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Finally a place for the planes to land next time

Massimo @Rainmaker1973

2 years ago

A design concept by creative architectural visualization studio Hism for a new skyscraper in New York City. What do you think? [📹 hism. eu] x.com/i/status/17991…

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Why does beauty matter? A thread...

Autre solution aussi : c'est une émission de merde.

Récolte du jour ! 🍁

Ouverture aujourd’hui au musée d’Orsay de l’exposition qui va enflammer les foules, Van Gogh à Auvers-sur-Oise Les derniers mois. Sublime, évidemment ! Ici, en photo, « Maisons à Auvers-sur-Oise. » 9 - I0 JUIN 1890 Huile sur toile Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.

Il faut résister, comme devant un rapport sans protection. Le siège m’a chuchoté «  tkt je suis clean » mais on se connaît pas assez pour avoir confiance.

Bon ça fait 1 an que j’habite à Paris du coup j’aimerais vous dire à quel point cette ville est cool mais avant ça je vais juste vous lister ses points négatifs : - la pollution - Les punaises de lit - Les rats partout - Les cyclistes gopro + enceintes - le RER B - le RER D - Payer 800€ pour 12 mètre carré - L’inflation - le métro - Les gens qui puent dans le métro - Les gens aigris dans le métro - porte de La Chapelle - les crackheads - le prix du logement - le prix de la nourriture - le bruit permanent - le climat - payer 10€ pour une boisson - payer 40€ la coupe de cheveux - Les gens qui klaxonnent toute la journée - Les travaux tout le temps - le stress - la solitude - le rond-point de l’étoile en voiture - Les noctiliens - le manque d’espace verts - Les pigeons

People often say that Florence Cathedral shows the beauty of Medieval and Renaissance architecture. Maybe, but here's the thing: that famous façade you've seen so many times before is actually the same age as the Eiffel Tower. For 500 years it was just an unfinished brick wall. In the year 1296 construction on Florence's new cathedral started under the leadership of the great sculptor Arnolfo di Cambio. After him the project was overseen by several legendary figures including Pisano, Giotto (who built the bell tower), and Orcagna. By 1418 everything was structurally complete except the dome, and so a competition was held for its design. Filippo Brunelleschi won and his astonishing dome was finished in 1436. This was a landmark achievement which helped to start the Renaissance and marked a decisive shift away from Gothic architecture and Medieval culture. But the western façade, started under di Cambio, was still only one-third complete. Whereas churches in northern Europe were built with stone, Italian churches were made from brick and then covered with slabs of decorative marble. And so two-thirds of the façade of the great Duomo of Florence was... just a brick wall. And that's how they left it. Francesco de Medici had di Cambio's work entirely removed in 1588. He didn't like Gothic architecture and wanted it to be redone in the Renaissance style. But this project went nowhere and so the façade of Florence Cathedral was left as a plain brick wall for three hundred years. Until the 19th century came along, an age dominated by architectural historicism. People in Europe were obsessed with old styles of architecture, whether Neoclassical or Renaissance or Baroque or Gothic. For example, when the British Houses of Parliament burned down in the 1840s they rebuilt it in the "Perpendicular Style", an unusual version of Gothic architecture unique to Britain between the 14th-16th centuries. This also explains where Art Nouveau came from in the 1890s — it means "New Art" and that is quite literally what it was: the creation of a new artistic and architectural style after a century of looking only to the past. In any case, the Gothic Revival also rejuvenated interest in actual Medieval buildings. They didn't merely repair them, however: architects all over Europe started adding to and remodelling architecture from the Middle Ages. In England countless churches that had survived untouched for centuries were suddenly pulled down, redesigned, and rebuilt. And, in Florence, swept along by the exuberance of the Gothic Revival, they decided that it was time to finally finish the Duomo. So a competition to design its façade was announced. The winning architect was Emilio de Fabris, whose design was a modified version of the one collectively created by Arnolfo di Cambio, Giotto, and Orcagna. By 1887 it was finished — the same year that construction on the Eiffel Tower began. That brick wall was gone forever and it is de Fabris' 19th century façade that is now so famous and beloved around the world. This raises the broader and still relevant question of how to deal with old buildings. Should we treat them like museum pieces to be preserved exactly as they are, or should we add to them if it seems appropriate? Well, what about Florence Cathedral? Is it inauthentic? That depends on your point of view. Its famous façade certainly isn't Medieval or Renaissance, even though to the casual observer it will seem just as old as the rest of the cathedral. In that way it feels like a deception. Perhaps it would have been better to leave the Duomo unfinished, in its pure and original state. The brick wall may have been jarring, but at least it was honest and truthful to the building as it had been passed down from one generation to the next. Then again, it is a relatively faithful reimagining of Gothic architecture which works in harmony with the rest of the building and the intention of the original architects. Giotto and di Cambio would surely have wanted their great cathedral to be finished. Such projects inevitably took centuries anyway — it's strangely appropriate that the Duomo's façade took nearly six hundred years to be put together. And, besides, in one thousand years the 19th century additions will have themselves become ancient. Any accusations of inauthenticity will certainly have faded by that point. So... was finally completing the façade of Florence Cathedral the right thing to do, or not?

🍿⛓️ Histoire : il y a 18 ans jour pour jour, le premier épisode de la série Prison Break était diffusé aux États-Unis.

L'Amour au village, peint par Jules Bastien Lepage en 1882, aujourd'hui conservé au musée Pouchkine à Moscou

🇫🇷 Insolite : des visiteurs ont pu se déshabiller le temps d’une soirée au musée d'art contemporain de #Lyon, pour visiter entièrement nus une exposition sur le corps humain. (BFMTV)

Donc... je suis censé changer de photo de profil là ?

@Mediavenir @Ab7Media Paris depuis hier

The Arc de Triomphe in Paris is one of the world's most recognisable landmarks. But... what actually is it? Here's one clue: it has a statue of Napoleon as a Roman emperor being crowned by the goddess of victory. And it was Napoleon who had the Arc de Triomphe built...

🗣️🇫🇷 FLASH - "#NUPES, c'est l'anagramme de #pneus, c'est creux, c'est plein de vent et après moins d'un an c'est totalement lisse, ça ne tient plus la route et ça finira par crever", a déclaré le député #Modem (majorité présidentielle) Luc Geismar. (LCP)

Tout le monde utilise ChatGPT. Mais presque tout le monde est bloqué en mode débutant. 3 techniques pour prendre une avance considérable sur l'IA : (copier-coller ces prompts 👇)

Henri Matisse, Salvador Dalí, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh… La série-docu The Greatest Painters of the World rentre dans l’intimité des plus grands artistes et raconte leur impact mondial. C’est un épisode de 50min par artiste et ils sont tous dispo !

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