Blue Tower is probably one of Chihuly’s greatest accomplishments. It is the tallest piece he has ever created and probably the tallest glass piece in the world. It stands forty-seven feet high and is 6 feet in diameter. It uses two-thousand pieces of glass it descends twenty feet into the archeological substructure of the Citadel. The tower starts off as a deep cobalt blue at the top and fades to a lighter blue which hints at the sky color changing throughout the day.
And it has an open ceiling above it so it can catch rain water. This room leads me out to the Inner Peristyle. Rows of columns surround this beautiful garden. The columns are modeled after those in the House of the Colored Capitals in Pompeii. In the corners are marble fountains that are re-creations from the Villa dei Papri.
The lowest chamber is cut into the bedrock which the pyramid was built on but not finished. The Queens chamber and the Kings chambers are higher. There is so much stone mass in the pyramid that the main temputure is the average tempurture of the earth. While building their was two limestones used soft limestone and Hard limestone. Khufu was the son of Queen Hetepheres and King Snefru.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. The project, Roof, will comprise approximately nine stacked slate, low-profile hollow domes five and a half feet high and 27 feet in diameter, with centered oculi two feet in diameter. stone river 320-foot sculpture on the campus of Stanford University. Constructed of sandstone from university buildings destroyed in the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes, Stone River is the largest work of outdoor art at the university. In addition to Goldsworthy, a team of eight professional dry-stone wallers from England and Scotland worked 11 hours a day, six days a week, for three and a half weeks (1848 hours) to complete the sculpture on schedule.
This building or architecture is called the Crystal Cathedral. The Crystal Cathedral is comprised of a main church and a bell tower. The cathedral was created with 10,000 windows of tempered silver-colored glasses which are held in place by a lace-like frame of white steel trusses (Crystal, 2011). The cathedral can hold more than 2700 people. The bell tower was built in 1990 and stands 236 feet tall and is one of Orange County's tallest structures (Crystal, 2011).
-The Strabian baths in Pompeii were by far the oldest of all the Baths with some been dated back to have been built in the 4th century BC, They include gymnasiums, they have multiple rooms to cater for large numbers including many changing rooms Latrines. They were decorated with elegant images of the surrounding area including flora and fauna. The separate sections of these houses show that the men’s allocated area were larger and more ornate then those allocated to the woman. -The Central Baths in Pompeii were the newest of all the Baths, they were built after the earthquake of 62AD. These appear to be the largest and most ornate, with what seems to be the appearance of same sex baths.
Book Review of Brunelleschi’s Dome The Renaissance is painted with so much more than elegant artwork scattered throughout the ancient walls of Italy, but stories rich in culture, treachery, brilliance and innovation as well. One of which was the story of the dome of the Cathedral of Florence, an unfinished masterpiece that was too big a task to complete for near a century. It wasn’t until a brilliant mathematician found a solution that would herald a new age of architecture and beauty to Florence. Ross King tells the true story of Fillipo Brunelleschi and his astonishing quest to complete one of the biggest and most dangerous undertakings in Florentine history. King’s story unveils Brunelleschi as more than just a builder, but a genius, and
Each end has eight columns and was carved in the Doric style. Half of the old temple remained, and the Greeks used some of the materials from the Old Parthenon to the New Parthenon. The temple had a majestic style and outstanding materials. When the temple was completed, it glistened with white and gold. Planning for the Parthenon began in 447 B.C.
Fash was a very interesting book that catalogued the history of the Maya from the Preclassic Period (2000 B.C.E to 250 AD) to the Postclassic Period (900 AD- 1200 AD) including the collapse of the Classic Period centers in the southern lowlands, to the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores in 1519 AD. The first section of the book talks about Copan as being the classic Maya center describing Copan as “the Athens of the New World” and also explains the importance of archeological studies at the site. Copan has more hieroglyphic inscriptions and other sculpted monuments than any other Maya ruin, or any other site in the New World. The principal group of ruins, or site core, consists of a series of large buildings constructed around open courtyards which frequently contained stelae and alters. The principal groups contained two basic parts; the north included many low-lying plazas and to the south, the upraised courtyards and constituent structures were built upon the Acropolis .
This is due to the exaggerated detail that is emphasized in the text, such as 12,000 bridges of stone which have 10 guards per bridge, 3000 hot baths where 100 people can bathe at a time. For the imaginative audience, the text describes 100 different parties, and the palaces and mansions around the lake. The audience that finds points interesting would look at the way of life of the people themselves, the system and rules they had in