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The building now houses the 19th century Bohemian Art Collection of National Gallery in Prague. Hulbjerg Jættestue: Denmark: Europe: 3000 BCE Passage grave The Hulbjerg passage grave is concealed by a round barrow on the southern tip of the island of Langeland. One of the skulls found there showed traces of the world's earliest dentistry work ...
They included houses, stores, at least three complete churches, and an entire theatre; the most elaborate surviving structure in Australia is the completely cast iron Corio Villa, in Geelong. [9] There are at least 100 surviving or part surviving prefabricated buildings, which in 2021 were to be nominated for World Heritage significance. [10]
The best-known of these houses was the Villa Savoye, built in 1928–1931 in the Paris suburb of Poissy. An elegant white box wrapped with a ribbon of glass windows around on the façade, with living space that opened upon an interior garden and countryside around, raised up by a row of white pylons in the center of a large lawn, it became an ...
"Bootleg" house designed by Wright while working for Adler & Sullivan. Remodeled 1900: George Blossom House: 9201: S.014: Chicago [10] Illinois: 1892: 1892 "Bootleg" house designed by Wright while working for Adler & Sullivan. Robert G. Emmond House: 9202: S.015: La Grange [11] Illinois: 1892: 1892 "Bootleg" house designed by Wright while ...
Hunstanton school, likely inspired by Mies van der Rohe's 1946 Alumni Memorial Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, United States, is notable as the first completed building in the world to carry the title of "new brutalist" by its architects. [22] [23] At the time, it was described as "the most truly modern building in ...
Bromley Hall is an early Tudor period manor house in Bromley-by-Bow, Tower Hamlets, London. [1] Located on the Blackwall Tunnel northern approach road, it is now owned and restored by Leaside Regeneration. Built around 1485, it is thought to be the oldest brick house in London.
In Southern Europe adobe remained predominant. Brick continued to be manufactured in Italy throughout the period 600–1000 AD but elsewhere the craft of brick-making had largely disappeared and with it the methods for burning tiles. Roofs were largely thatched. Houses were small and gathered around a large communal hall. Monasticism spread ...
Brick Renaissance is the Northern European continuation of brick architecture after Brick Romanesque and Brick Gothic.Although the term Brick Gothic is often used generally for all of this architecture, especially in regard to the Hanseatic cities of the Baltic, the stylistic changes that led to the end of Gothic architecture did reach Northern Germany and northern Europe with delay, leading ...