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This elegant and perfectly preserved Victorian mansion was built for Carl G. A. Voigt in 1895. Voigt came to Grand Rapids in 1870 and ran a mill and dry goods store with W. G. Herpolsheimer. In 1902, when the partnership ended, Voigt took over the milling works. The house designed by eminent local architect William G. Robinson, was inspired by the chateaux at Chenonceaux, France. The interior is furnished opulently with original possessions of the Voigt Family. In 1972, a year after the death of the last occupant, Ralph Voigt, the house became a public museum. 109
The Samuel Cupples House was built for was built for Samuel Cupples a wealthy St. Louis entrepreneur who had built his business Cupples Woodenware starting in the 1840's and became a millionaire by age of thirty. This house designed in a Richardsonian Romanesque style by architect Thomas Annan was completed in 1890. The house cost over $500,000 to construct, a very expensive home for that era. The Cupples family lived in the house until 1919. The house was then used as the headquarters of Brotherhood of Railroad Telegraphers until 1946 when it became the possession of Saint Louis University. The building was used for many uses and was threatened with demolition. Due to the efforts of Father Maurice McNamee, S.J. the house was preserved and renovated. It is now used as an art museum and is open for tours.
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Palm House
Decimus Burton (design) and Richard Turner (construction), completed 1848.
One of Kew’s most iconic features, the remarkable curvilinear structure of the Palm House was built using the latest innovations in shipbuilding and glazing – this is perhaps why the glasshouse resembles the hull of an upturned ship.
The Palm House (1844–1848) was the result of cooperation between architect Decimus Burton and iron founder Richard Turner, and continues upon the glass house design principles developed by John Claudius Loudon and Joseph Paxton. A space frame of wrought iron arches, held together by horizontal tubular structures containing long prestressed cables, supports glass panes which were originally[51] tinted green with copper oxide to reduce the significant heating effect. The 19 metres (62 ft) high central nave is surrounded by a walkway at 9 metres (30 ft) height, allowing visitors a closer look upon the palm tree crowns. In front of the Palm House on the east side are the Queen's Beasts, ten statues of animals bearing shields. They are Portland stone replicas of originals done by James Woodford and were placed here in 1958.
The Palm House was originally heated by two coal-fired boilers, with a 107 feet (33 m) chimney, the "Shaft of the Great Palm-Stove", now known as the Campanile, near the Victoria Gate. Coal was brought in by a light railway, running in a tunnel, using human-propelled wagons. The tunnel acted as a flue between the boilers and the chimney, but the distance proved too great for efficient working, and so two small chimneys were added to the Palm House. In 1950 the railway was electrified. The tunnel is now used to carry piped hot water to the Palm House, from oil-fired boilers located near the original chimney, which is extant, and is Grade II listed.
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Fallingwater is a house designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. Situated in the Mill Run section of Stewart township, in the Laurel Highlands of southwest Pennsylvania, about 70 miles southeast of Pittsburgh in the United States, it is built partly over a waterfall on the Bear River.
The house was designed as a weekend home for the family of Liliane Kaufmann and her husband, Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr., owner of Kaufmann's Department Store in Pittsburgh.
Fallingwater, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is hailed internationally as a masterpiece of 20th century architecture. Fallingwater was also named the “best all-time work of American architecture” in a poll of members of the American Institute of Architects. Designed in 1935 by renowned American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater is one of Wright’s most widely acclaimed works and best exemplifies his philosophy of organic architecture: the harmonious union of art and nature. Since 1963, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy has owned and preserved Fallingwater so that the public can tour, experience and be inspired by this example of American architecture and history.
Piercefield House in South Wales is a largely ruined country house designed by Sir John Soane, located near Chepstow in Monmouthshire,. Its extensive surrounding park overlooking the Wye Valley includes Chepstow Racecourse.
The Chinese House, designed by Johann Gottfried Büring between 1755 and 1764; a pavilion in the Chinoiserie style: a mixture of rococo elements coupled with Oriental architecture.
"Le Volcan is a cultural centre in Le Havre, France.
It is located in the city centre of Le Havre at 8 Place Oscar Niemeyer, [west] of the Bassin du Commerce.
The cultural centre was created by the architect Oscar Niemeyer and built from 1972 to 1982. It was built on a square with an edge length of 120 metres. In deliberate contrast to the surrounding houses designed by Auguste Perret, the two buildings of the cultural centre are designed with round shapes. The larger building in the southeastern part of the area is called Grand Volcan (Large Volcano), while the smaller one in the northwest is called Petit Volcan (Small Volcano). The large volcano is shaped like a truncated cone, which makes it look like a volcano. The shape, which tapers towards the top, gives the architecture a special dynamic. A theatre is housed in this property, while the small volcano is designed as a multi-purpose hall and, since November 3, 2015, has also been a municipal media library.
The concrete cladding that existed during construction consisted of sand-blasted wooden planks, which gives the white-painted facades a markedly raw appearance. A total of 40,000 m³ of concrete was built and 239 foundation piles were set. A dam was built to cope with the high groundwater level. A total of 115,000 m³ of earth was moved.
The buildings rise from a square, the forum, which is well below the level of the neighboring streets. Three ramps for pedestrians lead into the forum. [...] Although the two buildings appear to be separated from each other, they are connected by basement floors.
The complex was renovated in 2015."
(translated from German Wikipedia entry)
Piercefield House in South Wales is a largely ruined country house designed by Sir John Soane, located near Chepstow in Monmouthshire,. Its extensive surrounding park overlooking the Wye Valley includes Chepstow Racecourse.
L’île de Versailles est une île artificielle de 1,7 hectare, créée en 1831 et occupée à l’origine par des tanneurs et des charpentiers de marine, a été transformée en jardin japonais à partir de 1983. La composition des rocailles et des cascades s’y articule autour de 3 bâtiments inspirés de l’habitat traditionnel nippon. Parmi eux, la Maison de l’Erdre, qu’entoure un jardin zen, sert de cadre à des expositions consacrées à la rivière et son environnement aquatique. Située au cœur de l'île, la Maison de l'Erdre s'inspire d'un pavillon de thé japonais dans lequel le maître de maison reçoit ses hôtes : La conception s'inspire des réalisations des architectes nippons et reconstitue un paysage de nature. Les érables et les pins sylvestres taillés en arbres nuages structurent le jardin. Les massifs de bambous recréent une ambiance asiatique. Azalées, rhododendrons, cerisiers et merisiers annoncent le printemps par leur floraison, en écho avec ce que la nature exprime au Japon. La maison de l'Erdre, conçue comme un pavillon de thé, accueille des aquariums. L’île de Versailles, située sur l'Erdre à Nantes, est une île artificielle qui a été réalisée avec des matériaux de terrassements et de dragages lors du creusement du canal de Nantes à Brest. Le paysage recréé et structuré par des rocailles, cascades et pièces d'eau est richement planté de végétaux exotiques tels que bambous, cyprès chauves, rhododendrons, camélias et cerisiers du Japon.
The island of Versailles is an artificial island of 1.7 hectares, created in 1831 and originally occupied by tanners and shipwrights, was transformed into a Japanese garden from 1983. The composition of the rock gardens and waterfalls are structured around 3 buildings inspired by traditional Japanese housing. Among them, the Maison de l'Erdre, surrounded by a Zen garden, serves as a setting for exhibitions devoted to the river and its aquatic environment. Located in the heart of the island, the Maison de l'Erdre is inspired by a Japanese tea pavilion in which the master of the house receives his guests: The design is inspired by the achievements of Japanese architects and recreates a natural landscape . Maple trees and Scots pines cut into cloud trees structure the garden. The bamboo beds recreate an Asian atmosphere. Azaleas, rhododendrons, cherry trees and cherry trees herald spring with their flowering, echoing what nature expresses in Japan. The Erdre house, designed as a tea pavilion, houses aquariums. The island of Versailles, located on the Erdre in Nantes, is an artificial island that was made with earthworks and dredging materials during the digging of the Nantes-Brest canal. The landscape recreated and structured by rockeries, waterfalls and ponds is richly planted with exotic plants such as bamboos, bald cypresses, rhododendrons, camellias and Japanese cherry trees.
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The first Art Nouveau houses and interior decoration appeared in Brussels in the 1890s, in the architecture and interior design of houses designed by Paul Hankar, Henry Van de Velde, and especially Victor Horta, whose Hôtel Tassel was completed in 1893. It moved quickly to Paris, where it was adapted by Hector Guimard, who saw Horta's work in Brussels and applied the style for the entrances of the new Paris Metro. It reached its peak at the 1900 Paris International Exposition, which introduced the Art Nouveau work of artists such as Louis Tiffany. It appeared in graphic arts in the posters of Alphonse Mucha, and the glassware of René Lalique and Émile Gallé. From Belgium and France, it spread to the rest of Europe, taking on different names and characteristics in each country. It often appeared not only in capitals, but also in rapidly growing cities that wanted to establish artistic identities (Budapest, Turin and Palermo in Italy; Glasgow in Scotland; Munich and Darmstadt in Germany), as well as in centres of independence movements (Helsinki in Finland, then part of the Russian Empire; Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain). By 1910, Art Nouveau's influence had faded. It was replaced as the dominant European architectural and decorative style first by Art Deco and then by Modernism. Miksa Roth was commisioned to create the stained glass and mosaics. Miksa Roth was the greatest stained glass artist of Hungary, and he made his way though in this field somewhere between the 19th and the 20th century. His work was, at the time, appreciated in the entire Europe, and repeatedly awarded and displayed at reputed at international exhibitions.
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The Roberson Mansion, part of the Roberson Museum and Science Center, is a home in Binghamton, New York. It is an Italian Renaissance style house, designed by Binghamton architect C. Edward Vosbury and built in 1904, and completed in 1907, for Alonzo Roberson Jr. and his wife Margaret Hays Roberson. It was built with all of the then modern conveniences: an elevator, central heat, combination gas and electric lighting, a dumb waiter, an intercom system, and a private bath for each bedroom.
Stained glass windows at the top of the main staircase
The New York City interior design firm, Pottier & Stymus designed the interior decorations. Townsend & Fleming landscape firm from Buffalo was hired to do the grounds. Titchener Iron works designed and manufactured the wrought iron fence surrounding the grounds. Estimated cost for the entire project was $107,500.
Threave House, designed in the Scottish Baronial style in 1871 for the Gordon family in the centre of the Threave Estate with beautiful gardens. The National Trust for Scotland take care of this property.
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Fallingwater is a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935, situated in Pennsylvania, 70 km south of Pittsburgh in the Laurel Highlands.
The house was built over a waterfall on Bear Run and is surrounded by enchanting grounds and wonderful forest. It is truly integrated within its natural surroundings.
For me, the passion for Japanese architecture that Wright held is strongly reflected in the design of Fallingwater, particularly in the harmony between the exterior and interior spaces and then also, the strong emphasis placed on harmony between man and nature.
The house was designed as a weekend home for Edgar J Kaufmann Sr and his wife Liliane and their family.
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This Charlevoix Mushroom House, known as The Thatch House, rose from the original stone walls set by Earl Young. Built as his first home in 1918, the house did not encompass Young's developing unique hobbit-home style, but today, in a dramatic re-imagining, The Thatch House exemplifies the storybook magic of the Earl Young houses.
The unique Thatch House design, initially conceived on a napkin by the Michael Seitz, took him 3 years to finalize. Specialized timber work is unique and bold. The beautifully flowing roof is crafted from the finest natural thatch hand-reaped in Europe and shipped to the USA. During one of the coldest winters, a master thatcher painstakingly worked under daunting conditions, so that symbolically the new creation was ready to greet the new spring with new life.
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Nottingham's city hall (the unfortunately named 'Council House', designed by Thomas Cecil Howitt), in high summer.
Taken with my Nikon D40, fitted with a Tamron 70-300mm F4/5.6 DI LD (Nikon AFS) lens, and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
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Off Fifth Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The building in the photograph is the Harry F. Sinclair House. Designed in the French Renaissance style by renowned architect C.P.H. Gilbert, it was built between 1897 and 1899. The building is a National Historic Landmark. It now houses the Ukrainian Institute of America.
San Carlo C.se (Torino - Piemonte): riuscire a creare un oggetto semplice e lineare da un pezzo di scarto è una sfida che mi attrae sempre...
San Carlo Canavese (Turin - Piedmont): being able to create a simple and linear object from a scrap piece is a challenge that always attracts me...
A house designed by Jeffrey Wyatville, and completed by Joseph Paxton in 1839, it is in close studded timber framing with brick infill on a chamfered sandstone plinth, and has a stone slate roof with decorative fretted bargeboards and finials. There are two storeys and an irregular T-shaped plan, including a cross-wing with a jettied upper storey. The doorway has a quoined surround and a lintel, and the windows are casements, some with mullions, and some in half-dormers.[1][39]
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Tudor Lodge
(Formerly listed as Tudor Lodge, MAIN ROAD (south side))
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House. 1837-39 by Jeffrey Wyatville, completed by Paxton. Brick, mostly laid in herringbone fashion, sandstone and timber framing. Gabled and hipped stone slate roof, the slates with cut-away corners. Two ashlar ridge stacks and one rising from the pitch of the roof. Decorative fretted bargeboards and finials. Chamfered stone plinth. Close studded timber framing with diagonal braces. Two storeys, irregular T-plan.
East elevation has gabled cross wing to left with jettied first floor on moulded brackets. The ground floor has a two-light canted bay window with timber mullions. Two-light timber mullioned window above. To the right, in the angle between the two ranges, is a single storey extruded bay with hipped roof and single light windows in each direction. Two-light gabled half dormer above. To the right a porch with single light window and gabled roof continuing over a two bay timber arcade on paired chamfered columns. Chamfered four-centred arches. Within the arcade is a doorway with plank door with elaborate iron hinges, and a two-light mullioned window. One single light gabled half dormer above, with pointed light.
South elevation has a similar two-light window and two similar windows in the gabled bay to left. West elevation has a projecting hipped roof bay, brick in its lower parts. Doorway with stone quoins and lintel. Two-light window and two single light windows to ground floor and a two-light gabled half dormer above.
North elevation has projecting arcade to left. Gabled bay has a two-light canted bay window with hipped roof, and a two-light window above. Angled single storey stone bay to right has a two-light bay window coming to a point. Most windows have diamond leaded lights. The design was illustrated in Loudon's Encyclopaedia (Design X).
Built as part of the picturesque model village by Paxton for the Sixth Duke of Devonshire.
Listing NGR: SK2501970102
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Randolph House
Designed by Gary Randolph
OKC
2015
The newly-built Randolph house was on the first-ever Okie Mod Squad home tour a few weeks ago. To see more photos of this house and the others we saw, go here:
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When I study this image I see faces. In the middle, the two circles with flowers are the eyes, the candles at the bottom are a goatee, the mouth is a small dark area above the goatee and a mustache of candles is above the mouth.
On the left there are two small blue eyes. The thin column is the nose and the purple squares its hair.
Just my imagination.
"The House for an Art Lover is an arts and cultural centre in Glasgow, Scotland. The building was constructed between 1989 and 1996 based on a 1901 Art Nouveau house design by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife, Margaret MacDonald. The house is situated in Glasgow's Bellahouston Park and sits east of the site of the Festival Tower of the Empire Exhibition, Scotland of 1938.
"The idea to actually build the house from the Mackintoshs' designs came from Graham Roxburgh, a civil engineer in Glasgow who had done refurbishment work on the Mackintosh interiors in Craigie Hall. The house is a prominent example of the Modern Style. It serves as a venue for art exhibitions and other events, as well as being itself a visitor attraction.
"The current House must be viewed as an interpretation of the Mackintoshes’ original designs. The Mackintoshes were designing a residential house. The current House was constructed with commercial purposes in mind." Source: Wikipedia 19 Jan 2026
Trattner-Károlyi House
Design: Hild József, 1831
Neo-classicíl style
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Casa Vicens, Carrer de les Carolines 20-26, Barcelona.
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Casa Vicens is a house in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudí, now a museum. It is located in the neighbourhood of Gràcia on Carrer de les Carolines, 24. It is considered one of the first buildings of Art Nouveau and was the first house designed by Gaudí.
The style of Casa Vicens is a reflection of Neo-Mudéjar architecture, one of the popular styles that can be seen throughout Gaudí's architecture, including oriental and neoclassical as well. However, what was unique about Gaudí was that he mixed different styles together and incorporated a variety of different materials, such as iron, glass, ceramic tiles and concrete, many of which can be seen in this building. Gaudí broke away from tradition and created his new language of architecture, and Casa Vicens represents a new chapter in the history of Catalan architecture as well as the beginning of a successful career for Gaudí.
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La casa Vicens és un edifici modernista i primer projecte important de l'arquitecte Antoni Gaudí començat a construir l'any 1883. Està situat al carrer Carolines, número 24, del barri de Gràcia de Barcelona. És una obra declarada Bé Cultural d'Interès Nacional.
Casa senyorial enjardinada de complexa volumetria, Gaudí combina la pedra, el maó vist i una extensa gamma de rajola de València de colors diversos, on la influència d'un orientalisme d'arrel islàmica és palesa.[1]
Les tanques, de ferro forjat, s'inspiren directament en la natura i, concretament, en el margalló (palmera pròpia del Mediterrani occidental). Baranes i reixes són també de forja i preludien els motius decoratius modernistes. La marqueteria de les gelosies del jardí, la jardineria mateixa, l'acabat dels interiors oscil·len entre solucions arabitzants, de caràcter mediterrani o d'apropament a la natura.
A la part interior domina com a principal element decoratiu la fusta tallada i policromada, que fa conjunt amb el mobiliari i produeix un conjunt de caràcter fantasiós.
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Omar Sharif House designed by Jesus Soto in Nazaret / Lanzarote
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The Nathan G. Moore House also known as the Moore-Dugal Residence is a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The house was built one block south of Wright's home and studio at 333 Forest Avenue in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois. It was originally completed in 1895 in the Tudor Revival style at the request of client Nathan Moore. Wright obliged his client's wishes, but long after disliked the house for its adherence to historical styles.
A 1922 fire gave Wright the opportunity to redesign the house. The structure was completely rebuilt above the first floor in a manner in keeping with Wright's other works of the late 1910s and early 1920s. While the new design stayed evocative of Tudor architecture, the house was heavily ornamented by details of Sullivanesque, Mayan, and other exotic origins. Wright’s second scheme remains largely intact today and the house continues to be a private residence despite a brief period as a tour home.
333 Forest Ave. Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Built:
Construction: 1895
Alteration: 1923
Architect:
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architectural style:
Tudor Revival
Governing body:
Private owner
Part of:
Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District
See www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/new-haven/habitat-for-human... for info about this house.
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Cragfont is a beautiful Georgian-style mansion located on a craggy eminence above Bledsoe’s Creek seven miles east of Gallatin. James and Susan Black Winchester had the house designed and built between 1798-1802. The masons built the two-story house of gray, rough-finished native limestone quarried near the site. When completed, it was the most elegant residence on the Tennessee frontier, the first to reflect the grandeur and style of the fine eighteenth-century homes of Maryland and Virginia.
Cragfont was the home of General James Winchester who was a protagonist of the American Revolution, a pioneer in the Middle Tennessee wilderness, a soldier against indigenous Americans, a brigadier general in the War of 1812, and co-founder of the City of Memphis. In the War of 1812, Winchester's troops were a part of the unsuccessful American campaign to invade Canada. He was defeated near Frenchtown, was captured, and marched with some 550 Tennesseans and Kentuckians to Quebec, where they were imprisoned for 15 months. He returned to his home in April, 1814, but soon left to assume command of the Mobile District. After General Andrew Jackson's victory at New Orleans, Winchester returned to Cragfont for good on February 12, 1815. Once there, he resumed pursuit of his agricultural interests, became a leader in the general upgrading of the state, and engaged in land speculation, which led to his fortune. He died at home on July 26, 1826. His wife Susan lived there until her death in 1862
In 1958 the Tennessee Historical Commission acquired Cragfont and commenced a full restoration. Cragfont was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 26, 1970 and was amended in 1977 to include a property extension.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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The German architects Becker & Baedecker designed this house in Huai Hai Road. I need to check but roughly at 1912.
Fallingwater is a renowned house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935, located in Mill Run, Pennsylvania. It is celebrated for its unique design that integrates with the natural landscape, being built partly over a waterfall on the Bear Run stream. Fallingwater is considered Wright's crowning achievement in organic architecture and has been recognized as the best all-time work of American architecture by the American Institute of Architects. The house was originally a private residence for the Kaufmann family and is now a museum, showcasing Wright's innovative approach to architecture and nature. It is also a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Dog house designed by me using several modified variants of Building Block Units. All units (3 for the roof and 13 for the walls and entrance) made from same-sized squares.
The dog sitting in front of the doghouse is Business Card Puppy, designed by Larry Stevens (diagrams in Origami USA Annual Collection 2002).
Trattner-Károlyi House
Design: Hild József, 1831
Neo-classicíl style
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This little building served as the northernmost point of the entire CTA Elevated (the"El") Rapid Transit System. The North Shore Line continued past this station onto Greenleaf Avenue for some street running and its Shore Line. The new(er) Linden station is out of view to the left. From Wikipedia: "A station house designed by Arthur Gerber was added in 1913. In 1984, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places." It now houses the Wilmette/Kenilworth Chamber of Commerce. Wilmette, Illinois
The historic and beautiful Emil Bach house, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois.
Sunday, May 30, 2021.
Building info:
Fallingwater, also known as the Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. Residence, is a house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1934 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The house was built partly over a waterfall in Bear Run at Rural Route 1 in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains. For the rest of the information regarding the house please visit Wikipedia.
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I've had thoughts about this project since I've built Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye. I finally made up my mind in September 2009. when I began planning and working on some early designs. Scale of the building is minifig, or approximate 1:40. One of the issues was how to make the stone walls of the building. The result here is made out of 4 different shades of grey (old grey and bley). Other was the terrain and vegetation. In the end I decided to make it in winter atmosphere. Snow is something I always enjoy, and I was always more of a winter type of person, so here it is - my first snowy MOC. :)
Building process spread over total of almost 7 months, and the structure is made out of more than 15000 bricks (just an approximate guess). It is placed on 6 48*48 baseplates, and measures 115 x 80 x 50 cm. It weights more than 20 kg. This MOC will be displayed in Technical Museum in Zagreb on "Kockice EXPO 2010", in May and June this year.
I would like to thank dear Klementina for her help and support during the rough times - multiple structure collapses. ;)
Hügelpark
The Villa Hügel is a 19th-century mansion in Bredeney, now part of Essen, Germany. It was built by the industrialist Alfred Krupp in 1870–1873 as his main residence and was the home of the Krupp family until after World War II. More recently, the Villa Hügel has housed the offices of the Kulturstiftung Ruhr (Ruhr Cultural Foundation), an art gallery, the historical archive of the Krupp family and company, and a concert venue.
Hügel simply means "hill", as the villa sits atop a hill. It was sometimes named Villa Krupp, after the family.
History
In 1864 Alfred Krupp purchased the Klosterbuschhof on the heights above Bredeney and had it rebuilt as a residence for his family. Over the following years, Krupp bought additional land around the estate and in 1869 placed an advertisement in Deutsche Bauzeitung looking for an architect who would turn his designs for a "large villa" into a viable blueprint. In the event, a number of architects worked on the project over the following years. Krupp himself continually intervened in the work with new ideas. His focus was very much on a modern and efficient house: design elements were secondary to him and he deemed most ornamental architectural features superfluous.
The foundations were laid in April 1870 and up to 800 people worked on the construction project at a time. Since Alfred Krupp wanted a very modern home, the villa was intended to be fire-proof and well insulated from sun, wind, cold and heat. It featured double-paned windows, water heating and an early form of air conditioning. The temperature was intended to be independently adjustable for each room. A large complex of support buildings was erected nearby, including private water and gas works.
Krupp pushed for a speedy completion, although the Franco-Prussian War and collapsing mining tunnels underneath the edifice slowed construction. On 10 January 1873, the family moved in; some of the technical features did not work as expected, however, so work continued after that.
Alfred Krupp died in 1887. The family continued to use the Villa Hügel and Friedrich Alfred Krupp and his wife Margarethe made some significant changes to the house, adding sumptuous ornamentation. Among other heads of state and monarchs, Emperor Wilhelm II stayed at the Villa Hügel seven times and visited 9 times. The current appearance of the villa is mostly due to the next generation of Krupps, Friedrich Alfred's daughter Bertha and her husband Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, who hired Ernst von Ihne to work on the building after 1912. He added wooden paneling to the interior and the owners furnished the villa with numerous works of art.
An annex called the Little House (Kleines Haus) containing sixty rooms was used to confine Alfried Krupp in the aftermath of the Second World War. Some parts of the villa were used to house members of the British post-war Control Commission, Germany (CCG) during 1946.
Description
The house has 269 rooms and occupies 8,100 m2 (87,000 sq ft). It is situated in a 28-hectare (69-acre) park that overlooks the River Ruhr and the Baldeneysee.
The main complex consists of the three-storied Wohnhaus ('residence') – topped by a belvedere, which originally contained the air conditioning ducts – and a three-storied Logierhaus ('lodging house'). The two were linked by a winter garden, now a two-storied building. The construction is supported by an iron framework, which was very modern for the time. The overall style of the original building was a very austere example of a late-Neoclassical villa; later changes added more ornamentation. The interior of the main building's ground and second floors is dominated by the main hall of over 400 m2 (4,300 sq ft). By contrast, the rooms of the first floor (which is not open to the public) were kept relatively simple.
Today
In 1953 the Krupp family opened their former residence to the public. Exhibitions have been held here since then. The Villa Hügel also served as a place of representation for the Krupp Group. In 1984, Berthold Beitz set up the Ruhr Cultural Foundation, which organizes major art and cultural exhibitions in the villa. The main building with many historical rooms can be visited today. The Krupp historical exhibition is housed in the adjoining building, the so-called Little House. The Krupp archive has also been located in the villa since 1905.
The hall is also the regular concert venue of Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen, a chamber orchestra.
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Die Villa Hügel im Essener Stadtteil Bredeney wurde 1870–1873 im Auftrag von Alfred Krupp errichtet und ist das ehemalige Wohn- und Repräsentationshaus der Industriellenfamilie Krupp.
Die schlossähnliche Villa hat auf ihren 11.000 Quadratmetern Wohn- und Nutzfläche 399 Räume und liegt – an prominenter Stelle über dem Ruhrtal und dem Baldeneysee – im 40 Hektar großen zugehörigen Hügelpark.
Heute ist die Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung Eigentümerin des Anwesens. In der Villa hat auch die Kulturstiftung Ruhr ihren Sitz. Im Haus finden regelmäßig Veranstaltungen, z. B. Konzerte oder Ausstellungen, statt. Zahlreiche historische Räume sowie die Historische Ausstellung Krupp werden der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht.
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Der Hügelpark ist die zur Villa Hügel gehörige, 40 Hektar große Parkanlage im Essener Stadtteil Bredeney, die der Industrielle Alfred Krupp ab 1869 plante und errichten ließ.
Geschichte und Charakter
Ursprünglich war bei der Anlage des Parks eine Zusammenarbeit mit einem renommierten Gartenarchitekten vorgesehen. Im Gespräch waren Joseph Clemens Weyhe und Johann Heinrich Gustav Meyer. Mit keinem der beiden kam ein Vertrag zustande. Stattdessen wurden die Vorstellungen Alfred Krupps durch seinen Obergärtner Friedrich Bete umgesetzt.
Es war eine Verbindung zwischen dem Angenehmen und dem Nützlichen vorgesehen. So sollte er auf der einen Seite der Repräsentation und der Erholung dienen, auf der Anderen war geplant, das Personal mit landwirtschaftlichen Erzeugnissen zu versorgen. Von dem ursprünglich 127 bis 153 Hektar umfassenden Areal der Villa waren rund 13 bis 15 Hektar für die Landwirtschaft vorgesehen.
Unmittelbar um die Villa waren, mit Ausnahme des nördlichen Bereiches, Garten- und Parkanlagen vorgesehen. Die Nutzflächen sollten sich an diese anschließen. Nach den Vorstellungen von Alfred Krupp sollten sich im Park Wohnungen, Stallungen, Grotten, Treibhäuser, Brunnen, eine Reitbahn, Höfe, Gartenanlagen, ein Wasserdruckwerk, Springbrunnen, Kaskaden, Fischteiche, ein Wildpark, Viadukte, Brücken, Pferde- und Viehweiden befinden. Nachdem Krupp Brachewitz die Verantwortungen für die Planung der Villa immer mehr entzog, sollte er die Planungen für die Gebäude im Außenbereich übernehmen. Für die Ausführung war er nicht vorgesehen. Krupp sagte dazu, dass er: „nicht aber mit der Ausführung, weil das gar nicht sein Fach ist, wie ich mich vollständig überzeugt habe und wovon ihm gegenüber auch kein Hehl zu machen ist.“ Ihm zur Seite sollte Johann Heinrich Gustav Meyer gestellt werden, von dem allerdings nur drei Zeichnungen für das Gewächshaus angefertigt wurden.
So entstanden nach den Ideen von Alfred Krupp und Brachewitz sowie Bete Skizzen für eine Parkanlage südlich des Hauptgebäudes. Er bestand aus zwei Ebenen, welche von einem Park umgeben waren. Die obere Terrasse entstand aus dem Bodenaushub, welcher beim Bau der Villa anfiel. Diese Ebene war von einer Futtermauer eingefasst und sollte mit geometrisch angeordneten Baumpflanzungen und einem Teich gestaltet werden. Anfängliche Skizzen dieser Mauer hinterließen, besonders durch die beiden Wehrtürme an den Ecken, den Eindruck einer Festungsmauer. Der zweite Entwurf wurde mit einer Pergola und dem Eingang zum Weinkeller einschließlich Sitzgelegenheit aufgelockert.
1869 fertigten Brachewitz und Bete die erste Planung für diese beiden Terrassen an. Die Flächen bestanden zu weiten Teilen aus Rasen und wurden durch geschwungenen Wege mit Nischen für Statuen und Sitzbänke durchzogen. In der Mitte der Quermauer befand sich das Stibadium. Dahinter schloss sich der die obere Ebene umfassende Laubengang an. Unterhalb des Stibadiums war eine Grotte vorgesehen.
Ein weiterer Entwurf wurde 1870 angefertigt. Der Erholungsbereich war hier, entgegen der des ersten Planes, auf den unteren Bereich beschränkt. Der obere Bereich wurde geometrisch gestaltet und enthielt drei rechteckige Beete.
Der endgültige Entwurf beinhaltete ebenfalls die Aufteilung der oberen Ebene in drei rechteckige Teile. Jedoch wurden diese jetzt von einem breiten Weg gequert. Der geplante Teich entfiel aufgrund der hohen Kosten und des schlechten Untergrunds.
Zum Zeitpunkt des Baus der Villa Hügel war das Areal eine kahle Anhöhe mit Wiesen, Weiden und Ackerflächen. Dies entsprach allerdings nicht den Vorstellungen Alfred Krupps von seinem künftigen Wohnsitz. Um den Eindruck eines Waldes noch zu seinen Lebzeiten zu bekommen, wurden zahlreiche größere Bäume eingepflanzt. Krupps Wunsch war es „etwa 50 jährige … große, ältere Bäume … zuvörderst Buchen, Eichen, Linden, Platanen, Tannen, Fichten“ anzupflanzen. Zu diesem Zweck schickte er einen Angestellten nach Paris, um sich über den Bau eines neuen Boulevard zu informieren, wo erfolgreich Bäume diesen Alters eingepflanzt worden waren. Krupp ließ rund einhundert Bäume aus Mülheim an der Ruhr und Gelsenkirchen einpflanzen. Heute noch erhalten sind der Platanenhain am westlichen Hang unterhalb der Terrasse, die Buchen am ehemaligen Reitweg und die Rhododendren in der Schlucht.
Auf der oberen Terrasse war ein Quadrat mit 7 mal 7 Linden vorgesehen. Diese ersetzten das Arrangement von 4 mal 5 Linden, welche den ursprünglich geplanten Teich umschlossen. An diese Fläche schlossen sich beidseitig Beete an. Westlich schloss sich dann eine Rasenfläche an, welche mit kugelförmigen Buchsbäumen und Araukarien eingefasst wurde. Der Laubengang, welcher die obere Terrasse umfasst, wurde von Nadelgehölzen, Buchsbäumen, Lebensbäumen und Eiben umschlossen. Die untere Terrasse bestand zu weiten Teilen aus Rasen, Ziergräsern und Laubbaumbeständen. Bei den Bäumen handelte es sich um Buchen und Linden.
Die Wege waren ausschließlich als Kieswege ausgeführt. Zudem befanden sich zahlreiche Sitzmöbel, Skulpturen, Lampen und Vasen über den gesamten Bereich des Parks verteilt. 1883 war der Park in dieser Form fertiggestellt.
Während unter Alfred Krupp hauptsächlich einheimische Pflanzen den Weg in den Park fanden, änderte sich dies nach seinem Tod 1887. Unter seinem Sohn Friedrich Alfred Krupp, und später Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, wandelte sich ab 1888 der Park mehr und mehr zu einem Repräsentationsobjekt. So wurden zunehmend seltene und exotische Pflanzen eingesetzt, wie die Anlage einer Orchideenzucht unter dem Nachfolger Betes, Friedrich Veerhoff, zeigt. Bis zur Versetzung nach Shanghai war im Park ab 1896 das Li-Hongzhang-Denkmal aufgestellt.
Der heutige Hügelpark befindet sich nicht mehr in seinem ursprünglichen Zustand. Zum 150. Jubiläum der Friedrich Krupp AG 1961 wurde die Anlage umfassend nach Vorbild eines Englischen Gartens umgestaltet. Die zwei unterschiedlichen Ebenen im Bereich südlich der Villa sind heute nicht mehr zu erkennen. Dieser Bereinigung fielen auch die künstlichen Wasserläufe und Quellen zum Opfer. Von den insgesamt über 50 Gebäuden auf dem Gelände der Villa Hügel sind neben dem Haupthaus nur noch die drei Portiergebäude, das Gäste- und das Spatzenhaus erhalten geblieben.
Die Parkanlage, verwaltet von der Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung, ist eingebunden in das European Garden Heritage Network. Sie ist heute öffentlich zugänglich. Seit 2008 wird eine generelle Eintrittsgebühr erhoben, die auch den Besuch der Villa Hügel einschließt.
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