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Despite, or perhaps because of, its small size Harwich is highly regarded in terms of architectural heritage, and the whole of the older part of the town, excluding Navyard Wharf, is a conservation area.
Since Kourouniotes ’ s excavation, anthropologists and scholars of Arcadian religion have studied the site in terms of its development as a sanctuary, but there was no further systematic or scientific investigation until 1996, when Dr. David Gilman Romano of the University of Pennsylvania conducted a topographical and architectural survey of the site.
Another, more psychological factor that has played a part here is that a long-standing mutual distrust or antipathy felt between former East Berliners and West Berliners ( Ossis and Wessis according to the well-known slang terms ), is still very much in evidence in the city and elsewhere in Germany, and bold civil engineering projects and architectural statements are not going to make it go away by themselves.
The first includes ornaments adopted from antiquity: grotesques, architectural ornaments such as the orders, foliage scrolls and self-contained elements such as trophies, terms and vases.
The educational program at Princeton in these years was a key factor in Venturi's development of an approach to architectural theory and design that drew from architectural history in analytical, as opposed to stylistic, terms.
* " Prospect Hill Historic District "-One of the largest National Register-listed historic districts in the state in terms of number of buildings, of which it has 993, a remarkable 88 % contribute to its overall historic architectural character.
While the site is not overly impressive in terms of spatial or architectural size, it is well known for a number of murals, most especially those located within Structure 1 ( The Temple of the Murals ).
In architectural terms, Bishopbriggs is notable for its superior Victorian villas, constructed after local landowners Feued lands to the west of Kirkintilloch Road and Springfield Road from the 1850s, adjacent to the then recently completed Bishopbriggs Station on the Glasgow-to-Edinburgh Railway, its inter-war art deco ' Garden Suburb ' on the former Kenmure Estate, and also for its large scale post-war private housing developments, which has more recently also including housing developments in the neighbouring formerly rural area of Robroyston.
“ What it is supposed to do ” is defined in terms of public codes and standards, associated architectural and engineering designs, corporate vision and mission statements, and operational plans and personnel policies.
Now Verona is an important and dynamic city, very active in terms of economy, and also a very important tourist attraction because of its history, where the Roman past lives side by side with the Middle Age Verona, which in some senses brings about its architectural and artistic motifs.
Jahn has grown the business into a global architectural practice that consistently ranks among top 20 United States architectural firms in terms of gross annual billings.
In 2001, Sriram Raghavan and Hector Garcia-Molina presented an architectural model for a hidden-Web crawler that used key terms provided by users or collected from the query interfaces to query a Web form and crawl the deep Web resources.
The widespread disdain for the McMansion stems from perceptions that these houses look and feel inappropriate for a given neighborhood, are wasteful in terms of space ( too much room for too few people ) and resources ( building materials, electricity, gas ), project the pretentiousness ( or lack of taste or refinement ) of their owners, and a general discordance in architectural preferences.
However in America the meaning and usage of the word shifted considerably :" Starting with architectural terminology in the 1930s, the new emphasis was on any entity or system designed in terms of modules as subcomponents.
Capable of accommodating up to 7, 000 employees, QRDC is unprecedented in the information industry in Taiwan in terms of architectural designs, space planning, intelligent functions and size.
Prominent New Urbanist architectural firm Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company claim that housing subdivisions “ are sometimes called villages, towns, and neighbourhoods by their developers, which is misleading since those terms denote places that are not exclusively residential .” They are also referred to as developments.
Although the Jains built some beautiful temples at other places in Rajasthan, some believe that none come close to these in terms of architectural perfection.
* Planner's View ( Scope )-The first architectural sketch is a " bubble chart " or Venn diagram, which depicts in gross terms the size, shape, partial relationships, and basic purpose of the final structure.
The new Sofia tower will be situated to the west of Terminal 2 and will be complementing the terminal building in architectural terms.
Most architecture critics and real estate brokers still regard the San Remo as the finest of all the twin towered buildings in terms of external appearance, architectural quality, interior layout, and related services.
In terms of architectural features, there is half-timbering, carved woodwork and masonry, pargetting ( ornamental plaster work ) moulded and twisted chimneys and leaded glazed patterns.
The site is very important in terms of architectural history.

architectural and vernacular
From the mid-18th century, Georgian styles were assimilated into an architectural vernacular that became part and parcel of the training of every architect, designer, builder, carpenter, mason and plasterer, from Edinburgh to Maryland.
During this period, he continued to explore vernacular architectural forms, incorporating Wrightian motifs and rustic materiality and fusing it with explorations of modular construction techniques.
Developed primarily between 1900 and 1935, North End features a wealth of architectural styles and eclectic vernacular building designs.
The layout and visual character of the Depot were also radically altered, and the village center assumed its contemporary appearance, which varies considerably from Washington's traditional architectural vernacular.
A substantial percentage of the houses in Washington were built prior to 1950, and many of the structures built since then have faithfully followed the town's rural New England vernacular, resulting in an unusual degree of architectural cohesion.
West of the campus and just east of the Charles Benbow House, around the intersection of Oak Ridge Road and Linville Road, is an important collection of architectural styles including the 1863 log I-house belonging originally to the Moore family, the 1898 Neoclassical Robert M. Stafford House with its large vernacular doric-style columns, the 1924 National Folk side gable J. F.
The town was founded in 1943 by Howard Moffitt, a builder known for his vernacular Moffitt cottage architectural style, as part of a planned regional orange and grapefruit growing community.
In the 1990s an experimental " new town " developed by the Prince of Wales to use very traditional or vernacular architectural styles was started at Poundbury in Dorset.
In the 1990s an experimental " new town " developed by The Prince of Wales to use very traditional or vernacular architectural styles was started at Poundbury in England.
Successive generations of modelmakers, gardeners and craftsmen have left their mark on their subjects, which display a wide range of vernacular architectural styles.
It was Rudofsky who first made use of the term vernacular in an architectural context, and brought the concept into the eye of the public and of mainstream architecture: " For want of a generic label we shall call it vernacular, anonymous, spontaneous, indigenous, rural, as the case may be.
Since the emergence of the term in the 1970s, vernacular considerations have played an increasing part in architectural designs, although individual architects had widely varying opinions of the merits of the vernacular.
Along with him, modern proponents of the use of the vernacular in architectural design include Charles Correa, a well known Indian architect ; Muzharul Islam and Bashirul Haq, internationally known Bangladeshi architects ; Balkrishna Doshi, another Indian, who established the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation in Ahmedabad to research the vernacular architecture of the region ; and Sheila Sri Prakash who has used rural Indian architecture as an inspiration for innovations in environmental and socio-economically sustainable design and planning.
This section recalls the dormer of an Ontario Cottage, a nineteenth-century vernacular architectural style common throughout Flamborough.
This theme recalls Boston's historic architectural vernacular of chamfered bay windows on Beacon Hill and in the Back Bay.
Although the majority of buildings in Springfield are vernacular, many others embody styles or architectural influences contemporary with the development of the district.
A shophouse is a vernacular architectural building type that is commonly seen in areas such as urban Southeast Asia.
With the advent of Modernism, its formal rigor and its distaste for ornament of any kind, by 1940 or so architectural parlante was eliminated from the serious architectural vocabulary and found only in commercial and vernacular oddities such as The Brown Derby.
With the exception of St. Paul's School, the other St. Grottlesex schools and schools in the Independent School League built their campuses in architectural styles that mimicked the architectural vernacular and English colonial references of the Harvard University campus and the early New England academies.

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