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  2. Cape Dutch architecture - Wikipedia

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    The main house of the Groot Constantia vineyard near Cape Town. Cape Dutch architecture is an architectural style found mostly in the Western Cape of South Africa, but modern examples of the style have also been exported as far afield as Western Australia and New Zealand, typically on wine estates.

  3. Ebenezer Howard - Wikipedia

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    In 1899, he founded the Garden Cities Association, known now as the Town and Country Planning Association. By his association with Henry Harvey Vivian and the co-partnership housing movement, his ideas attracted enough attention and funding to begin Letchworth Garden City, a suburban garden city 37 miles (60 km

  4. Southgate Estate - Wikipedia

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    The Southgate Estate was a modernist public housing project located in Runcorn New Town (Cheshire, England) and completed in 1977. The estate was designed by James Stirling, and comprised 1,500 residential units intended to house 6,000 people. The estate was demolished between 1990 and 1992 and replaced with another housing development, known ...

  5. American colonial architecture - Wikipedia

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    This house was modeled on the Villa Pisani in Montagnana, Italy, as exhibited in the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio's Four Books of Architecture (1570). Colonial architect William Buckland designed this house in 1774 and the resulting house is a very skillful adaptation of the Villa Pisani for the warmer climate of the Chesapeake Bay region.

  6. Radburn design housing - Wikipedia

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    Radburn design is an offshoot of American designs from the English garden city movement and culminated in the design of the partly-built 1929 Radburn estate. [ 3 ] In the United States, the Radburn idea reached its ultimate expression in Los Angeles , California , with the design and construction of Clarence Stein and Robert Alexander's Baldwin ...

  7. Georgian architecture - Wikipedia

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    Westover Plantation - Georgian country house on a James River plantation in Virginia. Versions of revived Palladian architecture dominated English country house architecture. Houses were increasingly placed in grand landscaped settings, and large houses were generally made wide and relatively shallow, largely to look more impressive from a ...