Wawel Castle in Cracow, Poland / Hill castle in Cracow, Poland
• It is the most important symbol of Poland
• It was built at the behest of Casimir III the Great,
who reigned from 1333 to 1370, and consists of a number of structures situated around the central courtyard ( castle, church, museum etc. )
• Established in 1930, the museum encompasses ten curatorial departments responsible for collections of paintings, including an important collection of Italian Renaissance paintings, prints, sculpture, textiles, among them the Sigismund II Augustus tapestry collection, goldsmith’s work, arms and armor, ceramics, Meissen porcelain, and period furniture
Large courtyard with arcaded galleries which was completed about 1540.
The Wawel Cathedral - Romanesque church
Wawel cathedral was the site for the coronation of Polish kings.
THE TEUTONIC CASTLE OF MALBORK - POLAND
- The Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork
is the largest castle in the world by surface area
- The castle is situated on a peninsula on the right bank of the Nogat River
- It was the social residence of the Master of the Order, who was also head of state.
- It is the most impressive of all gothic castles in Europe
The Royal Cathedral- Sarcophagus
The Royal Cathedral- Sarcophagus
Malbork Castle is generally accepted as an architectural work of unique character. Many of the methods used by its builders in handling technical and artistic problems (among them the design and construction of the vaulting and portals and the use of architectural sculpture) greatly influenced Gothic buildings in a wide region of north-eastern Europe.
The whole interior is crammed with delicate vaulted ceilings.
The Knights' Hall is beautifully decorated with a huge painted vaulting arches
Malbork Castle after World War II
Dome of the Sigismund Chapel (interior view)
Thank you for your attention
Vaulting at the Holy Cross Chapel ( interior view)
Polychrome on the vaulting of Queen Sophia's Chapel
The Cathedral od National Poets and Heroes- Sarcophagus of Duke Józef Poniatowski
The Ayutthaya Historical Park
- 62 meters tall and is made up of more than 28000 tonnes of brick
Longest stone support beams in stone architecture - 22 ft. long single-piece beams, each weighing 5 tons.
Every inch from corner to corner has been hand
carved.
64 large traditional sculptures with spiritual meanings and 192 small figures of gods and goddesses adorn the pillars.
160,000 cubic feet of pink sandstone has been carved and assembled
- Designed by Hong Kong architects Dennis Lau and Ng Chun Man
- Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino is probably the largest building in the world that looks like a pineapple.
- 10,000 years of Indian culture
- casino offers 800 mass gaming tables and 1,000 slot machines, while the hotel contains 430 hotel rooms and suites.
China-The Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino: big and fruity
Akshardham Temple -Inida, Delhi
- Guinness World Record as the World’s Largest Comprehensive Hindu Temple
- 12 million hours of human effort
- The Grand Lisboa is the tallest building in Macau and the 118th Tallest Building in the World
- St Basil’s Cathedral was built between 1555 and 1561
- Postnik Yakolev designed stunning and colorful cathedral, which comprises nine individual chapels
- The domed exterior was designed to resemble a bonfire flame rising into the sky.
- Foundations were built of white stone
Russia - St Basil’s Cathedral
- churches themselves were built of red brick
- No steel or cement was used at all
Star of Stanley Ho is on permanent display at the Casino
The Capitol
- It is in Washington
- Congress takes place
- A competition was organized to design it and Thornton won but the following years, his idea will be modyfied by other architects
- Constructed by will of Emperor Constantine around 320 AD
- It’s the world’s largest Basilica of Christianity, nested into the heart of the Vatican city,Rome
- The plan of the dome belongs to Michelangelo who managed to finish only the portion of the dome basement called Tamburo. It will be Giacomo Dalla Porta to complete the dome according to Michelangelo’s drawings in 1588-89.
The Roman aqueduct:
- Engineering genius of the Ancient Romans.
- Still seen as modern marvel. In fact, some aqueducts remain operational to this day.
- Three such arches, visible to the general traveler in Rome are the Porta Maggiore, the Arch of Drusus, and Nero’s Aqueduct.
- The Roman aqueducts not only provided drinking water for the Romans but indoor sewer systems that carried water away from the city and also supplied the bath houses with ample water, where the inhabitants of ancient Rome spent so much of their leisure time.
- Ancient Romans were great engineers and architects. They used to build arches and acqueducts in every places conquered. In Europe it can be noticed that Roma arches and acqueducts are built such as the Arc du Triomphe in Paris and the Puente Alcantara. They influenced the architects of following centuries and from around the world like North Korea
- The Arch of Titus (Italian: Arco di Tito) is a 1st-century honorific arch, located on the Via Sacra, Rome, just to the south-east of the Roman Forum
- There are other triumphal arches outside Rome like in Paris and North Korea
- Countries took also other inspirations from the Ancient Rome
like the idea of “main square” and the aquaducts, which are used as water system
nowadays.
- Modern aqueducts, although lacking the arched grandeur of those built by the Romans, greatly surpass the earlier ones in length and in the amount of water they can carry. Aqueduct systems hundreds of miles long have been built to supply growing urban areas and crop-irrigation projects.
- aqueducts are structures used to conduct a water stream across a hollow or valley. In modern engineering, however, aqueduct refers to a system of pipes, ditches, canals, tunnels, and supporting structures used to convey water from its source to its main distribution point.
Triumphal arch in North Korea
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