England Architecture
Architectural House designs
The Chicago office of WATG’s Urban Architecture Studio has conceived what it hopes will be the world’s first free-form 3D-printed house. The proposal won first prize in a competition organized by an entrepreneurial firm in Chattanooga, Tennessee, called Branch Technology, which solicited plans for a single-story, 600- to 800-square-foot residence to be constructed using its proprietary 3D printing process. WATG’s design, dubbed Curve Appeal, calls for an amorphic structure that would wrap around a mostly glass-walled core containing a living room…
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Architects Location Pezo von von Ellrichshausen Architects - Mauricio Pezo, Sofia von Ellrichshausen Models Juan Mellado, Carolina Merino, Maria Paz Palma Structure Claudio Sepúlveda Construction Claudio Bravo Model Photography Ana Crovetto Sanitary Project Marcelo Valenzuela Electrical Project Juan Aroca Heating Project Mauricio Comas Constructive System Reinforced concrete, wooden beams Plot area 2.835 m2 Area 532.0 sqm From the architect. This is both a huge and a small house. It doesn’t have extended rooms but instead a series of rooms that…
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Welcome to England, the largest of the four home nations of the United Kingdom and by far the most visited. The Kingdom of England has existed in its current form since Æthelstan of Wessex drove the Vikings out of Northumbria in 927, although its history dates back much further. For those interested in ancient history, there s world famous Stonehenge and Maiden Castle, not to mention the hundreds of Roman remains scattered across the land. For those more interested in the little-known Dark Ages there are a handful of Anglo-Saxon and Viking sites…
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When Gordon Matta-Clark assembled the titles to and documentation of a dozen-odd small, vacant parcels of New York property between 1974 and 1977 (later assembled and exhibited as Reality Properties: Fake Estates in 1992), it was with no well-formed agenda—other than his view that “the availability of vacant and underutilized parcels [was] a direct reminder of the fallacy of renewal through modernization.” Since 1977, the development and proliferation of information-based spatial tools have made the discovery of thousands of such parcels possible…
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Beaux Arts PERIOD OF POPULARITY: 1893 – 1929 (Between the Chicago Columbian Exposition and the Great Depression) INTRODUCTION TO REVIVAL STYLES: Each revival style identifies specifically with an architecture of an earlier time and place, especially those related to early American or European precedents. Several popular revival styles are included on this blog, though other, less popular revival styles also appeared. To classify this grouping of architectural styles presents a challenge, as one could argue that many earlier Victorian styles were…
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Quick facts ~The Romanesque period in English architecture can be roughly dated to the years 1066-1180 ~ The style is also known asNormanThe most obvious characteristic of the Norman Romanesque is its reliance on sheer bulk. Everything is larger, more solid, and carries with it an air of permanence very much at odds with earlier Saxon work. Cathedral and castle walls were as thick as 24 feet at the base. A Norman pier Although the piers which carry the weight of Romanesque buildings may be rounded, polygonal, or compound, they utilize mass to do…
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Search - enter a valid place name to start your search (for instance use Denby for Denby Dale). You can t search by postcode. Results - if there are lots of boxes for your chosen place, click to expand the list of subjects to choose from. Click on open the box to open the gallery. Gallery - a gallery of clickable images. Browse this to find one or more images to look at more closely, then click to see the card detail. Card detail - this makes it easier to see the image and handwritten information on the front of cards and on the back of each print…
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“Many of the most serious disappointments that attend those who build would be avoided if models were previously made of the edifices proposed to be raised, ” he said in a lecture at the Royal Academy in 1815. “No building – at least none of considerable size or consequence – should be begun until a correct and detailed model of all its parts has been made.” Soane, a neoclassicist, had his office in his home at Lincoln’s Inn Fields near Holborn, which is now a museum of his work. But the room on the second floor of the building where he displayed…
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Very few buildings on the Register are for sale. Where it is known that a building is on the market, it is noted in the building s details (search sale or market in the keyword search). If you are particularly interested in a building at risk and would like to find out more, a contact is given for each entry. The contact is an Historic England member of staff except for grade II buildings in London. For these, a local authority contact is given (indicated by LPA after the contact s name). The summary and priority categories (see Key to the…
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The MSc is composed of four taught modules (two modules per term full-time, one module per term part-time) and a dissertation on the topic of your own choice. The programme has a varied curriculum which reflects the multidisciplinary nature of conservation. The autumn term cultivates a critical understanding of historic buildings and provides an introduction to conservation philosophy and policy. The acquisition of a strong theoretical background is the basis for the study of practical techniques for the survey and preservation of architectural…
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