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Beijing National Stadium [SEP] architect | Beijing National Stadium
Beijing National Stadium, officially the National Stadium (), also known as the Bird's Nest (), is a stadium in Beijing. The stadium was jointly designed by architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron of Herzog & de Meuron, project architect Stefan Marbach, artist Ai Weiwei, and CADG, which ... | range of responses was very broad, more than half of the experts surveyed named the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry as one of the most important works since 1980. The Beijing National Stadium (Bird’s Nest stadium) in Beijing by Herzog and de Meuron was the building most often cited, by seven respondents, as the... | 900 | zeroshot-train |
Boone's Chapel [SEP] architect | Boone's Chapel
Boone's Chapel is a Grade I listed, single-storey building attributed to Sir Christopher Wren and built in 1683. The chapel is very small, measuring just 45 square metres and is constructed of red brickwork with Portland stone details to window architraves, rusticated quoins and a pyramidal roof with an ... | the west are the Baroque former conventual buildings of the abbey, constructed between 1771 and 1778, now the Theological Department of the University of Fulda. Nearby is the modern chapel of the Catholic seminary, which was built 1966-1968 by the architect Sep Ruf. South of the monastery is the deanery and the dean's ... | 901 | zeroshot-train |
Brooklyn Savings Bank [SEP] architect | Brooklyn Savings Bank
The Brooklyn Savings Bank was a notable building in Brooklyn, New York, designed by prominent Brooklyn architect Frank Freeman. Completed in 1894, it was considered one of Freeman's finest works, but in spite of its widely recognized architectural significance, the building was demolished in 1964,... | Kings County Savings Bank
Kings County Savings Bank is a New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission-designated building in the Williamsburg, Brooklyn section of New York City. It is an example of French Second Empire-style architecture. Construction of the building began in 1860, to designs of William H. Wilcox of... | 902 | zeroshot-train |
Business Instructional Facility [SEP] architect | as "a part of the architectural expression" of the Business Instructional Facility." Rafael Pelli described the commons as "the central space, not only physically central, but it's central to the functioning and the use of the space." César Pelli, a renowned Argentinian architect and partner of Pelli Clark Pelli Archit... | known as Commerce West was built in 1963. Albert H. and Jane Wohlers provided a $6 million naming gift in 2000 for renovations.
The Business Instructional Facility (commonly referred to as "BIF"), approved by the UI Board of Trustees on July 14, 2004, stands opposite of Wohlers Hall across Sixth Street. The $62 millio... | 903 | zeroshot-train |
Busáras [SEP] architect | . Áras Mhic Dhiarmada is named after Seán Mac Diarmada, a leader of the Easter Rising in 1916.
Architecture.
Busáras was designed by Michael Scott and his team of young architects and designers between 1945 and 1953. It was built against a background of public opposition which centred on the external appearance, functi... | (24 June 1905 – 24 January 1989) was an Irish architect whose buildings included the Busáras building in Dublin, the Abbey Theatre, and Tullamore Hospital.
- Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 – 27 February 1940) was a German architect and designer.
- Sunay Erdem (17 March 1971–) He is a Turkish Architect and Landscape Archi... | 904 | zeroshot-train |
Cabanon de vacances [SEP] architect | Cabanon de vacances
The Cabanon de vacances is a vacation home designed and built by noted architect Le Corbusier in 1951. It is the only place the architect Le Corbusier built for himself which he used for vacation. In July 2016, the home and several other works by Le Corbusier were inscribed as the world's smallest U... | of Égletons
- The Town Planning Project of the city of Egletons 1929-1979. In 2009, the Ministry of Culture awarded the city the label, Heritage of 20th Century, for its remarkable architecture and its urban ensemble from the years 1930 to 1960. See: The monumental gate of "Stade François Chassaing" (René Blanchot, 193... | 905 | zeroshot-train |
Campbell Sports Center [SEP] architect | Campbell Sports Center
The Campbell Sports Center, a Columbia University's Baker Field Athletics Complex, is designed by Steven Holl and senior partner Chris McVoy.
Sited on the corner of West 218th street and Broadway, the Campbell Sports Center
aims to form an inviting new gateway to the Baker Athletics Complex, the ... | 1995–96 Apr Andrei Kanchelskis
1998-98 Apr Kevin Campbell
2006–07 Sep Andy Johnson
2008–09 Feb Phil Jagielka
2011–12 Apr Nikica Jelavić
2012–13 Nov Marouane Fellaini
2016–17 Mar Romelu Lukaku
BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year Award
1995 Neville Southall
BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year Award
2003 Wayne R... | 906 | zeroshot-train |
Casa Amatller [SEP] architect | Casa Amatller
Casa Amatller () is a building in the Modernisme style in Barcelona, designed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch. Along with Casa Batlló and Casa Lleó-Morera, it makes up the three most important buildings in Barcelona's famous Illa de la Discòrdia ("Block of Discord"), noted for its unique modernist buildings.
Th... | an often conspicuously opulent style.
The first house on the block at 35-43 Passeig de Gràcia to be remodelled in the "Modernista" style was Casa Amattler. It was originally built in 1875 in a relatively plain style, conforming to the guidelines laid out in Ildefons Cerdà's 1860 building regulations for the expansion o... | 907 | zeroshot-train |
Church for All Nations [SEP] architect | Our Saviour New York
Our Saviour New York, at 417 West 57th Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1886-87 and was designed by Francis H. Kimball in the Late Victorian Gothic style for the Catholic Apostolic Church, an English group which beli... | Church of All Nations (Melbourne)
The Church of All Nations, formerly known as the Wesleyan Methodist Church, first held religious services on Sunday 6 March 1870. Located on 180 Palmerston Street, Carlton in Melbourne, Australia, the bluestone-covered church was designed by English architect Joseph Reed of Reed & Barn... | 908 | zeroshot-train |
Church of St John-at-Hackney [SEP] architect | fund the church's work with the homeless and vulnerable.
The church has also become a notable music venue, having recently hosted performances by Coldplay, Robbie Williams, Ed Sheehan, Emeli Sandé, Florence and the Machine, Rufus Wainwright and many others.
History.
The current church of St John at Hackney was design... | Edward Charles Hakewill
Edward Charles Hakewill (1816–1872) was an English church architect, the son of Henry Hakewill and Anne Sarah Frith. His brother, John Henry Hakewill (1810–1880), was also an architect.
Career.
Hakewill designed the church of St John of Jerusalem, south Hackney (1845–8), St James's, Clapton, and... | 909 | zeroshot-train |
Château de Maisons [SEP] architect | Château de Maisons
The Château de Maisons (now Château de Maisons-Laffitte), designed by François Mansart from 1630 to 1651, is a prime example of French baroque architecture and a reference point in the history of French architecture. The château is located in Maisons-Laffitte, a northwestern suburb of Paris, in the d... | of René de Longueil, in 1677, the château passed to his heirs until 1732, and then in succession to the marquise de Belleforière, then to the marquis de Soyécourt. In 1777 it became the property of Louis XVI's brother the comte d'Artois, who carried out important interior transformations under the direction of his hous... | 910 | zeroshot-train |
Citadel of Besançon [SEP] architect | Citadel of Besançon
The Citadel of Besançon () is a 17th-century fortress in Franche-Comté, France. It is one of the finest masterpieces of military architecture designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. The Citadel occupies on Mount Saint-Etienne, one of the seven hills that protect Besançon, the capital of Franche-... | the citadel's ditch during World War II.
The twelve sites Citadel of Besançon.
The Citadel of Besançon, in Besançon, Doubs, is considered one of Vauban's finest works of military architecture. The Citadel occupies 11 hectares (27 acres) on Mount Saint-Etienne, one of the seven hills that protect Besançon, the capital o... | 911 | zeroshot-train |
Congress Hall [SEP] architect | government to protect Congress from a mob of angry mutineers caused the representatives to withdraw to Princeton, New Jersey. The national capital then moved to Annapolis, Maryland in November 1783, then to Trenton, New Jersey in November 1784 before finally moving to New York City in January 1785. State delegates did ... | small things could pretty up City Hall Plaza. Boston Globe, Sep 16, 2007. pg. 2.
- Matt Viser. Fount of futility finally runs dry; City Hall Plaza eyesore gets a concrete solution. Boston Globe, June 9, 2006. pg. B.1.
- Jack Thomas. 'I wanted something that would last': At 89, an architect stands by his plan for City H... | 912 | zeroshot-train |
Constance Perkins House [SEP] architect | Constance Perkins House
The Constance Perkins House is a house designed by Richard Neutra and built in Pasadena, California, 1952-55.
Design and construction.
In 1947, Constance Perkins started working as a professor of Art History at Occidental College and here she met Richard Neutra, eventually asking him to design h... | Pasadena, California. "The tiny house was constructed of inexpensive materials- wood, plaster, and glass; a spiderleg beam extended the space by projecting out into a small reflecting pool that meanders through one of the glass walls of the house...He also measured the physical dimensions of his clients. Constance Perk... | 913 | zeroshot-train |
Corrigan Tower [SEP] architect | History.
The site was previously the location of small commercial structures and the 1,500 seat Tower Theater, which was located at the rear of and accessed through the Tower Petroleum Building.
After developer Leo Corrigan purchased the Tower Petroleum Building in 1942, Corrigan Tower was designed by architect Wyatt C... | and the northern section of Bowen Lane (the remaining section renamed Rodda Lane). The second stage of Building 8 was constructed in 1993 to a postmodern design by architect Peter Corrigan. It was the last large-scale building constructed on the Bowen Street blocks of the campus. The proposed fifth tower block was neve... | 914 | zeroshot-train |
Corselitze [SEP] architect | Corselitze seen today was built by Classen from 1775 to 1777 to the design of the architect Andreas Kirkerup. It is an adaption of the old house which dated from the 17th century. Built in the Neoclassical style, it consists of two floors under a black tile roof. The front is nine bays long and decorated with pilasters... | Corselitze
Corselitze, or Korselitse, is a manor house on the island of Falster in the south-east of Denmark. The Neoclassical house was built in 1777 by Johan Frederik Classen who at the time of his death founded Det Classenske Fideicommis which owns the estate today.
History.
History Early history.
Corselitze derives... | 915 | zeroshot-train |
Curutchet House [SEP] architect | Curutchet House
The Curutchet House, La Plata, Argentina, is a building by Le Corbusier. It was commissioned by Dr. Pedro Domingo Curutchet, a surgeon, in 1948 and included a small medical office on the ground floor. The house consists of four main levels with a courtyard between the house and the clinic. The building ... | , to supervise construction for the Curutchet House, a residence designed in 1949 by the Swiss architect for Dr. Pedro Curutchet, a prominent La Plata physician.
He was invited to display his ideas on acoustics at La Sorbonne, and the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Walter Gropius, organized exhibits of ... | 916 | zeroshot-train |
Dynamic Tower [SEP] architect | Dynamic Tower
The Dynamic Tower (also known as Dynamic Architecture Building or the Da Vinci Tower) is a proposed , 80-floor moving skyscraper, designed by architect David Fisher.
Similar to the Suite Vollard completed in 2001 in Brazil, each floor is designed to rotate independently, resulting in a changing shape of t... | and investment banking.
History of BHF Bank.
The bank was formed on 1 January 1970 as the Berliner Handels- und Frankfurter Bank from the merger of the Frankfurter Bank (founded in 1854) and the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft (founded in 1856). In 1970, when the BHF-Bank tower was built by the German architect Sep Ruf, ... | 917 | zeroshot-train |
Emil Bach House [SEP] architect | Emil Bach House
The Emil Bach House is a Prairie style house in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States that was designed by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The house was built in 1915 for an admirer of Wright's work, Emil Bach. Bach was co-owner of the Bach Brick Company. The house is rep... | Bach House
Bach House (in German "Bachhaus") may refer to:
- one of the houses associated with the composer Johann Sebastian Bach, such as:
- Bach House (Arnstadt)
- Bach House (Eisenach), the first Bach museum, housed in a building which was presumed to be the actual birthplace of Johann Sebastian Bach.
- Bach House (... | 918 | zeroshot-train |
Energy Centre [SEP] architect | Energy Centre
The Energy Centre, located in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, is a 39-story, -tall skyscraper designed by HKS, Inc.. It is the fourth tallest building in both the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana.
A four-story parking garage is adjacent to the tower, one block uprive... | Carbon Credits - Berkeley Daily Planet (1 Sep 2006)
- UK Government-commissioned scoping study, by the Centre for Sustainable Energy (Nov 2006)
- Zero Carbon Britain Report outlining how Britain could become carbon neutral by 2027, built around a framework of TEQs nationally and Contraction and Convergence internationa... | 919 | zeroshot-train |
Estadio Azteca [SEP] architect | the "Game of the Century", when Italy defeated West Germany 4–3 in extra time in one of the 1970 semifinal matches.
The stadium was also the principal venue for the football tournament of the 1968 Summer Olympics and 1971 Women's World Cup.
History.
The Estadio Azteca was designed by architects Pedro Ramírez Vázquez ... | League Baseball. The Devils play their home games at Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú designed by international Mexican-American architect FGP Atelier Founder Francisco Gonzalez Pulido in collaboration with local architect Taller ADG. Mexico City has some 10 Little Leagues for young baseball players.
In 2005, Mexico City beca... | 920 | zeroshot-train |
Fife House [SEP] architect | Fife House
Fife House, No 1, Lewes Crescent, is a Grade I listed building in Kemp Town, Brighton, United Kingdom, which was previously owned by the Duke of Devonshire and the Duke of Fife; it is not to be confused with the former Fife House, Whitehall, in London.
History.
Fife House was originally built in 1828 by Thom... | Harry E. Fife House
The Harry E. Fife House, also known as Beck Home, is an historic house in Canton, Ohio, that was designed by architect Guy Tilden and was built in 1896. The design "reflects Tilden's enduring love of towers...[and was] [b]uilt for Harry
Fife, an early independent insurance man and stock broker".
It ... | 921 | zeroshot-train |
First Bank and Trust Tower [SEP] architect | First Bank and Trust Tower
The First Bank and Trust Tower (also known as the First Bank Tower and previously known as the LL&E Tower and 909 Poydras Tower), located at 909 Poydras Street in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, is a 36-story, -tall skyscraper designed in the post-modern style by Welt... | and investment banking.
History of BHF Bank.
The bank was formed on 1 January 1970 as the Berliner Handels- und Frankfurter Bank from the merger of the Frankfurter Bank (founded in 1854) and the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft (founded in 1856). In 1970, when the BHF-Bank tower was built by the German architect Sep Ruf, ... | 922 | zeroshot-train |
Frank L. Smith Bank [SEP] architect | Frank L. Smith Bank
The Frank L. Smith Bank, now known as the Dwight Banking Center of Peoples National Bank of Kewanee, is a bank building in Dwight, Illinois, United States that was designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright's earliest designs for the building date to 1904, but it was constructed in 19... | Lloyd Wright's early designs for the Smith Bank date to 1904. The building, located in downtown Dwight, Illinois, was constructed in 1905 to a Wright design. Wright designed the bank building to house the real estate office and bank of Frank L. Smith, a prominent local citizen who would later be elected to Congress. Sm... | 923 | zeroshot-train |
Fusionopolis [SEP] architect | . It is served by the one-north MRT Station connected to the basement of the building.
Development.
Development Phase 1.
The Fusionopolis Phase 1 development consists of three towers (Connexis South, Connexis North and Symbiosis), with a gross floor area totalling 120,000 m². Fusionopolis Phase 1 was designed by the la... | precinct. Together with Fusionopolis One which was launched in 2008, the Fusionopolis cluster integrates all of A*STAR's science and engineering research capabilities and fosters close collaboration between the private and public sectors. The co-location of A*STAR's research institutes at Fusionopolis and Biopolis brin... | 924 | zeroshot-train |
Futuro [SEP] architect | Futuro
A Futuro house is a round, prefabricated house designed by Matti Suuronen, of which fewer than 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The shape, reminiscent of a flying saucer, and the structure's airplane hatch entrance has made the houses sought after by collectors. The Futuro is composed of fib... | - Bronislaw Malinowski Career Award, Society for Applied Anthropology
Publications.
- 1976 Schensul, J. School, community and regional development in Mexico. Centros de Estudios Educativos. Mexico: D.F.
- 1978 Schensul, J. Ensenanza para el futuro y el futuro de la ensenanza. Coleccion Sep-Setentas, SEP. Mexico: D.F.
-... | 925 | zeroshot-train |
Gehry Tower [SEP] architect | Gehry Tower
Gehry Tower is a nine-story building constructed by architect Frank Gehry; it is located at the "Steintor", Goethestraße 13a, in Hanover, Germany. The building was commissioned by the city-owned Hanover Transport Services (üstra), for whom Gehry also designed a bus stop in the city.
Constructed of stainless... | Palace", the "Lower Saxony State Archives", the "Hanover Playhouse", the "Kröpcke Clock", the "Anzeiger Tower Block", the "Administration Building of the NORD/LB", the "Cupola Hall" of the Congress Centre, the "Lower Saxony Stock", the "Ministry of Finance", the "Garten Church", the "Luther Church", the "Gehry Tower" (... | 926 | zeroshot-train |
Gonda Building [SEP] architect | Gonda Building
The Gonda Building is a medical building owned by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and designed by Ellerbe Becket Architects and Engineers.
It rises 305 feet (93 m) in 21 floors, and was completed in 2001.
The Gonda building was the largest building project in the Mayo Clinic's history, the Lesli... | elements. Corwin also was responsible for the design of the decorative elements found in the Chateau Theatre and Oakwood Cemetery gate.
The Plummer Building is among the more than 200 structures designed by the Ellerbe firm in Rochester. They are also the architect of record for other Mayo buildings including the 1914 ... | 927 | zeroshot-train |
Guangdong Olympic Stadium [SEP] architect | planned to help host the 2008 Summer Olympics until a decision was made to construct the National Stadium in Beijing. The original design for the Guangdong Olympic Stadium was announced in 1999. Taking Guangzhou's nickname, the "Flower City", the American architectural firm of Ellerbe Becket designed Guangdong Olympic ... | Guangdong Olympic Stadium
The Guangdong Olympic Centre Stadium or Aoti Main Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China. Currently used mostly for football matches, the stadium was opened in 2001. It has a capacity of 80,012, making it the largest stadium in the country by seating capaci... | 928 | zeroshot-train |
Haus Wittgenstein [SEP] architect | Haus Wittgenstein
Haus Wittgenstein, (also known as the Stonborough House and the Wittgenstein House) is a house in the modernist style on the Kundmanngasse, Vienna, Austria. The house was commissioned by Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, who asked the architect Paul Engelmann to design a townhouse for her. Stonboroug... | in the United States and the Netherlands. He divided it among his siblings, except for Margarete, insisting that it not be held in trust for him. His family saw him as ill, and acquiesced.
1920–1928: Teaching, the "Tractatus", Haus Wittgenstein.
1920–1928: Teaching, the "Tractatus", Haus Wittgenstein Teacher training i... | 929 | zeroshot-train |
Herman T. Mossberg Residence [SEP] architect | Herman T. Mossberg Residence
Herman T. Mossberg Residence is a house designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It was built for Herman T. Mossberg and his wife Gertrude in 1948 in South Bend, Indiana, and remains in private hands today. It is one of two Wright residences in South Bend, the other being the ... | hill in Lower Saxony, Germany
- Herman T. Mossberg Residence, a house in South Bend, Indiana
- O.F. Mossberg & Sons, a US firearms manufacturer | 930 | zeroshot-train |
High Hollow [SEP] architect | High Hollow
High Hollow, also known as the George Howe House, is a historic Chestnut Hill residence in Northwest Philadelphia designed and built by American architect George Howe.
Design.
High Hollow's design is derived in-part from Howe's thesis while studying under Victor Laloux at the École des Beaux-Arts in France.... | Sep Ruf
Sep Ruf (full name Franz Joseph Ruf; 9 March 1908, in Munich – 29 July 1982, in Munich) was a German architect and designer, belonging to the Bauhaus group. He was one of the representatives of modern architecture in Germany after World War II. His elegant buildings received high credits in Germany and Europe a... | 931 | zeroshot-train |
Hoftoren [SEP] architect | Hoftoren
The Hoftoren (, "Court Tower"), nicknamed "De Vulpen" (, "The Fountain Pen") is a 29-storey, building in The Hague, Netherlands. It is the third-tallest building in the city, and the eighth-tallest in the country. The Hoftoren was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) in New York City, and built by He... | und 60er Jahren, GKG-Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung Bonn
- "Sep Ruf 1908–1982 | Sep Ruf 1908-1982 Modernism with Tradition, ergänzt um: Wie die Quadrate auf den Uniplatz kamen ... – Sep Ruf in Fulda" im Vonderau Museum | Fulda (15. Juni – 25. September 2011)
- The Architect - History and Present of a Profession,... | 932 | zeroshot-train |
Hong Leong Building [SEP] architect | metres away. With 45 floors of office space (parking levels from 4 to 7) and one basement level consisting of shops and a cafeteria, the building stretches 158.0 metres above ground.
Hong Leong Finance Building currently houses the Embassy of Panama on the 41st floor and the Embassy of Norway on the 44th floor.
History... | Hong Leong Building
Hong Leong Finance Building () is a high-rise office skyscraper in the central business district of Singapore. This is the flagship building of Hong Leong Holdings Limited. It is located on 16 Raffles Quay, in the zone of Raffles Place.
It is just next to the historic Lau Pa Sat Market. There are ma... | 933 | zeroshot-train |
Hotel Nutibara [SEP] architect | Katío, Bachué, and Nutabe.
The hotel's restaurant is "La Orquídea".
History.
Hotel Nutibara was designed by American architect Paul Williams, who was not well known in Medellín prior to this building. Plans for a hotel in central Medellín were proposed in 1937, and Hotel Nutibara was established in 1945.
History book o... | Hotel Nutibara
Nutibara Plaza Conference Hotel, previously known simply as Hotel Nutibara, is a Colombian hotel located in Medellín, Colombia specifically in the city center, adjacent to Berrío Park station and tourist sites such as the Museum of Antioquia, the Rafael Uribe Uribe Palace of Culture, parks Berrío and Bol... | 934 | zeroshot-train |
House at Lake Connewarre [SEP] architect | House at Lake Connewarre
Designed by Melbourne architect Kerstin Thompson from 1999–2002, House at Lake Connewarre is located in Leopold, Victoria. It is a house characterised by its black, flat, long roof blending into the landscape around Lake Connewarre. The architect described the house as “a simple gesture across ... | Lake Connewarre, Leopold, Australia, 1999–2003
- Napier Street Housing, Fitzroy, Australia, 2001
- Upside-Down House, Melbourne, Australia, 2005
- Visitors Centre at Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne, Australia, 2007
- Ivanhoe House, Melbourne, Australia, 2008
- Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia, 20... | 935 | zeroshot-train |
InterContinental Warsaw [SEP] architect | InterContinental Warsaw
InterContinental Warsaw, designed by a team of architects under the leadership of the late Tadeusz Spychała, is a five-star hotel in Warsaw, located between Emilia Plater, Śliska, and Sosnowa streets. Its construction started in 2001 and ended in November 2003. It is the tallest hotel in Poland,... | to light is less restricted.
The InterContinental Warszawa is the third tallest hotel in Europe after Hotel Ukraina and Spain's Gran Hotel Bali. The hotel has the deepest foundation of all the skyscrapers in Poland, with a depth of 20.7 metres.
External links.
- The hotel's official website
- Some pictures of the hotel... | 936 | zeroshot-train |
Kaleva Church [SEP] architect | Kaleva Church
Kaleva Church () is a church located in Kaleva, Tampere, Finland, and designed by Reima and Raili Pietilä. It was built in 1964–1966. The church accommodates approximately 1,120 people. It is considered an example of modern architectural style.
External links.
- Reima and Raili Pietilä's architecture in ... | career took off after winning the architectural competition for the Finnish Pavilion at the Brussels World Fair of 1958. This was followed by two other significant competition victories, the Kaleva Church in Tampere (1966) and the Dipoli Student Union building for Helsinki University of Technology (1966).
The life and... | 937 | zeroshot-train |
Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building [SEP] architect | Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building
Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building is one of seven Stalinist skyscrapers laid down in September 1947 and completed in 1952, designed by Dmitry Chechulin (then Chief Architect of Moscow) and Andrei Rostkovsky. The main tower has 32 levels (including mechanical floors) and is tall. At... | developed his career to design a list of familiar Moscow landmarks. From 1945 through 1949 he served as chief architect of Moscow.
Chechulin's work intersects with the Palace of the Soviets competition (the major event in Soviet architectural history) at multiple points. He was among the twelve finalists in the final r... | 938 | zeroshot-train |
Life Electric [SEP] architect | Life Electric
Life Electric (also known as The Life Electric) is a contemporary sculpture, dedicated to the physicist Alessandro Volta (1745–1827). Completed in 2015 it is located in Como, Italy.
Life Electric was designed by Daniel Libeskind, and was a gift to Como, the city where the architect located his "“Summer Se... | Theophilus P. Chandler Jr.
Theophilus Parsons Chandler Jr. (Sep 7, 1845– August 16, 1928) was an American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent his career at Philadelphia, and is best remembered for his churches and country houses. He founded the Department of Architecture at the University of P... | 939 | zeroshot-train |
Lighthouse Tower [SEP] architect | Lighthouse Tower
The Lighthouse Tower is a supertall, commercial skyscraper to be built in Dubai, United Arab Emirates designed by multi-national architectural firm Atkins. It will be constructed in the DIFC, is set rise to 402 m (1,319 feet) and have 66 floors. The tower is a Green Building with a huge emphasis put on... | Knarraros Lighthouse
The Knarraros Lighthouse () is located on the south coast of Iceland.
Description.
The square, two-staged light tower was built in 1938–1939 and was Iceland's first lighthouse built of reinforced concrete. The lighthouse was designed by Axel Sveinsson, and influenced by the ideas of Guðjón Samúelss... | 940 | zeroshot-train |
Monticello [SEP] architect | Monticello
Monticello ( ) was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, who began designing Monticello after inheriting land from his father at age 26. Located just outside Charlottesville, Virginia, in the Piedmont region, the plantation was originally , with Jefferson using... | - Dec. 12, 1958
- 20¢ Monticello, Charlottesville, VA - Apr. 13, 1956
- 25¢ Paul Revere, Boston, MA - Apr. 18, 1958
- 30¢ Robert E. Lee, Norfolk, VA - Sep. 21, 1955
- 40¢ John Marshall, Richmond, VA - Sep. 24, 1955
- 50¢ Susan B. Anthony, Louisville, KY - Aug. 25, 1955
- $1 Patrick Henry, Joplin, MO - Oct. 7, 1955
- $5... | 941 | zeroshot-train |
Moon Theater [SEP] architect | company's other theaters, the Sun Theater at 1410 Farnam Street and the Muse Theater at 24th and Farnam Streets. A fourth theater, the World Theater would, in later years, join the trio.
The Moon Theater was a Moorish-style building designed by Harry Lawrie of the Omaha architectural firm of Mendelssohn, Fisher and Law... | September 1941 lunar eclipse
A partial lunar eclipse took place on Friday, September 5, 1941. It was a shallow partial lunar eclipse, with less than 10% of the Moon covered in Earth's shadow.
Fortnight.
Aug 31, 1941 = Sunday
Sep 1, 1941 = Monday
Sep 2, 1941 = Tuesday
Sep 3, 1941 = Wednesday
Sep 4, 1941 = Thursday
Se... | 942 | zeroshot-train |
Neue Wache [SEP] architect | Neue Wache
The Neue Wache () is a building in Berlin, the capital of Germany. It serves as the "Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Victims of War and Dictatorship". It is located on the north side of the Unter den Linden boulevard in the central Mitte district. Dating from 1816, the Neue Wache ... | famous buildings are found in and around Berlin. These include Neue Wache (1816–1818), the Schauspielhaus (1819–1821) at the Gendarmenmarkt, which replaced the earlier theater that was destroyed by fire in 1817, and the Altes Museum (old museum, see photo) on Museum Island (1823–1830).
Leo von Klenze (1784–1864) was a ... | 943 | zeroshot-train |
Newton Suites [SEP] architect | Newton Suites
Newton Suites is a residential skyscraper in Newton Road, Singapore designed by WOHA Architects. It has a height of 120 metres with 36 floors. Each floor has two two-bedroom and two three-bedroom apartments. The top floor features two penthouses. The building features several sky gardens. The condominium ... | Manchester, IA
- Boulders Inn & Suites, Manning, IA
- Centerstone Hotel, Maquoketa, IA
- Cobblestone Inn & Suites, Marquette, IA
- Boulders Inn & Suites, Milford, IA
- Boulders Inn & Suites, Monticello, IA
- Boulders Inn & Suites, Newton, IA
- Cobblestone Inn & Suites, Vinton, IA
- Cobblestone Inn & Suites, Waverly, IA... | 944 | zeroshot-train |
One Shell Plaza [SEP] architect | One Shell Plaza
One Shell Plaza (OSP) is a 50-story, skyscraper at 910 Louisiana Street in Downtown Houston, Texas. Perched atop the building is an antenna that brings the height to . At its completion in 1971, the tower was the tallest in the city.
Designers.
One Shell Plaza was designed by the architectural firm of S... | small things could pretty up City Hall Plaza. Boston Globe, Sep 16, 2007. pg. 2.
- Matt Viser. Fount of futility finally runs dry; City Hall Plaza eyesore gets a concrete solution. Boston Globe, June 9, 2006. pg. B.1.
- Jack Thomas. 'I wanted something that would last': At 89, an architect stands by his plan for City H... | 945 | zeroshot-train |
One Shell Square [SEP] architect | Hancock Whitney Center
Hancock Whitney Center, formerly One Shell Square, is a 51-story, skyscraper designed in the International style by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, located at 701 Poydras Street in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the tallest building in both the city of New Orleans an... | developer/architect John Portman, the building gained landmark status within the city as Atlanta's tallest building from its completion, in 1976, to 1987 when it was overtaken by One Atlantic Center. The building opened as the tallest hotel in the world; in 1977, however, it was surpassed by its architectural twin, the... | 946 | zeroshot-train |
One Times Square [SEP] architect | One Times Square
One Times Square, also known as 1475 Broadway, the New York Times Building, the New York Times Tower, or simply as the Times Tower, is a 25-story, skyscraper, designed by Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz, located at 42nd Street and Broadway in New York City.
The tower was originally built to serve as the headquarte... | a New York architect best known for designing One Times Square, the former New York Times Building on Times Square. USA
- Leopold Eidlitz (10 March 1823, Prague, Bohemia — 1908, New York City) was a New York architect best known for his work on the New York State Capitol (Albany, New York). USA
- (; 1888, Russian Empir... | 947 | zeroshot-train |
Ontario Legislative Building [SEP] architect | peppercorn" payment of CAD$1 per annum on a 999-year term.
The building and the provincial government are both often referred to by the metonym "Queen's Park".
Characteristics.
Designed by Richard A. Waite, the Ontario Legislative Building is an asymmetrical, five-storey structure built in the Richardsonian Romanesque ... | Ontario.
Following Canadian Confederation, Tully joined the Ontario Department of Public Works in 1868. He was appointed the first Ontario Provincial architect (1868–1896) and engineer. He was involved in the supervising of the competition leading to the design of the Ontario Legislative Building at Queen's Park. As th... | 948 | zeroshot-train |
Palau Güell [SEP] architect | Palau Güell
The Palau Güell (, ) is a mansion designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí for the industrial tycoon Eusebi Güell and built between 1886 and 1888. It is situated on the Carrer Nou de la Rambla, in the El Raval neighbourhood of the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage ... | a hyperboloid adding structural stability to the cypress tree (by connecting it to the bridge). The "bishop's mitre" spires are capped with hyperboloids.
In the Palau Güell, there is one set of interior columns along the main facade with hyperbolic capitals. The crown of the famous parabolic vault is a hyperboloid. The... | 949 | zeroshot-train |
Palazzo Lombardia [SEP] architect | in Italy, being taller than both the Telecom Italia Tower in Naples and the Pirelli Tower in Milan. It lost its supremacy to the Unicredit Tower (also located in Milan) in 2011.
Palazzo Lombardia was designed by the architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, winner of an international design competition in 2004, wit... | Palazzo Lombardia
Palazzo Lombardia ("Lombardy Building") is a complex of buildings in Milan, Italy, including a 43-storey, tall skyscraper.
It is the main seat of the government of Lombardy, located in the Centro Direzionale di Milano ("Directional Centre of Milan") district, north-west of the city centre.
It was fir... | 950 | zeroshot-train |
Payne Whitney Gymnasium [SEP] architect | by square footage.
The building was donated to Yale by John Hay Whitney, of the Yale class of 1926, in honor of his father, Payne Whitney. Because it was designed in the Gothic Revival style that prevailed at Yale between 1920 and 1945, it is commonly known as "the cathedral of sweat". For the design of Payne Whitney G... | Payne Whitney Gymnasium
The Payne Whitney Gymnasium is the gymnasium of Yale University. One of the largest athletic facilities ever built, its twelve acres of interior space include a nine-story tower containing a third-floor swimming pool, fencing facilities, and a polo practice room. The building houses the faciliti... | 951 | zeroshot-train |
Perth Arena [SEP] architect | Northbridge.
About.
The arena was jointly designed by architectural firms Ashton Raggatt McDougall and Cameron Chisholm Nicol. With its design based on the Eternity puzzle, the venue holds up to 13,910 spectators for tennis events, 14,846 for basketball (the arena's capacity is capped at 13,000 for National Basketball ... | as The Perth Regiment (Machine Gun), CASF
- Redesignated 2 Nov 1940 as 1st Battalion, The Perth Regiment (Machine Gun), CASF
- Redesignated 11 Feb 1941 as 1st Battalion, The Perth Regiment (Motor), CASF
- Redesignated 31 Jan 1943 as 1st Battalion, The Perth Regiment, CIC, CASF
- Disbanded 31 Jan 1946
Lineage Reserve Ba... | 952 | zeroshot-train |
Philips Pavilion [SEP] architect | Philips Pavilion
The Philips Pavilion was a World's Fair pavilion designed for Expo '58 in Brussels by the office of Le Corbusier. Commissioned by electronics manufacturer Philips, the pavilion was designed to house a multimedia spectacle that celebrated postwar technological progress. Because Corbusier was busy with t... | Sep Ruf
Sep Ruf (full name Franz Joseph Ruf; 9 March 1908, in Munich – 29 July 1982, in Munich) was a German architect and designer, belonging to the Bauhaus group. He was one of the representatives of modern architecture in Germany after World War II. His elegant buildings received high credits in Germany and Europe a... | 953 | zeroshot-train |
Place Ville Marie [SEP] architect | Ville Marie was one of the first built projects of Henry N. Cobb, a founding partner of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. His design was controversial from the start, given its proximity to many Montreal landmarks and the vast changes it would bring to the downtown core.
According to design historian Mark Pimlott, "The most r... | architect John Wells, it was located on property owned by John Redpath and Peter McGill. It was demolished in 1868 and replaced by a commercial building.
In 1867, a new St. Paul's Church was built to the plans of architect Frederick Lawford on Dorchester Boulevard (now René Lévesque Boulevard) at the corner of Saint-Mo... | 954 | zeroshot-train |
Pope-Leighey House [SEP] architect | Pope–Leighey House
The Pope–Leighey House, formerly known as the "Loren Pope Residence", is a suburban home in Virginia designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The house, which belongs to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has been relocated twice and sits on the grounds of Woodlawn Plantation, Alexandria, Virginia.... | 1963, and Marjorie Leighey donated the home to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1964, along with the entire $31,500 condemnation award to help pay for the relocation. Before donating the home, Ms. Leighey had turned down the initial condemnation award of $25,605 from the Virginia Highway Department.
The ... | 955 | zeroshot-train |
Prudential Tower [SEP] architect | Prudential Tower
The Prudential Tower, also known as the Prudential Building or, colloquially, The Pru, is an International Style skyscraper in Boston, Massachusetts. The building, a part of the Prudential Center complex, currently stands as the 2nd-tallest building in Boston, behind 200 Clarendon Street, formerly the ... | character assassination." Architect Donlyn Lyndon called it "an energetically ugly, square shaft that offends the Boston skyline more than any other structure". In 1990, "Boston Globe" architecture critic Robert Campbell commented: "The Prudential Center has been the symbol of bad design in Boston for so long that we'd... | 956 | zeroshot-train |
Sanskar Kendra [SEP] architect | Sanskar Kendra
Sanskar Kendra is a museum at Ahmedabad, India, designed by the architect Le Corbusier. It is a city museum depicting history, art, culture and architecture of Ahmedabad. Another Patang Kite Museum is there which includes a collection of kites, photographs, and other artifacts. The campus is located at t... | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; The Art Scene Today, Chemould Gallery, Mumbai; Asia Foundation Gallery, San Francisco, California
- 1969: Chemould Gallery, Mumbai; City Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
- 1971: Sanskar Kendra, Ahmedabad; Chemould Gallery, Mumbai
- 1973: Sanskar Kendra, Ahmedabad
- 1975: Chemould Gallery, Mum... | 957 | zeroshot-train |
Schloss Wilhelmshöhe [SEP] architect | in the 12th century the site was used as a monastery. Under Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse 1504-1567 it was secularised and used as a castle. This castle was replaced by a new one from 1606 to 1610 by Landgrave Moritz. The current Neoclassical "Schloss Wilhelmshöhe" was designed by architects Simon Louis du Ry and from 1... | established the Weißenstein monastery at the site of present-day Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, which was dissolved in the course of the Protestant Reformation. Landgrave Philip I of Hesse used the remaining buildings as a hunting lodge, largely rebuilt by his descendant Maurice of Hesse-Kassel from 1606 to 1610.
History 1696–1... | 958 | zeroshot-train |
Smolny Institute [SEP] architect | Smolny Institute
The Smolny Institute (, "Smol'niy institut") is a Palladian edifice in St Petersburg that has played a major part in the history of Russia.
History.
The building was commissioned from Giacomo Quarenghi by the Society for Education of Noble Maidens and constructed in 1806–08 to house the , established a... | offices of various organisations. One of the Smolny compound buildings houses the Schools of Sociology and International Relationships of Saint Petersburg State University.
History Institute Use of the name of Smolny Institute since 1991.
Since 1991, the name "Smolny Institute" has been revived by several different edu... | 959 | zeroshot-train |
Suntec City [SEP] architect | Suntec City
Suntec City is a major mixed-use development located in Marina Centre, a subzone of the Downtown Core in Singapore, which combines a shopping mall, office buildings, and a convention centre. Construction began on 18 January 1992 (with earthworks) followed by full completion and opening on 22 July 1997.
Desi... | spiders and rotules for Façade. Project Title : Upgrading of Suntec City Location : Suntec city, Singapore Owner : The Management Corporation Strata Title Plan No. 2197 Architect : Liu & Wo Architects Pte Ltd Year of construction : 2006 . In 2006, the old curtain wall was deemed to dark and the owners of requested for ... | 960 | zeroshot-train |
Swissôtel Tallinn [SEP] architect | Swissôtel Tallinn
Swissôtel Tallinn is a luxury hotel in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, and is managed by Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts. Designed by architect Meeli Truu from Nord Projekt AS, Swissôtel Tallinn, at a height of 117 metres (384 ft) is one of Baltic’s tallest hotels. This hotel is part of the Tornimäe compl... | - Hilton Princess San Salvador Hotel, San Salvador
Estonia.
- Ammende Villa, Pärnu
- Meriton Grand Hotel Tallinn, Tallinn
- Radisson Blu Hotel Tallinn, Tallinn
- Sagadi Manor Hotel, Sagadi
- Sokos Hotel Viru, Tallinn
- Swissôtel Tallinn, Tallinn
Ethiopia.
- Churchill Hotel, Addis Ababa
- Delano Hotel, Bahir Dar
- Plaza... | 961 | zeroshot-train |
Tarvaspää [SEP] architect | Tarvaspää
The Gallen-Kallela Museum, located in Tarvaspää, Espoo, Finland and built between 1911 and 1913 was a home and studio for Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela. The atelier building Tarvaspää has been a museum since 1961. | Gallen-Kallela lived in the United States, where an exhibition of his work toured several cities, and where he visited the Taos art-colony in New Mexico to study indigenous American art. In 1925 he began the illustrations for his "Great Kalevala". This was still unfinished when he died of pneumonia in Stockholm on 7 Ma... | 962 | zeroshot-train |
The Wave in Vejle [SEP] architect | The Wave (Vejle)
Bølgen (Danish "The Wave") is a modern residential building complex by the Skyttehus bay in Vejle, Denmark. It is inspired by the Sydney Opera House by Danish architect Jørn Utzon and the hilly landscape around Vejle Fjord.
The Wave in Vejle is designed by Henning Larsen Architects and contains ultimat... | uses.
- The Wave (audience), a stadium cheer in sports
- The Wave (company), a British artificial wave pool company
- The Wave (Gold Coast), a residential skyscraper in Australia
- The Wave (streetcar), Fort Lauderdale, Florida's planned streetcar line
- The Wave (Vejle), a residential building complex in Vejle, Denmar... | 963 | zeroshot-train |
Toodyay Fire Station [SEP] architect | Toodyay Fire Station
Toodyay Fire Station is on Stirling Terrace in Toodyay, Western Australia.
Architectural style.
Toodyay Fire Station was designed by architect Ken Duncan, a member of the Volunteer Fire Brigade, and was built in 1939. It is notable for its Art Deco facade. It is one of two single bay Stripped Class... | Perth, the first purpose-built fire station in Western Australia, home of Fire & Emergency Services Education and Heritage Centre
- No. 1 Fire Station, 25 Murray St., Perth, home of the Western Australian Fire Brigade Museum
- Toodyay Fire Station, 105 Stirling Tce., Toodyay
- York Fire Station, 151 Avon Tce, York
Cana... | 964 | zeroshot-train |
Torentje van Drienerlo [SEP] architect | Torentje van Drienerlo
The Torentje van Drienerlo (; Dutch for "Drienerlo Turret") is a 1979 artwork by Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers, located on the campus of the University of Twente in Enschede.
Description.
Schippers made the tower long after he had left a career in visual arts for television. In the 1960s, he was ... | occupy the tower alternately to hang national flags on, and during rush week events students swim to it—in March.
External links.
- "Torentje van Drienerlo" on Architectuurgids.nl
- Short-track skating event, video from "UT Nieuws" | 965 | zeroshot-train |
Torre La Sagrera [SEP] architect | Torre La Sagrera
Torre La Sagrera also Sagrera Tower also Torre del Triangulo Ferroviario was a failed skyscraper project designed by Frank Gehry in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It would have been 148 metres tall and had 34 floors, and would have become the third tallest building in Barcelona behind Torre Mapfre and Ho... | began in 2010)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, District of Columbia (expected completion 2020)
- Le Parc des Ateliers SNCF, Arles, France
- Grand Avenue Project, Los Angeles, California
Works in progress Proposed.
- World's Jewish Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Torre La Sagrera in Barcelona, Spain
- Ocean Avenue Project, ... | 966 | zeroshot-train |
Toufic H. Kalil House [SEP] architect | Toufic H. Kalil House
The Toufic H. Kalil House is a structure that was built by Frank Lloyd Wright in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1955. The Usonian Automatic design of this house allowed Wright to meet the requirements of Dr. Toufic and Mildred Kalil, a professional couple. Wright used the term Usonian Automatic to ... | from simple, linear forms rather than ornamental details. Symmetrical rows of rectangular window openings give the heavy concrete a sense of airiness.
The Kalil house was designed in the mid-1950s, near the end of Wright's life. The Zimmerman House was built in a very different Usonian style for Dr. Toufic Kalil's good... | 967 | zeroshot-train |
Tour de la Bourse [SEP] architect | fifth tallest building in the country. The Tour de la Bourse was designed by Luigi Moretti and Pier Luigi Nervi and is considered to be of the International Style.
History and development.
The original project, conceived during the Expo 67-era economic boom, called for three identical towers arrayed in a triangle. It w... | choreographer (b. 1891)
- 1975 – Pierre Fresnay, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1897)
- 1975 – Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1901)
- 1979 – Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect, designed the Tour de la Bourse and Pirelli Tower (b. 1891)
- 1981 – Kazimierz Serocki, Polish pianist a... | 968 | zeroshot-train |
Troitskaya Tower [SEP] architect | Troitskaya Tower
The Troitskaya Tower (, literally "Trinity Tower") is a tower with a through-passage in the center of the northwestern wall of the Moscow Kremlin, which overlooks the Alexander Garden.
The Troitskaya Tower was built in 1495-1499 by an Italian architect Aloisio da Milano (known in Russia as Aleviz Fryaz... | Kremlin. The two-story basement of the tower housed a prison in the 16th-17th centuries. There is the Troitsky Bridge, which is protected by the Kutafia Tower and leads to the gates of the Troitskaya Tower. There was also a clock on top of the tower between 1585 and 1812. In 1707, due to a threat of Swedish invasion, t... | 969 | zeroshot-train |
Uppatasanti Pagoda [SEP] architect | Uppatasanti Pagoda
History.
Construction of Uppatasanti Pagoda began on 12 November 2006, with the stake-driving ceremony, and completed in March 2009, built under the guidance of Than Shwe, head of Burma's ruling State Peace and Development Council. The invitation card for the stake-driving ceremony opened with a phra... | were shipped to it from the old one in Yangon. The Naypyidaw Safari Park officially opened on 12 February 2011.
Naypyidaw also has two golf courses (Naypyidaw City Golf Course and Yaypyar Golf Course) and a gem museum.
Cityscape Landmark.
Similar in size and shape to the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Uppatasanti Pagoda w... | 970 | zeroshot-train |
Verde Residences and Offices [SEP] architect | to Jumeirah Beach Road (1 km), Bur Dubai (1.5 km), Shindaga tunnel (Deira) (2.5 km), Sheikh Zayed Road (3 km), and the Dubai International Airport. (10 km)
Design.
Designed by the firm of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, the design of the Verde Residences and Offices was described by the developer as:
Adrian Sm... | Verde Residences and Offices
The Verde Towers or Verde Residences and Offices are award-winning, environmentally sustainable buildings under construction in Dubai Maritime City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Location.
The towers are located on the man-made peninsula called the Dubai Maritime City.
Dubai Maritime City is... | 971 | zeroshot-train |
Villa Isola [SEP] architect | Villa Isola
Villa Isola (now Bumi Siliwangi) is an art-deco building in the northern part of Bandung, the capital of West Java province of Indonesia. Overlooking the valley with the view of the city, Villa Isola was completed in 1933 by the Dutch architect Wolff Schoemaker for the Dutch media tycoon Dominique Willem Be... | part of the Venetian Republic in the fifteenth century.
Several centuries of peace followed, to be interrupted only by the arrival of Napoleon’s troops in the late eighteenth century. Isola Vicentina was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy in 1866, along with the rest of the Veneto Region.
Arts.
Villa Branzo Loschi-Drago ... | 972 | zeroshot-train |
Villa Kampen [SEP] architect | Villa Kampen
Villa Kampen is a listed building in Aarhus, Denmark, constructed by architect Hack Kampmann between 1901 and 1902, during his tenure as the Royal Building Inspector for Northern Jutland. Villa Kampen is a villa situated in Midtbyen in central Aarhus, in the affluent neighbourhood around "Strandvejen" sout... | forests and the ocean and it was designed in cooperation with the landscape architect Edvard Glæsel. The overall design seeks to incorporate and complement the surroundings in an unobtrusive way; the hilly terrain has been preserved and used to make it seem as if the building rises out of the bedrock, shapes are irregu... | 973 | zeroshot-train |
Villa La Roche [SEP] architect | Villa La Roche
Villa La Roche, also Maison La Roche, is a house in Paris, designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in 1923–1925. It was designed for Raoul La Roche, a Swiss banker and collector of avant-garde art. Villa La Roche now houses the Fondation Le Corbusier.
La Roche commissioned Le Corbusier to build a v... | as the home of Dr Challoner Purchas. Now run as a Backpackers.
- Huntly House - 16 Huntly Avenue. 19th century Italianate Masonry mansion built in 1876 for Francis White who married Charlotte, daughter of wealthy merchant & land owner C.J. Stone of Mount Albert who was reputably the first white baby born in New Zealand... | 974 | zeroshot-train |
Villa Sturegården [SEP] architect | Villa Sturegården
Villa Sturegården is arguably the first completed project (1913) by architect Gunnar Asplund.
It is a residential house located in the city of Nyköping, some 100 km south of Stockholm, Sweden.
The home was built for local bank manager Oscar Wichman. Wichman describes the project in his autobiographic ... | : "Lucien Lorelle : Photographe", Rueil-Malmaison, Sep 9
- 2006: "Rencontres d’Arles 2006", Jul 4–Sep 17
- 1998: "10th Rencontres Photographiques du Pays Voironnais", Villa des Arts, 169 rue de Charnècle, Voreppe, May 25–Jun 14
- 1998: "Lucien Lorelle", Central Color, 10 rue Pergolèse, Paris, Jun 24–Sep 15
- 1996: "Luc... | 975 | zeroshot-train |
Waldo Hotel [SEP] architect | Waldo Hotel
The Waldo Hotel in Clarksburg, West Virginia, USA, was built from 1901 to 1904 by Congressman and Senator Nathan Goff, Jr. who hired American architect Harrison Albright, best known for his innovative design of the West Baden Springs Hotel in Orange County, Indiana, to design it. The hotel was once the soci... | for the publicity value. Her book, which was published in 1944, first appeared as a serial in SEP (18 December 1943 – 15 January 1944). The legal records indicate that, while the film was based on the experiences of all four performers, only Mayfair and Francis directly contributed to the screenplay. The legal records ... | 976 | zeroshot-train |
Walt Disney World Dolphin [SEP] architect | Walt Disney World Dolphin
The Walt Disney World Dolphin is a resort hotel designed by architect Michael Graves located between Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios in the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, next to Disney's BoardWalk Resort area. It opened on June 1, 1990 and is joined to its sister hotel, t... | Disney Character Dining nightly and on weekend mornings, and reservations for all restaurants can by made through Disney. Room charging within the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort Complex is available. Also, guests staying at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin have free theme park parking and priority acce... | 977 | zeroshot-train |
Walt Disney World Swan [SEP] architect | Walt Disney World Swan
The Walt Disney World Swan is a resort hotel designed by architect Michael Graves located between Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios behind Disney's BoardWalk Resort and across from its sister resort, the Walt Disney World Dolphin. The Swan, which opened January 13, 1990 on Disney property, is ... | Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort
The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort consists of two hotels:
- Walt Disney World Dolphin
- Walt Disney World Swan | 978 | zeroshot-train |
Walter V. Davidson House [SEP] architect | Walter V. Davidson House
The Walter V. Davidson House, located at 57 Tillinghast Place in Buffalo, New York, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1908. It is an example of Wright's Prairie School architectural style. The house is a contributing property to the Parkside East Historic District, a neighborhood ... | as the architect for the Larkin Administration Building in downtown Buffalo, Wright's first major commercial project. Consequently, Wright was commissioned by Heath to build a house, and in turn by another Larkin employee Walter V. Davidson.
Heath's property was a deep and narrow corner lot, facing a large traffic circ... | 979 | zeroshot-train |
Wasif Manzil [SEP] architect | Wasif Manzil
Wasif Manzil (also known as Wasef Manzil and New Palace) was built by Nawab Wasif Ali Mirza Khan under the direction and supervision of Mr. Vivian, officer of the Public Works Department of the Nadia Rivers Division and Surendra Barat, a Bengali engineer. This building, rather palace was used by the Nawab ... | located along with the Nizamat Imambara, Murshidabad Clock Tower, Madina Mosque, Chawk Masjid, Bacchawali Tope, the Shia Complex, Wasif Manzil, the two Zurud Mosques - one on the east of the palace and the other one between the Wasif Manzil and the south gate of the palace - and the Nawab Bahadur's Institution (or, Niz... | 980 | zeroshot-train |
Weald and Downland Gridshell [SEP] architect | Weald and Downland Gridshell
The Weald and Downland Gridshell (2002) is a building designed by Buro Happold and Edward Cullinan Architects for the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum: it was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 2002. The building is a structural wooden gridshell, constructed of oak sourced from Normand... | - Swiss Air Force Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
- L'Oceanogràfic at the City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia, Spain
- Weald and Downland Gridshell at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Chichester, England
- Putrajaya Convention Centre, Putrajaya, Malaysia
- Lotus Sculpture at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, UK (2012)... | 981 | zeroshot-train |
West Memorial Hall [SEP] architect | West Memorial Hall
The West Memorial Hall, or West Memorial Institute, is a Victorian Grade II listed building at 7-9 Gosbrook Road, Caversham, Berkshire, designed by Alfred Waterhouse. The Hall is a former Baptist Free Church that has now been converted to apartments.
Architecture.
The Hall was designed by the noted V... | An account of that first anniversary followed in the November edition. 10 Bahá'ís attended the gravesite Sep 30th with flowers and prayers for an hour and a service was held the following Sunday in a hall which was also the anniversary of `Abdu'l-Bahá's visit and the assemblage again returned to the gravesite at sunset... | 982 | zeroshot-train |
Wollaton Hall [SEP] architect | its construction stretched the resources he mainly obtained from coalmining; the original family home was at the bottom of the hill. Though much re-modelled inside, the "startlingly bold" exterior remains largely intact.
Wollaton Hall was built between 1580 and 1588 for Sir Francis Willoughby and is believed to be desi... | had a strong influence on the overall design of the building. In 1580 he moved to his next project—Wollaton Hall. At Wollaton he was clearly more a "surveyor" (the term at that time for an architect) than a stonemason, and was in charge of overall construction.
Smythson's style was more than a fusion of influences; alt... | 983 | zeroshot-train |
Woolworth Building [SEP] architect | Woolworth Building
The Woolworth Building is an early American skyscraper located at 233 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City. Designed by architect Cass Gilbert, it was the tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1930, with a height of . More than a century after its construction, it remains one of the 100 tallest ... | Gilbert to design the new building. There are few print documents that indicate early correspondence between Woolworth and Gilbert, and news articles as late as March 1910 mentioned that no architect had been chosen. Gilbert later mentioned that he had received the commission for the Woolworth Building after getting a ... | 984 | zeroshot-train |
Zuellig Building [SEP] architect | and Merrill, in cooperation with local architectural firm W.V. Coscolluela & Associates. Facade design was done by Meinhardt Hong Kong Pte. Ltd., while Structural, Mechanical & Electrical, and Fire Protection engineering & design was provided by Meinhardt Philippines.
Other consultants of the project team are Davis Lan... | Medal of Merit awardee from the Philippine Institute of Architects PIA and 1969 Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan awardee; former Dean Emeritus of the Mapua Institute of Technology
- William Coscolluela (1997) - architect and recipient of the Gold Medal of Merit award from the Philippine Institute of Architects PIA; awa... | 985 | zeroshot-train |
Şemsi Pasha Mosque [SEP] architect | Şemsi Pasha Mosque
The Şemsi Pasha Mosque (, also spelled "Chamsi-Pasha") is an Ottoman mosque located in the large and densely populated district of Üsküdar, in Istanbul, Turkey.
History.
The Şemsi Pasha Mosque was designed by Ottoman imperial architect Mimar Sinan for Grand Vizier Şemsi Pasha. The Mosque is one of th... | Vakfi, VII, 158–159.
- Necipoglu, Gülru. 2005. The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire. London: Reaktion Books, 452–498.
- Sözen, Metin. 1988. Sinan: Architect of the Ages. Istanbul: Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, 312–315.
External links.
- Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism – A 360... | 986 | zeroshot-train |
1111 Lincoln Road [SEP] architect | 1111 Lincoln Road
1111 Lincoln Road is a parking garage in the South Beach section of Miami Beach, Florida, designed by the internationally known Swiss architectural firm of Herzog & de Meuron. It is located at the western end of the Lincoln Road Mall at the intersection with Alton Road, and can house some 300 cars. Si... | 's Lincoln Road."
Some users have objected to the high price for parking at 1111 Lincoln Road, which can be up to four times greater than at other lots in the area. (Conversely, drivers of luxury cars like parking at 1111 to emphasize their status.) Others have complained that the garage is not sufficiently protected a... | 987 | zeroshot-train |
29 South LaSalle [SEP] architect | 29 South LaSalle
29 South LaSalle is a proposed 51 story skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, designed by Lucien Lagrange Architects. It would stand at 870 feet (265 m). This project would include a "renovation", and facadectomy of the adjacent New York Life Insurance Building.
History of location.
29 S. LaSalle was at one... | Field Building (Chicago)
The Field Building, also known as the LaSalle National Bank Building and Bank of America Building is an art deco office building at 135 South LaSalle Street in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois in the United States. The building was designated a Chicago Landmark February 9, 1994.
His... | 988 | zeroshot-train |
3 Hardman Street [SEP] architect | 3 Hardman Street
3 Hardman Street is a 16-storey high-rise building in Spinningfields, Manchester, England. At 75 metres, it is currently the third-tallest building in the Spinningfields area (after 1 Spinningfields and the Manchester Civil Justice Centre) and the tenth-tallest building in Manchester.
Background.
3 Har... | Governor L. G. Hardman House
The Governor L. G. Hardman House is a historic house located at 208 Elm Street in Commerce, Georgia. It is locally significant architecturally as a "fine example" in Georgia of the Mediterranean Revival style of architecture applied to a residence.
Description and history.
Completed in 1921... | 989 | zeroshot-train |
8 Spruce Street [SEP] architect | 8 Spruce Street
8 Spruce Street, originally known as Beekman Tower and currently marketed as New York by Gehry, is a 76-story skyscraper designed by architect Frank Gehry in the New York City borough of Manhattan at 8 Spruce Street, between William and Nassau Streets, in Lower Manhattan, just south of City Hall Park an... | name was changed to the Roumanian American Congregation, also known as "Or Chodash-Agudas Achim" (New Light-Union of Brethren). The congregation was succeeded by Society Hill Synagogue, which continues to operate in and expand the historic property. The building entered the National Register of Historic Places in June ... | 990 | zeroshot-train |
Axis at Brickell Village [SEP] architect | Axis at Brickell Village
Axis at Brickell Village is a high-rise building complex in the Brickell district of Miami, Florida. The complex, designed by the renowned Arquitectonica architecture firm, consists of two residential twin towers, Axis at Brickell Village North Tower and Axis at Brickell Village South Tower. Bo... | in Miami. The buildings are located at 1100 Southwest 1st Avenue. Axis on Brickell is located immediately adjacent to the Brickell Metrorail and Metromover station.
See also.
- List of tallest buildings in Miami
External links.
- Axis at Brickell Village on Emporis
- Axis at Brickell Village on SkyscraperPage | 991 | zeroshot-train |
Bieganowo Palace [SEP] architect | Bieganowo Palace
Bieganowo Palace () - eclectic palace with elements of neoclassicism in Bieganowo (Września County, Poland), built between 1914-1916, designed by Stefan Cybichowski for Edward Grabski.
Description.
Building on a rectangular plan, with a mansard roof, with symmetrically placed alcoves. The axis of the e... | . In 1880 it was owned by Stanisław Bronisz and in the twentieth century it belonged to the Grabski family. In 1939 it was owned by Edward Grabski.
Sources.
- .
External links.
- Bieganowo - Polish monuments
- Bieganowo - palace | 992 | zeroshot-train |
Blaise Castle [SEP] architect | , who bought it from Astry's descendents in 1762; he built the sham castle. Farr went bankrupt when ships he owned were blockaded during the American Revolutionary War, and the estate was bought in 1778 by Denham Skeate. Eleven years later he sold it to John Harford, a wealthy Bristol merchant and banker, who demolishe... | portfolio, including the Blaise Castle Estate at Henbury. This was originally property of Thomas Farr, but Farr went bankrupt in 1778 following the American Revolutionary War. The estate then changed hands a number of times until Harford's father eventually purchased the land and buildings.
John Harford the Elder had a... | 993 | zeroshot-train |
Buen kulturhus [SEP] architect | turf.
The total cost of building Buen kulturhus was 210 million Norwegian kroner and it was designed by the architecture firm Danish 3XN based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Nearby in the river Mandalselva is "Denne rogna klekkes snart", an artwork by Maria Koolen Hellmin. A pedestrian bridge across the river connects the bu... | Buen kulturhus
Buen kulturhus is a cultural multi-purpose house located in the town of Mandal in Norway. The town is located in the municipality of Mandal in Vest-Agder county in the far southern part of Norway. The building opened in 2012 and includes a library, an art gallery, cinemas, halls adapted for theater, danc... | 994 | zeroshot-train |
Cambridge Guildhall [SEP] architect | Cambridge Guildhall
Cambridge Guildhall is a civic building designed in 1939 by Charles Cowles-Voysey in the centre of the historic city of Cambridge, England. It includes two halls, "The Large Hall" and "The Small Hall", and is used for many disparate events such as comedy acts, conferences, craft fairs, live music, t... | designed and built the old Cambridge Guildhall.
Early life Ecclesiastical work.
In his works at Cambridge (except for the altarpiece at King's College), Essex used the Italianate style which he had learnt from Burrough; but he was an admirer of the then despised Gothic style, and was a pioneer professional architect i... | 995 | zeroshot-train |
Casa Pinyol [SEP] architect | Casa Pinyol
Casa Pinyol is a building designed in Reus, Catalonia, Spain, designed by the Modernist architect Pere Caselles i Tarrats.
The Casa Pinyol was built in 1910. As of 2010 it is used as the head office of the Catalan party Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya in the city of Reus.
See also.
- Reus
- Modernisme | Gaudí Centre
Gaudí Centre is a museum in Reus, Catalonia, Spain, dedicated to the architect Antoni Gaudí i Cornet, who was born in the city in 1852.
The museum was designed by architects Joan Sibina, Toshiake Tange, and Gabriel Bosques, and was opened in May 2007. The building is located on the market square in Reus, w... | 996 | zeroshot-train |
Corn Palace [SEP] architect | Palace was rebuilt once again, with a design by the architectural firm Rapp and Rapp of Chicago. Russian-style onion domes and Moorish minarets were added in 1937, giving the Palace the distinctive appearance that it has today. It costs $130,000 annually to decorate the Palace.
The exterior corn murals are replaced and... | of small pioneer settlements to thriving urban centers. President Grover Cleveland visited in 1887, by then Fourth Street was the center of the business district.
Sioux City is also the birthplace of the Corn Palace, a temporary building made each year as part of the Corn Festival. The Sioux City Corn Palaces were larg... | 997 | zeroshot-train |
Crystal Island [SEP] architect | Crystal Island
Crystal Island is a future building project in Moscow, Russia that is planned to have around 2,500,000 square meters (27,000,000 square ft) of floor space and a height of 450 meters (1,476 ft) designed by Norman Foster. At these dimensions upon completion it would be the largest structure (in floor space... | Institute, grew up in Rock Island.
- Eugene Rousseau, saxophonist, was born in Blue Island
- Robert A. Schuller, televangelist, former minister on the "Hour of Power" TV show at the Crystal Cathedral, was born in Blue Island
- Robert E. Seyfarth, early 20th century architect
- Gary Sinise, actor, director, and musician... | 998 | zeroshot-train |
Eddie's House [SEP] architect | Eddie's House
Eddie's House was a doghouse designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Berger family of San Anselmo, California, to be used by their dog Eddie. Wright designed Eddie's House to be in keeping with the family's home, known as the Robert Berger House, which he had previously designed. The plans for the doghouse... | of the house, and a large overhang on a roof with a low pitch.
When Eddie's House was actually constructed, the Berger family did not follow Wright's plans strictly. They changed the location of the door as well as not including a concrete base planned by Wright to make the doghouse portable.
External links.
- Website ... | 999 | zeroshot-train |
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