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Vatican obelisk lying in wooden winch during transportation to St Peter's Square, Rome, in 1586
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SOURCE: Carlo Fontana. Templum Vaticanum (Rome, 1694), pl. 147
Machinery used to lift the Vatican obelisk in Rome in 1586
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SOURCE: Carlo Fontana. Templum Vaticanum (Rome, 1694), pl. 169
Wooden winch used to lift the Vatican obelisk in 1586
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SOURCE: Carlo Fontana. Templum Vaticanum (Rome, 1694), pl. 155
Remains of Egyptian obelisk at Campus Martius, Rome
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SOURCE: Giuseppe Vasi. Delle magnificenze di Roma antica e moderna (Roma, 1747), vol. I, pl. XII
Louvre, Paris: the east facade under construction showing the scaffolding and machinery used to raise the stonework of the pediment
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SOURCE: Cabinet du roi, Plans, elevations et vues des chasteaux du Louvre et des Tuileries (Paris, 1727), 2nd unnumbered plate
Euston Arch, Euston Station, London: the demolition of the arch to make way for the new station building
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NOTES: This monumental arch was controversially demolished in 1962 to make way for a new modern complex, designed by R. L. Moorcroft, Midland regional architect of British Railways, completed in 1968.
Hugh Casson describes the Dome of Discovery to members of the Architectural Association, Festival of Britain, South Bank, London
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NOTES: Ralph Tubbs designed the Dome of Discovery and Freeman Fox & Partners were the structural engineers.
Hugh Casson and members of the Architectural Association beside the lattice frame of the Sea and Ships Pavilion, with the Dome of Discovery on the right, Festival of Britain, South Bank, London
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NOTES: Ralph Tubbs designed the Dome of Discovery and Basil Spence & Partners designed the Sea and Ships Pavilion. Freeman Fox & Partners were the structural engineers for both pavilions.
Karlsbrucke under construction, Nuremberg
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SOURCE: Carl Christian Schramm. Historischer Schauplatz (Leipzig, 1735), pl. 41
Design for scaffolding and timber bracing for the construction of the column at Boulogne sur Mer
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NOTES: Also known as 'la Colonne de la Grande Arm+â-®e', the column was erected between1804 and the 1840s and was intended to commemorate Napoleon Bonaparte's proposed (though unexecuted) invasion of England.
Design for scaffolding and timber bracing for the construction of the column at Boulogne sur Mer
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NOTES: Also known as 'la Colonne de la Grande Armée', the column was erected between1804 and the 1840s and was intended to commemorate Napoleon Bonaparte's proposed (though unexecuted) invasion of England.