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Exterior insulation and finish system (EIFS) is a general class of non-load bearing building cladding systems that provides exterior walls with an insulated, water-resistant, finished surface in an integrated composite material system. EIFS has been in use since the 1960s in North America and was first used on masonry buildings.
Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire is an architecturally significant country house from the Elizabethan era, a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. Built between 1590 and 1597 for Bess of Hardwick , it was designed by the architect Robert Smythson , an exponent of the Renaissance style .
The spandrel plates, typically 52 inches (1.3 m) deep, were welded to the exterior columns to create the modular pieces off-site at the fabrication shop. [ 106 ] [ 107 ] Each of the modular pieces typically weighed 22 tons and was 10 feet (3.0 m) wide and 24 to 36 feet (7.3 to 11.0 m) tall, spanning two or three floors. [ 108 ]
After the September 11 attacks in 2001, several ideas about building new twin towers were discussed online and in the media. [10] After the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) launched the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition in 2002, seven architectural groups were commissioned by the organization to create a proposal to restore the Manhattan skyline.
Designed by the Beaux-Arts architect Horace Trumbauer between 1916 and 1921, Whitemarsh Hall included six stories (three of which were partly or fully underground). There were 147 rooms across 100,000 square feet (9,300 m 2), which included 45 bathrooms, in addition to specialty rooms such as a ballroom, gymnasium, movie theatre, and a refrigerating plant.
A late intimation of John Nash's development of the Italianate style was his 1805 design of Sandridge Park at Stoke Gabriel in Devon. Commissioned by the dowager Lady Ashburton as a country retreat, this small country house clearly shows the transition between the picturesque of William Gilpin and Nash's yet to be fully evolved Italianism.
Fallingwater is situated in Stewart Township in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern Pennsylvania, United States, [4] [5] about 72 miles (116 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. [6] [7] The house is located near Pennsylvania Route 381 (PA 381), [8] [9] between the communities of Ohiopyle and Mill Run in Fayette County.
Aguinaldo's house is a mansion over 14,000 square feet (1,300 m 2) in floor area designed by Aguinaldo himself. [2] The house features secret passages and hiding places for documents and weapons and is filled with antique furniture and decorated throughout with motifs of the Philippine flag and other national symbols.