Comments on: German Hydroelectric Plant Is A Breathtaking Example Of Organic Industrial Architecture http://inhabitat.com/german-hydroelectric-plant-is-a-breathtaking-example-of-organic-industrial-architecture/ Green design & eco innovation for a better world Thu, 23 May 2013 14:55:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: lazyreader http://inhabitat.com/german-hydroelectric-plant-is-a-breathtaking-example-of-organic-industrial-architecture/comment-page-1/#comment-343952 lazyreader Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:27:02 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=270353#comment-343952 The Hoover dam is an architectural masterpiece. The designers applied an elegant Art Deco style to the entire project. It possesses sculpted turrets rising from it's facade. Artists were hired to handle the design and decoration of the walls and floors of the dam. His name was Allen Tupper True, and he applied Navajo and Pueblo Indian motifs throughout the dams walls and floors. His work was emphasized in a poem by the New Yorker......... “lose the spark, and justify the dream; but also worthy of remark will be the color scheme” http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/HooverDamTrueDesign.jpg Another sculptor was Oskar J.W. Hansen designed many of the sculptures on and around the dam. His works include the monument of dedication plaza, a plaque to memorialize the workers killed and the bas-reliefs on the elevator towers. Surrounding the base of it's monument is a terrazzo floor embedded with a "star map". The map depicts the Northern Hemisphere sky at the moment of President Roosevelt's dedication of the dam. Acting as a open air time capsule, this is intended to help future astronomers, if necessary, calculate the exact date of dedication. The Hoover dam is an architectural masterpiece. The designers applied an elegant Art Deco style to the entire project. It possesses sculpted turrets rising from it’s facade. Artists were hired to handle the design and decoration of the walls and floors of the dam. His name was Allen Tupper True, and he applied Navajo and Pueblo Indian motifs throughout the dams walls and floors. His work was emphasized in a poem by the New Yorker……… “lose the spark, and justify the dream; but also worthy of remark will be the color scheme”

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/HooverDamTrueDesign.jpg

Another sculptor was Oskar J.W. Hansen designed many of the sculptures on and around the dam. His works include the monument of dedication plaza, a plaque to memorialize the workers killed and the bas-reliefs on the elevator towers.

Surrounding the base of it’s monument is a terrazzo floor embedded with a “star map”. The map depicts the Northern Hemisphere sky at the moment of President Roosevelt’s dedication of the dam. Acting as a open air time capsule, this is intended to help future astronomers, if necessary, calculate the exact date of dedication.

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