Construction Of The Crystal Palace

The Ely Cathedral was built in 1109 but much happened before that time, and has happened since then, on the location where it is standing. The building is 900 years old and took 300 years to be completely constructed. This Cathedral has seen sections damaged, crumbled, restored and replaced, but through all these hurdles and obstacles, the Ely Cathedral is beautiful and eloquent, just how it always has been.

Construction on The Empire State Building began on October 1, 1929 just a few weeks before the biggest stock market crash in United States history. On September 9, 1930, Al Smith the former Governor of New York, marked the spot of the cornerstone of what would become the worlds tallest and the century’s best building. That day Smith gave a speech to a crowd of over five thousand, which included mostly workers in hopes of a job on the upcoming project. The Empire State Building opened its doors just eight months later on Friday, May 1, 1931. For a country in midst of a great depression The Empire State Building was a symbol of hope in dark times and showed that Americans would persevere even in a

Gothic cathedrals are one of amazing architect in Western buildings. They are done so well that it feels more like sculpture art piece than just the buildings due to delicate stone spires and patterned colorful stained glass windows. In the documentary, Building The Great Cathedrals, broadcasted on PBS NOVA, it talks about how people in Middle age constructed and built the cathedrals without modern tools. Although they did not have modern technologies, they were able to make huge building by using stones to point arch and flying buttress. I think these are the most significant techniques they used to build the cathedrals.

Lee County (County) authorized TKW Consulting Engineers, Inc. (TKW) to perform a limited investigation of the Hammond Stadium structure located at 14100 6 Mile Cypress Pkwy, Fort Myers, FL 33912. These services are pursuant to Supplemental Task Authorization No. 1 (STA1) (April 2017) authorized under the Lee County CN150198 Misc. Structural Engineering Contract No. 7197 (August 2015) between TKW and Lee County.

The Freedom Tower also known as “One World Trade Center” is the tallest skyscraper in the western hemisphere, and the fifth tallest skyscraper in our planet earth. The building structure consists of 104 stories can also be described as the North Tower of the original World Trade Center. The Building location is 285 Fulton Street, Manhattan New York, United States 10007, as depicted in the map below Figure 1.

During the Medieval period, many technological advances were made. Some of the technology included watermills, windmills, the printing press, and advances in architecture such as the creation of castles and the Gothic style. Each invention had many different uses. The watermill used a water wheel or turbine that helped to make the process of grinding flour or fixing lumber, quicker and easier. The watermill was created during the early 7th century and noticeably spread throughout Europe a century later. There were two types of watermills, one was powered with a vertical waterwheel and the other was powered with a horizontal waterwheel. Watermills lived up to their name by using the power of water to mill and later became associated with

Back in France, Bartholdi had problems of his own. The structure of the statue located in the interior was a very formidable task due to its intricate makeup. To circumvent this problem, a man named Alexandre Eiffel, well known due to his composition of the architecture for the Eiffel Tower in Paris, was hired as the structural engineer. He was able to make the skeletal framework and the iron pylons for the statue and construction continued. The statue was completed in 1884, surpassing the deadline by a reasonable number of years.

It was Henry III that renamed the castle the Tower of London. Even though he used it as a penitentiary, he continued to use it as a palace and kept amused the guests and many came with offerings of animals. He built the Lion Tower; a zoo where he kept the giftes and were his visitor could see wild animals.

Castles were the core of a society in the Middle Ages, acting as a fort and defense. One of the first castles meant to as a defense fort was the motte-bailey castle, one of the earliest fortifications of the Middle Ages. The motte and bailey castle date back to the early ‘s, . This design would have the castle upon an elevated set of land known as the motte. The motte was surrounded by a defensive ditch which also separated the motte from the palisade, this was known as the bailey. A bridge connected the motte to the lower bailey, this construct was meant to guarantee that the keep, the stronghold or center of the kingdom, was harder to get to during invasions. Surrounding the entire kingdom was a wooden fence that contained a girded and barbed

In AD 125 years, the Roman Emperor Hadrian rebuilt the building. Hadrian was not only a wise emperor, he also an architect

Literature and art became the foundation for the Victorian era. The creation of the crystal palace demonstrates the importance of British’s community placed on these three necessities in life. The palace demonstrates the wealth and beauty of the country, regardless of the people labeled invisible. The money and resources England has to build such a building causes parliament and others to ignore the individual problems people face in England. People took to written word to discuss the extravagant palace that presides in England. Written word during the Victorian Era demonstrates the importance of one gaining an education and pushing to use the knowledge they learn as a platform to address the oppression they face. Women constantly face the

The Crystal Palace designed by Joseph Paxton stood for eighty-five years. It succumbed to fire "at six o'clock on the evening of 30th November 1936" (Beaver, 141). A fire was discovered in the staff lavatory, and within minutes the whole structure was ablaze. The spectacular building was engulfed in fire as it dissolved into just a skeleton of its former structure. Paxton used innovative methods of construction on the Crystal Palace, greatly influenced by the bridge and train shed construction of the day. With the introduction of iron elements, architects could be more creative, and more "modern" with their designs, straying from classical precedents.

Ever since its creation by Gundolf in 1078, the Tower of London has served many purposes. Whether it was a royal residence or prison and torture chamber, most importantly, it has been a significant symbol and monument of English history and architecture. A small, modest building, many tourists are surprised to see the Tower of London, as it is not the magnificent, tall tower they were expecting. For some years, the Tower of London was used as a royal residence where monarchs would stay for a night before departing to continue their journey the next day. More interestingly, it was used as a prison, torture chamber, and execution grounds.

The Notre Dame Cathedral is the most visited tourist site in France, beating the Eiffel tower with 13 million visitors each year. Because it took over 300 years to build, there are many different styles of the architecture shown throughout the building(notredamecathedralparis.com). This structure shows the hardships of war and the enlightened thinking of the Renaissance. Built in 12th century France, the Notre Dame Cathedral is one of the biggest French Catholic cathedrals in France and is still functional as a regular Church(sacred-destinations.com). This gem of architecture is a true wonder and represents the sacred and hopeful times of the middle ages and the renaissance.

It is important for us today to remember that the functions of the Tower from the 1070s until the late 19th century were established by its Norman founders. The Tower was never primarily intended to protect London from external invasion, although, of course, it could have done so if necessary. Nor was it ever intended to be the principal residence of the kings and queens of England, though many did in fact spend periods of time there. Its primary function was always to provide a base for royal power in the City of London and