Book of Kells

Georgii Krutikov, The Flying City (VKhUTEMAS diploma project, 1928) .Image: Photograph of Georgii Krutikov while a student at VKhUTEMAS (1926) “In 1928, the young architect Georgii Krutikov, in defending his diploma work at VKhUTEIN, presented a thesis project completely insane for the time, a ‘City of the Future’, which immediately became a sensation. The concept of a ‘flying city’ was as follows: the architect proposed to leave work, leisure, and tourism on the ground, while living areas would be moved to communes floating in the clouds of the city. Translated by Natalia Melikova,with slight edits by me. Georgii Krutikov photographed in 1927 В 1928 году молодой архитектор Георгий Крутиков на защите дипломных работ во Вхутеине представил совершенно безумный по тем временам дипломный проект «Город будущего», который сразу же стал сенсацией. From Richard Stites’ Revolutionary Dreams (1981): A far more popular craze of the 1920s that fed into science fiction was aviation. Georgii Krutikov, diploma portfolio for The Flying City (1928) With lightning telegrams:

Meeting about tour and dinner on our own Dublin's Georgian Garden Squares The Old Library & the Book of Kells Exhibition Trinity College Dublin has been voted the No. 2 top attraction in Ireland to visit on TripAdvisor's list of Ireland's Top 10 Attractions for 2013, and has also been awarded a TripAdvisor's Travellers' Choice Award. Due to security arrangements for the Trinity Ball - the Old Library and the Book of Kells Exhibition will close on Friday 4 April 2014 at 13:00 rather than 17:00 and will remain closed for the rest of the day. Welcome! Welcome to the Old Library and the Book of Kells Exhibition - a “must see” on the itinerary of all visitors to Dublin. Visitors enter through the Library Shop and proceed to the Book of Kells "Turning Darkness into Light" exhibition; then to the Treasury where the Book of Kells and other related manuscripts are on view; then proceed upstairs to the magnificent Long Room which houses 200,000 of the Library’s oldest books in its oak bookcases. Exhibitions are held in the Long Room to display the rich holdings of the Library and encourage further research.