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Showing posts with label The Order of Columns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Order of Columns. Show all posts

Thursday, 25 September 2008

It follows...



...that these should get a good promo too.


The Corinthian order was adopted by the Romans from the Greeks and was bestowed with the association of beauty and love. It is the most popular of the Greek Orders. Detail has been taken from the Temple of Zeus Olympia, Athena, BC174. The temple was built from designs by Cossutius, a Roman architect. This temple was important as parts of it were taken to Rome where its presence resulted in many copies and the popularising of the Corinthian order.






Tuesday, 17 June 2008

Columns





The Tuscan, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian, plus the Composite, (immediately above) are neatly and consisely laid out in this architectural drawing.
In Thailand there is a Thai neo-classical column, which is used in a number of the Grand Palace buildings, and the Grand Hyatt hotel (top), as depicted in the photographs; next door to the Grand Hyatt is a shopping mall on the left (third picture), which uses Ionic columns in its design, so there's an interesting contrast of the two, for any aficionado of this architectural design element. It's interesting to note that the Thai neo-classical has unopened lotus flowers, which is an entirely appropriate twist.
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