With 7,000 registered historic buildings standing as testimony to its rich architectural heritage,

This was constructed in 1893 to convey water from the reservoirs in Baldersdale to the towns and industries on Teesside. The aqueduct, known locally as the Water Bridge, provides a safe crossing of the river and has a fine view of the castle.

Question 1. Choose an architect or practice whose work is covered by or relevant to this course and discuss critically one or more of their design projects or drawings or urban proposals as precedent case-studies. Selectively situate this work in relation to their body of work, and against the practices and concerns of the period. Focus on the architectural qualities of a specific key aspect of the design of the projects. Selectively consider how they might relate to the historical situation, cultural values, theoretical concerns and design practices of the time. This may involve a selective analysis of compositional design practices, material fabrication production and the experiential reception of built outcomes of the projects.

The eighteenth-century city was a place in which actual physical space was subjected to a complex mental layering of conceptual spaces, focusing on the design theory of architects as Boullee and Durand, with his charts. Which legacy was continued later on through the architecture of Paul Philippe Cret, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn, some of the most outstanding modern architects of 18th-19th century. Furthermore, distinctive features of neoclassicism and outlines

“The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built” (Frank Lloyd Wright). Throughout the centuries, architecture has fascinated everyone. History is inscribed in buildings and they can express the political and economic power of a nation. Although time has gone by, buildings have not. You can still idolize ancient Egyptian and Greek architecture and see how the events that occurred at that time influenced them.

BP Bridge :- It is designed by Frank Gehry. It connects Millennium park with Daley Bicentennial Plaza.

One thing that was pretty interesting which was captured by the photographer over the course of the construction of this bridge was the complexity of it. The bridge from an aesthetic standpoint looks pretty simple, but based on blueprints and photographs developing it and installing it was very difficult. Knowing how difficult it was to construct this bridge and looking at photographs of its progress adds to how impressive the bridge looks simplistically.

Tourists come from all around the globe just to see the windmills in Holland. The living conditions in Holland were not the best until around 1400 ad, so it was basically just made up of swamps, wetlands and marshes. It was very often in Holland that villages or towns were abolished by floods. “In 1421, in a particular bad flood, over 70 villages were washed away and thousands of people drowned.” Today, windmills still do exist, but there aren’t nearly as many. The tallest one standing today is called ‘Molen de Noord’ and it stands over 33.3 meters in the air. Mills were mainly used to turn raw material into material that could be traded. For example, paper. The American Declaration of Independence was actually printed on paper made in

The original Tappan Zee Bridge is a cantilever bridge built during 1952–55. The bridge is 3 miles long and spans the Hudson at its second-widest point. The Tappan Zee river crossing was named by 17th century Dutch settlers.

Mies van der Rohe is one of the most prominent figures in modernist architectural history, the man who popularised some of the most influential phrases of the era, e.g. “less is more”, and strove to push his ideas and philosophies, not just on what he thought a building should be, but of what he thought architecture itself was. He changed the cityscape of America, showing the world a style that was simple and elegant, with such a controlled palette of expressions that shone through in its geometric beauty.

Architecture is the creation of buildings. As time goes by, some of them will get torn down and some of them will be abandoned by the public. However, they all have life and stories behind. They are designed and built by a group of architects who devote their time and effort into the creation. Every building matters, especially those that have significance in history. When those buildings are abandoned, it is important and highly necessary to reinvigorate the building, either with a different function or maintain its original function, as long as the use of historic buildings is being inherited. This project is a case study that analyzes the transformation of a historic heritage, Finger Wharf, in Sydney, Australia. It will cover the strategies and design ideas when transforming the wharf to a hotel. In a broader sense, this is the analysis of the interior reinvigoration of a historically important site.

The bridge weighs a total of 14,680 tonnes and has four cables and 5434 wires in each cable and the clearance below the bridge is 41 meters. The bridge carries motor vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists, on six lanes for motor vehicles and a separate walkway along the centre line for pedestrians and cyclists. Since there are roadway, height and weight limits, commercial vehicles and buses are banned from using this bridge and it is toll free, both ways. The bridge is maintained by New York City Department of Transportation, and since the 1980’s the bridge has been flood lit at night to highlight its architectural features.

Othmar Ammann was a renowned designer and engineer of his time. He gained a great name in designing long suspension bridges to America. His famous bridges included Verrazano-Narrows Bridge that presents over New York harbor. Verrazano-Narrows Bridge considered as longest single span bridge in the world. He also has great contributions in designing railroad bridges in America. He worked on Queensboro Bridge after joining (PSC) Pennsylvania Steel Company. He created famous steel arch bridge of New York City that famous with the name of Hell Gate. Bridge at Ohio River is also to his credit.

The High Bridge is New York’s oldest pedestrian bridge that was designed by Samuel Parsons Jr. and Calvert Vaux. People enjoyed their evening strolls with their friends, and horses carried loads through the bridge. The bridge eventually worn out by 1970s with the highway connection instructed by Robert Moses. Eventually, the bridge and the park were shut down and become forgotten by New Yorkers. After its majestic clean up in

Keeping this concept of ‘elementarism’ in mind, skilled architects like Rietvelf and van Doesburg build the Schroeder house in Utrecht and a reconstructive plan for Berlin respectively, which later came to be known as

This bridge is a wooden, Allen Truss bridge which stretches the width of the Murrumbidgi river, is 100.5 meters wide. The bridge is comprised of three truss’s. Each of the three separate truss’s on the bridge are 33.5m long. The width of the bridge