Wonderfull... Sky reflected... Archtecture & Art.... More of "Berlage"

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Dutch World reflected..in glass

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Architecture & Art: from "Berlage"

Last week I showed here on my blog , some details from photo's I made of the inside from a building in Amsterdam named: "The Beurs van Berlage", This building is designed by the Dutch Designer Architect, named: "BERLAGE".

Some Blogreaders were asking me to show more,

so here it is.....More of Berlage...enjoy,

Above Left: The ceiling in black and white,

Above right: The glasshouse (for the orchestra) inside the building

Do you See? The Reflected SKY in Glass!

Right! The Sky ís indeed the ceiling!

The Black and white -non colour- is captured by me of course,because the natural colours are orange/Yellow & even green and grey/white/black.

Watch the coloured photo's below

Above; seen from above, from the balcony : an overview,

see the 'white wings' ( seen through glass) used to arrange the acoustic,

for the orchestra, which is weekly practising inside the glasshouse .

Above: Looking up at the (sky) ceiling ,

the brickstones are here in their natural colour:

orange and yellow .Look carefully because the architect,

"Berlage": he used more colours inside the building!

Above: On the ceiling a modern stellage for the hanging lamps,

I really like the lines , its an "art of itself"inside an art building...

Above: And here you see from above the lamps....

I like the shape of the square neon lamps,

Its both: awfull and art like this looks together...

.....and of course more of the inside of building

Above; Inside the building " another room" where public can watch a show,

Above : Somewhere inside the building....,

even the pipes are painted in the same colours of the stones,

-maybe to hide them?- its all a piece of art,

but you must watch carefully to see all the details....

its very arty every part of this building.

Above: a hall with artistic patterns typical for Berlage , he even used coloured stones for the patterns on the floor and even for the walls. its all great art.

Where is this endless hall ending??????

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When you feel like reading more about the architect named:

'Berlage " or when you like to know more about "The Beurs van Berlage" in Amsterdam ( The Netherlands) : please scrolldown to the post below this post ...

click there on the links ,to read everything about "Berlage & The Beurs of Berlage"

Thank you and I hope you Enjoyed watching this all, as much as did!

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Wishing you a creative "World" and

Thank you for your comments,

Greetings from JoAnn

Sky "Reflected" through acoustic glass....

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The sky seen "Reflected"through acoustic glass?

Photo above; The Beurs van berlage Amsterdam (photo http://www.joannwalraven.com/)

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What you see on the above and under pictures is glass designed for acoustic reasons:

In 1990, architect Zaanen and builder Eekhout built a glass concert hall in this room for the Dutch Chamber Orchestra. The orchestra now has perfect acoustics while the concert-goer can enjoy the beauty of the original room. The construction of this glass hall was a first for the Netherlands, as the glass plates are partially self-supporting. The building of the "Beurs van Berlage" is later again renovated under the coordination of a wellknown Dutch building-company : "Hillen & Roosen "

Above Photo: Inside "the Beurs van Berlage" (photo by http://www.joannwalraven.com/)

The Beurs van Berlage was built by Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856-1934) for the Municipality of Amsterdam. Construction started in 1898 and was completed in 1903. It was Berlage’s first really large commission – and it would make him world famous. In 14 steps through the building The building was constructed on a reclaimed tract of land alongside the Amstel river, where trading ships used to moor. More about the Beurs van Berlage click here: http://en.beursvanberlage.nl/beursvanberlage/14stappen/14stappen_01.html

History ,About The Beurs van Berlage

http://en.beursvanberlage.nl/index.php

Picture:. The former Main Hall

*The Main Hall..........., was used not only for trading in commodities (such as copper, coffee and cotton), but also as the venue for large parties and political events.
The room communicates an intandse feeling of rest. This originates from the balance Berlage created between the colours (especially the blue and yellow), the materials (brick, sandstone, granite, iron and wood) and the architectural form.
.........................The brick walls of the Corn Exchange Room are not red, but yellow. The sawtooth roof, with all its windows facing north, has a different colour, too. Berlage designed it this way in order to allow the corn traders to properly inspect the corn samples. If they still didn't trust what they saw, they could step out into the courtyard (situated immediately behind the Main Hall, but later covered by a roof and now used as an office) in order to view the sample in daylight. The Toorop Tableaux depict the various stages that corn went through from when it was harvested to when it was consumed as bread.

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More information of.... The " Beurs van Berlage"
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Beurs van Berlage is a building on the Damrak, in the center of Amsterdam. It was designed as a commodity exchange by architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage and constructed between 1896 and 1903. It influenced many modernist architects, in particular functionalists and the Amsterdam School. It is now used as a conference venue. and is constructed of red-yellow brick, with an iron and glass roof and stone piers, lintels and corbels. Its entrance is under a large clock tower, while inside lie three large multi-story halls formerly used as trading floors, with offices and communal facilities grouped around them.
The aim of the architect was to reject the styles of the past. To the modern eye, the design may still appear a little fussy, but at the time, most apparent were its sweeping planes and open plan interiors. It has stylistic similarities with some earlier buildings, for instance St Pancras station, but there the functional train shed was disguised by a neo-Gothic facade.

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Wishing you a creative week/weekend

Thank you for your comments

Greeting from JoAnn

..."Trojan Horses" ..... + last news

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.."About a HORSE"..named... ,

"TROJAN... What? " Trojan Horses? ..

Better be carefull.

SKY WATCHING Horse? " Horses are Fantastic & nobel animals, I love them"... The above "photo " is how I really feel about Horses....

"No "JoAnn-D-Eyes" is not joking here, "JOKE " really was my name in my childhood that maybe is a "Joke" , In English it has another meaning..... ...

My ideal Horses.... A true happened story...

When I was a child, I used to ride (and brush) Horses after schooltime -instead of making my home work- Me and my female little schoolfriend went from The Hague/Monster of course by horse, to Kijkduin or to the Kurhauss at Scheveningen beach. That were great times! In all kinds of weather we enjoyed being with the horses....We loved to feed them with carrots or other foods.

Also a true happened story.....

BAD TROJAN " Horses" on internet, what do they do and why?

A TROJAN "HORSE" is knowing also as an BAD VIRUS internet infection....This TROJAN HORSE infected all my PC's in a home network ( never connect PC's this way!) This Virus is disable your PC-System , I have no working PC's anymore , they are all at the computer-doctor for a repair, when possible but there is a small change, maybe....! Thats still the question...... untll that is sure I cannot upload often photo's on my blog. Sorry.

I am not happy at all with this kind of Trojan Horses. My MC AFEE Firewall was not strong enough, also my PC C-cleaner didn't do its work.

Since March 19Th until Nowaday.. April 6th : a TROJAN HORSES virus infected my PC's, problem is still NOT solved and will take another period of time...

"JoAnn's- D- Eyes"

THANKS for Your comments: I will read them when possible - in a public library- and try to answer all Your questions, I'll Thank you and try to follow your advice in the comments!*

Wishing you a Creative day-week- and weekend\Thank you for your advice and comments!

A GREAT Guy & his ART....

WELCOME on JoAnns World <--click to see/join other worlds

TODAY its G <-----Signin for Great georgious

Sorry because my internet provider ( and also my PC) is OUT of order I cannot read nor react on your comments , I maybe can next week!!

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A Great Guy and his Art

...The GREATNESS of Worldwide ART...

Therefore ART is also, YOUR & MY WORLD....

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Maybe you are wondering ....

Why I write about an ARTsale in Paris?

Why? ....

Because in This article I write about the ART ,

Art is an international Georgious Greatness,

ART can be seen all over the world,

Thats why...

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Above: Worldwide starry Sky (http://www.joannwalraven.com/)

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Art is everywhere:

In PHOTOGRAPHY , Sculptures/Statues, Paintings , Designs, Fournitures, Nature, and there is more and other kinds of art....

ART is showing us the HISTORYof life.

I show you this week a great GEORGIOUS selection of ART ,

partly Because of my high interest in all kinds of ART and esspecially paintings, statues and more.

Great georgious ART wich has been sold last week in Paris,

and I am happy to share this here with you .

Please click for a GEORGIOUS slideshow here-----> (http://www.nrc.nl/redactie/foto/ysl2/soundslider.swf)

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Above: Cristies is selling the artworks of Yves Saint Laurent and his Partner Pierre Berge, (Foto Christie's)

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From a Great Guy and his most georgious ART-collection ever,

From the in 2008 -passed away-famous fashion-designer Yves Saint Laurent has been sold this week in PARIS ; He wanted to sell their collected Art-collection only in PARIS

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Sale of a Grand art collection a small historical background
In February 2009, an auction of 733 items was held by Christies at the Grand Palais, ranging from paintings by Picasso to ancient Egyptian sculptures. Saint Laurent and Bergé began collecting art in the 1950's, with Bergé commenting that the decision to sell the collection was taken because without Saint Laurent "it has lost the greater part of its significance," with the proceeds proposed to being used to create a new foundation for AIDS research.On the first day of the sale, Henri Matisse's work Cuckoos on a blue and pink carpet broke the previous world record set in 2007 for a Matisse work, selling for 32m Euros. Auctioneers said the collection could fetch up to 300m euros (£260m). (source wikipedia)

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Yves's partner 'Pierre Bergé' an 78-jarige Frenchman ,

said the he was after the first SALE on (last weeks) Tuesday-evening „deeply tatched and very happy” by the result. Millions of Euro's was payed for the works from : 'Matisse', 'Mondriaan' and 'Brancusi' , but the 'Picasso' s" Instruments de musique sur un guéridon " worth the sum of a 25 million Euro's ,was sadly not sold. Who is interested? Musea's and Galleries.. Not us, we privat people , we do not have that enormous sums of money... not ever in a million years.

So we can ADMIRE this GREAT ART-works in musea's all over the world.

Above: The Musee d'Orsay with Selling the Artworks of : "Yves and Pierre",In Action (Foto Christie's)

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The Musee d’Orsay in Paris bought a " Vuillard"and a "Ensor"

and the Centre Pompidou (Paris) bought the "Il Ritornante" from Girogio de Chirico.

Crisis or not, the almost complete Art-collection of more than 700 famous works has been sold last week by Cristies. The POSITIVE fact IS that most of the upbrought money will be used for medical investigation against the illness Aids ,and thats the GREAT part of this historical sold ART.( found detaills in www.nrcnext.nl)

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Above: Leather Brown CHAIR ,Design from 1917 by "Eileen Gray"Solded for 22 Million Euro (Foto Christie's)

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Above":worldwide Starry sky (http://www.joannwalraven.com/)

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Enjoy with me all GREAT ART-works,

I love to look at ARTS where-ever in the world

and esspecially in the above named Musea's in Paris .

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Creative weekwishes,

(sorry for not having internet this week therefore I cannot react)

Greetings By "JoAnn's D Eyes"

THANK YOU for your comments

SWF. WINTER ....SKY-Skating in Holland

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Its Finally WINTER in HOLLAND

Above left- This morning our frontdoor lane, we could hardly see the road, because of the fog
Above right -Its sure winter in HOLLAND with beautiful sunny, brights, blue sky´s,

some trees did not loose their leaves

This morning... In Front of my door you see this view...

Above Left- cars are driving slowly to their work in the early morning rushhour

Above Right-The emphy field because the cows are in the cold winter indoors.

It was this morning foggy & the snow was melting, watch it!

Its very very slippery on the road ....

Also today a typical Dutch view,

Above left: with a Dutch windmill and a boat in frozen water, he will not go far today...

Above right: The sun is shining on the yellow grass....

The frozen water is like a morror...

A person is standing there, shall I go for a skatetour or not..

Yes! Its possible! After 12 years we can skate on ice...!!

And even more than that, the ICE is 15 cm so good enough for a Marathon...

Legs are going..........

and the SKY reflected in ICE

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Historical LOW TEMPERATURE

in the South of Holland went down with 21/25 degrees celsius UNDER zero! That is spectacularly LOW! The temperature has not been this low for 12 years...More than 6000 people are expected to skate an ICE marathon today, to practise for this weekend´s SKATE-marathon- , we also call a `special know Dutch tour` the 11 town skate tour. While skating you are passing 11 towns-villages. Holland is welknown by its many canals wich is connecting the town by water. The fanatic skaters have been waiting so long for this absolutely great in icefuntour, the skaters are leaving early in the morning 7 am and they are sjating all day long, and they are hoping to reach the finish! We are wishing them GOOD LUCK.
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I´ll better stick on the Frozen canals nearby my village , maybe I will skate half an hour ,than I´ll go back home for a hot chocolatemilk or a warm soup with a toast. And a good warmingup for an open wood fire. That sounds much better to me....

How about you?

Are you an fanatic skater?

When did you skate for the last time?

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS

HAPPY WEEKEND

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(c) WAVING from Inside the Hospital /

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NOTE-FRIDAY from JoAnn- SORRY, for not refreshed my blog as often as normally esspecially last week -days, there are some important family matters. My mother is hospitallised and she is having an open heartsurgery tomorrow/FRIDAY(Aorta) we have been busy with visiting and arranging things for her, we are all the time thinking of her, its a very exiting time for all of the familymembers. I hope you will excuse me for not visiting your blogs as often as I do normally, the coming time. Thanks for your understanding.

Update SUNDAY-MONDAY:

For the people interested in my mom's recovery, the heartsurgery went well, after 2 days of intensive care, she moved to the normal hospitalrooms, lets all hope for a speedy recovery, THANKYOU for your support and interest, your support was heartwarming and unforgettable.

IOS and JoAnn are wishing you a Happy NEW YEAR !

For all the Faithfull BLOG FRIENDS , YOU BLOGVISITER

And to all BLOG-TEAMs from :

(click on names of themeblogs to visit them)

THANK YOU for you interest

SKYWATCH MYWORLD

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JoAnn's-D-Eyes (and her dog IOS) are wishing

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A HAPPY NEW YEAR and a creative 2009!!

Happy NEW YEAR !

From dog IOS and her Bear

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All above photo's are made by (c) JoAnnWalraven

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It was last year and it will be this year a joy to join the above theme blogs from friday) SKYWATCH, (monday) MY WORLD and ABC Wednesday every week. I loved looking at YOUR photo-blogs all over the world with very interesting and creative photography. JoAnn's D Eyes is Thanking YOU for visiting her blog, the photo's on this blog are publiced for YOU dear blogvisiters:)

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YOU made it last year and will make it this year, interesting to join the blog-world. THANK YOU very much!
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A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

for JoAnn is that I make many many photo's to show YOU here on this blog

and:

I hope to VISIT your creative blogs many times this year!

It was a pleasure to visit your blog and I am looking forewards to see-visit your blog the coming year and to learn from your culture, and your fantastic photograpy.

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Thank You so much for your visits, your interest and your very nice comments!
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T for Traditions, by JoAnn's D Eyes /Holland

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ABC : The " T " for Traditions ,

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Above: Yesterdays answer...Yes "Its a Christmas decoration Ball"

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In yesterdays post I showed you this My Personal taste of Christmas Tradition: I like several Christmas-ball decorations ,from different materials in gold and red colours....(see also below) You could see a bit of my backyard garden, at that post I let you look through the Christmas-ball. can you see it now?
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ABC .....every country or /and religion has its own Cultural Tradition...

Above: A creative (photoshop) mixture with my 4 types of Christmas decorations

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Under: A CLEAR mixture of our Christmas Decoration.....

Above: As you can see I like Christmas decoration in 2 colours: Red and gold

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HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR CHRISTMAS DECORATION?

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Meaning of Traditions
The word tradition comes from the Latin traditionem, acc. of traditio which means :

"a giving up, delivering up, surrendering,

and is used in a number of ways in the English language: Beliefs or customs taught by one generation to the next, often orally.

For example, we can speak of the tradition of :

sending birth announcements,

or Dutch Traditions such as;

in Holland we give flowers on any -coffee-visit.

we like to do our small shopping on a bike-car- ,

we like walking on wooden shoes,

we give our visiters 3 kisses as a greeting,

visiters are "not welcome 'around dinner time

(but we like to see our visiters always on any time!)

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A set of customs or practices. For example, we can speak of Christmas traditions, with a Christmas tree or Christmas decoration and fireworks at the old/new years eve....

Above: A Christmas Tradition "making the Dinner table cosy with candles"

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In some cultures/coountries People make the table looking cosy,

with special Decoration,

using candles on the dinner-table,

in the lvingroom is standing a Christmas tree with lights,

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A broad religious movement made up of religious denominations or church bodies that have a common history, customs, culture, and, to some extent, body of teachings. For example, one can speak of Islam's Sufi tradition or Christianity's Lutheran tradition. However, on a more basic theoretical level, tradition(s) can be seen as information or composed of information. For that which is brought into the present from the past, in a particular societal context, is information. This is even more fundamental than particular acts or practices even if repeated over a long sequence of time. (source Wikipedia)

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My World from today my (mysterious) backyard ..

Visit other"my World-bloggers" and click on the above LOGO on MONDAY 8.00 PM to join us

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..Try to

..Look at daily life,

an alternative way...

I love my house because of my great backyard, inthere I follow al the seasons,

falling leaves, all coloured leaves , our flowers, plants and pots, the singing birds and more

Above; MY BACKYARD "as a Fantasy-Creative design"

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Always asked yourself,

how to...

look at your life, with pleasure?

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Look at it as a joy, a party.

Make it a pleasure,

Decorate your day,

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...with warm colours,

lighting it up with...

...friendship and LOVE.

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Happy weekwishes,

Thank you for your comments

Q- QUESTION & ANSWERS ...........

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Welcome on JoAnn's Blog

"Q"

My Question is about;

Title... " 2 thinking/talking people"...

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Maybe.. they are QUESSING....

... about good presents for 'some-one's"Birthday?"

Who's BIRTHDAY?!

I know THE ANSWER ...

Question is "Do You?"

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The answer is on THURSDAY

Watch my blog....

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Wishing you a good week
Thank you for your comments

Good for...."some suggestions"

Portugal "Tree" & RAIN-Clouds

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Rain and thunder, thats the weather in Holland right now,

Good for the nature....

Good to look throught the window ...to the rain outside,

Good to walk in the forest with my High RAIN-boots!

Good to read a book by the open wood fire,

Good for writing that friend a letter,

Good to calling a friend,

Good for watching that video-movie,

Good for cleaning the house,

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All bad things (such as Rainy weather) ,

have their good thoughts...

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Happy weekwishes

Thank you for your comments