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The Kitchen in History, Osprey; 1972; ISBN 0-85045-068-3; Kinchin, Juliet and Aidan O'Connor, Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen (MoMA: New York, 2011) Lupton, E. and Miller, J. A.: The Bathroom, the Kitchen, and the Aesthetics of Waste, Princeton Architectural Press; 1996; ISBN 1-56898-096-5.
Scale models of some Ancient Egyptian house, in the Louvre Minoan house model, c. 1700-1675 BC, terracotta, in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum (Heraklion, Greece) Floor plan of a "foursquare" house. Little is known about the earliest origin of the house and its interior; however, it can be traced back to the simplest form of shelters.
The rooms of a shotgun house are lined up one behind the other, typically a living room is first, then one or two bedrooms, and finally a kitchen in back. Early shotgun houses were not built with bathrooms, but in later years a bathroom with a small hall was built before the last room of the house, or a side addition was built off the kitchen.
This style of house is also known as a "split foyer". This is a two-story house that has a small entrance foyer with stairs that "split"—part of a flight of stairs go up (usually to the living room, kitchen, and bedrooms) and part of a flight of stairs go down (usually to a family room and garage/storage area). [3]
For example, the undercroft rooms at Myres Castle in Fife, Scotland, of c. 1300 were used as the medieval kitchen and a range of stores. Many of these early medieval undercrofts were vaulted or groined , such as the vaulted chamber at Beverston Castle in Gloucestershire or the groined stores at Myres Castle.
Classic Googie sign at Warren, Ohio drive-in. Googie's beginnings are with the Streamline Moderne architecture of the 1930s. [16] Alan Hess, one of the most knowledgeable writers on the subject, writes in Googie: Ultra Modern Road Side Architecture that mobility in Los Angeles during the 1930s was characterized by the initial influx of the automobile and the service industry that evolved to ...
At the same exposition, Kurokawa also designed a capsule house, suspended from the space frame roof of the Symbol Zone. [12] Impressed by the Beautilion, Torizo Watanabe retained Kurokawa to design a similar permanent building for his real estate company, Nakagin, to serve business owners and employees as a second home for occasional overnight ...
Minimap of Mirage. The level design of Mirage follows the traditional square design of Counter-Strike maps such as Dust II, Cache, and Inferno. [3] [4] It is built around a Middle East-inspired town, which contains a number of different buildings and structures, such as apartment buildings, fortresses, stores, and courtyards.