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A Mar del Plata style house in Mar del Plata, Argentina, featuring some characteristics of the cottage, Norman architecture, and Spanish colonial architecture. Enthusiasm for historical imitation began to decline in the 1930s and eclecticism was phased out in the curriculums of design schools, in favour of a new style.
Today these houses are more commonly called ancestral houses, due to most ancestral houses in the Philippines being bahay na bato. [14] Earthquake Baroque is a style of Baroque architecture found in the Philippines , which suffered destructive earthquakes during the 17th century and 18th century, where large public buildings, such as churches ...
House of the Dragons (Spanish: Casa de los Dragones) is a landmark in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on the north coast of Africa, and an example of eclectic architecture. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The house is on a corner of Kings Square.
The tour of homes and gardens starts at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Goodale Park shelter house. This is a self-guided, walking tour, but if you prefer to ride, there will be shuttles on the tour route ...
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A typical chalet marplatense. The Mar del Plata style (Spanish: Estilo Mar del Plata, chalet Mar del Plata or chalet marplatense [1]) is a vernacular architectural style very popular during the decades between 1935 and 1950 mainly in the Argentine resort city of Mar del Plata, but extended to nearby coastal towns like Miramar and Necochea.
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It has long been customary to decorate houses and palaces with large open spaces and gardens dominated by fragrant flowers, fountains, canals, wells, ponds, [2] frescoes with mythological scenes, and marble medallions (on walls), forming ornate but harmonious shapes with the intention to represent the Garden of the Paradise as imagined by the Classical and Muslim architects.