2005-05-24
ARCHITECTURE
Philadelphia's City Hall building, a masterpiece of French Renissiance 
architectural style, has been magical to me ever since my adolescence when I first saw it |
Here's two glimpses | The larger one looking up from Broad Street from the south side of the building | The smaller one is the view from just below Logan Circle on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway |
The Parkway is a marvel to behold itself | Traversing roughly northwest from City Hall to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Parkway is home to several museums [the Franklin Institute, Rodin Sculpture Garden and the Academy of Natural Sciences among them], a main branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia and a couple of elaborate formal founatins all line the Parkway's route |
Built up between 1919 and 1935 The Parkway stands as testimony of what public spiritedness can create | Perhaps some of the Robber Barons of the Roaring Twenties had a conscience about giving back their due | Quite unlike the greedy bastids that have profited from the latest Gilded Age in this country, who have thus far provided only show trials and feigned innocence after staling the public trust blind | ¶ 22:40
Philadelphia's City Hall building, a masterpiece of French Renissiance architectural style, has been magical to me ever since my adolescence when I first saw it | Here's two glimpses | The larger one looking up from Broad Street from the south side of the building | The smaller one is the view from just below Logan Circle on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway |
The Parkway is a marvel to behold itself | Traversing roughly northwest from City Hall to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Parkway is home to several museums [the Franklin Institute, Rodin Sculpture Garden and the Academy of Natural Sciences among them], a main branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia and a couple of elaborate formal founatins all line the Parkway's route |
Built up between 1919 and 1935 The Parkway stands as testimony of what public spiritedness can create | Perhaps some of the Robber Barons of the Roaring Twenties had a conscience about giving back their due | Quite unlike the greedy bastids that have profited from the latest Gilded Age in this country, who have thus far provided only show trials and feigned innocence after staling the public trust blind | ¶ 22:40
