The choir of the Cathedral of Seville hosts from today until February 6 Aedificare exposure, Evangelizare, servare. Five centuries of architecture in the cathedral of Seville, a sign that through historical documents, audiovisual, art objects, furniture and antiquities explains the eventful life of this giant temple.
The sample includes 600 square meters in 80 articles that review the creation of the Magna Hispalensis into three parts: the first devoted to the construction of the largest Gothic building in the world, the second to the restoration suffered between 1775 and 1992, and third on the conservation and maintenance of the current stage.
All the objects on display stands out for its importance and because it is the first time shown, the plane known as Vidaurreta first technical representation of the Cathedral and served five centuries ago, to be lifted.
The cathedral cities like happens to people are living beings who suffer over time with fissures and cracks in its foundations. Rehabilitation projects who design institutions seeking to find the recipe to ensure the maintenance of these old buildings.
But how can an accurate control of the parameters that cause damage to structures? The Cathedral Foundation of Santa Maria de Vitoria offers an online monitoring system that allows instruments to control movement causing deterioration of the building with a precise vantage point sensor network.
The data collected by the score of electronic sensors distributed at strategic points of the building. Devices that allow us to know with high precision and accuracy of key parameters that affect the composition of the foundation, since the temperature of the columns to the degree of crack depth to the precise angle experienced by the walls and columns of the ancient cathedral. Read the rest of this entry »
The neglected Sacred Heart School, located at Emslie Street and San Domingo Alley and designed by architects Schmill & Gould in 1913, is a victim of the high winds from yesterday’s storm, which contributed to the collapse of its brick, northern-facing wall onto an adjacent lot earlier this morning.
The building is part of a church complex that once housed the German congregation of the Church of the Sacred Heart, Read the rest of this entry »
