Hacker News1d ago

Dizzying Spiral Staircase with Single Guardrail Once Led to Top of Eiffel Tower

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-dizzying-spiral-staircase-with-a-single-guardrail-once-led-to-the-top-of-the-eiffel-tower-now-you-can-buy-14-of-the-original-steps-180988535/

#HackerNews #EiffelTower #SpiralStaircase #ArchitecturalHistory #UniqueDesign #HistoricLandmark

A Dizzying Spiral Staircase With a Single Guardrail Once Led to the Top of the Eiffel Tower. Now, You Can Buy 14 of the Original Steps

The 1,062 steps connecting the tower's second and third levels were installed in 1889. Fragments from the 137-year-old staircase can be found at several French museums

Smithsonian Magazine
Rome archaeology and stuff4d ago
A set of four pavonazzetto marble columns with spiral fluting and ornate capitals, now in the baptistery of San Giovanni in Laterano. #rome #ancientrome #archaeology #ancienthistory #architecturalhistory
Kent Navalesi ☕️Apr 13

For #FotoMontag, the Aqua Tower, #Chicago #Illinois

@photography #photomonday
#ArchitecturePhotography #ArchitecturalHistory #architectuur #arkitektur #SmartphonePhotography #CityPhotography #UrbanGaze

Show threadKent Navalesi ☕️Apr 4

Well, this was an easy one.

St. Sebald, Nuremberg, Germany  🇩🇪 ⛪️

'Mittelalterlich' #FotoVorschlag

#TravelPhotography #photographie #ArchitecturePhotography #ArchitecturalHistory #ChurchArchitecture #architectuur #arkitektur #SmartphonePhotography #Christianity #ReligiousStudies #Catholicism #religion #Nuremberg #Germany #deutschland

NewsletterTFApr 2

Designs Unseen: Landmarks Remixed

See new images of how famous landmarks like St. Paul's Cathedral and Statue of Liberty might have looked with their original, bigger plans.

#LandmarkRemixed, #ArchitecturalHistory, #StPaulsCathedral, #StatueOfLiberty, #UnrealizedDesigns

https://newsletter.tf/famous-landmarks-original-plans-visualized/

NewsletterTFApr 2

New images show famous buildings like St. Paul's Cathedral could have been much bigger, based on old plans.

#LandmarkRemixed, #ArchitecturalHistory, #StPaulsCathedral, #StatueOfLiberty, #UnrealizedDesigns
https://newsletter.tf/famous-landmarks-original-plans-visualized/

Famous Landmarks Like St. Paul's Cathedral Could Have Looked Different

See new images of how famous landmarks like St. Paul's Cathedral and Statue of Liberty might have looked with their original, bigger plans.

NewsletterTF
Show threadKent Navalesi ☕️Mar 31

Église Saint-Sulpice
#Paris #France 🇫🇷 ⛪️

#ArchitecturePhotography #ArchitecturalHistory #ChurchArchitecture #architectuur #arkitektur #SmartphonePhotography #religion #Christianity #travelphotography

Rome archaeology and stuffMar 31
The extraordinary ruins of the ancient Roman bridge of Augustus at Narni, which one carried the via Flaminia across the river. #archaeology #ancientrome #romanhistory #architecturalhistory #ruins
HeatherMar 30

I've been bingeing this series on #ArchitecturalHistory Once you get past the public schooliness the content is well-informed and generally very interesting.

#podcasts 🎧

Your Places or Mine: Hot History: The Great Fire of Northampton 1675

Episode webpage: https://ypompod.buzzsprout.com

Media file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2467470/episodes/17668329-hot-history-the-great-fire-of-northampton-1675.mp3

Your Places or Mine

A podcast about places and buildings, with tales about history and people.  From author and publisher Clive Aslet and the architectural editor of Country Life, & John Goodall

Buzzsprout
Kent Navalesi ☕️Mar 30

Michaelskirche, Munich, Germany [OC]

@pics

@photography #fotomontag #photomonday
#ArchitecturePhotography #ArchitecturalHistory #ChurchArchitecture #architectuur #arkitektur #SmartphonePhotography #religion #Christianity #munchen #germany #Deutschland #travelphotography