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A Futuro house, or Futuro Pod, is a round, prefabricated house designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen, of which fewer than 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The shape, reminiscent of a flying saucer, and the structure's airplane hatch entrance has made the houses sought after by collectors. The Futuro is composed of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, polyester-polyurethane, and poly(methyl methacrylate), measuring 4 metres (13 feet) high and 8 metres (26 feet) in diameter.
House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 and built over a small waterfall on Bear Run in southwestern Pennsylvania..
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.
An Avant-garde Home from 1933
The Sonneveld House, designed by architects Leendert van der Vlugt and Johannes Andreas Brinkman, for Albertus Sonneveld, director of the Van Nelle Factory, is a clear example of the principles of the House Machine theorized by Le Corbusier and represented in the Netherlands by the Nieuwe Bouwen, the Dutch branch of functionalism. It is a comfortable house as a machine, designed around its inhabitants, efficient and hygienic, thanks to new materials can provide light, air and needed to live in complete psychophysical wellbeing space, thus responding to the five principles that Le Corbusier stipulated in his book “Towards a New Architecture” in 1921.
Sonneveld House illustrates how the influence of the new trends in architecture were received by the upper middle class.
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)
Altan Lough, Meenagopog, County Donegal, Ireland
This fortified house, designed in the style of a medieval castle tower is actually an old sheep farm! Totally hidden at the foot of Mt Errigal on the small sandy shore of Lough Altan. Miles away from any modern dwelling, it can only be accessed via a 1-hour hike through miles of wet bogland as there are no roads leading here.
Nothing seems to be on record about the actual starting history or who built this amazing tower? The records only start in 1844 stating that John Obins Woodhouse (Formerly a solicitor in Dublin) Had purchased this property in 1844 along with other properties in other counties in Ireland. The land was then leased by a Mr Wright and in September 1849 who had 1100 sheep grazing in the mountains. In 1856 for reasons unknown the Scottish shepherd was attacked, robbed & ordered to return to his own country.
The tower house & farm was abandoned in the 1800s. It is said that Maguire & Patterson (match manufacturers) owned the farm in the 1930s & also used it for sheep farming. Unfortunately, the "Big Snow" in 1947 wiped out the entire herd and the farm was finally sold to a Swiss industrialist. It is said that the businessman never even seen it nor once set foot on it during all the years he owned it. Therefore, it now lays like this to this very day, steeped in the history of tenant evictions & tales from the Big Snow of 1947.
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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.
Turkish Bank/Török Bankház a Szervita terén.
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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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This room is a reproduction of the tea room of the Yūshintei, the Japanese-style annex of the Akasaka Palace, the state guest house designed by Yoshirō Taniguchi .
Yoshiro and Yoshio Taniguchi Museum of Architecture, Kanazawa, Japan.
Design (2019): Yoshio Taniguchi.
Miskovsky House
Designed by R. Duane Conner
OKC, OK
1956
This wonderful, mid-century marvel has so many wild angles and interestingly shaped room and seems very Goff inspired.
Miskovsky House
Designed by R. Duane Conner
OKC, OK
1956
The living room looks out over almost an acre of land right in the middle of OKC's best neighborhood, Nichols Hills.
UPDATE 10/11/2010: The new owner tracked me down to learn more about my grandfather's work and to tell me that he did, indeed, design this house. Woo hoo!
She and her husband love the house pretty much as it is and plan to redo the kitchen and master bedroom (which they both desperately need) and preserve the rest. Today is a good day!
Construction date: c.1928
The large brick house designed in Neo-Georgian style was constructed in local brick for Auckland surgeon Mr Casement Gordon Aickin in the later half of the 1920s. It was one of several buildings designed as doctors' residences in this section of Symonds Street. Following recent redevelopment of the site in association with surrounding land, only the facades and a reinstated portion of the roof of the main original building remain.
As an aside - In 1927 Casement Aickin assisted Carrick Hey Robertson (1879 - 1963) who performed what was probably the first heart operation in New Zealand. Auckland-born Casement Aickin (c. 1881-1936) graduated from the University of Otago in 1909. In 1911 he went to London where he gained a fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons the following year. Upon his return to Auckland he occupied a house at 41 Symonds Street, where he is said to have lived until 1928 when he moved to the new brick house constructed at 39 Symonds Street.
Information sourced from the former New Zealand Historic Places Trust Register - now Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga List
List Number: 588
Aickin House - Written by Joan McKenzie
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Description of Historic Place
The Toronto Power Generating Station National Historic Site of Canada is located on the banks of the Niagara River just above Niagara Falls. The Power House is a rectangular building measuring 132 metres by 30 metres with an imposing classical façade. Its symmetrical plan consists of a central block with a heavy Ionic portico flanked by two long Ionic colonnades. The Power House contains the generators and stands above the other principal engineering components of the installation that include a submerged dam, penstocks, and the wheel pit housing the turbines, and the tailrace tunnel. Official recognition refers to the building and structures on the legal lot at the time of designation (1983).
Heritage Value
The Toronto Power Generating Station was designated a national historic site of Canada in 1983 because:
- this generating station was the first wholly Canadian-owned hydro-electric facility at Niagara Falls;
- the powerhouse is an early and unusual application of Beaux-Arts design to an industrial site in Canada.
The Toronto Power Generating Station, associated with development of hydro-electric power in Canada, was a significant large-scale engineering achievement in its time and was important in the development of business, industry and technology in Ontario and Canada. The Generating Station and Power House was built for the Electrical Development Company of Ontario to supply hydro-electric power to Toronto. The installation was begun in 1903 with the Power House designed in the formal Beaux-Arts style by architect E.J. Lennox to complement the majestic setting. The Toronto Power Generating Station was opened in 1906, and was purchased by Ontario Hydro in 1922. It operated until 1974.
Character-Defining Elements
The key elements that contribute to the heritage character of this site include:
- the prominent location on the bank of the Niagara River above the Niagara Falls;
- the river-front setting with the building as a component of a scenic, landscaped public parkland;
- the large, flat-roofed, symmetrical massing;
- the steel-frame construction clad in brick and Indiana limestone;
- the classical Beaux-Arts style main west façade that includes a projecting central block with a heavy Ionic portico flanked by two long Ionic colonnades;
- the austere east, rear elevation facing the river that is faced with plain terracotta brick and simply decorated with a row of shallow strip pilasters;
- the regularly placed windows, and the large bow window across the north elevation;
- the Power House’s interior configuration, features and finishes, including the central entrance, the grand foyer finished with marble walls and floor tiles, the enriched cornices, and the elaborated architraves;
- the configuration, features and finishes of the work room, public waiting room and board room, and also the glazed industrial brick of the generator room;
- the principal engineering components of the installation that include a submerged dam, penstocks, the wheel pit housing the turbines, the tailrace tunnel and the power house with generators.
Fallingwater is a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 61 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The house was built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, located in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains. The house was designed as a weekend home for the family of Liliane and Edgar J. Kaufmann, owner of Kaufmann's Department Store. After its completion, Time called Fallingwater Wright's "most beautiful job" and it is listed among Smithsonian's "Life List of 28 Places to See Before You Die." The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966. In 1991, members of the American Institute of Architects named Fallingwater the "best all-time work of American architecture" and in 2007, it was ranked 29th on the list of America's Favorite Architecture according to the AIA. It and seven other Wright constructions were inscribed on the World Heritage List under the title "The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright" in July 2019.
Former Droste Chocolate factory.
(L) Roasting House designed by Jacob van den Ban (1911).
(R) Packaging House designed by Johannes Jacobus van Noppen (1922).
Redeveloped in 2009 by Braaksma & Roos Architects into housing and a restaurant.
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The traditional Thai house design was very typical when rivers and canals were main trasportation route in the past. High roof for ventilation. The living area is on the 2nd floor, 1st floor is open for the anually flooding. Every house in the past has boats under the house ready to use while flooding. I've a chance to take photos of this newly built house today while travelling to work out side the city. The place is in Bang Sai, Ayutthaya. :)
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An Avant-garde Home from 1933
The Sonneveld House, designed by architects Leendert van der Vlugt and Johannes Andreas Brinkman, for Albertus Sonneveld, director of the Van Nelle Factory, is a clear example of the principles of the House Machine theorized by Le Corbusier and represented in the Netherlands by the Nieuwe Bouwen, the Dutch branch of functionalism. It is a comfortable house as a machine, designed around its inhabitants, efficient and hygienic, thanks to new materials can provide light, air and needed to live in complete psychophysical wellbeing space, thus responding to the five principles that Le Corbusier stipulated in his book “Towards a New Architecture” in 1921.
Sonneveld House illustrates how the influence of the new trends in architecture were received by the upper middle class.
The Robie House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his client Frederick C. Robie, is considered one of the most important buildings in the history of American architecture. Designed in Wright's Oak Park studio in 1908 and completed in 1910, the building inspired an architectural revolution. Its sweeping horizontal lines, dramatic overhangs, stretches of art glass windows and open floor plan make it a quintessential Prairie style house. Although it was designed one hundred years ago, the building remains a masterpiece of modern architecture.
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
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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
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101334736-tudor-lodge-edensor
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Allen House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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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.
The Old Mill House designed by landscape architect William H. Kessler is a 1926 replica of Perryman's Mill built by the Jemison Companies. It originally operated as a tea room, but the tea room closed during the Great Depression. It has since been converted into a private residence. Located on the bank of Shades Creek, it is a welcoming site as you enter the affluent suburb of Mountain Brook.
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The Tulip Stairs are an original feature of the Queen’s House, designed by Inigo Jones. This wrought iron structure was the first geometric self-supporting spiral stair in Britain.
The $4 billion Oculus station house, designed by Santiago Calatrava, consists of white ribs that interlock high above the ground. The interior of the station house contains two underground floors, which house part of the Westfield World Trade Center mall. The transportation hub connects the various modes of transportation in Lower Manhattan, from the Fulton Center in the east to the Battery Park City Ferry Terminal in the west, through the station house. The hub contains connections to various New York City Subway stations, including Chambers Street–World Trade Center/Park Place/Cortlandt Street on the 2, 3, A, C, E, N, R, and W trains and WTC Cortlandt on the 1 train. It is the fifth-busiest transportation hub in the New York metropolitan area.
The beautiful internal patio of Casa Milà, the house designed by Antoni Gaudí for Roser Segimon and Pere Milà in 1905.
Construction of the Oslo Opera House, designed by architects Snøhetta, started in 2003 and the building was completed in 2007, ahead of schedule and US$50 million under its budget!
Miskovsky House
Designed by R. Duane Conner
OKC
1956
This amazing mid-century gem 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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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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On a visit to the Sign of the Takahe for a coffee. November 2019 Christchurch New Zeeland.
The Sign of the Takahe is today a cafe/bar with casual dining with a unique wedding and function space, built in the style of an English Manor House. Designed by J. G. Collins, construction was carried out between 1918 and 1948. The Takahe also provides one of the better panoramic views of the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, the Canterbury Plains and the Southern Alps.
Named after the flightless native New Zealand bird, the Takahe, it was initially one of the roadhouses planned by Henry George (Harry) Ell as part of his scheme to preserve the natural state of the Port Hills which overlook Christchurch and Lyttelton harbour.
Ell had envisaged four roadhouses being built, and three were completed before Ell's death in 1934. These were Sign of the Kiwi, Sign of the Bellbird and Sign of the Packhorse.
However, Ell wished the Takahe to be a more substantial structure and spent years studying design of English Manors, castles and inns, to be incorporated into the final construction of the Takahe. Indeed, the dining room is an exact replica of the historic Haddon Hall in Derbyshire.
A great deal of improvisation was required to minimise cost. For example, the stone was quarried locally from the Port Hills and hand chiseled into blocks using primitive tools, the heavy Kauri beams in the entrance hall were salvaged from a former bridge over the Hurunui River and the ceilings in the inner most dining room were painted on timber cut from packing cases.
The building has a Category I listing with Heritage New Zealand. It is located adjacent to Cracroft Reserve.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_of_the_Takahe
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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The German architects Becker & Baedecker designed this house in Huai Hai Road. I need to check but roughly at 1912.
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.
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