Comparing Omni Shoreham Hotel And The Willard Intercontinental Hotel

During my return trip to downtown Tucson I visited my favorite place and the one which I felt held the most power. The Cadence apartment gives anyone who enters it the feel of a five-star hotel. The apartments gave the ambience of upper class with its constant cleaning crew working to keep it in prestige condition and multiple amenities only the nicest and most powerful of places would possess. When entering, you are welcomed to a long all white hallway with multiple fireplaces and flat screen televisions. The all white building gives the impression of a sleek and clean upper class building. After continuing down the hall, you are greeted by a fully equipped gym and a large pool and hot tub. Overall, with grand sweeping hallways, five star amenities, and classy atmosphere, The Cadence possesses much of the attributions that lead a building to be architecturally powerful.

One of the first things that I noticed about The Met was its exterior architecture. Like many historical buildings and museums, The Met's architecture is highly influenced by European architecture; in this case, it appears as though the architecture is attempting to emulate the gothic style. Once inside the daunting faรงade, I was pleasantly surprised to see how richly illuminated the museum was. What made it even more remarkable was that much of the light appeared to permeate through skylights that had been built into the building's ceiling. Moreover, I was pleasantly surprised to see that The Met was considerably less crowded than the American Museum of Natural History, which I had visited the day before.

Influenced by his readings of ancient and modern architectural writings, Jefferson gleaned the best from both his readings and from his observations in Europe, creating his own personal style of architecture, a mix of Neoclassicism’s Roman temples, and Palladian villa. Partly, because of Jefferson’s influence, our federal buildings set an American precedent for the neoclassical style. Jefferson’s admiration for neoclassical style went so far as to design

Over these past several years, the Van Wagenen has amazingly developed in many fascinating ways from it’s look and it’s purposes. To start things into action, after Jersey City purchased the Van Wagenen House in 1999 for $450,000, they began a renovation plan in 2002, and soon turned this historical home into a museum and educational center. Today, this stunning Greek Revival architecture style house is put on the vital list of the National Register of Historic Places, and over hundreds of people visit this historical house to explore the superb history. The city of Jersey City has developed the Van Wagenen House in many ways throughout these few decades. On the other hand, being such an historical place to visit, the Van Wagenen House holds a very important place in my heart, and is a terrific place to visit. The most vital reason why this house hold a vitality to me is because our first president, George Washington, visited this fine establishment. Don’t you get that cheerful feeling when you realize that the father of our country visited the Van Wagenen

I was recently in Washington D.C. where I visited a number of public buildings. I immediately thought of Washington D.C. when I saw this discussion assignment. There are an abundance of buildings there designed in the classical order. However, I will focus on the U.S. Supreme Court building – which is one of the three above.

The Philadelphia Centennial of 1876 is the origin starting point for a rebirth of the colonial architectural heritage of America and the early English and Dutch houses of the Atlantic seaboard. The increasing popularity of colonial influences on contemporary architecture motivated a highly publicized tour of a group of architects in 1877 who observed and recorded Georgian and Federal houses of New England. The simplicity of colonial designs and honest use of materials with more economical plans than the recently popular picturesque homes also contributed to the growing popularity of the style. Even a century after “modern” architecture was introduced, Colonial Revival motifs continue to be popular in new construction. These homes got their

You are exploring the deep American jungle, filled exotic animals, and wild vegetation. You see and come to an opening. Once you are there, you find out you are in an European architectural styled city. Little anticlimactic twist than you expect. Central and South American Architecture before modern times (1850's to now) will be explained. As an overview, Pre-Columbian and Colonization architecture will be explained with history and technology.

It is after close examination of both the Lillard Center and the Deerpath Hall, that the viewer can realize the presence of gravity-defying elements present in both structures. Even though these elements do not enhance each building’s own function, it does, however, act as an ornament to the overall design that attracts viewers’ attention. To portray this idea, the Deerpath Hall front structure displays an illusion of even flatness in the building’s main front wall. This is created by the top, front section of the building’s wall being indented inwards and thus, creating a hollow space. To then create a sense of flatness, a small portion of its roof hovers over the indented part of the wall in such a way that the illusion is formed. Not only does this added ornament conveyed a sense of awe in the viewer, but also demonstrates the college’s in this century attempt to portray a sense of the future through the incorporation of modern elements present in architecture during this time period. The used of modern architectural elements such as transparent glass present in the front of the building as well as around it creates a sense of openness to the viewer as well as helps portray the environment’s ability to be open-minded.

New York City has been called “the greatest city in the world” numerous times by its own people and visitors to the city. New York is civilization’s greatest world within a city. It gives the overpowering impression of being a magnet and mirror for all of humanity and all that humanity does. For a city so young, New York is home to number of architectural classics. Two of these masterpieces of architecture are the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum. Both continue the metaphor of New York being a world within a world and possess the latent fusion of form and function, one dependent on the other. The Metropolitan Museum is the epitome of neo-Classical style while the Guggenheim is a modernist powerhouse. Each museum serves

The Hacienda Hotel, Located on Main St. in New Port Richey, Florida, and built in 1920s, opened to the public on February 17, 1927. This building, designed by Thomas Reed Martin and currently in redevelopment, reflects the decade of the 1920s as well as pronouncing the influences of Spanish style designs along with Moroccan styled entry ways. Being one of the few buildings built during the hardships of the Great Depression, it still remains today. With its prestigious architectural styles and Hollywood influences, it manufactures the modernization of the city’s history while conveying the historical elements that we strive for within our community. While the renovations continue,

First off this building was neoclassical meaning based off of roman and greek buildings. This shows as to why it had been designed like this with dome and columns. I also found that George Washington had some role in this too, on one website it mentioned how he had chosen such designs. I do believe the reason they did this was to show their great influence from Greek and Rome and their big triumph to create the U.S. As for the dome it was modified a bit from Greek or Roman taste since the top was rounded. This also was meant to represent the the influence these places had when the ¨nations founders framed a new republic¨

With its classic beaux-arts façade, the building is a large French Renaissance Revival mansion exemplary of the grand architecture of the Upper East Side. In 1983, Ralph Lauren began an extensive renovation to re-create and restore the classic opulence of the original structure. The building is unrivaled in terms of preservation, architecture, and design and serves as the perfect showcase for the timeless style of Ralph Lauren’s Men’s collections. (Ralph Lauren Flagship Stores,

Today technology allows us to construct structures that we would never have been able to make in the past. Some of the creations are impressive based on what they accomplish but others are masterpieces in themselves. Man’s capability to build such tall buildings, as the skyscrapers we are familiar with covering our cities today, is a major expression of the advancements we have made as a culture. The power necessary to build such tall structures inspired competition between architects to see who could build the tallest one. One skyscraper that has inspired many and served as a model, for high rise buildings that were created after, is the Chrysler Building. The Chrysler Building serves as an identifying mark to anyone that

Rosewood Hotels and Resorts is a private hotel management company established in 1979 by the Caroline Rose Hunt Trust Estate. It is a well known company in the luxury hotels market which owns 17 iconic properties in 7 different countries (http://www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/the_company/). The first hotel was The Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas; afterwards the company expanded its “collection of unique properties” all over the world by converting and repositioning existing sites and by building up brand new luxury hotels. The distinctive feature of this collection is the so called “A sense of Place”. In fact in a Rosewood hotel every single

Different architects have different styles because they are trying to get at different things. Architecture is not just about making something beautiful anymore, it is about trying to get across a set of ideas about how we inhabit space. Two of the most famous architects of the twentieth century, one from each side, the early part and the later part up until today each designed a museum with money donated by the Guggenheim foundation. One of these is in New York City, it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The other is in bilbao, Spain, and it was designed by Frank Geary. My purpose of this paper is to interrogate each of these buildings, glorious for different reasons, to show how each architect was expressing their own style.