Live on the coast i feel its my duty. And thats why i bring my students here. This is. Our strategy is based on the traditional lifestyle of the people as a way of preserving the environment for future generations just. Like the i. D. s on facebook. On the night of the fourteenth of march seventeenth fifty he had a dream that he would build a school a great and noble of majestic splendor and yet simple and functional it would be an urn and for his city and a stage on which his subjects could unfold the theater of their lives. What in fact developed in on c. In north east france from the original idea of one square with a host sequence of squares amounting to one of the finest systems of the kind in the whole of europe. At the center of the former capital of the duchy of lorraine the placid studies last the plaster like yeah and the plaster let me see our detectives sculptors and craftsmen and wrought iron created here one of the most outstanding achievements of eighteenth century city planning in a mere five years they put together a unique ensemble of architecture out and landscape design. The man to whom no c o os the square as was stanislav. Opponent king who was destined by the strangest turn of fate to become duke of lorraine he had to flee from poland in seven hundred thirty five disguised as a peasant and with the russian army at his heels after the wars of succession had cost him the polish throne. He was penniless and defenseless a king without a country but happily he had had the foresight to marry his daughter marie to the king of. Rounds with the help of his father and no he secured the duchy of lorraine but at a high price hughie the fifteenth restricted the responsibilities of the new duke to outward representation and the patronage of the odds. It was also made clear that the reign of the skis over the rain was to end with his death. When stanislav entered his capital for the first time he found a divided city an old under new nazi separated by a moat and wolves he looked for a way of joining the two halves of the Town Together and invited a young local architect emmanuel to his court. He later described their collaboration in a letter to a friend i told mysteriously about my dream and he spent the evening thinking about it and the very next day he was back with twenty different sketches from that moment on we had a perfect understanding. Together they came up with the unusual idea of laying out a system of squares partly in the old town and partly in the new the starting point and center was to be the placer as a tribute to louis the fifteenth. The initiator of the project and his architect conceived the square according to the new artistic ideas of the time abandoning the typical enclosed uniformity of the barracks square they introduced roco ironwork and fountains into the corners. With. The iron smith. And the sculptor but to me divide created delicate works of art which echo in filigree mode the statement made by the architecture splenda is power. Instead of a continuous facade they constructed detached pavilions separated by street openings and housing the theatre the museum a hotel billiard rooms and cafes. The result in the new part of the city was a royal square that was accessible from everywhere and to everyone a place for urban living and social intercourse. In eight hundred thirty one a statue was erected to study islam as the beneficent. It stands in the middle of the square on the exact spot where until the french revolution a statue of the monarch stored the last y. L. Was renamed last stand. Behind him the squares Main Building the imposing city hall inside is smiths lemuels masterpiece. Post on his loves residence he brought from a single piece of a balustrade twenty five meters in length leading to two spacious apartments the former living quarters of the. In a ballroom such as this the members of the court would gather on numerous occasions for imaginative entertainments opera or theater performances. This was how a society in the final phase of absolutism so what relief from its apprehensions of an approaching end it was addicted to illusion and show. When darkness falls the plus dannie science itself takes on the appearance of a banqueting hall the effect is not accidental but a deliberately intended the studys life squares served as a stage for festive parades and spectacles and beyond that for the ordinary everyday theatre that is life. Leaving the plas dannys last to the north one enters the old part of nancy and the next square studies have hit upon a brilliant solution to the problem of connecting the squares and the two parts of the town. Where the old gate in the fortifications had once been he put up a baroque triumphal arch at tara to his enemies loyal to his allies and his peoples pride and joy. Another tribute to the french king the elaborate arrangement of columns in classical roman style gave a lively aspect to the National Monument for the adjoining walls to left and right and i found an appropriate facing. Non sees triumphal arch is not only a glorification of the sovereign from the point of view of city planning it is the Pivotal Point of the whole system of squares. With dramatic elegance it darkens the stage for the next act the plaster. Originally an old justin field where chariot races and contests to be held in the sixteenth century stanislav had it completely reconstituted the only similarity to the plaster on his last is the magnificent iron work we are already familiar with. For the facades of the houses that lined the plaster like i am a rather plain and classicist style was chosen. But this where two has something theatrical about it crossing its almost three hundred meters one comes quite suddenly upon the circular colonnade of the little any seek its appearance is all the more surprising because it is invisible from the triumphal arch. The emmy seek to act as a food court for the monumental. Which is a kind of counterpart to the city hall at the opposite end of the axis. This was where the person with the real power resided arroyo intendant who saw to it that all the business of government was executed in the interests of france he had the duke opposite constantly in his sights and would remind him every so often of his political admittance. Once one has reached the colonnade in front of the government building one assumes this is the end of the sequence but the next surprise awaits and again it breaks old bones. The intention was to have a natural landscape succeed the architectural one to that end stanislav created a public park which also served as a nursery to supply trees and shrubs for his quince. Square as give a city a distinct shape an unmistakable character and individuality no see is the stanislav square as a seemingly ending sequence of spaces and splendid buildings no sea is synonymous with the translation into art and architecture of the baroque metaphor of the theatre. But well than anything else. She is a system of beautiful square full of atmosphere where diversity blends into consonants and homey. Seen it all done it all the time now keep talking wasnt one to go back to their roots was good the aim is a substantive return to simplicity time to resist the distractions of pseudo glamour the award ceremonies and all the fuss you get to with music is the core of it all helps. Explain. The ducted by rebels at the age of eleven forced to marry at fourteen. Twenty seven in story is fairly common in uganda tens of thousands of children are kidnapped abused and forced to become child soldiers and their trauma continues even after they return home because communities often reject the children of terror young rebel captives in uganda. In forty five minutes on. 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