Allie

I like TTRPGs, tactical RPGs, Zelda, retro games and uh nerdy stuff like that, also rapier fencing and folklore and history and sport climbing. Bigots go away.

[Allie @aetherspheric]

Oh my god I want to go here

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

What is the world's most underrated building?

One answer might be the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.

Why? It's quite possibly the only place on earth where Beaux-Arts, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco architecture were all somehow combined into a single, spectacular building.

The Palacio de Bellas Artes was commissioned in 1900, with the intention of completing it by 1910 to mark the centenary of the Mexican War of Independence.

An Italian architect called Adamo Boari, who worked in a mixture of Neoclassical and Art Nouveau styles, was appointed to design it. But construction was delayed and then came the Mexican Revolution, which lasted from 1910 to 1920.

The Palacio was left unfinished for two decades until construction restarted in 1932, this time according to Art Deco design principles under the leadership of the Mexican architect Federico Mariscal.

The Palacio de Bellas Artes was finally completed and inaugurated in 1934, and has hosted art exhibitions and theatrical productions, including ballet and opera, ever since. It is also home to two museums dedicated to Mexican architecture and art, along with the Ballet Folklórico de México and the National Symphony Orchestra.

From outside we are treated to a building thoroughly Neoclassical in shape and design, with particular influence from the Beaux-Arts style of 19th century France — this explains the almost Baroque flair and extravagance of the exterior.

But some of the sculptural details and the huge, colourful glass domes are more Art Nouveau, and they hint at the interior of the Palacio — a concert hall like no other, built from wood, marble, and stained glass, and decorated with mosaics and paintings.

Not to forget its crowning jewel: a huge, foldable glass "curtain" produced by Tiffany's of New York. This was one of the greatest achievements of the whole Art Nouveau movement: a sensuous, shimmering wall of light and colour.

And that's not all. The main lobby, despite what the Palacio's façade suggests, is a cathedralesque chasm filled with the sharp geometry, futuristic atmosphere, and industrial decadence of Art Deco.

Amid all this the Palacio de Bellas Artes is also decorated with colossal, visually arresting murals by several of Mexico's greatest painters — Diego Rivera, Jorge González Camarena, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros — along with sculptures of Aztec and Maya gods.

Other artists from around the world were also commissioned to work on the Palacio, such as the Italian Symbolist sculptor Leonardo Bistolfi and the Hungarian craftsman Géza Maróti.

And so the Palacio de Bellas Artes is a kaleidoscope of architecture and design. Its complicated history has produced a wholly unique fusion of different and ostensibly conflicting styles. But, somehow, Beaux-Arts Neoclassicism, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco were all integrated into one glorious cornucopia of material, form, colour, and light.

Just like the great churches of the Italian Renaissance, which exhibited the very best work of the architects, painters, and sculptors of the day, the Palacio de Bellas Artes feels like a masterpiece of the many different artistic and architectural movements of the early 20th century all at once — subsumed and transformed into something miraculous by the unique characteristics of Mexican art and culture.

[Allie @aetherspheric]

I too keep my blade length under 42” in order to avoid a hefty fine

wait sorry what are we talking about I’m from 1625

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

idk girls. i thought he dressed nice but then i learned he's just following a highly codified set of rules he learned from the king of spain

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

A remarkable Roman mosaic showing a children's choir or Schola Cantorum, who would have performed sacred choral music at religious ceremonies. Fifteen young singers are depicted – possibly thirteen girls and two boys – all dressed in vibrant blue tunics, as well as an older choirmaster at the back. From the Temple of Diana Tifatina near Capua, today the Basilica of Sant'Angelo in Formis, 2nd-3rd century AD, Capua Provincial Museum of Campania.

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

feeling a deep sense of kinship with the 15th century flemish illustrator who drew this adorable tiny dog crawling through the page of a manuscript 🥹

[Allie @aetherspheric]

please stop pretending you understand rural struggles and rural people because you drove through a small town once, folks. Read this.

[Chapps @chapps]

Two years of experimenting with virtually painting and restoring stained and broken marble, and I suddenly realize that I definitely need a portfolio site. Not sure which one is best, but I'd better do it soon! #digitalreconstruction #polychromy 1/

[Allie @aetherspheric]

@mohammedjrpg Yes!!!

[Allie @aetherspheric]

@zealprophet27 Yeah same basically

[Allie @aetherspheric]

@MegJelaine All I can say is that this person should absolutely never come to Brentwood/Dalhousie because they would immediately die if this is a crisis

[Allie @aetherspheric]

Capitalists are cowards. Never trust them. They will take all that you are, use it to make money, and then abandon it at the first sign that you are no longer profitable.

[Allie @aetherspheric]

@BGG_Twitch Oh my god, that would be the best! And considering how much content there is in the “xeno”verse now, it only makes sense to give the original some love. There’s an audience for it

[Allie @aetherspheric]

cool, I’d love it if he wanted to talk more about how the Catholic Church wants to tackle the deep dehumanizing misogyny that is contributing to why people don’t want to become mothers. Also he’s welcome to keep tackling capitalism while he’s at it

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Pope Francis warns pets must not replace children in Italy https://t.co/yM6rfZcB7Q

[Allie @aetherspheric]

Bro she cannot seriously be suggesting that subcontracting all elements of our healthcare system is going to improve shit for even one single person

This is literally WORSE than a two-tier system

[Alberta NDP @albertaNDP]

In a newly uncovered video, Danielle Smith lays out her detailed plan to sell off “any of the hundred hospitals” that are part of our public healthcare system.

Not only does she want Albertans to pay to see a doctor, she wants to privatize hospitals too.

[☆オードリーAudrey☆ @aitaikimochi]

omg @PeachMilky_ sent me this FF7 Balenciaga AI video, and i really wish i never saw this ever 😭

[Allie @aetherspheric]

@ZaffreRevo YESSS so much potential, so wasted 😭

[Allie @aetherspheric]

yeah listen if we ever have a kid I’m gonna homeschool them on a narrowboat, fuck all of this

[Kristin Chirico @KristinChirico]

I have so many questions even from an engineering standpoint: how is this structure more safe than the room itself? wouldn't it make more sense to have a structure that reinforces the existing door? what happens when a shooter gets a stepladder and knocks open a ceiling tile?

[Allie @aetherspheric]

man, he really is a cool guy

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

cool guy, france, 1518