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[ilkikocer]

Living Room in Boston Living room - transitional open concept and formal light wood floor living room idea with white walls and a ribbon fireplace

[idealfitnessdublin]

New York Kitchen Kitchen pantry - huge transitional medium tone wood floor and tray ceiling kitchen pantry idea with a double-bowl sink, flat-panel cabinets, blue cabinets, quartzite countertops, blue backsplash, stone slab backsplash, stainless steel appliances, an island and white countertops

[shagtective]

New York Pantry Large transitional kitchen pantry idea with a medium-toned wood floor and tray ceiling, flat-panel cabinets, blue cabinets, quartzite countertops, blue backsplash, stone slab backsplash, stainless steel appliances, an island, and white countertops.

[zoison]

Kitchen Pantry New York Example of a huge transitional medium tone wood floor and tray ceiling kitchen pantry design with a double-bowl sink, flat-panel cabinets, blue cabinets, quartzite countertops, blue backsplash, stone slab backsplash, stainless steel appliances, an island and white countertops

[xbabyjah]

Kitchen Pantry in New York An enormous transitional kitchen pantry design example with a medium-toned wood floor and tray ceiling, flat-panel cabinets, blue cabinets, quartzite countertops, blue backsplash, stone slab backsplash, stainless steel appliances, an island, and white countertops.

[laceysturmquotes]

New York Pantry Kitchen

[vintagehomecollection]

Creating a three-dimensional effect, the floral tracery of handblocked paper covers the walls and ceiling of the dining room. Vases of flowers from the garden, which adorn the Brueton dining table and top the Regence iron-and-marble console, perpetuate the floral theme.

Southern Interiors, 1988

[lastconcourse]

1: Combine Sunlight with Soil. Weld the yellow light from a sunrise, in a Rock's moss chlorophyll, into the cold soil and a root's tracery thatched beneath a Cardinal's branch to: Unfold aisles with posts colored and of gold-glow rhizome, and soffits to ceiling the panels papered with brown gloam.

2: Wrap newsprint paper around pink transmissions from a sunset sky, so that you unfold catwalks that, full with shelves of pink folders, hold autonomous dust.

Two kinematic poem recipes

[themaninthegreenshirt]

There was a saying, not heard today so often as formerly . .

“What do they know of England who only England know?”

It is a saying which dates. It has a period aroma, like Kipling’s Recessional or the state rooms at Osborne. That phase is ended, so plainly ended, that even the generation born at its zenith, for whom the realisation is the hardest, no longer deceive themselves as to the fact. That power and that glory have vanished, as surely, if not as tracelessly, as the imperial fleet from the waters of Spithead.

And yet England is not as Nineveh and Tyre, nor as Rome, nor as Spain. Herodotus relates how the Athenians, returning to their city after it had been sacked and burnt by Xerxes and the Persian army, were astonished to find, alive and flourishing in the blackened ruins, the sacred olive tree, the native symbol of their country.

So we today, at the heart of a vanished empire, amid the fragments of demolished glory, seem to find, like one of her own oak trees, standing and growing, the sap still rising from her ancient roots to meet the spring, England herself.

Perhaps, after all, we know most of England “who only England know”.

So the continuity of her existence was unbroken when the looser connections which had linked her with distant continents and strange races fell away. Thus our generation is one which comes home again from years of distant wandering. We discover affinities with earlier generations of English who felt no country but this to be their own. We discover affinities with earlier generations of English who felt there was this deep this providential difference between our empire and those others, that the nationhood of the mother country remained unaltered through it all, almost unconscious of the strange fantastic structure built around her – in modern parlance “uninvolved”.

Backward travels our gaze, beyond the grenadiers and the philosophers of the 18th century, beyond the pikemen and the preachers of the 17th, back through the brash adventurous days of the first Elizabeth and the hard materialism of the Tudors and there at last we find them, or seem to find them, in many a village church, beneath the tall tracery of a perpendicular East window and the coffered ceiling of the chantry chapel.

From brass and stone, from line and effigy, their eyes look out at us, and we gaze into them, as if we would win some answer from their silence.”Tell us what it is that binds us together; show us the clue that leads through a thousand years; whisper to us the secret of this charmed life of England, that we in our time may know how to hold it fast”.

“What would they say”?

They would speak to us in our own English tongue, the tongue made for telling truth in, tuned already to songs that haunt the hearer like the sadness of spring. They would tell us of that marvellous land, so sweetly mixed of opposites in climate that all the seasons of the year appear there in their greatest perfection; of the fields amid which they built their halls, their cottages, their churches, and where the same blackthorn showered its petals upon them as upon us; they would tell us, surely of the rivers the hills and of the island coasts of England.

One thing above all they assuredly would not forget; Lancastrian or Yorkist, squire or lord, priest or layman; they would point to the kingship of England, and its emblems everywhere visible.

They would tell us too of a palace near the great city which the Romans built at a ford of the River Thames, to which men resorted out of all England to speak on behalf of their fellows, a thing called ‘Parliament’; and from that hall went out their fellows with fur trimmed gowns and strange caps on their heads, to judge the same judgments, and dispense the same justice, to all the people of England.

Symbol, yet source of power; person of flesh and blood, yet incarnation of an idea; the kingship would have seemed to them, as it seems to us, to express the qualities that are peculiarly England’s: the unity of England, effortless and unconstrained, which accepts the unlimited supremacy of Crown in Parliament so naturally as not to be aware of it; the homogeneity of England, so profound and embracing that the counties and the regions make it a hobby to discover their differences and assert their peculiarities; the continuity of England, which has brought this unity and this homogeneity about by the slow alchemy of centuries.

For the unbroken life of the English nation over a thousand years and more is a phenomenon unique in history, the product of a specific set of circumstances like those which in biology are supposed to start by chance a new line of evolution. Institutions which elsewhere are recent and artificial creations appear in England almost as works of nature, spontaneous and unquestioned.

From this continuous life of a united people in its island home spring, as from the soil of England, all that is peculiar in the gifts and the achievements of the English nation. All its impact on the outer world in earlier colonies, in the later Pax Britannica, in government and lawgiving, in commerce and in thought has flowed from impulses generated here. And this continuing life of England is symbolised and expressed, as by nothing else, by the English kingship. English it is, for all the leeks and thistles grafted upon it here and elsewhere. The stock that received all these grafts is English, the sap that rises through it to the extremities rises from roots in English earth, the earth of England’s history. We in our day ought well to guard, as highly to honour, the parent stem of England, and its royal talisman; for we know not what branches yet that wonderful tree will have the power to put forth.

The danger is not always violence and force; them we have withstood before and can again.

The peril can also be indifference and humbug, which might squander the accumulated wealth of tradition and devalue our sacred symbolism to achieve some cheap compromise or some evanescent purpose.

Enoch Powell MP, Minister of Health, to The Royal Society of St George, London, St George’s day 1961

[etruatcaelum]

[ @firestormmaidenanddragon | venus ]

Salem is not angry.

The blistering seed of anger that had germinated in her chest when the serrated edges of the intrusion carved a fresh incision around Summer Rose has hollowed out into a deathless, lightless hatred. She does not react in the slightest to the glistering air, the traceries of gold limning all the furniture, even as the intense glow stings; charred-black smoke pours from her skin, and she stands rooted to the spot, burning gaze pinned to the ceiling.

Her fingers curl ever so slowly into fists. Every shallow breath comes as a splinter of glass piercing the lungs. A frisson of tension runs down her spine. "What," she says, the word falling like a stone slab, "do you want."

[emblematicemblazer]

World building and theories of Engage

Elusia's architecture

Elusia’s architecture is a mixture of Gothic, Romanesque and Perpendicular Gothic and has the following features:

Large, grandiose stained glass windows

Pointed arches

Intricate decoration

Pinnacles and spires

Rib vaults

Flying buttresses

Destinea Cathedral is inspired by York Minster, England. The grandeur of the building makes it a magnificent setting for the first time Alear meets Sombron. It also demonstrates the ingenuity and skill of Elusia's artisans. Masons would have been responsible for the ornate stone carving and creating the blocks for the walks.The roof is wooden and supported by wooden frames which the carpenters would be responsible for. Both the lancet arch windows and The rose window would have been the work of glaziers, finally painters would apply the finishing touches.

All the features such as the stained glass windows, the screens, the organ and the altars are all designed to add to the splendour of the building. 

The shape of the building has great significance, it is in the cruciform or cross shaped design to symbolise religion. Statues of dragons seem to reference the Divine Dragon design. It makes me wonder if Elusia used to worship Divine Dragons or if earlier Fell Dragons were more skin to their Divine counterparts.

Elusia Palace is inspired by Westminster, in particular the central lobby. This is important because it serves as the political centre of Westminster in the same way, it serves as a centre for political intrigue, lobbying and backstabbing in Elusia. It has a vaulted ceiling, the panels between the vaults runs are decorated in glass mosaic floral emblems and heraldic symbols. The style is Perpendicular Gothic as can be seen by the large windows, arched top panelling, straight lines in tracery and four central arches. 

Givre Port is inspired by Dover. Just like Dover Port, Gives serves as the major port and the ‘lock and key of Elusia'. It is where most military ships sail from and most trade takes place. It is where Ivy suggests gathering intelligence on the enemy's activities. There are several forts for defence. The houses are known as Wealden houses. They feature timber frames and a married upper floor. Inside each would have a central hall and a variety of other rooms. 

[damodar-hd]

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[amandayetagain]

composite column supremacy and mosaic supremacy and Ancient Greek theater design (like hell yes let’s use a hillside for natural sightlines! Ofc we’ll avoid southern exposure and obstructions! Yk, it IS important to have enough exits!) and VOUSSOIRS with my babygirl the KEYSTONE (FUCK YEAH LET’S DISTRIBUTE THE DOWNWARD FORCES!! Jam those voussoirs next to that keystone!) Domes?!? WITH AN OCULUS AND CONCENTRIC HORIZONTAL RINGS?!? (The PANTHEON my beloved) I love you pendentives I love you squinches i love you muquarnas I love you Haiga Sophia base windows I would die for you ORNAMENTAL VAULTING of the Jamey Mosque i love you mamluk minarets and malqaf I love you beautiful DUOGONG and ritual CODING in Chinese architecture I love you flat arch of Anji Bridge I adore you Islamic arabesques and geometric patterning and pointed arch and ribbed vaults and spires and rose window (MAJOR INFLUENCE OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE) I love you crenellations and blind windows and colonnades and roundels I ADORE you carved stucco and wood, engraved metalwork, polychromatic tiling! I WOULD DIE FOR YOU Ardhamandpada and Mandapa and Shikhara and Amalaka and Kalaśa and Garbhagriha!! I applaud you stone glacis and arrow loops and machicolations! Goodbye blind spots!! Slay the century fortified gateways!! You go hilltop fortress cities! I love you evolution of bastions to star shaped forts! Flying buttresses can ignore the jokes bc they know how important they are!! I LOVE YOU stained glass windows! I love you soaring naves! I love you huge windows/walls of light!! I love you trifora! I love you piers! I love you corbels! I love you stone tracery! I love you crockets! I love you timber frame buildings! I lOVE you pagodas! I love you NUMEROLOGY and symbolic significance of shapes in Chinese architecture! I love you hammer frame roof! I love you rock-cut architecture! I love you thermal advantages of mud-brick buildings(REGULATE those extremes!)! I love you Yemeni construction techniques with palm trunks and protective limestone and water-repelling crushed gypsum!! I LOVE YOU banco smooth finish! I love you religious and civic PRIDE in architecture!! I love you Qinian Dian with your concentric circles and columns symbolizing months seasons and hours!! I love you fan vaulting! I love you perpendicular style! I love you Incan mortarless stonework! I love you terraces and chinampas! I love you coffered ceilings!

I DIDN’T EVEN GET TO RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE BUT I LOVE YOU TOO

I LOVE YOU EVERYONE WHO TOOK THE TIME TO READ THIS

IF YOU ADD PICTURES JUST KNOW I AM SPIRITUALLY KISSING YOU ON THE LIPS

[ultraheydudemestuff]

Taylor Mansion-Lakehurst

193 Bratenahl Rd.

Bratenahl , OH

James and Elizabeth Fitch purchased 55-acres from George and Hanna Freeman on February 13, 1852. The estate was named “Brookwood” and consisted of their home plus five outbuildings.   Henry and Eliza Clark acquired 20 acres on the Fitch property's western portion on June 24, 1862. They built a country place at the foot of Doan Street (East 105th Street then Bratenahl Road) in 1862.  It included an ornate Federal Italianate style mansion, a carriage house, stables, and even a water tower. The landscape featured a winding driveway through a wooded area, vast green spaces, and lush gardens. The house included gaily striped awnings and vaguely Italianate ornamentation.  Frederick and Mary Louise Kinsman acquired the estate from Eliza Clark on May 10, 1896. Joseph Marvin acquired the property on June 18, 1888.

     Frank and Sarah Robison acquired the twenty-acre property on November 8, 1893. They demolished the Clark home to make room to build their new home. The grand view of the lake from three sides of the house likely closed the deal.  The estate, including a thirty-four room home, a water tower, a carriage house, and a stable, was among the largest in the area. California privet hedges planted in front of the carriage house and stable and along the lake's bank gave the name Villa Hedges. The gracious home, with its beautiful gardens, provided an ideal setting for entertaining friends and associates.

     Sophia Strong Taylor acquired Villa Hedges on October 19, 1915. The estate had been reduced to 19 acres but was still the largest parcel of property in the area. Mrs. Taylor razed the Robison home and commissioned Charles Sumner Schneider to design her 26-room home completed in 1918. Lakehurst was an elegant example of Georgian Revival architecture accented with Neo-Adamesque ornamentation. The façade contained seven bays with double-hung six-over-six windows and departed from symmetry with the substitution of a sizeable round-head window in one bay to illuminate a staircase and the addition of a cameo window in another bay. The doorway on the south elevation contained a six-panel door with tracery fanlight and half-length sidelights. Sophia Taylor constructed an enormous lily pond, a peacock house, and excellent docking facilities. White peacocks roamed her eighteen-acre lawn.

     Edward Francis Hoban, sixth Catholic bishop of Cleveland, acquired Lakehurst on July 7, 1943, through the efforts of Eleanor Strong, Sophia Taylor’s sister-in-law, after the property had languished for seven years. The Bishop added a chapel connected to the west elevation of the main house. The chapel had stained-glass windows from 18th century France, a multi-colored marble floor laid in a geometric pattern, paneled walls painted with floral motifs, and a ceiling mural above the altar. Hoban also constructed a one-hole golf course to indulge his love for playing golf.  Bishop Clarence G. Issenmann was transferred to Cleveland and lived on the estate after Bishop Hoban became ill.

     Sea Gull Inc., represented by attorney Donald D. Smith, acquired the property from James Hickey, Cleveland's bishop, on February 9, 1978. Smith, one of eight bidders, planned to put together a group to finance the remainder to develop the area possibly into a townhouse complex. Lakehurst was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on July 10, 1986.   John J. Carney and Betty Jane Kazen acquired the estate from Sea Gull Inc. on December 28, 1987.

     Carney and architect Robert Corna made a presentation to preserve the Lakehurst mansion by making it a party center and adding a swimming pool and tennis courts for the use of all residents. The plan had duplex townhouses placed in a staggered arrangement, many with a lake view. The plan also included a seven-story mid-rise building situated next to the mansion for 161 living units. The Planning Commission rejected the plan.  John Ferchill and Mike Fratello submitted approved plans for a Lakehurst Planned Residential Development in 1998. The mansion renovation cost proved to be prohibitive, and they demolished the historic mansion in 1999, transforming Lakehurst into a gated community (Lakehurst Drive) of 18 single-family homes off Bratenahl Road in Bratenahl, Ohio.  The Taylor Mansion is still listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has not yet been removed, despite its destruction.

[fabiankiss]

As part of my Red vs. Blue project, I conceptualised a gothic church, delving into the intricacies of Gothic architecture. This endeavor provided a valuable opportunity to explore diverse shapes and deepen my understanding of architectural style.

During my critical analysis, I immersed myself in Erwin Panofsky's book on Gothic architecture, further enriching my knowledge and influencing my creative direction.

Inspired by this exploration, I decided to continue the gothic theme but approached it from a distinct design and conceptual perspective. My goal was to infuse elements of technology while retaining the essence of traditional architecture, resulting in a creation that seamlessly blends both worlds.

The concept of ‘visual logic’ in gothic design resonates with my understanding of architecture as a form of non-verbal communication, where buildings convey messages through their design. This perspective has profoundly influenced my view of architectural elements as symbols that transcend their practical function as highlighted by Panofksy.

“the shape of canopies, decoration of scoles and archevaults, and, above all, the form of piers and capitals tended to be suppressed in favour of standard types admitting only of such variations as would occur in nature among individuals of one species.”

700-08145902 (no date). https://www.masterfile.com/image/en/700-08145902/interior-with-vaulted-ceiling-ely-cathedral.

Brooks, M. (2023) 'IBM wants to build a 100,000-qubit quantum computer,' MIT Technology Review, 25 May. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/25/1073606/ibm-wants-to-build-a-100000-qubit-quantum-computer/.

Contributeurs aux projets Wikimedia (2014a) Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle/Construction -- Voûtes. https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionnaire_raisonn%C3%A9_de_l%E2%80%99architecture_fran%C3%A7aise_du_XIe_au_XVIe_si%C3%A8cle/Construction_--_Vo%C3%BBtes.

Contributeurs aux projets Wikimedia (2014b) Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle/Construction -- Voûtes. https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionnaire_raisonn%C3%A9_de_l%E2%80%99architecture_fran%C3%A7aise_du_XIe_au_XVIe_si%C3%A8cle/Construction_--_Vo%C3%BBtes.

Gothic cathedral main tower in black and white by Visual Motiv (no date). https://pixels.com/featured/gothic-cathedral-main-tower-in-black-and-white-visual-motiv.html.

Katwala, A. (2021) 'Quantum computers are already detangling nature’s mysteries,' WIRED UK, 17 June. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/quantum-computing.

Limited, A. (no date a) An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture, Alamy Images. https://www.alamy.com/an-introduction-to-the-study-of-gothic-architecture-l-winchester-ad-12221235-the-window-has-plate-tracery-consisting-of-a-quatrefoil-in-the-head-and-thetwo-lights-have-trefoil-heads-and-transoms-four-lancet-lights-with-dripstone-mouldings-connectingthem-into-one-window-of-two-divisions-each-of-twolights-with-an-open-quatrefoil-in-the-head-and-a-largerfoliated-opening-in-the-general-head-above-it-is-onlynecessary-to-reduce-the-quantity-of-solid-masonry-tomake-this-a-good-geometrical-window-windows-oftwo-lights-with-a-pierced-quatrefoil-in-the-head-are-progress-of-tracery-i-image340032161.html.

Limited, A. (no date b) vaulted centre painted ceiling roof Ely Cathedral Church Holy  Undivided Trinity principal Diocese County Cambridgeshire Country, Alamy Images. https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-vaulted-centre-painted-ceiling-roof-ely-cathedral-church-holy-undivided-32096321.html.

[paramedicabroad]

Notre-Dame Cathedral, Tournai

Join me on a virtual journey to the heart of Tournai, Belgium, where the Notre-Dame Cathedral stands as a testament to architectural brilliance and cultural significance. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, this Gothic marvel invites us to delve into its rich history, intricate design, and spiritual resonance.

In 2000, Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This recognition highlights its significance in the evolution of Gothic architecture and its contribution to the cultural tapestry of Belgium.

Marvel at the timeless elegance of Notre-Dame Cathedral, a Gothic masterpiece that has graced Tournai's skyline since the 12th century. From its soaring spires to the intricate detailing of its façade, every element reflects the craftsmanship of medieval artisans.

Stand in awe of the cathedral's five towers, each reaching towards the heavens with grace and symmetry. The radiant rose windows, adorned with delicate tracery, infuse the interior with a celestial glow, creating a symphony of stone and light.

Explore the Tournai Cathedral Treasury, home to a rich collection of sacred art spanning centuries. Precious relics, illuminated manuscripts, and religious artifacts offer a glimpse into the cathedral's role as a center of spirituality and cultural heritage.

Uncover the historical connection between Tournai and tapestries. The city was renowned for its production of luxurious textiles, and the cathedral's association with these artistic treasures adds another layer to its cultural significance.

Step into the cathedral's nave and choir, where the lofty columns and rib-vaulted ceilings create an atmosphere of spiritual grandeur. The intricate stone carvings and the play of light contribute to the sacred ambiance.

Discover the cloister gardens, a tranquil oasis amidst the stone walls of the cathedral. The lush greenery and centuries-old architecture combine to create a space for contemplation and reflection.

In conclusion, Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai beckons us to appreciate the beauty of Gothic architecture, the richness of cultural heritage, and the spiritual significance embedded within its walls. When you're ready for a digital pilgrimage through time, Tournai promises to captivate and inspire. 🏰⛪🇧🇪