Beautiful Art: architecture, paintings, sculptures, etc
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Cette photo qui date de 1979, montre une employée du Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – laboratoire national du Département de l’Énergie des États-Unis – ouvrant la porte à simple battant. Elle est là porte la plus lourde au monde avec ses 44 tonnes. La porte mesure 2.43 mètres d'épaisseur pour 3.65 mètres de largeur. Un roulement spécial intégré dans la charnière permettait à une personne seule d’ouvrir et de fermer la porte remplie de béton. Celle ci était utilisée pour protéger le Rotating Target Neutron Source-II (RTNS-II), la source la plus intense de neutrons à fusion continue au monde (14 MeV). Les scientifiques du monde entier ont utilisé cet appareil pour étudier les propriétés des métaux et autres matériaux qui pourraient servir dans les futures centrales à fusion, une technologie envisagée pour remplacer les centrales nucléaires à fission d’atomes.
This photo, from 1979, shows an employee of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – national laboratory of the United States Department of Energy – opening the single door.
It is there the heaviest door in the world with its 44 tons.
The door is 2.43 meters thick and 3.65 meters wide.
A special bearing built into the hinge allowed a single person to open and close the concrete-filled door.
This was used to protect the Rotating Target Neutron Source-II (RTNS-II), the most intense continuous fusion neutron source in the world (14 MeV).
Scientists around the world have used this device to study the properties of metals and other materials that could be used in future fusion power plants, a technology being considered to replace atomic fission nuclear power plants.
This photo, from 1979, shows an employee of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – national laboratory of the United States Department of Energy – opening the single door.
It is there the heaviest door in the world with its 44 tons.
The door is 2.43 meters thick and 3.65 meters wide.
A special bearing built into the hinge allowed a single person to open and close the concrete-filled door.
This was used to protect the Rotating Target Neutron Source-II (RTNS-II), the most intense continuous fusion neutron source in the world (14 MeV).
Scientists around the world have used this device to study the properties of metals and other materials that could be used in future fusion power plants, a technology being considered to replace atomic fission nuclear power plants.
Voici le Hangzhou Regent International. Une construction colossale, située à Hangzhou en Chine. Certains disent que plus de 30.000 personnes y résident. C'est un chiffre un peu exagéré. En réalité, on est plus près des 15.000, ce qui est déjà énormissime !! C'est à ce jour le plus grand complexe résidentiel du monde. Si vous voulez du calme ou que vous êtes agoraphobe autant vous dire que c'est à fuir ! En tout cas, perso, je deviendrais fou la dedans...
This is the Hangzhou Regent International. A colossal construction, located in Hangzhou, China.
Some say more than 30,000 people reside there. That's a bit of an exaggeration. In reality, we are closer to 15,000, which is already huge!!
It is currently the largest residential complex in the world.
If you want calm or you're agoraphobic, you might as well tell yourself that it's to be avoided!
In any case, personally, I would go crazy in there...
https://twitter.com/LeContempIateur/status/1650237492296142850/photo/1
This is the Hangzhou Regent International. A colossal construction, located in Hangzhou, China.
Some say more than 30,000 people reside there. That's a bit of an exaggeration. In reality, we are closer to 15,000, which is already huge!!
It is currently the largest residential complex in the world.
If you want calm or you're agoraphobic, you might as well tell yourself that it's to be avoided!
In any case, personally, I would go crazy in there...
https://twitter.com/LeContempIateur/status/1650237492296142850/photo/1
Je suis en train de me dire que l’architecture inca et précolombienne qui est encore assez mystérieuse, est peut-être directement liée à la structure des grains de maïs. Dans un modèle de pensée occidental, on pourrait juger de manière négative les formes irrégulières, mais dans une pensée universelle, tout est peut-être en fait une corrélation entre le cosmos, la science, l’art et l’humanité...
I am telling myself that the Inca and pre-Columbian architecture, which is still quite mysterious, is perhaps directly linked to the structure of corn kernels.
In a Western model of thought, one might judge irregular shapes negatively, but in a universal thought, perhaps everything is actually a correlation between the cosmos, science, art and humanity...
I am telling myself that the Inca and pre-Columbian architecture, which is still quite mysterious, is perhaps directly linked to the structure of corn kernels.
In a Western model of thought, one might judge irregular shapes negatively, but in a universal thought, perhaps everything is actually a correlation between the cosmos, science, art and humanity...
L’histoire du fascinant Machu Picchu : Il y a 108 ans, le 24 juillet 1911, le monde découvrait la cité inca du Machu Picchu. Ce jour-là, l'explorateur américain Hiram Bingham "découvre" le monument inca situé sur les hauteurs de la montagne du même nom, dans la province d'Urubamba, région de Cusco. Hiram Bingham était un professeur d'histoire intéressé par la découverte des dernières forteresses incas de Vilcabamba et avait entendu des histoires sur le Machu Picchu. L'explorateur arrivant à Machu Picchu fait la rencontre de deux familles de paysans vivant dans la région : les Recharte et les Alvarez. Ils utilisaient les terrasses au sud du complexe archéologique pour l'agriculture et buvaient l'eau d'un canal inca encore en état de marche qui amenait l'eau d'une source. Pablo Recharte, l'un des enfants qui vivaient à Machu Picchu, a guidé Bingham vers la "zone urbaine" de la citadelle inca qui était alors encore recouverte de broussailles. Voici une photo de 1915 et de nos jours.
The fascinating history of Machu Picchu:
108 years ago, on July 24, 1911, the world discovered the Inca city of Machu Picchu. That day, the American explorer Hiram Bingham "discovered" the Inca monument located on the heights of the mountain of the same name, in the province of Urubamba, region of Cusco.
Hiram Bingham was a history teacher interested in finding the last Inca fortresses of Vilcabamba and had heard stories about Machu Picchu.
The explorer arriving at Machu Picchu meets two peasant families living in the region: the Recharte and the Alvarez. They used the terraces to the south of the archaeological complex for agriculture and drank water from a still working Inca canal that brought water from a spring.
Pablo Recharte, one of the children who lived in Machu Picchu, guided Bingham to the "urban area" of the Inca citadel which was then still covered in brush.
Here is a photo from 1915 and today.
The fascinating history of Machu Picchu:
108 years ago, on July 24, 1911, the world discovered the Inca city of Machu Picchu. That day, the American explorer Hiram Bingham "discovered" the Inca monument located on the heights of the mountain of the same name, in the province of Urubamba, region of Cusco.
Hiram Bingham was a history teacher interested in finding the last Inca fortresses of Vilcabamba and had heard stories about Machu Picchu.
The explorer arriving at Machu Picchu meets two peasant families living in the region: the Recharte and the Alvarez. They used the terraces to the south of the archaeological complex for agriculture and drank water from a still working Inca canal that brought water from a spring.
Pablo Recharte, one of the children who lived in Machu Picchu, guided Bingham to the "urban area" of the Inca citadel which was then still covered in brush.
Here is a photo from 1915 and today.
Chaise de lecture vintage
Vintage reading chair
merci perlou. i did not know that such a chair could exist
Voici le Hangzhou Regent International. Une construction colossale, située à Hangzhou en Chine. Certains disent que plus de 30.000 personnes y résident. C'est un chiffre un peu exagéré. En réalité, on est plus près des 15.000, ce qui est déjà énormissime !! C'est à ce jour le plus grand complexe résidentiel du monde. Si vous voulez du calme ou que vous êtes agoraphobe autant vous dire que c'est à fuir ! En tout cas, perso, je deviendrais fou la dedans...
This is the Hangzhou Regent International. A colossal construction, located in Hangzhou, China.
Some say more than 30,000 people reside there. That's a bit of an exaggeration. In reality, we are closer to 15,000, which is already huge!!
It is currently the largest residential complex in the world.
If you want calm or you're agoraphobic, you might as well tell yourself that it's to be avoided!
In any case, personally, I would go crazy in there...
https://twitter.com/LeContempIateur/status/1650237492296142850/photo/1
thank you for this post, but this would also be no place for me.
Antony
Jedi Council Member
Lyndi Lama,
Great that you had a chance to visit our country
Roerich family museum was always a great and a sort of meditative place for me. The story of his family - wife Elena Petrovna, elder son Yuriy and Svyatoslav is just amazing, deep and inspiring. All of them left a big knowledge and spiritual inheritance. Nikolay’s first vocation was painter. His paintings have a unique style, highly valued even on Sothebys (remember one was sold for around 10 million $). After he was a searcher, like Gudjieff of hidden knowledge. Conducted expeditions through the whole Asia, collecting artifacts and pieces of sacred knowledge. By the will of fate he settled and died in India. His sons returned to USSR later on. Both had remarkable background, education and a deepest wish to give people knowledge they gained on their life path. If you wish all can google their history. Many little known facts will surface. Their family, imo, i consider a truth unique Soul Unit (tribe).
Pity, that the museum and his heritage was raided via the hands of an aide of Medinskiy (former minister of culture, ) - a mason. Medinskiy is now an aide to VVP. Somehow with Abramovich headed delegation on Istanbul Rus-Ukr negotiations
I Hope Roerich heritage will not be lost in the end
Lyndi
Jedi Master
Antony, that accords in spirit with the memory I have of why I wanted to see the museum. Now I regret it even more that I missed it.Lyndi Lama,
Great that you had a chance to visit our country
Roerich family museum was always a great and a sort of meditative place for me. The story of his family - wife Elena Petrovna, elder son Yuriy and Svyatoslav is just amazing, deep and inspiring. All of them left a big knowledge and spiritual inheritance. Nikolay’s first vocation was painter. His paintings have a unique style, highly valued even on Sothebys (remember one was sold for around 10 million $). After he was a searcher, like Gudjieff of hidden knowledge. Conducted expeditions through the whole Asia, collecting artifacts and pieces of sacred knowledge. By the will of fate he settled and died in India. His sons returned to USSR later on. Both had remarkable background, education and a deepest wish to give people knowledge they gained on their life path. If you wish all can google their history. Many little known facts will surface. Their family, imo, i consider a truth unique Soul Unit (tribe).
Pity, that the museum and his heritage was raided via the hands of an aide of Medinskiy (former minister of culture, ) - a mason. Medinskiy is now an aide to VVP. Somehow with Abramovich headed delegation on Istanbul Rus-Ukr negotiations
I Hope Roerich heritage will not be lost in the end
I loved Moscow even while experiencing the lack of food, seeing the painful lineups of people selling baby shoes, even one shoe, to a shuffling line of people looking for some little thing they needed. It was December 1990. I was hearing from a Moscow friend how it was hard on the old people to line up all day for a little piece of meat. The experiences, in spite of the hardship, with people there were extraordinarily fun and warm-hearted and filled with jokes and humour (I was there with a friend who was working on a film that was a Quebec/French/Russian co-production). Even without language in common an older man guided me through the streets to notable homes and buildings, including taking me through the Stanislavsky House Museum, all I had said to him was 'Stanislavsky' when he tried to help me as I was a little lost on the subway system. At least I got to touch base with that great institution - my training for theatre was in Stanislavsky and M. Chekhov, not to mention the reading, the Russian ballet classes, the music of my growing up and early adult years. Being from the prairies with its poplars and distant hills I always could imagine the scenes in the Russian novels I read. It all meant so much to me and was so formative. Thank you Antony for adding more about Roerich!
Thank you.
-Kashan Bazaar is an ancient bazaar in the center of the city of Kashan, Iran. It is believed to have been built in the Seljuk era with renovations during the Safavid period. The bazaar has famous architecture, especially in its Timche-ye Amin od-Dowleh section, where a large light well was built in the 19th century. Wikipedia.
