In February 1836, after studying 97 proposals, the Commission chose Charles Barry's plan for a Gothic-style palace, awarding him a prize ( or “ premium ”) of £ 1500.

Sir Charles Barry's collaborative design for the Palace of Westminster uses the Perpendicular Gothic style, which was popular during the 15th century and returned during the Gothic revival of the 19th century.

The Victoria Tower was the most conspicuous feature of Charles Barry's design for the New Palace of Westminster.

Four of Sir Charles Barry's five sons followed in his career footsteps.

Dobroyd Castle, the Town Hall and the Unitarian church were all built at the behest of John Fielden and his sons and designed by John Gibson, who had been a member of Charles Barry's team at the Houses of Parliament.

Rather, the symbol was developed as part of Sir Charles Barry's plans for the rebuilt Palace after the original burned down on 16 October 1834 ; he conceptualized the new Palace as a " legislative castle ", and the symbol of a castle gate — i. e. a portcullis — fitted well with the scheme.

By late 1989, federal officials had been investigating Barry for six years on suspicion of illegal drug possession and use ; that fall, they were able to make cases against several of Barry's associates for past cocaine use, including Charles Lewis – a native of the U. S. Virgin Islands who was implicated in a drug investigation involving Barry and a room at Washington ’ s Ramada Inn in December 1988 – and a former girlfriend, ex-model Rasheeda Moore.

The Palazzo's design has been mimicked in several buildings outside Italy, including the Château Grimaldi near Aix-en-Provence, in England Charles Barry's great admiration for the building led him to use it as the model for London's Reform Club, France, the National Building Museum in Washington, D. C., USA, and the Chief Secretary ’ s Building in Sydney, Australia.

Charles Barry's New Street school

Charles Barry's design for the new Palace of Westminster featured a tower over the Sovereign's Entrance, 12 floors of which incorporated record storage.

Charles Barry's Free Grammar School

St Ann's holds the memorials from several of these churches, for example Sir Charles Barry's St Matthew's, Campfield ( built 1823 – 25, demolished 1950 ).

Cliveden: Charles Barry | Charles Barry's Italianate, Neo-Renaissance mansion with " confident allusions to the wealth of Italian merchant princes.

Charles Barry's Royal Manchester Institution is now Manchester Art Gallery

The Athenaeum was influenced by Charles Barry's Italianate club house in London.

More recent buildings like Frank Gehry's Stata Center ( 2004 ), Steven Holl's Simmons Hall ( 2002 ), Charles Correa's Building 46 ( 2005 ), Fumihiko Maki's Media Lab Extension ( 2009 ) stand out among the Boston area's classical architecture and serve as examples of contemporary campus " starchitecture ".

* 1984 – Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a " monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend ," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.

Although this invitation may have arisen from Charles II's casual opportunism in matching people to tasks, Wren is believed to have been already on the way to architecture practice.

Robert Charles Venturi, Jr. ( born June 25, 1925 in Philadelphia ) is an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and one of the major figures in the architecture of the twentieth century.

While working in architecture, Charles Rennie Mackintosh developed his own style: a contrast between strong right angles and floral-inspired decorative motifs with subtle curves, e. g. the Mackintosh Rose motif, along with some references to traditional Scottish architecture.

* Neil R. Lincoln with 18 Control Data Corporation ( CDC ) engineers on computer architecture and design, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.

* Famous students who dropped out: Charles Eames ( who was expelled for defending modernist architecture ); Tennessee Williams ( who left in protest of not winning the poetry prize ); Enterprise Rent-a-Car founder Jack C. Taylor ( who withdrew to fight in World War II ); actor Robert Guillaume ( who withdrew to study opera ); Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Dedman ( who left to become a newspaper reporter ); and IQ-record holder Marilyn vos Savant ( who says she withdrew because she was bored ).

1853 photo by Charles Nègre of Henri Le Secq next to Strix ( mythology ) | le Stryge in the then-new Gallery of Chimera ( architecture ) | Chimeras.

The Louvre, shown in this early fifteenth century illumination, was rebuilt during the reign of Charles V – inaugurating a new era of princely architecture

Once in royal hands, the château became a favourite of French kings, from Louis XI to Francis I. Charles VIII decided to rebuild it extensively, beginning in 1492 at first in the French late Gothic Flamboyant style and then after 1495 employing two Italian mason-builders, Domenico da Cortona and Fra Giocondo, who provided at Amboise some of the first Renaissance decorative motifs seen in French architecture.

These eastward and westward extensions are notable for the Modernist architecture of their new stations, many of them designed by Charles Holden, who was inspired by examples of Modernist architecture in mainland Europe.

Barry spent two months in Paris in 1855 representing, along with his friend and fellow architect Charles Robert Cockerell, English architecture on the juries of the Exposition Universelle ( 1855 ).

In 1806, Montferrand joined the former Académie d ' architecture, joining class of Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine.

Conservative modernist architects such as Charles Perret in France kept the rhythms and spacing of columnar architecture even in factory buildings.

The Pruitt – Igoe housing project was one of the first demolitions of modernist architecture ; postmodern architectural historian Charles Jencks called its destruction " the day Modern architecture died.

Designed by Charles L. Carson, its Romanesque Revival architecture became a target of criticism from journalists during the structure's final years of existence.

Designed by Charles Donagh Maginnis and his firm Maginnis & Walsh in 1908, the Boston College campus is a seminal example of Collegiate Gothic architecture.

The idea of Gesamtkunstwerk in architecture in the era following Romanticism is synonymous with the Art Nouveau ; for example in the works of Josef Hoffmann and Otto Wagner in Austria, Henry van de Velde, Victor Horta and Paul Hankar in Belgium, Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Scotland, Antoni Gaudí in Spain and Eliel Saarinen in Finland.

CU Boulder's distinctive architecture style, known as Tuscan Vernacular Revival, was designed by architect Charles Klauder.

In 2004, the College completed construction of a state-of-the-art visual arts facility, the Monika A. and Charles A. Heimbold Visual Arts Center, the sleek architecture and environmentally friendly aspects of which earned the College national press attention.

* Charles Garnier, architecture

He `` legitimized '' Paula for Lilian Steichen, and it was Paula who insisted on Carl for Charles.

the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.

Laurence M. Klauber put length at maturity at two thirds the ultimate length for some rattlesnakes, and Charles C. Carpenter's data on Michigan garter and ribbon snakes ( Thamnophis ) show that the smallest gravid females are more than half as long as the biggest adults.

We must realize with Prof. Charles Morris in his The Open Self that `` Man is the being that can continually remake himself, the artisan that is himself the material for his own creation ''.

One who, for a time, succeeded best and was still the sorriest of all was Charles Arthur Shires, who called himself, in the newspapers, Art the Great, or The Great Shires.

In his minor way Charles Arthur Shires was perhaps more typical of his era than Ruth was, for he was but one of many young men who laid waste their talents in these Scott Fitzgerald days for the sake of earning space in the newspapers.

And while less than ten years earlier the wayward Black Sox -- all of them top performers in their positions -- had toiled for stingy Charles Comiskey at salaries ranging from twenty-five hundred dollars to forty-five hundred dollars a year, stars now were asking ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, yes, even fifty thousand dollars a season.

Sen. Charles W. Sandman, R-Cape May, said today Jones will run well ahead of his GOP opponents for the gubernatorial nomination.

A farewell supper Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Sethness Jr. planned Sunday for Italian Consul General and Mrs. Giacomo Profili has been canceled because Mr. Sethness is in Illinois Masonic hospital for surgery.

Mrs. John Charles Cotty is chairman of publicity for the country fair and Mrs. Francis G. Felske and Mrs. Francis Smythe, of posters.

The victim, Norman B. Wiley, 38, of the 900 block North Charles Street, was treated for cuts at Franklin Square Hospital after the robbery.

Of particular meaning to the Charles MacWhorter family, 3181 SW 24th Ter., will be the Family Dedication Service planned for 10:50 a.m. Sunday at First Christian Church.

Violence on behalf of Southern honor reached the floor of the Senate when a Southern Congressmen nearly beat to death Republican Charles Sumner when he ridiculed prominent slaveholders as pimps for slavery.

While there he collaborated with American physician Charles Claude Guthrie in work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs as well as the head, and Carrel was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for these efforts.

When Peate returned to the pavilion he was reprimanded by his captain for not allowing his partner, Charles Studd ( one of the best batsman in England, having already hit two centuries that season against the colonists ) to get the runs.

* Georgia on My Mind is a novelette by Charles Sheffield which involves two major themes: being widowed and the quest for a legendary Babbage computer.

He is best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory.

His restless and turbulent nature marked him out for a military career ; and having collected a small band of soldiers, he assisted Emperor Charles V in his war with France in 1543.

The British were able to annex Sind and for his services, Hasan Ali Shah received an annual pension of £ 2, 000 from General Charles Napier, the British conqueror of Sind with whom he had a good relationship.

Rather than face this ordeal, Alexei fled to Vienna and placed himself under the protection of his brother-in-law, the emperor Charles VI, who sent him for safety first to the Tirolean fortress of Ehrenberg ( near Reutte ), and finally to the castle of Sant ' Elmo at Naples.

The couple were married for 50 years and had five children: Martha ( 1828 ), Charles ( 1830 ), Mary ( 1832 ), Robert ( 1834 ), and Andrew Jr. ( 1852 ).

Ken Mattingly had originally been assigned to the prime crew of Apollo 13, but was exposed to the measles through Charles Duke, at that time on the back-up crew for Apollo 13, who had caught it from one of his children.