#Monument To The Architect

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Jean Louis Charles Garnier ❁𓂅 𓄼ꕤ༘

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BRO 😭

No the fuck you aren’t

Btw they’re both crafted using the exact same materials except the good one uses metal and Sampo’s uses trash

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DAVID CHIPPERFIELD MUSEO JUMEX, 2013 Mexico City, Mexico Images © Simon Menges, Iwan Baan

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Those Architects

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Canongate Tolbooth, Royal Mile, Old Town of Edinburgh.

The Tolbooth was built in 1591 and would have formed the local hub for the Canongate burgh, along with the nearby Mercat Cross where merchants met and conducted their business. The Tolbooth would have had many functions, serving as courthouse, burgh jail and meeting place of the town council. The building was constructed for Sir Lewis Bellenden, the justice-clerk for the burgh, and his initials can still be seen over the archway to Tolbooth Wynd.

As the Canongate’s main public building it was designed to look impressive and express the burgh’s pride in its long history. The tower over Tolbooth Wynd has small turrets added, known as ‘bartizans’, as well as gun loops to give a sense of ancient battlements. Next to it is the courthouse block, with a staircase, or ‘forestairs’, leading up to its main entrance on the first floor. Look out for the plaque celebrating King James VI as well, complete with latin inscription and a large thistle.

The ground floor was used as a prison, mainly for those unable to pay fines or for minor misdemeanours, but on occasion it was used to hold people on behalf of the government. Certainly during the 17th century many captured Covenanters were held in the Canongate Tolbooth, accused of treason.

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Bruno Schmitz died on April 27, 1916.

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Day 35: Pompeys Pillar National Monument

–This image is part of the public domain, meaning you can do anything you want with it ! (you could even sell it as a shirt, poster or whatever)–

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24 mars 1808 : pose de la première pierre de la Bourse, à Paris ➽ http://bit.ly/Construction-Bourse-Paris Malgré l’ordonnance de 1563 et l’arrêt du conseil du 24 septembre 1724, Paris n’avait point encore, d’une manière définitive et au début du XIXe siècle, sa Bourse, sa « loge de la Marchandise », comme en possédaient alors déjà Amsterdam, Venise, Londres, Saint-Pétersbourg, Vicence, Padoue, Brescia et les principales villes commerçantes de l’Europe

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im so baffled by gods acting like they dont know annabeth’s name

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The architect John Thomas Rochead was born on on March 28th 1814 in Edinburgh.

The son of John Rochead and Catherine Gibb. He was educated at George Heriot’s School.

He was responsible for buildings in Glasgow, Hawick, Dumbarton and his native Edinburgh. He is also known for being successful in several competitions including the Royal Arch, Dundee, St Mary’s Free Church, Edinburgh and his most famous works designing the Wallace Monument on Abbey Craig.

Rochead’s entry for the Stirling competition was a controversial one in that his design was coloured, contrary to the conditions, and exceeded the cost limit by £5,000. And that was just the start as the monument’s contractor became insolvent and poor Rochead never received payment for what is now a major Scottish landmark.

Another of his designs was The Royal Arch on the dockside Dundee, this was sadly demolished in 1932 to make way for the Tay Road Bridge landfall development , the method used was blast it away with explosives but that failed and a large chunk of the arch was left standing, according to what I could dig up they used “other methods” to take the rest of this substantial architecture down. John Thomas Rochead died suddenly in the Morningside area of Edinburgh on April 7th 1874, he was 64, he is buried at The Grange Cemetery on the south of Edinburgh.

Rochead’s widow lived on until 18 October 1896, continuing to press the custodian for his fees for the Wallace Monument, but without success.

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PF9-E330 by David Swift Via Flickr: Rear of Palais Garnier.Built from 1861-1875.Sculpture of Architect Charles Garnier.Paris France.35mm Nikon FM2,CineStill 400D.

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CHRIST & GANTENBEIN CERRO DEL OBISPO, 2012 San Luis Potosi, Mexico Image © Iwan Baan

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Lambert van Haven (April 16, 1630 – 1695) was a Norwegian-born, Danish architect and master builder. He also designed church interiors and monuments for the Danish King and Court, and was instrumental in introducing the Baroque style into Denmark.

Above: Design for Count Niels Rosenkrantz grave monument, inside Trinitatis Kirke, 1676 (the actual monument was destroyed in 1728).

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speaking of furries have u seen what they’ve been doing in the medium of visual novels recently? magnificent work