National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing
Modern Architecture in Beijing: The National Grand Theater, known as The Egg
The titanium and glass National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing is informally called The Egg.
International Style
The International Style in architecture developed the same time as Art Deco.
International Style [2]
The International Style had its origins in Europe in the 1920s, ...
International Style
1920-1945
A style of architecture applied to residences and public buildings that is minimalist in concept, is devoid of regional characteristics, stresses functionalism, and rejects all nonessential decorative elements; ...
International Style for Residences
Beginning in the 1930s, after the debacle of the First World War, the International Style rejected both Nationalism and class-driven affectations for an architecture designed for every person, in every culture, ...
International style
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National
Born out of the fundamental need for shelter, National-style homes, whose roots are set in Native American and pre-railroad dwellings, remain unadorned and utilitarian.
International
1 story
This style is based on "modern" structural principles and materials: concrete, glass, and steel. Bands of glass, which create horizontal feelings, are important design features. Buildings are cantilevered over basement footings.
National Heritage Area - places designated by Congress where natural, cultural, historic, and recreational resources combine to form a cohesive, nationally distinctive landscape arising from patterns of human activity shaped by geography.
National Trust / National Trust for Scotland
- founded in 1895 by Miss Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, exists to promote the permanent preservation for the nation of land with outstanding natural features, ...
National Endowment for the Humanities
EARLY CHRISTIAN & BYzantine ARCHITECTURE
INTRODUCTION ...
National Historic Landmarks in Vermont
Historic Architecture Bibliography
Links to other Historic Architecture sites ...
National Register of Historic Places, Historic Residential Suburbs the United States, 1830-1960, Multiple Property Documentation Form, September 2002, Washington DC ...
NATIONAL HOUSE BUILDING COUNCIL - Issues 10 year NHBC certificates.
NEWEL - Stout post supporting a staircase handrail at top and bottom. Also, the central pillar of a winding or spiral staircase.
International Style - This popular avant-garde style of the 1930’s was identified by features such as flat roof, usually without ledge (coping) at the roof line, windows, Usually metal casements) set flush with outer walls, smooth, ...
NFRC: National Fenestration Rating Council® -a non-profit organization that provides fair, accurate and credible energy performance ratings for windows and doors.
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Despite these noteworthy exceptions-including such later works of Wright as New York's Guggenheim Museum (completed 1959)-the style initiated by the Bauhaus architects and termed the International Style gradually ...
The Washington National Cathedral's Surroundings
Return to the Cathedral Page ...
Modern or International (1915 to present)
Among the most notable styles of architecture are Art Deco, a style popular in the 1920's and 1930's characterised by geometrical shapes and stylised natural forms and symmetry; Art Nouveau, ...
Early Spanish, French, English
Georgian
EARLY NATIONAL AND ROMANTIC STYLES
Federal/Adam
Greek Revival
Gothic Revival
Italianate/Italian Villa
VICTORIAN-ERA STYLES ...
International Style - US term referring to what in Europe was Modern Movement of the early 20th century; the style featured undercoated cubic forms, white rendering and a horizontal aspect emphasisied in large windows.
Johnston, P., The National Trust Book of British Castles, London, 1979.
Johnston, P., Castles of England, Scotland and Wales, London, 1989.
Knightly, C., Strongholds of the Realm, London, 1979.
He used to wear the national, that is to say, the Frank, dress - next his skin a linen shirt and linen breeches, and above these a tunic fringed with silk; while hose fastened by bands covered his lower limbs, and shoes his feet, ...
In the meantime Gothic architecture had been following a parallel course of development in England, borrowing directly from Normandy and France, assimilating what it so acquired, and giving to all a distinctly national character that tended from year ...
Samarkand once again rose to international prominence in 1369 when it was captured by the Mongol emperor Timur and chosen as his capital.
As a result of this diffusion of artistic currents, a new pictorial synthesis emerged, known as the International Gothic style, in which, as foreshadowed by Pucelle, Gothic elements were combined with the illusionistic art of the Italian painters.
It was a reaction against the rigid formulae of the American version of the International Style.
1. Close-up of a flying buttress from the National Cathedral in Washington D.C.
2. Looking down the line of buttresses at the National Cathedral
3. Far view of the cathedral where you can see how the buttresses attach to the piers.
(illustration from Hussey's National Cottage Architecture 1874)
MERLON The raised part of an indented parapet or battlement.
METOPE A plain or decorated space between triglyphs in a Doric frieze.
Poussin, Nicolas. Landscape with the Funeral of Phocion. 1648. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.
Newel - See Stair.
Niche - A vertical recess in a wall, pier, etc., usually arched and containing a statue, urn, or other decorative object.
Building Codes Illustrated: A Guide to Understanding the International Building Code
by Francis D. K. Ching (Author), et al
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BWPDPA British Wood-Preserving and Damp-Proofing Association. The national body overseeing this type of specialist treatment.
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FHA Title 2 - A system of mutual insurance of mortgages secured by residential property under the National Housing Act.
Fenestration - Arrangement of windows.
When projecting in front of a building, it is called a portico, as in the Pantheon at Rome and the National Gallery in London. When enclosed between wings, as in Perrault's facade to the Louvre, it is correctly described as a colonnade.
The Elements of Style, Stephen Calloway and Elizabeth Cromley (1996)
Construction Dictionary, Greater Phoenix, Arizona chapter #98 of the National Association of Women in Construction (1985)
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (2001) ...
The Bauhaus school disbanded when the Nazis rose to power. Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and other Bauhaus leaders migrated to the United States. The term International Style was applied to the American form of Bauhaus architecture.
are external monitoring schemes that continually check and confirm that material is being produced as stated within the companies Quality Manual. The external governing body awarded ISO 9001:2000 accreditations to companies that comply with national ...
The Corinthian column, historically known as the Corinthian order, is seen on many different structural buildings as well as distinguished homes. In Washington D.C., you are able to see eight massive Corinthian pillars in the National Building Museum.
Architectural adherents included the brothers Alexander and Vladimir Vesnin, and Vladimir Tatlin, whose revolutionary but unbuilt tower commemorating the Communist International remains an icon of the period.
in Georgia, many medieval churches have been damaged by the destruction of their original chancels to reduce their height to that of the nave. Chaucanistic reasons to remove what the aggressively nationalistic Georgian Church percieves as Armenian ...
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