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.

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Designed by Italian architect, Domenico da Cortona, Chateau de Chambord is one of the most exciting and interesting chateaux of Loire both from structure and plan. Cortona as architect, created a wooden model as the original but it was altered during the process. Some parties predicted that the greates Italian artist and scientist, Leonardo Da Vinci might be involved in this project. It happens because according to history record, Da Vinci was the architect who created the palace for Francois at Romorantin.

From the outline, we can easily see that Chateau de Chambord typically brings Renaissance design. Its four towers that surround square inside a rectangular with four towers is the proof. Each floor on this great building brings four vaulted halls in rectangular shape where people can descend and ascend without have to meet each other. It meets in the center part with spectacular double-helix open-work stair.

The subsidiary staircases are decorated with lanterns, which make it more monumental. However, there are other opinions related to the building process of this Chateau de Chambord. Some critics said that Domenico de Cortona was only the supervisor of the design. There are also some analysts said that Chateau de Chambord was designed by French architect Pierre Nepveu.

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Fagus Works is the first large building designed by Walter Gropius. Fagus Works located in Alfeld an der Leine, Germany. To complete the whole structure, this building took almost two years to complete, which was 1911 until 1913. When designing and building the building, Gropius was still young but he could realized it with some existing supports, such as the ground plan, existing site plan and plans of construction from architect Eduard Werner that have been laid.

To realize the Fagus Works, loan from the American United Shoe Machinery Corporation was applied. It made the construction process was possible to continue in 1911. It was continuously running step by step under the new Walter Gropius’s concepts until 1912. At that time, what applied by Walter Gropius on this building was including new. The owner of this project asked for a unique facade; it was solved by Walter Gropius with a very different solution.

Today, Fagus Works is a very famous building in the world. It still used as factory. The different style of application of brick, steel masonry and glass makes it unique and interesting. Walter Gropius as architect and builder seemed understand well how to make a great unique building.

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When we heard about Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center, our opinion would be directly guided to an amazing simple and elegant building in Berkeley, California. This is a great building that has been renovated few times. Historical renovations given to the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center makes it better along the time. Some common accessories such as ceiling fans, thermal mass and natural ventilation belong to the building give so many advantages to the operation of the building and the maintenance.

The renovation done by ELS Architecture and Urban Design looks special because what they have given to the MLK Civic Center makes it looks and feels better. The decision to replace existing perimeter steam radiators with hot water radiators means better efficiency. It can be felt also from the concrete structure in the open corridors. This building also applies green building strategies, includes installing high efficiency fluorescent lighting, photometric control, central ceiling fans, programmable thermostat and motion sensors.

With additional public space on the penthouse level, this MLK Civic Center provides a magnificent view directly to the bay. Because of the renovation, Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center has given some awards, including from Saving by Design Honor, California Historic Preservation and Special Recommendation Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association.

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The building of the factory of AEG in Moabit, Berlin is the great master piece from the architect of Peter Behrens. It is the great building architecture that uses the unusual designs. The system of the construction is also great by using the steel and glass as the great combination even it is the unusual thing. It is the great master piece of the architectural for the factory or working place that grab the attention of some people to give their comments.

Behrens give the great effects by designing the great truss construction for this factory building. The trusses are pulled outside and through the iron truss and the glass area that is drawn inside. The façade which is monumental with the corner pylon that is built from the thin shell of concrete grab the criticism and comments from another architects, such as Ludwig Hilberseimer. The use of the corner pylon can be said as the unnecessary construction.T2C77G7X5MS4

Behrens actually produce the great structure for the building that can be the great attention of this building. He does not use the tradition from the architecture that is commonly used. He combines the art and the architecture as well.

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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.

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They call it being a farm building rural appearance, because from the outside what you see is a simple nave gable, when in reality it is a modern detached house, accompanied by a larger structure for guests in a place with lake Vermont (USA).

A sequence of metal frames is the main structure of the house, are seen inland, the rest is wood, except for extreme walls have been built with thick stonewalls. Modern furniture, a few doors, large lamps on the kitchen island, an area of study in a side aisle … these are small details that give life to this temple from home in the countryside.

Is a project of Rick Joy Architects. Photos of Jean-Luc Laloux.

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The fundamental strategy of the project was to use reflective surfaces like glass and acrylic panels on the walls and doors, to pick up the subtle reflection of light and flowing water, a clear intention to reaffirm the relationship of housing to the lake. Therefore the presence of water is continued within the limits of construction, making the pool was invaded, a fact that highlights the eye.

The entire structure is metallic housing with fully glazed facade to the garden, showing all inside. All hinged doors are custom powder coated, steel frame and white acrylic panel.

The kitchen-dining area is simply spectacular: a huge space with furniture arranged creating different areas and located in the central part of the front garden. The center island kitchen has a piece in the middle of white acrylic and illuminated, like the front of the cooking area. It is without doubt the best atmosphere of the entire house. If you click on the picture you can see enlarged.

The furniture and lighting are much studied in the house, with almost all the hidden lights, thus creating a minimalist decor. It has been used massaranduba (Brazilian wood, but in forests of the USA) for coating. Upstairs is a reading room with sloping walls and red acrylic panels with holes, a very unique space created with few elements, which is accessed by a stairway railing also of wood and full glass.

This work was found in Trend, and is a project of Bercy Chen Studio.

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It’s hard to imagine a house that is shown outwardly pure enough volumes, can have within an organization of space with a geometry as complicated, especially a ladder so unique. It was built for a young couple with children, and is located on a hill overlooking the city of Kyoto (Japan).

The distribution was done in three plants, but with an empty space, that runs through, giving the case for example in the ground floor clearances ranging from 2.5 m to 7.5 meters. At this level are the kitchen, dining and lounge, the latter connected with the garden through a fully glazed facade, through a large sliding door. The opposite side (west) occupied by the garage, which has the width of the house.

On the first floor there is only a bedroom above the garage, with a terrace, but with a bathroom that serves the entire elongated housing, and has a bathtub at one end, receiving natural light from the empty space double-height living room. We have here a problem of privacy is not clear how the photos are done. Do not miss seeing the floor plan of this house, it is imperative to understand that from the first floor part two stairs both have curved track. Each of them into a bedroom, a guest on the west side and another that vents from the sides of the house (to the south and north), and has a living room overlooking the garden before, the wide facade of glass mentioned above.

The whole structure topped by a simple hip roof on a concrete slab that flies around the perimeter, which highlights the superb finish of concrete in almost all areas of the house. Outside coating also found burned cedar plank (finished with clear varnish) and a lattice of horizontal slats that hides the garage door.

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The architectural firm of Joaquin Torres, presented a project for rehabilitation and restructuring of an industrial building in Madrid, to convert it into lofts, professional offices. It has a total area of 7.602m2, with a register within a rectangle of dimensions 20.50 m, 58.50 m, with a chamfer on the sloping terrain northeast northwest with pedestrian access from surrounding streets and for vehicles. This is an existing building with all water supply facilities, drainage, electricity, so the project can only modify the internal configuration of these networks.

At the request of property, redistribution takes place inside the premises that previously existed, while respecting the existing structure, and adapting the facade of the new interior configuration, but without losing the spirit of the original building. The program consists of two basements for parking, ground floor premises and intended for access to upper floors and garages, three floors of industrial buildings of business and under-cover with the same use. Floor on floors 1, 2 and 3 and 15 local on the top floor arrange sixteen localities.

The building is divided into 7 levels:

Basement-2, in which 29 parking spaces located between 12 and 22m2 in length, with an area of common ground where is located the staircase, lobby, facilities, circulation, a second hall and a pump unit, all in 400m2.

-1 The basement is composed of 26 parking spaces from 12 to 22m2, with a total area of 1.066m2, with an area for common applications where the staircase, 2 halls, the area of movement of vehicles and a room garage.

On the ground floor, premises are 2 broad dimensions of 363 and 474m2, with common areas such as portal, ICT room, bathroom plumbing, electricity, garbage and the staircase leads you to the basement. All of them distributed in a 992m2 plant.

On the first floor there are 16 local measures between 41 and 62m2, with an area of common elements, which are part and esclaera 3 distributors, with a total of 1.053m2 superficies.

On the second floor of 1.053m2, there are 16 locates of different sizes ranging from 41 to 61m2, with the common use area consists of 3 distributors and esclaera for different levels. The third level consists of an area of 1.053m2, with 16 stores between 41 and 62m2, with a common area that houses the 3 distributors and service stairs leading to different levels.

The ground floor is for two local garage access, portal and building facilities. The portal provides direct entry to the premises from the street and communicates with the basement. The outline of the access from the core focus of vertical communications and two hallways that run attached to the dividing wall, giving access to each of the premises.

The last level is the top floor, which, unlike the rest consists of outdoor terraces. The plant has a total area of 1.053m2, with less than the other local plants with 15, with their terraces of different sizes, from 34 local 51m2 with terraces of between 55 and 9m2. The penthouse floor is set back 3 m from the bottom and has the same pattern and use, but with a less local, a total of fifteen. The elevations sorted according to a harmonic modulation of the voids, in the spirit of the front facade, in materials, proportions, etc.

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