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Brian hamming it up on the a musical keyboard in the DIS Architecture Labs. Winnie seems to sincerely trying to play something, and hamlet just looks like he is having fun.
This is a canal very near A New Library, called the "Black Diamond" (called
that because 1) the building is black and 2) books, like diamonds are valuable.
However, I think the facts that 1 the building does not have right angles (like
a diamond) and 2) "Black Diamond" just sounds cool as had something to do with
it....)
If you look carefully, you will see a teal rectangle on top of a blue rectangle,
about 1/5 of the picture from the right. Those are 3 on-site construction offices
stacked on top of each other-they were a bit tight on ground space, I suppose.
I actually saw a number of them in Denmark and Germany (a later trip).
This looked like a very nice church. I First saw it when I visited the Danish WWII Resistance museum. I took this picture the second time I saw it, on my way back from photographing Copenhagen's statue of the Little Mermaid. On the way back from the Little Mermaid, An Italian tourist made fun of the admittedly ugly (though free) city bike I was riding. He assumed that I did not understand Italian (I still don't really. . .but I am getting better). I wanted to tell him in Italian, that although the bike I was riding was ugly, at least it would not get stolen like in Florence (I was still a little sensitive about my bike, as I loved it and it was stolen....). However, I did not know the Italian very for steal, so I could not say anything clever...he would have been shocked, I am sure, to hear a reply in Italian.
A church in Copenhagen. Churches, and many other building in Copenhagen & Sweden were built and finished with fired bricks. Florentines, though they probably build with brick, do not finish their churches with it, they prefer marble. The red of the bricks and green patina of the copper roofs is quite beautiful. The bit with the sun on the room was just an added bonus. Too bad I could not frame the picture without the road sign....
The main church of Copenhagen. It was a centrally planned church, meaning no long nave and actually appeared to be a circle in plan-Central planned churches of the Italian renaissance are usually squares. It was large and nice, end empty inside. I took this picture without a flash, which explains the graininess.
The back of the black diamond. The part that extends to the right of the picture comes very close to the main Copenhagen harbor and this part obviously has a road going through it. Now I know what you are thinking. Isn't Denmark Cold? Well yes, it can get very cold. Now you are thinking, but glass does not retain heat very well (unless it is very expensive, of course). Well You are right again. So now you are probably thinking, well why would the Danes waste all that money heating a place in the winter, if only to have all the heat escape through the windows? Well because, the Danes love the sun. They may not have tans like Californians, but they love the sun. IN the Winter, the Sun sets before 4 PM. They love every second of sun, and it seems that they are will to pay for it in their utilities bill.
I just thought that this dome looked pretty cool, though rather 1930s authoratarian-ish. What do you think? This dome was one of many in The main square which DIS is located.
Here is that Bird fountain again. I really liked it. There is another Copper spire in the background.
A lion statue, near the Black Diamond, looking towards the Copenhagen Harbor. A Copper spire stands in the background.