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hotrod architecture
abracadabra 2005.05.23 18:05
this should be more appropriate for 'holly rodding'. in addition to building 4 minarettes on the exterior, cross plan of hagia sophia was slightly shifted towards due mecca by placement of mosque elements as you notice in the picture. 20 ft dia calligraphic round plates were also used in this transition leaving most everything else intact including the mosaics of jesus and mary. one of the most successful adoptive re use projects i know of.
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driftwood 2005.05.24 01:57
I seriously regret not coming to this topic sooner. It's been absolutely fantastic to read and regret not being able to comment on everything. Because I definitely want to.
Anyway, in the past, I helped build and maintain my own hot rod. Eerily enough, add a decade and subtract the bored out engine from ether's Nova above and you will have the car I drove every single day for four years of my life.
But I'm going to add Hot Rod Architecture Rule #2: The building's overall performance must be increased.
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Rita Novel 2005.05.24 09:02
In a real hot rod (ie, a car), what performance is specifically increased? I'm assuming that for sure horsepower is increased, but what else (if anything) specifically? I'm asking because I think a hot rod car's performance can be pointed to specifically as opposed to being general and saying "overall performance." I'm also asking because I don't think a building's "overall" performance must be increased, rather a specific, usually interior performance aspect of a building must be increased or "extremely madeover."
Hey abracadabra, nice magic trick, pulling Hot Rod Architecture out of Holy Wisdom in the heart of Constantinople. Constantine (who died 22 May 337--he fell sick in Constantinople and started taking thermal baths there, then went to Helenopolis where the theremal baths of the region are the best, but nonetheless ultimately died in a villa just outside Nicomedia, today's Izmit) is proud of you. He was buried at Constantinople in the Church of the Apostles, which I think is today a military museum--a rest in peace makeover, I suppose.
Constantinople as extreme, extreme makeover of Roman Empire capital, and then Istanbul as extreme makeover of Constantinople?
Is there such a thing as hot rodding a hot rod? That is, will Hagia Sophia ever be a Christian church again?
[The tide goes both ways, doesn't it?]
Anyway, I'm staying tuned for Extreme Makeover: Vatican III Edition.
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