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fosse ardeatine 10-06 Roma ITA - Architetture: Giuseppe Perugini, Mario Fiorentini, Nello Aprile. Sculture: Francesco Coccia, Mirko Basaldella - Il Mausoleo delle Fosse Ardeatine 1949 - Photo: Sandro Maggi © In un momento di grande tensione ideale come la fine del fascismo e dell'occupazione tedesca, il comune bandi un concorso per la sistemazione delle cave ardeatine. Fu il primo concorso d'architettura del dopoguerra dopo la liberazione del 4 giugno 1944, si trattava di fare un monumento in ricordo di quelle 335 persone uccise dai nazisti appunto dentro le cave ardeatine poi fatte crollare con un'esplosione per "isolare" questo terribile delitto dall'umanita. Il concorso era suddiviso in due fasi: nella prima parteciparono 12 progetti, di cui 4, quelli di Fiorentino, Perugini, Minnucci e Corvatta Scazzocchio, passarono alla seconda fase, nella quale dopo un lungo dibattito vinsero due gruppi di architetti: quello composto da Aprile, Calcaprina, Cardelli, Fiorentini e lo scultore Francesco Coccia, e quello formato da Giuseppe Perugini e Mirko Basaldella. Insieme questi giovani architetti studiarono il progetto finale in un clima particolare: infatti a due anni dalla tragedia, le bare delle vittime, alcune conosciute, stavano allineate nelle gallerie di tufo, con la presenza costante dei parenti delle vittime in un atmosfera terribile e piena di tensioni e quindi di sollecitazioni progettuali date anche dal sito straordinario posto fra le catacombe di S. Callisto e una zona tufacea di grande fascino, come pure la vegetazione; tipica della zona archeologica dell'Appia antica con i suoi monumenti all'ombra di pini e cipressi. In questo clima nacque una delle opere piu significative anche in campo internazionale di quel periodo. L'idea semplice della pietra tombale unica, significante, forte, priva di retorica celebrativa, solenne, silenziosa ed espressiva, era nata fin dal progetto di primo grado dalla voglia di interpretare il rapporto tra i drammi individuali e la celebrazione civile, l'idea del sacrificio e della morte per un'idea. Il progetto e basato su pochi elementi che sintetizzano l'austerita e il dramma dei 335 sarcofagi "compressi" dal peso dell'immensa lapide che "galleggia" metafisicamente a un metro da terra e copre con la sua ombra lo spazio scavato sotto il livello del terreno, spazio definito e ordinato in contrasto con la tortuosita delle cave tufacee collegate ad esso da un unico percorso che porta il visitatore dal luogo di sepoltura al luogo dell'eccidio. Questo contrasto si puo vedere anche dai cancelli contorti ed espressivi di Mirko Basaldella in contrapposizione con l'espressivita ordinata e pura della pietra tombale. Questo progetto non raccolse subito i consensi dei parenti delle vittime che in alcuni casi si aspettavano una scelta piu legata alla retorica funeraria magari anche con piu arricchimenti decorativi e, data la particolarita del caso, il progetto fu sottoposto a referendum ai familiari delle vittime, i quali alla fine fecero passare la soluzione che oggi possiamo ammirare. I materiali usati nella realizzazione del mausoleo non fanno altro che rafforzare l'espressivita dell'oggetto: il pavimento e le pareti del sepolcro sono in pietra sperone a spacco di cava, i pilastri in cemento armato sono rivestiti in porfido del trentino, le sepolture sono in granito trattato alla punta. La "pietra tombale" ha una struttura in cemento armato che poggia su 6 pilastri, essa e rivestita da un getto di cemento e breccia di Brescia a sua volta scalpellato in modo da conferirgli un "effetto pietra" riuscito molto bene. La visione finale sara proprio quella di un monolite in pietra poggiante su sei pietre (porfido), con sottostante un terreno uniforme in pietra (sperone) collegato a cunicoli anch'essi scavati nella pietra (tufo). Il tutto coperto da una vegetazione erbosa con pini e cipressi: l'effetto, anche se suggestivo, non vuole essere retorico o celebrativo ne mimetico o paesaggistico, ma una testimonianza espressa dalla simbolica "sepoltura unitaria". Il mausoleo delle fosse ardeatine e un oggetto architettonico che deriva dal rigore formale-dimensionale e dalla matrice razionalista degli architetti che hanno studiato la costruzione fin nei minimi particolari ricordando l'apporto fra il "sacro" e la tecnica che si trovava nei templi greci dove raffinatissimi espedienti di natura ottica come la impercettibile convessita del basamento del tempio, la sezione ellittica e l'inclinazione delle colonne angolari, le delicate compensazioni geometriche per risolvere il problema del triglifo d'angolo nel fregio dorico, volevano rappresentare un "ordine" immutabile come capacita di esorcizzazione del tempo e della morte, contro il caos e le paure collettive. La natura classica di questo edificio la si puo trovare nella volonta di dare un "ordine" all'enorme ambiente 25m x 50m, studiando una serie di accorgimenti di natu Solar do Império Construido num casarao de 1875 tombado pelo Instituto do Patrimonio Historico e Artistico Nacional, o Hotel Solar do Imperio foi completamente restaurado. Situado em uma das mais belas ruas do Centro Historico de Petropolis. Sobre a construcao deste Palacete contam o seguinte: A Princesa Isabel estava remodelando o Palacete na outra extremidade da rua, quando soube que rico mercador portugues iria construir neste local. Teve medo que o novo rico edificasse predio que nao fosse condigno, e mandou lhe dizer que se fizesse casa boa grandiosa ganharia uma comenda. O resultado foi a mais bela construcao da rua. O magnifico Palacete em estilo neoclassico, cercado de belos jardins em estilo frances, onde existem quatro estatuas simbolizando as estacoes do ano, foi construido em 1875 pelo Comendador Joaquim Antonio dos Passos, prospero comerciante de cafe no Rio de Janeiro. O imovel foi propriedade da familia Passos ate 1890, quando foi vendido ao senhor Albert Landsberg, alemao responsavel pela introducao da cerveja no pais em 1853, tendo permanecido com seus herdeiros durante 55 anos. Em 1945 o casal Maria Amalia e Othon Lynch Bezerra de Melo o adquiriu para a moradia de verao de sua numerosa familia. No mesmo ano seus atuais proprietarios deram-lhe a denominacao de Solar D. Afonso, que foi Principe, filho primogenito de D. Pedro II, nascido em 1845 e falecido em tenra idade. O Solar D. Afonso pertenceu ao empresario Ronaldo do Valle Simoes Filho, genro do ex-presidente Tancredo Neves. 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Jean-Pierre Aumont French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911-2001) was the stylish gentleman in more than 100 films. The blond-haired, blue-eyed leading man wooed and wed during his film career some of the most beautiful actresses - on screen and in real life too. He was born in Paris in a Jewish family. His parents were Dutch entrepeneur Alexandre Salomons and French actress Suzanne Cahen. His mother's uncle, stage actor, Georges Berr of the Comedie Francaise, gave Jean-Pierre a glimpse into the theatre world. His younger brother Francois grew up to become director Francois Villiers. Despite many objections from his family, Jean-Pierre went to study drama at the Paris Conservatory at the age of sixteen. His stage debut occurred in 1930 and his film debut came in Jean de la Lune (1931, Jean Choux). His career-defining role was Oedipus in Louis Jouvet's acclaimed 1934 production of La Machine Infernale by Jean Cocteau. Cocteau had personally selected Aumont for the part. La Machine Infernale took on almost a cult-like following among the youth of Paris and was considered a greatly influential breakthrough in the French theatre. From there Aumont’s career both on stage and screen began to take off. His first film hit was Lac aux Dames (1934, Marc Allegret). He starred opposite Simone Simon as a swimming instructor, a role originally intended for Johnny Weismuller. Throughout the 1930’s he was a rising star in French cinema, starring alongside Louis Jouvet in Drole de Drame (1937, Marcel Carne) and Hotel du Nord (1938, Marcel Carne). Then World War II broke out and his career was cut short. In 1942 Jean-Pierre Aumont fled to Hollywood and began working with MGM, where he enjoyed a successful, if routine, film career. His love life was anything but routine - he almost married Hedy Lamarr and in 1943 he did marry Dominican actress Maria Montez, known as the Queen of Technicolor. After filming The Cross of Lorraine (1943, Tay Garnett) and after only one month of marriage, he left the USA to join the Free French Forces. He was sent to North Africa and participated in Operation Torch, specifically in Tunisia. He later moved with the Allied armies through Italy and France. He was seriously injured when his Jeep was blown up by a landmined bridge. French Brigadier General Charles-Joseph Brosset, also in the Jeep, was killed. After the war, Aumont returned to France with Maria Montez. The couple soon began to work together in films like Siren of Atlantis (1949, Gregg Tallas), Hans le Marin (1949 directed by Aumont's brother, Francois Villiers) and La vendetta del corsaro (1951, Primo Zeglio). In 1951 Maria suddenly died after fainting and drowning in her bath. Aumont continued to work both in Hollywood and Europe after his wife's tragic death. He starred as the magician in Lili (1953, Charles Walters) with Leslie Caron, and the film was an enormous success. Then in 1956 Aumont married Italian actress Marisa Pavan, twin sister of Pier Angeli and star of such highly acclaimed films as The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit and The Rose Tattoo. The two starred in one film together, John Paul Jones (1959, John Farrow) in which Pavan played the romantic lead to Robert Stack and Aumont made a cameo as Louis XVI. They were divorced in 1962 and then remarried each other, and remained happily married until Aumont's death. In the 1960’s and 1970’s he appeared in the stage production of Gigi and the stage production and film adaptation of Des journees entieres dans les arbres (1976, Marguerite Duras) with Madeleine Renaud. With Francois Truffaut he worked on La Nuit Americaine (1973), a masterul film about the rigours of film making. Aumont played the aging and somewhat philisophical matinee idol, Alexandre. He starred with Michele Morgan in Le chat et la souris (1975, Claude Lelouch). Later work includes A Tale of Two Cities (1989) and the Merchant Ivory films Jefferson in Paris (1995, James Ivory) and The Proprietor (1996, Ismail Merchant). Because of his bravery during World War II, Aumont was decorated in 1991 with the Legion d'Honneur and the Croix de Guerre, and in 1992 he received an honorary Cesar Award. At the age of 90 he died of a heart attack. Actress Tina Aumont was his and Maria Montez’s daughter. Sources: Wikipedia, Jean-Pierre Aumont pages on Geocities.com and IMDb. Dutch postcard by Takken, nr. 1937. The Alamo on a Rainy Day It is hard to get a photo of the Alamo without people in it, unless you get up early before everyone else. I stayed at the Menger Hotel, which is across the street and so I was able to get this shot in the Spring in Texas. A tiny rain shower had just passed through. Originally named Mision San Antonio de Valero, the Alamo served as home to missionaries and their Indian converts for nearly seventy years. Construction began on the present site in 1724. In 1793, Spanish officials secularized San Antonio's five missions and distributed their lands to the remaining Indian residents. These men and women continued to farm the fields, once the mission's but now their own, and participated in the growing community of San Antonio. In the early 1800s, the Spanish military stationed a cavalry unit at the former mission. The soldiers referred to the old mission as the Alamo (the Spanish word for "cottonwood") in honor of their hometown Alamo de Parras, Coahuila. The post's commander established the first recorded hospital in Texas in the Long Barrack. The Alamo was home to both Revolutionaries and Royalists during Mexico's ten-year struggle for independence. The military — Spanish, Rebel, and then Mexican — continued to occupy the Alamo until the Texas Revolution. San Antonio and the Alamo played a critical role in the Texas Revolution. In December 1835, Ben Milam led Texian and Tejano volunteers against Mexican troops quartered in the city. After five days of house-to-house fighting, they forced General Marin Perfecto de Cos and his soldiers to surrender. The victorious volunteers then occupied the Alamo — already fortified prior to the battle by Cos' men — and strengthened its defenses. On February 23, 1836, the arrival of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's army outside San Antonio nearly caught them by surprise. Undaunted, the Texians and Tejanos prepared to defend the Alamo together. The defenders held out for 13 days against Santa Anna's army. William B. Travis, the commander of the Alamo sent forth couriers carrying pleas for help to communities in Texas. On the eighth day of the siege, a band of 32 volunteers from Gonzales arrived, bringing the number of defenders to nearly two hundred. 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Christmas at Caesars Palace (Las Vegas, NV) Well I dont know really what can be said about this shot, apart from the fact that I took it in Dec 2004 and managed this exposure with a cheap point and press camera, which was left to its own devices on a wall outside of the Caesars Palace Hotel, in one of many of their gardens. Even though it was mid winter, the temperatures during the day were 15 degrees centigrade (Spring in the UK), but did drop pretty low at night. I will be posting lost more shots from Las Vegas over the next few weeks. This trip held a lot of special memories for me, as I got married whilst over there to my Beautiful wife Jane, and it was'nt even planned!!! View from Ballys, Las Vegas, Nevada April 2011 Now some photos from last week in Las Vegas. We can start with this cheap and cheerful panorama showing the view northward from my hotel room at Bally's. Related topics: bed and breakfast a gallipoli mecenate palace hotel reviews bermuda sands motel myrtle beach hotel metropole bellagio 5 star spa hotel grand hills hotel spa broummana atlas essaouira hotel |
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Palais de l'Élysée (Élysée Palace), Paris, France The Elysee Palace (Palais de l'Elysee) is the official residence of the President of the French Republic, containing his office, and is where the Council of Ministers meets. It is located near the Champs-Elysees in Paris. The Elysee has gardens, in which the president hosts a party on the afternoon of Bastille Day. The architect Armand-Claude Mollet possessed a property fronting on the road to the village of Roule, west of Paris (now the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore), and backing onto royal property, the Grand Cours through the Champs-Elysees. He sold this in 1718 to Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, comte d'Evreux (families: ducs and princes de Bouillon et Sedan: de la Marck | von der Marck), with the agreement that Mollet would construct an hotel particulier for the count, fronted by an entrance court and backed by a garden. The Hotel d'Evreux was finished and decorated by 1722, and though it has undergone many modifications since, it remains a fine example of the French classical style. At the time of his death in 1753, Evreux was the owner of one of the most widely admired houses in Paris, and it was bought by King Louis XV as a residence for the Marquise de Pompadour, his mistress. Opponents showed their distaste for the regime by hanging signs on the gates that read: "Home of the King's whore". After her death, it reverted to the crown. In 1773, it was purchased by Nicolas Beaujon, banker to the Court and one of the richest men in France, who needed a suitably sumptuous "country house" (for the city of Paris did not yet extend this far) to house his fabulous collection of great masters paintings. To this end, he hired the architect Etienne-Louis Boullee to make substantial alterations to the buildings (as well as design an English-style garden). Soon on display there were such well-known masterpieces as Holbein's The Ambassadors (now in the National Gallery in London), and Frans Hals' Bohemian (now at the Louvre). His architectural alterations and art galleries gave this residence international renown as "one of the premier houses of Paris". The palace and gardens were purchased from Beaujon by Bathilde, duchesse de Bourbon in 1787 for 1,300,000 livres. It was the Duchess who named it the Elysee. She also built a group of cottages in the gardens which she named the Hameau de Chantilly, after the Hameau at her Chateau de Chantilly. With the French Revolution, the Duchess fled the country and the Elysee was confiscated. It was leased out. The gardens were used for eating, drinking, and dancing, under the name Hameau de Chantilly; and the rooms became gambling houses. In 1803, the Elysee was sold to Joachim Murat, and in 1808, to the Emperor, and it became known as the Elysee-Napoleon. After the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon returned to the Elysee, signed his abdication there on 22 June 1815, and left the Elysee on the 25th. Russian Cossacks camped at the Elysee when they occupied Paris in 1814. Though it was first officially used by the government of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Hotel d'Evreux was formally purchased for Louis XVIII in 1816. Under the provisional government of the Second Republic, it took the name of the Elysee National and was designated the official residence of the President of the Republic. (The President also has the use of several other official residences, including the Chateau de Rambouillet, forty five kilometres southwest of Paris, and the Fort de Bregancon near Marseille.) In 1853, following his coup d'etat that ended the Second Republic, Napoleon III charged the architect Joseph-Eugene Lacroix with renovations; meanwhile he moved to the nearby Tuileries Palace, but kept the Elysee as a discreet place to meet his mistresses, moving between the two palaces through a secret underground passage that has since been demolished. Since Lacroix completed his work in 1867, the essential look of the Palais de l'Elysee has remained the same. In 1873, during the Third Republic, The Elysee became the official presidential residence. In 1917, an orangutan escaped from a nearby menagerie, entered the palace and was said to have tried to haul the wife of President Raymond Poincare into a tree only to be foiled by Elysee guards. President Paul Deschanel, who resigned in 1920 because of mental illness, was said to have been so impressed by the orangutan's feat that, to the alarm of his guests, he took to jumping into trees during state receptions. The Elysee Palace was closed in June 1940, and remained empty during World War II. It was reoccupied only in 1946 by Vincent Auriol, President of the Provisional Government, then first President of the Fourth Republic from 1947 to 1954. Between 1959 and 1969, the Elysee was occupied by Charles de Gaulle, the first President of the Fifth Republic. De Gaulle did not like its lack of privacy, and oversaw the purchase of the luxurious Hotel de Marigny to lodge foreign State officials in visit to France, saying, "I do not l Musee d'Orsay Paris 1999/05, Musee d'Orsay Museum History and Architecture The rue de Lille was once the central lane of the garden belonging to Henri IV's famous queen, Marguerite de Valois. On her death in 1615, the property was sold by lots, and private mansions continued to build up the neighbourhood, while on the banks of the Seine a port known as the Grenouilliere served as a resting place for lumber barges and other cargo. The construction of the Quai d'Orsay began in 1708 near the Pont Royal, and was completed a century later under Napoleon I's Empire. The aristocratic vocation of the neighbourhood was already well established at the end of the 18th century, when the Hotel de Salm (today the Musee de la Legion d'honneur) was built, between 1782 and 1788. During the 19th century, two buildings stood upon the site of the future Orsay station: the Cavalry barracks and the Palais d'Orsay, built between 1810 and 1838 successively by Jean-Charles Bonnard and Jacques Lacornee. Although the Palais had originally been planned for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it eventually housed the Cour des Comptes (Court of Accounts) and the Conseil d'Etat (State Council). During the violent upheaval known as the Paris Commune in 1871, the entire neighbourhood was burnt down. For thirty years, the ruins of the Palais d'Orsay served as reminders of the horrors of civil war. On the eve of the 1900 World Fair, the French government ceded the land to the Orleans railroad company, who, disadvantaged by the remote location of the Gare d'Austerlitz, planned to build a more central terminus station on the site of the ruined Palais d'Orsay. In 1897, the company consulted three architects: Lucien Magne, Emile Benard and Victor Laloux. The project was a challenging one due to the vicinity of the Louvre and the Palais de la Legion d'honneur: the new station needed to be perfectly integrated into its elegant surroundings. Victor Laloux, who had just completed the Hotel de Ville in Tours, was chosen as winner of the competition in 1898. The station and hotel, built within two years, were inaugurated for the World Fair on July 14th, 1900. Laloux chose to mask the modern metallic structures with the facade of the hotel, which, built in the academic style using finely cut stone from the regions of Charente and Poitou, successfully blended in with its noble neighbours. 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