Category Archives: Architectural Realisations

Putting Australia in the Shade; A Lattice Labyrinth employed to Spectacular Effect

Out of the blue has come this message from Asher of Alchemy Decor in Australia. To quote in full: I make complex and beautiful shade structures for festivals all over Australia, taking inspiration from geometry, tilling art and all sorts … Continue reading

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Wirksworth Art and Architecture Trail 2017 – Une Tessellation dédidée a la Cathédrale de Notre-Dame de Die

The 2017 Wirksworth Festival, in Derbyshire, England, runs from 8th until 24th. September.perhaps its most successful feature is the Art and Architecture Trail, 10 till 5 on Saturday and Sunday, 9th and 10th. September. This has grown over the years … Continue reading

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A Tessellation in the Wirksworth Festival Art and Architecture Trail, 10,11 September 2016

The 2016 Wirksworth Festival, Derbyshire, UK, begins on Saturday 10th. September with the pioneering and now widely-famed Art and Architecture Trail which takes you from surprise to surprise, in and out of gardens, up and down the ancient hillside town … Continue reading

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Vive la France; An Addition to the Grandeur of Paris for le Quatorze Juillet, Bastille Day, la Fête Nationale,

Bill Bryson remarks somewhere that a Martian visitor desiring to be taken to our leader would chose Vienna as the likeliest place to find him or her, judging by the magisterial grandeur of its imperial  architecture and the overbearing opulence … Continue reading

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May the Fourth be with You … Lattice Labyrinth Tessellations for Star Wars Day 5,4 … May the 4th be with us

My aged ears recently overheard  “May the Force be with You” as “May the Fourth be with You”. A quick Google© confirms that this is not an original discovery but is disparaged as an “obvious” pun. Nevertheless and therefore 4th. … Continue reading

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Fibonacci puts the Pee in Pisa – Light Relief for the Also-wrangled

Etiam mingens mathematicae memini! As you probably know only too well, in a Fibonacci Sequence of numbers, each successive term is the sum of the two preceding terms, so all you need to do to start it off is specify … Continue reading

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Lattice Labyrinth Tilings and Pavings: An Image Gallery

The thumbnailed gallery below is a handy summary of images included in the various posts of the Lattice Labyrinths blog and has now been copied as a page of the blog. In the course of time that page will tend … Continue reading

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Chinese National Day Tessellation applied to Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport 国庆节深圳宝安国际机场

Diamond Lattice Labyrinth (10,1) in honour of the National Day of The People’s Republic of China is illustrated in the previous post. I would like to employ it as a paving in Shenzhen City, where my elder son lives and … Continue reading

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A Thank You to Bridges 2014, Gwacheon Museum, Seoul and 광복절

A big thank you from Delegate Dave to the Bridges Organisation and all those connected with the Gwacheon National Museum of Science and others in the stunning city of Seoul who did so much to make Bridges 2014 such a memorable … Continue reading

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Repaving Red Square for Lenin’s Birthday – вновь прокладывает Красную площадь

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Владимир Ильич Ленин) seems to have been a fortunately rare example of an idealist who had the political skill to enable him to try his ideas out in practice. According to John Gray (whose oratorical skills I … Continue reading

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