A sunny spot to read
I fell in love with this room when I saw this sunlit painting. The Victorian artist has captured a perfect...
Of temples and cathedrals
An unusual analysis of the difference between temples and cathedrals, which seems obvious once it has been pointed out.Â
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How the other half lives
Gormenghast has two populations segregated by the walls of the rambling castle. The people outside are treated as lower order...
A chapel for study – the reading room of the Oriental Institute
After a visit to the Oriental Institute museum in Chicago, I did a pit stop at...
The jewel of learning
An original simile to describe the architecturally solid seat of learning in Dublin, set in and setting off the relative...
Toast-warm brick
A reference to Dublin, and another angle on the colour of bricks.
'Largely built by the English as a place...
Horn-pronged gables
This reminds me of some of the pointed and upturning gables and eaves in traditional Chinese and south-east Asian architecture.
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Storm-nibbled heads
A thousand years of storm wear wipes the faces from the stone heads decorating Gormenghast stormenghast, eyes and features flattened...
The study of vanished things
I recall my sorrow when I learned that the enchantingly named Nonsuch Palace vanished almost without trace, morphing from a...
Rock-piled roof
Another structure you would hope could keep the Grendel gremlins out, ideally providing a 'dry-stone vault' underneath.
Source: Seamus Heaney, Beowulf...
Beam-borne planks
A poetic description of an ancient and abandoned bell tower; somehow 'beam-borne' implies flying rather than static, and I liked...
What is a house for?
A near perfect description of what makes a perfect house, beyond practical issues such as storm-proofing; similar to the wonderful...
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