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American Architecture by Leland M. Roth
epub |eng | 2016-03-29 | Author:Leland M. Roth

8.35. Eliel Saarinen, Tribune Tower competition entry, 1922. Saarinen’s entry in the Tribune Tower competition was felt by many architects to be superior to the design given first prize. It ...
( Category: Roofing June 30,2016 )
SynergiCity by Paul Hardin Kapp
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Hardin Kapp

CHAPTER EIGHT Rethinking Storm Water A MODEL FOR SYNERGICITY JAMES H. WASLEY In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development June 9,2016 )
The Tube: Station to Station on the London Underground by Green Oliver
epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Green, Oliver [Green, Oliver]

Tiled mural design at Haggerston, opened as part of London Overground, 2010. All of the former Network Rail stations have been refurbished and rebranded by TfL, just as London Transport ...
( Category: History May 9,2016 )
The Art of Building in the Classical World by John R. Senseney
epub |eng | 2011-05-08 | Author:John R. Senseney

78 Artemision and agora, Magnesia-on-the-Maeander. Restored ground plan showing W. Hoepfner's proposed geometric underpinning. Drawing author, modified from W. Hoepfner, in Hermogenes: Figure 1. integral to the visual experience of ...
( Category: History May 9,2016 )
Versailles by Tony Spawforth
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Tony Spawforth

8. Behind Closed Doors IN THE seventeenth century, when Versailles was built, privacy mattered much less to the French upper classes than it did a hundred years later. On the ...
( Category: Landmarks & Monuments May 2,2016 )
Gothic Cathedrals by Karen Ralls
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Karen Ralls

Sundial angel, the “Angel of Chartres,” carved on the exterior of Chartres cathedral. The idea that there are secrets concealed in art and architecture is not a new one. Certain ...
( Category: Religious Buildings April 24,2016 )
The Oglethorpe Plan: Enlightenment Design in Savannah and Beyond by Wilson Thomas D
epub |eng | 2015-02-11 | Author:Wilson, Thomas D. [Wilson, Thomas D.]

The Trustees resisted constant appeals to remove the prohibition on slavery by instructing William Stephens in no uncertain terms that it would never be allowed. With a hope of putting ...
( Category: State & Local April 21,2016 )
More Craftsman Homes by Gustav Stickley
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-10-14 | Author:Gustav Stickley [Stickley, Gustav]

The interior view below gives some impression of the generous dimensions of this room, and the sense of light and airiness that results from the numerous and pleasantly grouped windows. ...
( Category: Architecture April 20,2016 )
AIA Guide to Chicago by Alice Sinkevitch
epub |eng | 2014-04-17 | Author:Alice Sinkevitch

Illinois National Guard, Thirty-Third Division—Northwest Armory Humboldt and Kedzie Blvds. and Logan Square No part of the twenty-eight-mile boulevard system offers more pleasure than the drive from Humboldt Park to ...
( Category: State & Local April 18,2016 )
Garden Cities by Sarah Rutherford
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Rutherford

An idealised interior, designed by Barry Parker for his brother Stanley, in Letchworth Garden City, 102 Wilbury Road. Arts and Crafts and historicist styles were strong themes, as epitomised in ...
( Category: England April 8,2016 )
City on a Grid by Gerard Koeppel
epub |ara, eng | 2015-09-02 | Author:Gerard Koeppel

Our perpetual dead flat, and streets cutting each other at right angles, are certainly the last things in the world consistent with beauty. —Walt Whitman, Sunday Dispatch, 1849 The time ...
( Category: State & Local March 28,2016 )
The Alhambra by Robert Irwin
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-03-10 | Author:Robert Irwin

THE PROPORTIONAL BUILDING Recently the architectural historian and former Director of the Museum of Hispano-Muslim Art in the Alhambra, Antonio Fernández-Puertas, has argued that the men who built the two ...
( Category: Landscape March 11,2016 )
The Splendor of English Gothic Architecture by Hendrix John
epub |eng | | Author:Hendrix, John. [Hendrix, John Shannon]

Nave, vault replaced after 1840. York Minster. West front. Exeter Cathedral. Chapter house vault, c. 1300. Southwell Minster. The design of Exeter Cathedral is consistent from its conception in around ...
( Category: History March 1,2016 )
The LEGO Architect by Tom Alphin
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Tom Alphin

( Category: Models December 30,2015 )
Five Hundred Buildings of Paris by Kathy Borrus
epub |eng | 2003-12-21 | Author:Kathy Borrus

348 Hôtel Gouthière This severe, neoclassic, eighteenth-century mansion belonged to a goldsmith named Gouthière. Unfortunately, Madame du Barry, last mistress to Louis XV, owed him a sizeable debt that she ...
( Category: Assessment December 22,2015 )

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