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Learning the Orders of Classical Architecture Once and for All: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian
Architecture · Faith · Art · New York
Blake's “The Ancient of Days” and a quotation from the Book of Isaiah above an entrance
Sculptural panel over the entrance of the 60-storey General Electric Building at Rockefeller Center, New York. The image alludes to the enigmatic drawing "The Ancient of Days", completed by the artist and poet William Blake only a couple of days before his death, which shows God imprisoned
NB! · Architecture · New York
Residential complex in SoHo, New York, built in 2016
No, modern architecture is not always ugly. A residential complex in SoHo, New York, built in 2016
NB! · Architecture · Palaeontology · Nature
A Triceratops on the Façade of the Berlin Aquarium
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Paris
New look for the rooster as the decor is recreated after the original was lost in a fire
It is disconcerting that the new symbol of Notre-Dame de Paris differs so greatly from the original figure made by the French sculptor Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume, author of the statues of the twelve apostles at the foot of the spire. And yet one may see a certain logic in
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris
A cockerel has been restored to the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris, bearing sacred relics: one of the seventy thorns of the Crown of Thorns, a particle of the relics of Saint Genevieve and a particle of the relics of Saint Denis of Paris
The cathedral's new emblem also has two openings, in which reliquary capsules are placed. The figure has been blessed by the Archbishop of Paris, Monsignor Laurent Ulrich
Architecture · Art · Paris
The Enceladus Fountain by Gaspard Marsy in the Gardens of Versailles and the Myth of the Giant
The Fountain of the Giant Enceladus in the Gardens of Versailles. Sculptor Gaspard Marsy, 1675/77. Enceladus, a mythical giant born of Gaia and Tartarus, was slain by Athena, who hurled after him an enormous rock that became the island of Sicily, while the breath of Enceladus became the fire
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages
A new contemporary art fair, Catalog, has opened in the Sytin printing house on Pyatnitskaya Street
A new contemporary art fair, Catalog, has opened in the Sytin printing house on Pyatnitskaya Street. The fair is organised by the Association of Galleries and may be regarded as normative: laid out in a single line, clearly arranged, with all the galleries on an equal footing, to the point
NB! · Architecture · Moscow
Circular Houses
Circular houses. England, Bath, nineteenth century. USSR, Moscow, twentieth century
Architecture · The East · Cinema · Books · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
As for that amusing piece of fan fiction ranking the tallest buildings on Earth, in which the Burj Khalifa in Dubai falls slightly short of the tower of Barad-dûr in Mordor, let me remind you that this is nothing more than conjecture: nowhere in the text
And if, like the author of this infographic, you are working from the visual impressions of Peter Jackson's film adaptation, then one must not forget the Tower of Ecthelion on the uppermost tier of Minas Tirith, or Orthanc, for instance. Still, the comparison of the aesthetics of the
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris
A cross blessed by Benedictine monks is placed on the restored spire of Notre-Dame
Notre-Dame de Paris is once more beneath the sign of the Cross. Today a cross, blessed by Benedictine monks, was set atop the restored spire. Formerly the tip of the spire bore a metal casket in the form of a cockerel, which held three important relics of Notre-Dame: