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Big Ben
London, Great Britain
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- Page 1 Big Ben London, Great Britain Booklet available in English on Heft in deutscher Sprache erhältlich auf Livret disponible en français sur Folleto disponible en español en Folheto disponível em português em Architecture.LEGO.com A füzet magyarul ezen a honlapon olvasható:...
- Page 2 Big Ben Big Ben, officially known as the Clock Tower, has stood at the north-eastern corner of the Palace of Westminster for over 150 years. It’s one of the most recognized landmarks in the world today, and has become an iconic symbol of both London and England.
- Page 4 Neo-Gothic style, was only two-thirds the size of the completed building and was without the 96.3 meter (316 ft) Clock Tower that would become known as Big Ben. As Barry’s own architectural style was more Classical than Gothic, he asked for assistance from one of leading lights of the neo-gothic movement, Augustus Pugin.
- Page 5 Edward John Dent (1790-1853) in February 1852 and he set about Big Ben was the unoffi cial name given to the tower’s designing a mechanism that would live up to the then unheard Great Bell. It was the largest bell in the Britain at the time...
- Page 6 The clock mechanism is wound by hand three times a week and is still as accurate today as when it was constructed over 150 years ago. Although Big Ben is one of the most famous tourist attractions, it’s not open to overseas visitors.
- Page 7 Construction The foundation stone for the Clock Tower was laid on 28th September 1843 and it wouldn’t be completed until 1859; fi ve years behind schedule. The Clock Tower was built from the inside outwards, meaning that no scaff olding was ever visible to the outside world.
- Page 8 When it was time to raise the Great Bell, it was discovered that its dimensions meant it was too large to fi t up the Clock Tower’s shaft vertically, so Big Ben was turned on its side and winched that way. It took 30 hours to lift the bell to the belfry in October 1858.
- Page 10 Facts about Big Ben Location: ........London, Great Britain Architect: ........Charles Barry / Augustus Pugin Style: ..........Neo-Gothic Construction type: ....Clock tower Construction materials: ... Brickwork, stone cladding, cast iron Date: ..........1843-1859 Height: ........96.3 m (316 ft)
- Page 12 By the time Charles Barry won the competition to build the new Palace of Westminster, he was already a well-respected architect. Born in Westminster in 1795, opposite where Big Ben would later stand, he was apprenticed to a London surveyor and architect’s office at the age of 15 before embarking on a grand tour of Mediterranean Europe and the Middle East.
- Page 13 Though the popularity of the Gothic style had been growing throughout the 19th Century, Barry and Pugin’s work on the Palace of Westminster and Big Ben would popularize the architectural style and ensure it reached into every corner of Victorian life.
- Page 21 There are 334 steps to the belfry of the Clock Tower and a total of 393 to the lantern (the Ayrton Light), which is illuminated any time Parliament sits after dark.
- Page 29 Anston stone from Yorkshire and granite from Cornwall were used on the exterior of the tower to clad the brickwork core.
- Page 37 In addition to its three-times-a-week winding, the clock’s precision is maintained by using old pennies (taken out of circulation in the early 1970s). These are added to or removed from the clock’s pendulum to maintain the timepieces’ accuracy.
- Page 45 ‘Double Three-legged Gravity Escapement’ was the name of a new and revolutionary mechanism, ensuring the clock’s accuracy bymaking sure its pendulum was una≠ ected by external factors, such as wind pressure on the clock’s hands.
- Page 53 Under each clock dial there is a Latin inscription carved in stone: “Domine Salvam fac Reginam nostrum Victoriam primam” which means “O Lord, save our Queen Victoria the First.”...
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- Page 56 A Word from the Artist The fi rst step in creating this LEGO model was to gather The ornate stonework of the windows of the tower and graphic and textual material of the original building. the palace is recreated in LEGO Grille plates using the This gave me a deeper understanding of the building SNOT (Studs Not On Top) technique.
- Page 57 The history of current LEGO Architecture series can be The name itself was a direct link to the way architects and traced back to the beginning of the 1960s when the LEGO engineers worked and it was hoped that they and others brick’s popularity was still steadily increasing.
- Page 58 Architecture series...
- Page 59 Landmark series References Text credits: www.parliament.uk www.wickipedia.org The Pugin Society Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Photo credits: www.parliament.uk The Pugin Society Customer Service Kundenservice Service Consommateurs Servicio Al Consumidor www.lego.com/service or dial 00800 5346 5555 : 1-800-422-5346 :...
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