Architectural styles

livable. An effective design, for any space, must solve some problem, be it function, flexibility, or some other criteria. Simply solving a problem would not please the customer, however, unless it offered some visual appeal. Creating function with style is the real job of any interior designer, and is essential in a content society. Unfortunately, there are some contemporary issues which impact interior design in a negative way. A large majority of modern customers have specific, and sometimes

uniformity, is surrounded by flagpoles, has organized landscape directing to the main entrance, and water features. The West Des Moines city hall has all of these common features included presence that is similarly found in other governmental connected architectural structures. Outside of the West Des Moines City Hall, there are three specific flag poles to signify West Des Moines (on the left), The United States (in the middle), and the State of Iowa (on the right). Looking at the flags that appear near the

Aesthetics Should Never Take Precedence Over Function From the early Greek temples of yesteryear, to the high-tech autonomous buildings of tomorrow, the question of whether the function of a building or its aesthetics qualities are more important has plagued the minds of architects around the world. Webster's II New College Dictionary (Please do not use the encyclopedia or the dictionary to open your essay--way too high school.) defines aesthetics as "The branch of philosophy that provides a

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

way Ireland colonial subordination, which lead to a lot of complaints and claims to remove the statue “on the basis that its continued presence there is repugnant to national feeling, and that, from an artistic point of view, it disfigures the architectural beauty of the parliamentary buildings”. After unsuccessfully trying to send the statue to Canada; it was later given to Australia more than 40 years after being removed from

a deliberately casual way which exposed the process of assembly. Another route towards fragmentation and abstraction lay through the works of “neo-modernist” such as Richard Meier and Bernard Tschumi. Richard Meier established a signature style that was characterized by layers of wall planes and transparencies, fractured structural grids, interpenetrating ramps and space of vying luminosity. All these devices were all on display in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt (1981-5). The

Does an architect’s ego get in the way of sensible design? Does it? Does an architect have an ego? Well what is ego for that matter? “Ego: A person’s sense of self-esteem or self-importance” (oxford Dictionary) this is a very tame definition, most people will agree when saying that the definition of ego is in fact the arrogant part of you that in some ways makes you think you are superior or the less cynical of us would like to say an ego is the autopilot of the mind, it’s the thing that one does

Patrick Donovan is a senior Research Analyst with Schneider Electric’s data center with a rich experience of 16 years in designing and developing data center critical systems such as power systems and cooling systems for Schneider. He has won several accolades and award for his work. 3. Summarize what you learned. What is a reference design? – A reference design is a document that contains drawings, graphical representations and explanation about a design, features and performance specs that has

What are the major 3D pen pictures? Description: Try and make easy 3D pen pictures at home in order to create different useful things that can be used in daily life. The decorative aspect of these objects can be easily taken care by 3d pens. Drawing is nothing but a fun game for creating arts. But in most of the cases, it has been found that only two-dimensional images are getting created. If you want to take this particular artistic activity to another level ahead, then nothing can be the best

Is it truly possible for the design of a building to enhance the lives of those that use it? Buildings are fundamental parts of our lives, they have such a huge impact on the way we live, our quality of life and our behaviour. Some of the most important buildings include our homes, offices, schools among many others we inhabit on a daily basis. Even the buildings we don’t inhabit often have great importance to our lives places such as hospitals, airports and hotels impact our lives. The quality