denny Architectural Art & Design

The Peddie School needed an updated facility for their award-winning swim team and other sports teams and activities. The concourse of the new and expanded Athletic and Aquatic Center creates a welcoming entry, a gathering place for students and visitors and a cohesive connection between the field house, natatorium, fitness center and other facilities. Slender, recessed linear slots contain lighting, sprinklers and speakers, and create a rhythm and vocabulary for the entire building. With a state-of-the-art Light Pipe lighting system at the pool, and luminous exterior walls that glow white or "Peddie Blue" at night, the campus has a new center of activity and excitement.

This videoclip shows two paintings by the Venetian Baroque painter Tintoretto hanging in San Giorgio Maggiore, the Church built by the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. One of the two works shown is the masterpiece "L'ultima Cena" (The Last Supper), a painting that with its great piercing diagonal is widely viewed as representing the essence of the baroque. The painting opposite La Cena is "Manna from Heaven". The famous floor of polychrome marble in the "cube sans fond" style is one of the best known examples of architectural trompe l'oeil illusion. Next is shown Tintoretto's overwhelming series of New and Old Testament paintings commissioned for the Scuola Grande di San Rocco. The clip ends with a view of the extraordinary "Crucifixion". Filmed by Suzanne Fredericq in June 2010 with an iphone 3GS.