Mexico Pavilion concept art by Collin Campbell (1979)

I love this concept art because it shows a familiar picture but the closer you look the more foreign if becomes. Notice how the attraction had an exterior portion (on the left) and how the restaurant outside had a small bar.

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Visit the City of Grace, a city filled with mercy and goodwill. The temple, pavilion, and peach grove... farmers work on the field. Everything looks so tranquil, but...

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'As I looked at those grape-blue eyes, fringed with their fiery gold, the bleak face seemed to crumble back into the dusk; only the eyes lived on.'
J. A. Baker, on a tawny owl. The Peregrine.

Image: Left: Tawny Owl by E Ravilious. Right, ditto by C F Tunnicliffe.

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Two women sitting in a garden, 1932
Eric Ravilious (British, 1903-42)
watercolour

Due donne sedute in un giardino, 1932

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The one at the right is Avilio (from 91Days) and he is awful like that :'( https://t.co/wMwAYoG73p

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River Thames at Hammersmith, Eric Ravilious, 1933. The original is in a private collection.

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Two Erics, two views of Cuckmere Haven. Left, 'The Coastguard Station' by Eric Slater, c. 1930s. Right, 'Cuckmere Haven' by Eric Ravilious, 1939. The Ravilious view is more or less from outside the cottages, looking landward.

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In just a few days, we’ve gone from 4K to almost 5K followers! Thank you all! Tomorrow is & there will be a special post. For now here’s Two Women in A Garden, Eric Ravilious, 1932. Original with . The women: Charlotte Bawden & Tirzah Harwood.

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Four hill figures by Ravilious. Top left to bottom left: The Long Man of Wilmington, The Cerna Abbas Giant, The Westbury Horse, and The Vale of the White Horse. All 1939.

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'Because he was always up early and liked to catch the countryside at its first freshness, he had often drawn the sun. For many of his watercolours he had looked directly into it.'
Christopher Neve on Eric Ravilious.
Left: Rye Harbour, 1938. Right Dungeness, 1939.

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Built around 1810, the Rose Pavilion at Pavlovsk, St Petersburg, Russia, was originally a graceful wooden building surrounded by beds of roses with just a simple fence that aptly delimitated its ground at the edge of the White Birch area.

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Channel Steamer Leaving Harbour, Eric Ravilious, 1935. It depicts a cross-channel streamer leaving Newhaven harbour in Original in a private collection.

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Tea At Furlongs, Eric Ravilious, 1938. Furlongs was a house near Lewes in Original in a private collection.

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and from The Bartlett's have had their pavilion selected to represent Montenegro at the 17th annual Venice Architecture Biennale.
https://t.co/6EO8vSqhj5

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Drift Boat, Eric Ravilious, 1941. What looks like scaffolding are anti-tank defences known as “Obstacle Z.1.” that were placed along many British beaches in Original in the collection of .

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I made all of these last night on the plane to Orlando with a meme app.

This is why they are all terrible and yet also great in a way.

I need to figure out one for each pavilion now. https://t.co/ZdqGcMiDWC

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James Lynch - painter of the English landscape. Often compared to Samuel Palmer and Eric Ravilious.

White Cliff Down
Cherhill White Horse
Moon over West Milton

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Probably the one I’m looking forward to the most... China Pavilions new fusion eatery.

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Knitting Friends in the park: Friday 21st February 2020, 10.00am-noon, in the pavilion......... all cordially invited, regardless of level of proficiency in knitting, sewing, crochet, ...........

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