British Architecture
British West Indies Architecture
Location Anguilla, British West Indies Client AJCP Project Type Resort Renovation & Expansion 46 Guest Keys & Villas 120-Seat Cliff-Side Restaurant Event Deck and Meeting Rooms 2-Level Pool Spa The renovation of the Malliouhana Hotel & Spa represents an opportunity to bring an iconic resort – Anguilla’s first hotel property – back to the forefront of exclusive, luxury destinations in the Caribbean. The renovation of this 30-year-old hotel carefully balances two parallel goals – to preserve the historic hotel’s air of gracious…
read moreNorman Foster, British Museum
The courtyard at the centre of the British Museum was one of London s long-lost spaces. Originally a garden, soon after its completion in the mid-nineteenth century it was filled by the round Reading Room and its associated bookstacks. Without this space the Museum was like a city without a park. This project is about its reinvention. With over five million visitors annually, the British Museum is as popular as the Louvre or the Metropolitan Museum of Art. However, in the absence of a centralised circulation system it was congested and difficult…
read more19th century British Architecture
The Industrial Revolution, underway by the middle of the 18th century and emerging first in England, is often cited as the single most important development effecting architecture in the modern world. The harnessing of coal and steam energy combined with new mechanized technologies and industrial materials, especially iron, steel and glass, brought sweeping changes throughout the fabric of society. Architectural commissions from ecclesiastical, royal and noble patrons were replaced by a new class of public authorities and private patrons, the leaders…
read moreAgriculture and health of your teeth: amazing connection
Agriculture is one of the most important branches of material production: breeding animals that are intended for agriculture and growing crops in order to obtain agricultural and livestock products. Agriculture includes various types of primary processing of animal and plant products. Today, everyone understands that agriculture is of great importance for the economy of the country as a whole and for the citizens of a particular country to be able to consume high-quality and tasty products from the counter, because the health of all buyers directly…
read moreEdinburgh Buildings
The King s Buildings site is located on the south side of the city, approximately three miles from the centre of Edinburgh and can be accessed by car. The address of the King s Buildings is: West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG. Plan your car journey To plan your route to the University, you could use the AA or RAC Route Planner All you need to do it type in your origin and destination. Postcode details of University buildings are available from the University s Campus maps. Parking at the King s Buildings A number of University car parks are located…
read moreRoyal College of Architecture
In 1958, the RCP bought Someries House in Regent’s Park with the intention of it being the site of a new headquarters. The house had been designed by John Nash (1752–1835) and sustained bomb damage during World War II. The Crown Estate Commissioners had no objection to its demolition, as long as the new building harmonised with the Regency architecture of the adjoining terraces and villas. The RCP president at the time, Sir Robert Platt (1900–1978), approached Sir John Summerson for advice on finding a suitable architect. Summerson, the curator…
read moreArchitecture Extension
Today at Hot Chips in Cupertino, I had the opportunity to present the latest update to our ARMv8-A architecture, known as the Scalable Vector Extension or SVE. Before going into the technical details, key points about ARMv8-A SVE are: ARM is significantly extending the vector processing capabilities associated with AArch64 (64-bit) execution in the ARM architecture, now and into the future, enabling implementation choices for vector lengths that scale from 128 to 2048 bits. High Performance Scientific Compute provides an excellent focus for the…
read moreGlass building London
London’s skyline has a new addition this week: the Walkie Scorchie. Joining the crowded group of glass protrusions, such as the Shard, the Gherkin, and the Cheesegrater, is 20 Fenchurch Street, which had previously been known as the Walkie Talkie, on account of it looking vaguely like a gigantic two-way radio. But the 37-storey office block, due to be completed next year, has gained a new sinister reputation: the death ray, the fryscraper, the Walkie Scorchie. Its south-facing concave facade conspires to concentrate and reflect the sun’s rays into…
read moreBritish Victorian Architecture
Though new technology drove innovation in Victorian architecture, nostalgia was its keynote. Past eras were plundered for inspiration. Both watered-down Regency Classicism and the Greek Revival continued after Victoria came to the throne, but as her long reign wore on a battle of the styles developed. The Gothic Revival had a powerful grip on the imaginations of architects between 1855 and 1885. That still left room for a bewildering array of other borrowings from the past. Perhaps national pride encouraged an admiration for the architecture of…
read moreBritish Designs
A border terrier and an English pointer admire Drumstick Park by Robert Nicol. Mikael Buck/More Than British designer Dominic Wilcox is a master of the whimsical. His childlike imagination has created inventions such as a stained-glass driverless car and a helmet with a crane that serves cereal. He has brought children’s inventions and imaginary friends to life, and last weekend in London, he created a contemporary art exhibition for dogs. Dogs check out paintings that use a dog-friendly color spectrum palette. A border terrier jumps into a 10-foot…
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