Burnham and Bennett, new plan for Chicago

The City Beautiful

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There is something very distinctive about the grid plans of American cities, but also something limited. At the end of the 19th century a...
Pennsylvania Station, New York

Beaux-arts

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The beaux-arts style was a way of building that originated in the school of fine arts set up in Paris in the early 19th...
Creative urban planning

Creative urban planning

Gothic

Gothic

Barbican Center Housing, London, Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, 1965

An architecture for ordinary people? Modernism

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Richard Rogers mentioned in a lecture in 1979 that the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris—the Beaubourg, which had just been completed—is erroneously considered to...

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Streets, lanes and footpaths

Streets, lanes and footpaths

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Our movement through towns is normally along streets and roads, and hence our perception of the quality of place is shaped by what we...
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Attempts to catalog all possible variants of planning solutions for individual residential buildings of mass construction have been made repeatedly. In particular, in England in the 1960s, annual catalogues of recommended planning solutions for small residential buildings were published with accompanying schemes that make it possible to understand the features of numerous layouts.

All treatises talk about the need for self-knowledge, reading the "scroll" of one's being and the world. In other words, the process of cognition is presented as a constant search for similarity relations and connections between man and the...
Conquered by the Arabs in 711-713. In the 11th century. the Christian states of northern Spain returned part of the conquered territories, including Toledo, in 1085. 1212 - the defeat of the Moors in the battle of Las Navas...
Pantheon, Rome

Architecture takes control. Inventing Interior Space

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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, panoramas were particularly popular in large European cities. Panoramas were specially built circular halls, which received their...

Unlock Operational Efficiency with Cleverence’s Warehouse Management Software*

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In the fast-paced world of modern business, efficient warehouse management is the key to maintaining a competitive edge. Are you struggling to optimize your...

Postmodernism

Features of the style of architecture of Russian architecture

Features of the style of architecture of Russian architecture

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What are the features of this style? The traditions of the cross-dome system are preserved. Local limestone is used, from the blocks of which...

Architecture of villas on Koh Phangan island*

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Architecture of Thailand
The island of Phangan, nestled in the Gulf of Thailand, is renowned not only for its pristine white beaches and lush forests but also...

Beyond the Slides: Comprehensive Services Offered by Pitch Deck Consultants

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Alright, let's get down to brass tacks. When you hear 'pitch deck consultants', you might think it's all about jazzing up a few PowerPoint...

Rhetoric of the image of architecture

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Old Town
The application of a research on rhetorics means the focus of the researcher is on the persuasive nature of the image, in this case...

Programmed spontaneity in spatial design*

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The conception that something is “formal”, in general terms, refers to the idea of protocol, of behavioural rule or social etiquette. The term “informal”,...

Rocamadour*

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Rocamadour
The "vertical village" is often called the small medieval town of Rocamadour. It is located in a picturesque place in the south-west of France,...

Aalto and Japan: Towards an Architecture of Meaningful Envi- ronmental Integration

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Tokyo Skytree tower
The route of ideas and idioms is not a one-way journey, but (ōfuku, Japanese) – round trip. In contemporary Japanese architecture, we can find...