We can find so many kinds of the historical building all over the world with the great and interesting architecture. All of those historic building with the great architectural design becomes really interesting for all people, especially for the people who like architecture. One of the great historical buildings that can be the great reference for the architecture is Kailasa Temple. It is one of the historical Hindu temples in India that has the interesting architecture. This temple takes place at Ellora, India. It is the amazing building that can be something fascinating for the architecture.
It is the famous Hindu temple in India. It is the shrine for the Hindu people and it becomes the place for the study of India. The amazing fact of this building is that is it actually not constructed because it is the stone that is sculpted, and craved to be the great amazing building. What a beautiful building with the great details.
All of the decorations of the Kailasa temple are really beautiful. It is the amazing rock building architecture that could be one of the great amazing buildings in this world. It is the unrivaled building that would be impossible to be duplicated. Read the rest of this entry »
Any intervention in a historic building, however small, is always subject to a balancing act between respecting the old and daring work with those new parts that should be added. The restoration of the Tower of Huércal-Overa is one example.
The structure is a watchtower that was part of a defensive belt of the border of the Kingdom of Granada ( 13rd Century), is located atop a hill overlooking a wide horizon, which only retained the core elements. The project was to create access to the tower and restore the original state of the same. To achieve this, the place has changed minimally, relying at all times in the topography. The car park has been conducted in an open space exists, the customer service office is a single volume: a box of rusted steel.
This contemporary material causes a categorical distinction between new and old (built with brick walls), especially in the cylindrical body surrounding the spiral staircase which recovers the original entrance of the tower via a walkway of steel and glass . The contrast is brutal and beautiful.
The architects Luis Castillo and Mercedes Miras (Castillo Miras Architects) designed this intervention. Read the rest of this entry »
Today we travel to Andalusia to show you the architecture of Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas, a professional outside the media publicity with a strong production, minimalist, conceptual and extremely attached to his hometown of Granada.
Jiménez Torrecillas (1962) is passionate about their land and their customs: “I live in the world, but every night I sleep in Granada,” he said.
Project works as a professor in the School of Architecture of Granada, but travels frequently at universities around the world provided a visiting lecturer.
Since his first built work, the Centro José Guerrero (Granada, 1991-2000), this discreet design and shows us her exceptional ability to keep the leitmotiv of every project from start to finish. This first work, awarded to the Best Intervention in Historical, reveals his mastery of Andalusia in the best way to rehabilitate an old building located in the center of a city with much history as is Granada. This work demonstrates the ability to recognize Jiménez Torrecillas always the historical value of their interventions and interpreting these values in a respectful and contemporary.
Proof of this is also its exemplary action in the High Albaicín Nazari wall (Granada, 2002), winner of numerous national and international awards. In this project the Granada wisely used natural stone and enhances their chances with a series of porous walls that allow light to pass through smoothly. As can be seen in the images in this article the author returns delicately tracing and volume of the wall and a reconstruction that moves away from historical mimicry with subtlety and humility. Read the rest of this entry »
Dear friends, the Lord of Luren Sanctuary is about to be demolished. Ica religious icon, built brick by brick ONLY by civility Ica by faith that you have your pattern jury, no longer exist unless we do something to stop it.
One of the actions that take place to prevent this cultural attack is the Human Chain to be held physically outside the Sanctuary of the Lord of Luren in Ica, Saturday 7 am to 5 pm. But do not wait till Saturday, we start from today. It is our civic and moral obligation to spread what the Bishop of Ica, in collusion with the INC, intend to do with the collective historical memory of the parishioners beaten and Ica, and what they intend to do with our cultural identity, it is not only a blow to Ica, is a blow to all Peruvians.
I ask you partake of this unprecedented action in defense of a Religious historic building in our country, a monument that would be respected anywhere in the world. If we can prevent it, sit a great precedent for civil authorities and / or religious, do not conflict with what belongs to all Peruvians. Read the rest of this entry »
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: “It might have been!”
- John Greenleaf Whittier, “Maud Muller,” 1856
The Wagner & Nauland Block, a composition of two Italianate commercial structures at 742-748 Seneca Street, was demolished in the late 1990s. Was it necessary?
This photograph, taken at about 1979 by Black Rock activist Scott Glasgow, shows the block in its final iteration as Mindy’s Home Service, a used appliance store that occupied the site into the mid-1990s. The heritage structures, which would have finely complemented the streetscape of any city, were reportedly in good repair at the time of their demolition, only a few years before the 2002 rehabilitation of the Larkin Terminal Warehouse, 500 feet away, shattered misconceptions about the potential marriage of preservation and economic development in Buffalo’s “near downtown.” Read the rest of this entry »
