Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Cisternone

Cisternone by Pasquale Poccianti, LivornoWe have already seen something about the strange building of our “Cisternone” (Big Cistern) in Half-Dome Fad.Cisternone by Pasquale Poccianti, LivornoThe half-dome or “semicupola” is the main characteristic of the “Cisternone” and it is considered one of the projects nearer to the dreams of the visionary French architects Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude-Nicolas Ledoux.House of supervisors of the source of the Loue by Claude Nicolas LedouxThe “House of supervisors of the source of the Loue” was a project for the ideal city of Chaux, published in 1804 by Ledoux.Hôtel Guimard or Terpsichore temple by  Claude Nicolas LedouxThe Hôtel Guimard, often called Terpsichore temple, was built in Paris from 1770 to 1773, on a project of the same Ledoux.

See also: Half-Dome Fad - Cisternino di città
Gli architetti rivoluzionari (Politecnico di Bari, in Italian)

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