Looking Up

Those in the wish-to-be-taller category see the world through the breaches in the crowd.
Around holidays shoulders become broader, mob thicker, leaving gaps even narrower.
Face it, facing average dull behind might get equally dull.
Try to look ( + cheer ) up !
Here is what we saw in NYC.
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Corner of Broadway & 42 Street

Shopping at Times Square

181 Thompson Street. Rocco Restaurant sign.

405 Lexington Ave, Chrysler Building

The Greenwich Savings Bank, now Haier Building. View from 5th Ave

St. Patrick's Cathedral on 5th Ave

Wall ad, 248 Lafayette Street

Tiffany & Co Building, 5th Ave

Duane Street

Nath'l Fisher & Co Clocks, Duane St

 Silk Exchange, Broadway

Dancers, 24 Bond Street

Century 21 Department store, 22 Cortland Street

Construction site next to MoMA,  West 53 Street

Times Square

Deconstructing the Capitol

(Continued from Part 1 & Part 2) We are on the East Side.  “Progress of Civilization” greats the Sun.  Crawford’s America ubiquitously leads the process, eclipsing the Sun,  towards “Apothesis of Democracy”, calling it the day.

“Progress of Civilization”

Cast-iron dome has a facelift appointment to iron its some 1300 “wrinkles”.

Rotunda

Its grandeur carries a hefty inflation prorated price tag, which a set of 1828  sandstone Corinthians couldn’t afford.

Columns

New regiment of marble clones has been hired in 1958.  It took a “maecenas” to find “La Garde Impériale” a noble resting ground at National Arboretum in 1984.

Columns

At the end of the same day, not much, besides their approximate “birthday”,  has identified bronze lamps decorating Capitol’s East: 1876.

Capitol East Lights

Capitol East Lights

Capitol East Lights

So, here it is, # 6 on the “America’s Favorite Architecture” chart, deconstructed  into our favorite pieces.

East Capitol Stairs

Imagine a dialog:

- You have frequently seen these steps. 

- Then how many are there? 

- How many? I don't know

- Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point ...

(Sherlock Holmes, "A Scandal in Bohemia")

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Capitol. Part 2

Continuation. Part 1

Two major events contributed to Capitol's appealing appearance: completion of Parisian Pantheon in 1790

( This photograph is a property of Cities Of Light )

...and Jefferson's disillusionment with local architecture talents, as otherwise in might have looked something like this:

Design for the U.S. Capitol, "An Elevation for a Capitol", by James Diamond, was one  of a dozen submitted for the 1792 contest. ( This one is under Wikimedia Commons )

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Capitol. Part 1

The United States Capitol. Unique building location, round the corner from the National Gallery,  makes it possible for an artist to depict it from  a variety of different  places and distances. Which brings to mind recent exhibit of Katsushika Hokusai’s  "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" at Sackler.   We'd like to share a small part of our collection: different seasons,  time of the day, cameras, lenses

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Made in heaven

     Weather inclemency generally regarded as an inevitable impediment in the photography.

     That day we turned the table and made it playing to our advantage.

Last day of October featured storm on Eerie with bone chilling winds and nasty slanting rain over downtown Cleveland. Wet, clenching cameras with noticeably reddish frozen hands, we found a shelter inside Terminal Tower.

     Conceived some 3 years before the Empire State, Terminal Tower is by right the last of the Beaux-Arts (we might invite you for a tour in a later post).

     Heavily guarded lobby reminisced revered but now off-reach foyers of obscured New York treasures along Madison (Speaking of treasures: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, one of few “originals”, along with New York, Chicago, old FRB building in San Francisco aka Bentley Reserve.)

     We didn’t do our homework properly: otherwise, we would know about the renovated Observation Deck reopened just a year before. Elevator bank grabbed our attention and we asked for a permission to enter and take photos. “Have you toured our observation deck?” from uniformed personnel caught us off-guard. 

      The reportage is below for your review.

Rain.
We are on the observation deck of  Terminal Tower.

Photography by Alex | PHOTOARTEL

Cleveland, OH. Banks of Cuyahoga River.
View from Terminal Tower.

Photography by Alex | PHOTOARTEL

Cleveland, OH.
Lake Erie.
View from Terminal Tower.

Photography by Alex | PHOTOARTEL

Key Tower and 200 Public Square.
Downtown Cleveland, OH.

View from Terminal Tower.

Photography by Alex | PHOTOARTEL

US Federal Building.
Cleveland, OH.
View from Terminal Tower.
Photography by Lara | PHOTOARTEL

Key Tower.
Cleveland, OH.
View from Terminal Tower.
Photography by Lara | PHOTOARTEL

Broadway Cleveland, OH.
View from Terminal Tower.

Photography by Lara | PHOTOARTEL

Cuyahoga River.
Cleveland, OH.
View from Terminal Tower.

Photography by Lara | PHOTOARTEL

US Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument on Public Square.
Downtown Cleveland, OH.
View from Terminal Tower.

Photography by Lara | PHOTOARTEL

Cleveland, OH.
View from Terminal Tower.

Old Stone Church on Public Square.
Downtown Cleveland, OH.
View from Terminal Tower.
Photography by Lara | PHOTOARTEL

May Building on Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH.
View from Terminal Tower.

Photography by Lara | PHOTOARTEL

Cleveland, OH.
View from Terminal Tower.
Photography by Lara | PHOTOARTEL

Banks of Cuyahoga River.
View from Terminal Tower.

Photography by Lara | PHOTOARTEL

Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH.
View from Terminal Tower.
Photography by Lara | PHOTOARTEL

Vents on a roof.
Cleveland, OH.
View from Terminal Tower.

Photography by Lara | PHOTOARTEL


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