Architectural+Digest+Artical

RB House Mrs. Darrough October 19, 2010 WD-2 CEC

The Influence that Greek architecture has on the world. The Greek Parthenon is located on the Akropolis in Athens, Greece. It is surrounded by forty six Doric columns, each thirty two feet tall. It is built on the Akropolis, which means “high city”, in honor for the Athens patron goddess, Athena. The architects who designed the Parthenon were Iktinos and Kallikrates. The Parthenon was built under the rule of Perikles in 447 to 432 BC when the city of Athens was at it's prime. The Parthenon is divided in to two separate rooms, one was a treasury and the other one held a giant gold and ivory statue of the goddess Athena. The statue was built by Phidias who was the most famous artist during that time and was a friend to the ruler Perikles. The Parthenon was made of limestone, which was a novelty back then, and pentelic marble.

The first block of the Lord Hill's Column was placed in December 27, 1814 and was finished on June 18, 1816, the same time Gurkha War started and ended. The Lord Hill's Column is the tallest Doric column in the world at 133 feet and six inches. It is taller than Nelson's Column by 13 feet which is not including the 17 foot statue on the top Lord Hill's Column. The architect that designed the Lord Hill's Column was Edward Haycock, who designed other famous architectural pieces like the Margam and the Clytha Castles in Wales, and Thomas Harrison made the pedestal for the statue, who was also a famous architect. The statue was designed and executed by Messrs. The material used to build the Lord Hill's Column was Coade stone, which was an artificial material. The last block of the Lord Hill's Column was placed on the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.

The Parthenon in Greece and the Lord Hill's Column are similar by the type of columns they have. The type of columns that hold up the two buildings are Doric. Doric columns are the stronger, less of an artistic structure, and more generic than the other Ionic and Corinthian columns. Each of the buildings had someone( Iktinos and Kallikrates for the Parthenon and Edward Haycock for the Lord Hill's Column) build the structure or building and someone else( Phidias for the Parthenon and Messrs for the Lord Hill's Column) that sculpted the statue for the building or structure. Both the Parthenon and the Lord Hill's Column are dedicated to someone special and important to the people who lived there.

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