#monumental architecture

[todaysdocument]

Proposed design for the Washington Monument by J. Goldsborough Bruff, March 19, 1873. 

Record Group 42: Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital

Series: Proposal Plans for a Washington Monument

Image description: Front and side drawings of the “Washington National Sphinx / Allegorical of Lofty Aspirations, Keen Foresight, Energy, Strength, Valor, and Immortality.” It is a being with the head and front claws of an eagle and the body of a lion. A striped shield is leaning against its chest, and a banner reading “E PLURIBUS UNUM” is draped over each front shoulder. It is on a 20’ x 8’ plinth decorated with “GW” in a circle with wings on each side. 

[eincline]

Love Monument by Pablo Carpio

[ilcontephotography]

Flame Monument, built in memory of 16 antifascist partisans killed in 1944, by Alexander Barov (1975).

Panicharevo, Bulgaria.

© Roberto Conte (2022)

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[tenth-sentence]

It is a statement of power and grandeur to impress and cow outsiders, but it also serves an internal purpose, cementing the position of the rulers in the hierarchy and therefore providing the stability and security on which civilisation rests.

"Human Universe" - Professor Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen

[amartworks]

I think a lot about the architecture ideas drawn by Étienne-Louis Boullée

They're sketches from the 1780s and they look like the end of the fucking universe

[escapismsworld]

Kiss of Death Monument

[archtechposts]

Brutalist Cubism!

Frtiz Wotruba and architect Fritz Gerhard Mayr, Church of the Holy Trinity, Vienna, Austria, 1974-1976

[jlxp]

From Carnet de Balade, a photographic stroll with a smartphone The old and the new

[edinburgh-by-the-sea]

timeless views

[2seeitall]

Arch of Hadrian in Athens, Greece (c.131-134 A.D.)

[mybeautifulpoland]

Warsaw, Poland by epepa.eu

[frzkzl]

[famousinuniverse]

Alhambra, Granada, Spain: The Alhambra is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It is one of the most famous monuments of Islamic architecture and one of the best-preserved palaces of the historic Islamic world, in addition to containing notable examples of Spanish Renaissance architecture. Wikipedia

[strehlenau]

Reference: Mannheim water tower in the initial phase of work, design quite early abandoned, to implement divergent concepts

Cara

[leocadra]

Karlskirche, Vienna, Austria.