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it's not my vault!* - the architecture thread, Disc. 500 Iconic Buildings: Central Station

Discussion in 'Archive: The Amphitheatre' started by darth_frared, Jun 7, 2006.

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    Next: Church of St. Giles

    Architect: Augustus Pugin

    Completed: 1846

    Location: Cheadle, Staffordshire, England

    Style/Period: Gothic Revival

    The architect was the son of a French architectural draftsman, though he was born in London. This was a Catholic Church, funded by the Earl of Shrewsbury. A symbol of the revival of the Church in England.

    [image=http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/images/2006/02/07/cheadle_st_giles_church_390x270.jpg]

    [image=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3232/2908931099_58a689b281.jpg]

     
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    Next: The Palm House

    Architect: Decimus Burton and Richard Taylor

    Completed: 1848

    Location: Kew Gardens, London, England

    Style/Period: Victorian Industrial

    [image=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Kew.gardens.palm.house.london.arp.jpg]

    [image=http://www.planetware.com/i/photo/kew-gardens-royal-botanic-gardens-london-lnkewgdn.jpg]

    Wonderful elegant look.
     
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    Next: The Crystal Palace

    Architect: Joseph Paxton

    Completed: 1851

    Location: Hyde Park, London, England

    Style/Period: Victorian Industrial

    [image=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Crystal_Palace.PNG]

    [image=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Crystal_Palace.PNG]

    This first pre-fabricated building, this was built to house the 1851 Great Exhibition. Prince Albert was a promoter of it; when at the last minute, they couldn't get rid of the sparrows enclosed in the trees within, the Queen (rather desperately) asked the Duke of Wellington (then about 80) what to do. "Sparrow hawks, ma'am!" he barked. Which is what they did. It was moved to another part of London after the Exposition. It burnt down in 1936.
     
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    Next: The Great Kremlin Palace

    Architect: Konstantin Andreyevich Thon

    Completed: 1851

    Location: Moscow, Russia

    Style/Period: Russo-Byzantine Revival

    [image=http://www.moscow.info/images/kremlin/palaces/Great-Kremlin-Palace.jpg]

    Built by Nicholas I. He needed a newer palace to stay in when he was in Moscow.
     
  5. JohnWesleyDowney

    JohnWesleyDowney Jedi Master star 5

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    Boy, those czars didn't skip on the palaces, did they?

    That Crystal Palace looks as though it was a fabulous structure.
     
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    No, they didn't.

    King's Cross Station

    Completed: 1852

    Location: Euston Road, London, England

    Style/Period: Industrial/Railroad

    The first public railroad in Britain was completed in 1825. This required large railway stations, especially in large cities.

    [image=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/The_front_of_King%27s_Cross_station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1129838.jpg]
     
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    Next: Waverly

    Architect: Charles Pond

    Completed: 1852

    Location: Near West Point, Mississippi, USA

    Style/Period: Antebellum/Greek Revival/Octagonal

    [image=http://www.wpnet.org/wp_images/Wav_Mansion.jpg]

     
  8. JohnWesleyDowney

    JohnWesleyDowney Jedi Master star 5

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    Boy, does that evoke a time and a place. Sipping mint julips and talkin' 'bout Yankees. Makes me think "Tennessee Williams."
     
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    Margaret Mitchell...
     
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    Next: Bodelwyddan Castle

    [image=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Bodelwyddan_castle_view2_arp.jpg/800px-Bodelwyddan_castle_view2_arp.jpg]

    Architect: Joseph Hansom and Edward Welch

    Completed: 1852

    Location: Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, Wales

    Style/Period: Gothic Revival

     
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    If I wanted to live in a castle, that would be the one. [face_mischief]
     
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    It has indoor plumbing and heating!
     
  13. Havac

    Havac Former Moderator star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Nah, not defensible enough. I want a moat.:p
     
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    Moats flood. Just ask the owners of Hever Castle. They had to sell because of it.

    [image=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/66/Hever_Castle.jpg/800px-Hever_Castle.jpg]

    Next: Paddington Station

    [image=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9b/Paddingtonstation.jpg/800px-Paddingtonstation.jpg]

    Architect: Isambard Kingdom Brunel (his real name and one of my favourites) and Matthew Wyatt

    Completed: 1854

    Location: Paddington, London, England

    Style/Period: Victorian Industrial

    Brunel based it on the Crystal Palace.
     
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    Next: Round Reading Room, British Museum

    Architect: Sydney Smirke

    Completed: 1857

    Location: Bloomsbury, London, England

    Style/Period: Neo-Classical

    Built in a public garden...

    [image=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/British_Museum_Reading_Room_Panorama_Feb_2006.jpg/800px-British_Museum_Reading_Room_Panorama_Feb_2006.jpg]

    The Round Reading Room is no longer part of the British Museum
     
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    That is spectacular looking. It looks like something in the Star Wars prequels, largely due to the incredible scale of it.
     
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    They still use it for books connected with the Museum.

    And yes, it's fantastic.
     
  18. MarcusP2

    MarcusP2 Manager Emeritus star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    That article says it's no longer part of the British Library, it is still part of the Museum (it has to be, since it's right in the middle of it.)

    The Great Court and Reading Room are spectacular.
     
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    Next: Morse-Libby Mansion

    Architect: Henry Austin

    Completed: 1860

    Location: Portland, Maine, USA

    Style/Period: Federal/Victorian

    The Morse-Libby House
     
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    Next: Red House

    Architect: Philip Webb

    Completed: 1860

    Location: Bexleyheath, Kent, England

    Style/Period: Arts and Crafts

    [image=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Red_House_window_detail.JPG/800px-Red_House_window_detail.JPG]

    [image=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/The_Red_House%2C_Bexleyheath.JPG/800px-The_Red_House%2C_Bexleyheath.JPG] Garden view

    [image=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Front_of_Red_House,_Bexleyheath,_Kent_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1003172.jpg]

    Built for William Morris, and decorated by a series of his Pre-Raphaelite friends, The Red House is the earliest expression of the Arts and Crafts movement (beauty and utility) and caused Morris to found Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Company in 1861, a firm that would transform interiors and furniture. Gothic revival in style, but simplified lines.
     
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    Oxford University Museum of Natural History

    Architects: Thomas Deane and Benjamin Woodward

    Completed: 1860

    Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

    Style/Period: Gothic Revival

    [image=http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/73/1f/c4/museum-of-natural-history.jpg]

    [image=http://www.blogandcollectibles.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/150th-Anniversary-for-Oxford-University-Museum-of-Natural-History.jpg]


     
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    Next: The Capitol

    [image=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/United_States_Capitol_-_west_front.jpg/800px-United_States_Capitol_-_west_front.jpg]

    Architects: William Thornton, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Charles Bullfinch, Thomas Ustick Walter et al.

    Completed: 1863 (began 1793)

    Location: Capital Hill, Washington, D. C. USA

    Style/Period: Neoclassical/Greek Revival/Neobaroque

    Took 70 years to complete, starting with Thornton's winning design; burnt down in 1814 during the the War of 1812. Latrobe restored and modified it. Bullfinch joined the North and South wings. Walter designed the dome, the size of which was made possible by the use of cast-iron, a then-new building material.

    The symbol of democracy was designed by committee, which is strangely suitable.
     
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    Next: The Round Barn

    Architect: Attributed to Elder William Deming

    Completed: 1865

    Location: Hancock Shaker Village, Massachusetts.

    Style/Period: Shaker

    [image=http://alloveralbany.com/images/hancock_shaker_round_barn.jpg]

    [image=http://roundhouses.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/shaker-round-barn-plans.jpg]

    The Shakers (a communal religious sect) believed in function, but the form was also elegantly simple. Of course, they also believed in celibacy, with the result that they died out.
     
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    Next: Bibliotheque Nationale

    Architect: Henri Labrouste

    Completed: 1868

    Location: Rue de Richelieu, Paris, France

    Style/Period: Rational, Neoclassical

    Labrouste used cast iron, which allowed some spectacular effects.

    [image=http://media-1.web.britannica.com/eb-media/42/5842-004-AED95D28.jpg]

    [image=http://elysesnow.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/bibliotheque20nationale20de20france.jpg]
     
  25. Havac

    Havac Former Moderator star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Those thin columns really look great. An ornate, Gothic look, but light and airy with those narrow columns. Almost otherworldly in their effect.