National Building Museum in Washington D.C. has offers a spectacular structure. It was designed civil engineer and U.S. Army General Montgomery C. Meigs in 1881. It was finished and firstly operated in 1887. Actually, it was built and functioned as the office of the Pension Bureau but then was occupied by some government agencies, including National Museum of the United States since 1980 until today. . This building is popular as an engineering marvel after then.

The National Building Museum or also called the Great Hall has an ingenious system of vents, windows and archways. It makes the building becomes an accommodative reservoir for air and light from the outside. Bringing impressive design of Italian Renaissance; it has eight Corinthian columns and one central fountain between the interior columns. The interior columns itself are the tallest in the world. The Great Hall was also familiar with gala events, including Presidential Inaugural Balls from 1885 until present day.

The Great Hall uses 400 ft. by 200 ft. in plan of exterior dimensions. The Corinthian columns in the great hall are 8 ft. in diameter and 75 ft. of high. Each of the columns is made from about 70.000 bricks. With the history and style, the National Building Museum becomes an iconic building in the capital city of U.S.

Related posts:

1. The Modern Style of the Hirshhorn Museum Museum is identic to the classic building that sometimes it...
2. The Uniqueness of the National Pensions Building Architecture If you are interested in the interesting building in its...
3. The AEG Factory Building The building of the factory of AEG in Moabit, Berlin...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

There are many buildings in this world that are famous on its architecture. With the great designs and construction of the exterior and the interior of the buildings, all of the building becomes really phenomenal and famous. Boston city hall is one of the famous buildings because of this building shape and design. It is not only famous because of its function that is as the center of the government or the hall of the city but also it is famous ion its building architecture that is interesting.

Knowles, Kallmann, and McKinnell as the architect of this buildings work so hard for this building. It uses the precast concrete for the system of the construction for this city hall building. The Brutalist Modern style is chosen as the building style for this city hall. The architects use the great dentil on the monumentally as the accent and shade device. It is so amazing.

The public part of this place is actually in the ground with the opened area that is linked to the interior and the plaza. It gives the great atmosphere for the public place. The great design that is well organized represents this building as the city hall building.

Related posts:

1. The Great Salisbury Cathedral There are so many cathedral buildings that are really famous...
2. The Uniqueness of the National Pensions Building Architecture If you are interested in the interesting building in its...
3. The Classic Lister County Courthouse There are so many interesting buildings that we can find...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

This Shimogamo house (Kyoto, Japan) has two faces very different, because the composition of the facade has nothing to do with the relaxing interior, designed with many nods to traditional Japanese architecture.

The images (day and night) of the false front corner, with frosted glass, appear to belong to another building, and are far from the delicate balance that inhaled into the source of inspiration for all lovers of simple spaces, the sliding panels, bamboo and wood.

In addition, call attention to the screens high on the edge, to preserve the privacy of the courtyard from neighboring homes, not forgetting that bathroom with stonewall.

Shimogamo House is a project of Edward Suzuki Associates. For more information, visit at www.contemporist.com.

Related posts:

1. Courtyard house in the Azores This family house is located in the Azores (Capel, S....
2. OH House The house has been built at five feet below street...
3. Luxury apartments in an exclusive area of Mallorca The project is based on the demolition of the house...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

“… The building is a re-interpretation of classic Greek and Roman house, with two courtyards, one for input and one central, to collecting rainwater, allowing light and ventilation to reach the open area of floor (living room and kitchen). “

He adds that the volume of the kitchen treated as the great chimneys of traditional island houses, like other things less important, and there are many. But we’re going to stay with the flavor that leaves outside the house, which is none other than a building that apparently has no windows, at least as we used to see them, but nevertheless does not lack the light in your interior.

We also found only two materials abroad: a gray stone veneer and a coating of wooden planks. Although we have only pictures of the interior, at least we have seen the impressive kitchen with this volume of sloping walls, topped by a skylight. Despite having made this house called, Domus Impluvium believes that their courts spend some unnoticed, and quite removed from the classical concept.

Related posts:

1. Mukaiyama House This is a house of 110m2, developed on two floors,...
2. OH House The house has been built at five feet below street...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

The project is based on the demolition of the house that we have placed the picture back, for the construction of a luxurious building comprising of 16 exclusive apartments.

At this level there are 2 apartments of similar dimensions. The right hand has a living room of 41m2, kitchen 8m2, 15m2 master bedroom, a child of 10 and two baths 4 and 5m2. 40m2 covered porch, all in an area of 142 m2. On the other side on the left, has a room less than the adjoining 33m2, kitchen 6m2, 15m2 master bedroom and bathroom of 4.5m2. The second bedroom consists of 10, 45m2 and a bathroom of 5.25. The covered porch is bigger, 40, 31m2.

In these plants as well as on the ground floor two apartments are distributed, the right with a large living room of 40m2, kitchen as above, 8m2, master bedroom with bathroom for a total of 20m2, secondary bedroom 10m2  and bathroom of 5m2, with a covered porch of 40m2, all with a total area of 142 m2.

In these 3-tier construction moves into the field, the last level, he located on the ground access to the plot. The interior layout is similar in all apartments, suffering slight variations metrics.

On a higher plane, arranged last 2 levels in addition to overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, overlooking the field. Similarly, the interior layout is similar in all apartments, suffering slight variations metrics.

The materials used are white limestone combined with glass, which fits perfectly into her Mediterranean landscape.

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

The house has been built at five feet below street level, on a small lot in a very irregular. The main priority in the design was to create parking space for one car. To meet this requirement has built a platform with a steel material similar to a network.

The driveway is placed on the basement level, next to the stairs leading from where the car. Upon entering the house, there is a flight of stairs to the family area, two bedrooms and a bathroom at the end.

The interior space features furniture suspended within a concept of open design that maximizes the use of limited space. The ground floor has a spacious environment in which the dining table hangs from the ceiling.

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

I visited the museum to Oteiza Alzuza Navarra. On a promontory surrounded by nature, it dominates the area of Pamplona which is 9 kms. This foundation was designed by the architect Francisco Javier Saenz de Oiza to present the personal collection of Jorge Oteiza (1908/2003) complete artist and also one of the greatest sculptors of the twentieth century.

I was impressed by the museum to more than one way: by the interest and the wealth of works on display (I will return in another post) by the interior spaces of the museum (ocher red and black, I will come back too), the quality of architecture and how Francisco Javier Saenz de Oiza designed the museum.

He wanted to create this building “a sense of simplicity and balance between content and container”. He kept the housing occupied by Oteiza, a traditional stone house, and totally integrated in its architecture.

Two strong colors dominate: the ocher stones, concrete and black soil, walls and metal structures.

After visiting the museum, includes the work of the architect, longtime friend of Oteiza, in perfect harmony with the work of the artist.

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

This is a housing project in Tokyo in which we wanted to re-think of architecture not as the act of producing a safe area, but as a folded surface generated by ground motion.

Here, the pressure balance between the interior and exterior makes the turning of walls and ceilings, creating a large volume with subtle divisions.

One can get to every house from exterior corridors, generated by a dent in the volume. You can see the “pressure” between the inside and outside each of the precincts, for example, the direct form of the roofs, jutting diagonals created by the outside stairs or distortion of space by folding walls.

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

The architectural design of this house is characterized by the simplification of form, and the elimination of unnecessary detail. The design concept of the Greek architect Nikos Koukourakis and colleagues was to design a modern house with large garden stepping up openings to the interior-exterior relationship. Photos and original text in English in yatzer.

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Project Challenge
The starting point for the renovation was a modest Victorian house in very poor condition, with rooms with small windows and dark interior spaces were separated from each other, as was typical of houses built in the era where privacy was a cultural priority. In another gesture to the Victorian public decoration, arrangements of existing interior spaces reinforce the ancient ideal of work and family life should be separate.

Although the client requested to renovate the space do the work in the house, while maintaining a clear separation from his family life was also important to create a modern and bright space that seemed small in size and continues to be spacious and connected visually.

Response Project
Echo: noun, “a similar or identical response, as the sentiments expressed, a lingering trace or effect”

The fact that the house has had few changes since it was originally built, is both a virtue and a challenge that allows multiple design opportunities. The footprint of the house is small (approximately 65 m2). Then, it was not possible to create a sort of loft on the first floor that seems to simultaneously open and give the necessary distinction between workspace and be. The house was preview as a vertical loft, an open volume using four-story from the foundation to the roof of the new intervention. The main level and previous level of foundations is open from side to side through a staircase, which highlights the views of the foundations of the stonewalls of the original house. Therefore, the above main space of the Victorian house, once segregated into separate pieces is now becomes open and spacious. The small original windows are replaced by large windows on both the front and the sides of the room, visually extending into the garden space front and rear, and finally, possible to have spectacular views from the patio (all over the house) to the Rideau Canal.

The space requirements include some very private spaces: a study may contain several thousand books, an office and a bedroom en suite. To achieve this paradoxical response to commission a house loft spaces as private but as the old Victorian house, study, office and the vault of books are designed as distinctive volumes suspended within the large volume of 4 floors. Since these volumes “float” within the shell of the original house, they gain the necessary visual privacy from the living room on the bottom and the street outside (despite increasing the areas of windows). While these spaces are small, are bright, airy, and larger read by having visual access to both windows and to other interior spaces of the house.

The most private areas of the house (such as closets, bathrooms and stairways) are located along the south wall of the house and were protected by a screen three stories. At the top level, flying over the main room and the front facade patio, in addition to appearing distinctly as a floating volume and forming a roof above the entrance. In this sense, the attic space above the Victorian house is redesigned to provide light and views which never existed before in the original house, and due to its elevated position, maintaining privacy.

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.