type produced by the application of colorful terra-cotta panels in geometric designs to a tall, commercially successful office/loft structure. 2 Park Avenue was one of the important late 1920s buildings that helped create the visually lively and iconic city of the early 20th century.
Kahn’s career spanned most of the first half of the twentieth century, during which time he became known for his commercial structures. He is responsible for the design of numerous tall office and loft buildings in midtown Manhattan , as well as factories and several houses. He claimed that business owners were open-minded about the design of their buildings and he enjoyed the opportunities for innovation that he believed commercial work afforded. In his designs, Kahn attempted to reflect the newly available and constantly changing types of materials and technology, and was highly influenced by the new industrial design trends coming out of Europe in the 1920s. His traditional training at the Ecole des Beaux Arts served as the framework for his approach, which combined the traditional with the modern to create the dominate architectural vocabulary of the 1920s and 30s. The 2 Park Avenue Building is one of Kahn’s most dramatic and successful works and survives today as one of the most beautiful and distinctive office towers of the Art Deco period.
2 Park Avenue Building
The site at Park Avenue between 32nd and 33rd Streets was occupied by the dilapidated Park Avenue Hotel and had not been previously developed because there were unattractive transit car barns located directly across the street. In 1925 however, these were replaced by a large office tower designed by York & Sawyer. The ultimate use of the area was still uncertain, and the developers of 2 Park Avenue did not know whether they intended the building to be used for offices or manufacturing. They asked Kahn to design a building that could be adapted for use either as offices and showrooms, or for light manufacturing. Since it was built as a speculative investment, the owners wanted an appealing building to attract tenants, while giving them as large a return on their investment as possible.
This type of speculative building coincided with the dominant forces of business and commercial enterprise in the 1920s, and the stylish Art Deco architecture was seen as giving expression to this power. Kahn was particularly adept at meeting the needs of commercial clients. He provided a fashionable building that would serve as its own advertisement and attract clients, while meeting the zoning requirements and fitting into the area where it was constructed. His buildings were fairly economical to construct, while still having large floor areas that could be adapted to changing business needs.
In an article in which he wrote about the economic considerations entailed in designing commercially successful skyscrapers, Kahn explained how he determined that at 2 Park Avenue a mostly square block, filling all three streetfronts with a light court in the rear would provide the largest possible and most adaptable floor areas for his client and the variety of needs of the possible tenants in the building. Kahn’s success was partly due to his concern for the bottom line and he noted in his writing that economic considerations were as important to a building as the plan and layout. He explained that no matter the design of the exterior, bankers had to be convinced of the economic feasibility of a new building before it would be constructed.
Kahn realized that the façade design was more a “question of clothing” because it all fits onto a steel skeleton.While Kahn was concerned about the economics of a building project, he was first and foremost an architect, and he was involved in the design issues of his day. Kahn’s response to the question of what was modern architecture was that it should “represent its own time” and solve “each practical modern problem in the most direct and honest way.” “Our aim should be to create, not so much a new form of design, but a decorative quality which can only be linked with the particular material involved.”
Critic Lewis Mumford, writing in the journal Architecture in 1928 about modern design, pointed to 2 Park Avenue as one of the best examples. He stated that a good modern building should be, “The direct, economical expression of material and plan…” Further,
…To realize form-in-function, by its clear, lucid expression, is what constitutes the modern feeling… But we are still human beings …and there must be something more [ie., a combination of structure and feeling] …It is by utilizing new methods of construction and embodying a new feeling that our modern architecture lives.
The “something more” Mumford was searching for could be found at 2 Park Avenue, where he claimed, “structure and feeling are at last one.” This building achieved a “unique synthesis of the constructive and the feeling elements.” Kahn “kept the exterior and the interior in unity” with its “bands of sunny terra-cotta, broken and accentuated with red, green, bright sky-blue.” He integrated the mass and the decoration to create “the boldest and clearest note among all our recent achievements in skyscraper architecture.”
Kahn’s use of colored terra cotta on 2 Park Avenue, was a high point in the development of his ornamental vocabulary. Kahn wanted to replace the historically-inspired ornament of previous eras with broad areas of texture and color on his buildings. He advocated that, “Flat surfaces [should] take the place of the obsolete cornices and finally color in surfaces, in proportion to the distance from the observer, mark the accents that the artist desires.”31 Kahn also observed that instead of a profusion of ornament, a modern designer should “introduce in his work precisely that quality of interest that the musician understands by rhythm, accent or colour.
This type of wall treatment was also being employed by Ralph Walker in his large telephone company buildings and reflects the ideas of the German and Dutch Expressionists who looked back to the early Gothic tradition in northern Germany for its expressive use of brick. The buildings from this period had a variety and richness to their surfaces that appealed to Kahn. At 2 Park Avenue, this texture can be seen in the spandrels under the windows of the central section that are set in an overall pattern of flat and projecting brick. The surface tension of the façade is displayed in the integration of horizontal and vertical lines.
The rhythm Kahn was seeking is seem in the strong vertical emphasis achieved by the projecting triangular-shaped piers that extend from the third through the 17th story and again after the set-back, on the 18th through the 24th stories, reinforced and strengthened by the narrow piers between the windows. At the same time, balance is provided by the horizontal lines created by the window sills, the spandrels, and the bands of terra cotta that encircle the façade or that mark the corners below each setback. The broad, flat end piers frame the composition and serve to further anchor the building. Above the 17th story, the intersections of verticals and horizontals are indicated by blue terra cotta squares in the spandrels, emphasizing the effect of woven fabric. Kahn later admitted that in these designs, “I was thinking of the texture of fabric.”33 Panels of bright blue, red, green, yellow and black terra cotta, some plain and some molded with intricate patterns are integrated into the design. They are especially obvious near the top floors of each section making these sections stand out rather than recede with distance the way they would on other tall buildings.
Kahn had been trying to introduce color into his buildings for some time. He hoped that color would “supplement and maybe replace the play of light and shadow of traditional ornament…The possibilities of strong contrasts of colors eliminating futile carving and crockets, pinnacles and similar appendages of the early skyscraper are unlimited.”34 For the designs of 2 Park Avenue, Kahn consulted with colorist Leon Solon to determine the best choices. The building includes several different shades of brick assigned to separate parts of the façade, as well as actual colored terra-cotta panels. The brick on the flat end bays is a different shade from the brick on the triangular piers, and different again from the brick in the window sills and from the brick in the spandrels. “In place of the ornamental subject, the motifs are composed of silhouetted repeating forms, superimposed, each treated with a color.”35 Before the actual panels were attached to the building at 2 Park Avenue, Kahn had mock-ups created, and mounted them at an appropriate height, to see how the colors would appear at a distance, to make sure the effects would be what he wanted.
During his career, Kahn was also instrumental in the promotion of terra cotta as a viable and useful material for architectural ornament. He wrote a brochure for the Federal Seaboard Terra Cotta Corporation in 1930 promoting the material, called “Terra Cotta Futurities.” He believed that, The use of clay products in the entire field of surface texture and color is yet to be scratched. The development of the surface, the opportunity for light refraction, the beauty of low tones in delicate relief, will come with increasing interest to the designer as he appreciates their possibilities. Kahn’s work on 2 Park Avenue is a testament to the design possibilities of terra cotta and shows what a gifted architect could achieve with this material.
Description
The building at 2 Park Avenue is 28 stories high, with its main façade facing Park Avenue and secondary facades along both 32nd and 33rd Streets. There is a double-height ground story with retail storefronts on all three facades, all of which have been modernized. The building extends straight up from the base through the 17th story, where a set-back occurs. The building then extends from the 18th through the 25th story and is capped by a recessed, three-story penthouse and bulkhead. To the west, on both side facades are wings which bear similar arrangements and ornamentation, but are shorter. On the wings, setbacks occur after the eleventh story and the section ends above the seventeenth story. There is a small light court inset at the center of the western side of the building, not visible from any street elevation.
The Park Avenue facade is nine bays wide and is symmetrically arranged around a central opening at the ground story. Within the opening is a large recess faced with marble walls and a multi-colored decorative mosaic ceiling leading to a bronze-framed entrance. The entrance is composed of two sets of revolving doors flanked by additional, single, glass and bronze doors. Around the doors is an elaborate bronze enframement and the whole composition is capped by a semi-circular glass transom with a decorative pattern of individual lights. A bronze wall directory is mounted on the south wall of the recess and there is a single bronze door on each side wall, with a lighted sign above each opening. Non-historic lights are also mounted on each side wall. In addition, there is a non-historic door near the front of the north wall that leads to the adjacent storefront.
The base of the building is faced with light tan stone over a granite water table. All of the retail spaces are double height and have non-historic glass and metal storefronts. The next story above the base is distinguished by large display windows in each bay, some of which have a large central fixed sash flanked by narrow one-over-one sash and maintain the original decorative cast iron surrounds. It is difficult to see this floor because of the scaffolding that is currently in place. The tan stone continues as flat pilasters between the bays of this story except at the central bay that is set off by triangular piers and an entablature in a darker material. A projecting cyma reversa molding separates this story from the one above. At the third story the tan stone rises as flat piers between the four narrow windows of each bay and as slightly wider piers between the bays. This story is capped by a flat band of blue terra-cotta tiles that wraps around the entire building.
Above this blue band is the main body of the building. The outside bays on each side are faced in flat tan brick and are pierced by two plain, rectangular window openings on each story. There are seven wide bays between these two ends, each with four narrow windows spaced closely together. Narrow flat brick piers separate the windows within each bay. Between the bays is a continuous pilaster that begins at the third story and continues through the 17th story, where the building sets back in both directions. These pilasters rise from a decoratively corbelled beginning between the bays of the third story and project from the façade in a shape that is triangular in plan. The spandrels of the windows in the central section are faced with decorative panels of brickwork in a slightly darker shade of tan. The bricks are laid alternately parallel to the façade and perpendicular to it, giving the impression of woven fabric.
At the top two floors of this section, the ornament proliferates to emphasize the end of the first section and the set-back that follows. The spandrel panels of the 16th and 17th stories are faced with colored terracotta tiles in green, blue, yellow and red in layered geometric designs. Above the windows of the 17th story, there are a series of yellow vertical projections within each bay that form a parapet that carries the eye upward toward the next section. The tops of the triangular piers separating each bay are faced in blue terra-cotta panels. The end bays of the top two floors are treated with a series of ochre-colored terra-cotta panels in geometric designs in deep relief, that are placed horizontally around each corner. These are capped by narrow layers of red, blue and black terra-cotta panels, some highlighted by yellow verticals.
After the setback above the 17th story, the building rises for eight more floors. On the lower five stories of this section, the window spandrels have blue terra-cotta panels set on a yellow ground, while the end bays are marked by textured, colored, horizontal terra-cotta bands. The spandrels of the 24th floor have panels of multi-colored terra cotta in a design similar to those on the lower section. Above the windows of this floor are more colored panels with vertical yellow projections. The end bays have horizontal terra-cotta ornamental bands at each level and the top two floors of this section have terra-cotta ornament similar to that on the lower section. After the 25th story, the building sets back again for the final section. The 25th floor is capped by more colored terra cotta on the end bays and stepped and layered panels of terra cotta over the central bays that extend up to form a parapet.
The facades on 32nd and 33rd Streets have very similar motifs to those on Park Avenue. The first seven bays extending from Park Avenue to the west are arranged like the Park Avenue façade: five bays, each with four narrow windows centered between two broad, flat end bays. Then the building extends for three more bays to the west, each bay having three narrow windows with a triangular pier between each and a narrow, flat brick end pier. All of these windows have the same decorative brick panel spandrels and the tall, triangular piers that extend from the third through the seventeenth stories. The arrangement and materials of the base are also the same as on the front facade.
On the 33rd Street side, the fifth bay from Park Avenue has a secondary entrance door to the lobby. There are two sets of bronze and glass doors set in a stone surround. There is another small entrance in the middle of the 32nd Street façade but it is no longer in use. In the two western bays of the 32nd Street side are two large vehicular entrances with roll-down gates for service and garage entrance.
The western façade of the building is somewhat visible over neighboring buildings on the 32nd street side. It is faced with plain brick and has plain, rectangular window openings. All of the window sash is non-historic.
- From the 2006 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
Music building on LEFT, Art building on RIGHT - Art gallery is 2 stories, and located directly across the walkway of Art building. Norton Auditorium is visually behind the viewer's perspective, adjacent the Music building.
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A comment from the Irish Amateur Wrestling Association
"Inclusiveness is key! This was spectacular.
A visually impaired wrestler competing in a main stream championship wrestling tournament. Arron, from Portlaoise Combat Academy Vs Peyton from Mohawk Valley Wrestling Club NY. One of the wrestlers was visually impaired, so to even out abilities, both wrestlers were blind folded.
Well done to Referee John for his experienced approach to this bout.
Great sportsmanship & wrestling from both."
The Irish Open 2022 Freestyle Wrestling Tournament was held on Saturday 15 October 2022 at :-
The National Sports Campus
Snugborough Rd,
Blanchardstown
Dublin
D05 EPN4
More than 160 wrestlers, representing 33 clubs were in action at the Sports Campus Ireland National Indoor Arena in Blanchardstown.
The I.A.W.A' s biggest championship yet! Was organised on 3 mats with wrestlers from clubs around Ireland and the World!
There were wrestlers from Ireland, the UK, the USA and more!.