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A Focused Built Environment Description of the Ebenezer Baptist Church

Frontal view of the church.

Frontal view of the church.

Located at the corner of Auburn Ave NE and Jackson St NE in Atlanta Georgia, the Ebenezer Baptist Church communicates a display of balance. The building is organized symmetrically from left to right, where the two outer thirds are rectangular prisms and the middle third is a shorter rectangular prism with a pointed traingular top. The four columns that outline each third are equidistant from one another.

The windows are also aligned symmetrically, with two vertical sets of stained glass windows in the middle section, two shuttered windows on the upper half of the two outer rectangular structures, as well as two more stained glass windows directly beneath the shuttered windows. The windows are all lined with white paning and all the stained glass windows are mostly dark blue with individual flecks of viridian, cerulean, and beige. The symmetrical design of the building contributes an overall even and balanced presentation.

 

 

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FBED: The Children’s Museum of Atlanta

full outside view of the museum

full outside view of the museum

It’s 5:30 pm on a Sunday at The Children’s Museum of Atlanta, after the doors have been locked and the establishment has been closed for the day, leaving behind  a hollow shell of bright colors and floral arrangements against an otherwise monochrome and clouded landscape. A steady but sparse pattern of cars and buses traverse the intersection at the corner; the traffic light unhurriedly shifts from red to orange to green.

 

close-up of the sculpture just outside the building

close-up of the sculpture just outside the building

 

 

The sculpture out front is a motley stack of brightly colored rectangular prisms atop a concrete cylinder, and adorning the righthand staircase adjacent to the building is a string of potted ferns and shrubbery, some overflowing with cascading leaves of a deep maroon color and lined with curled white foliage.

stiars to the right of the main entrance

stiars to the right of the main entrance

 

 

 

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Brown and green leaves speckle the walkway, a few peeking out of the crevices between cardinal red bricks or skidding across beige concrete streaked with darker tones of olive. The ground is flecked with both dark splotches and pale dots.