At the beginning of the East holiday, I went to Northern Ireland with my friends. We have spent two days in Belfast. First I want to talk about the City Hall which was finished in 1906. The appearance is very splendid, the main material is Portland stone and the building style is the Baroque Revival. A big dome is in the center, and the primary feeling this building produced is awfulness. On one side of this building is a nice garden with some columns in it. There are three Latin cross on the grass and the atmosphere is very peaceful.
Inside the building, the ornaments are extraordinary detail and luxurious. Such as the floor, the lights, the stairs, everything is grand. I can see the big dome as well. I was strongly influenced by the space. There is a small exhibition area as well, it recorded the memory of this building.
The shopping center is another great building, unlike most buildings here, it is focus on modernism and technic. In my unclear memory it has three parts, and uses a circulated area which is full of stairs to connect them together. The roofs on the three parts is glass (maybe plastic), and use the steel truss to support them. In the center, the roof is a glass dome which is supported by steel truss. It is very high, and a rolled stairs can get to the top. There are several platforms on the stairs, it is all supported by steel. I think the dome is to bring the old elements to the new building.
Most of the buildings in this city are built by brick, including some modern buildings. Some of them are very high, and uncountable bricks keep the city its own characters. Maybe the brick is the tradition in Belfast. On the whole, this city has a completely different feeling compared with Dundee. It has many buildings built in recent years, at the same time the using of brick weakened the feeling of modernism.
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