Architects Inn

... architecture wasn't anything to write home about the city had a pleasant rather western feel to it. As bad as the Soviet architects were their town planners seemed a pretty clued-up bunch, furnishing the city with wide, tree-lined boulevards, parks, and ...

... City, I took notice of the construction of the entrance.  I recently learned that my Grandpa Nucciarone was one of the architects for that piece of New Jersey and New York history.  Very Cool!  Getting into Port Authority bus station, I ...

... in honey coloured stone and in the grand style that we used to aspire to in Britain before we allowed budgets and fashionable architects to dominate public building development and ruin our city centres. The 'old town' is a rather run down set of tumble ...

... Giles Gilbert Scott (who also designed the Red Telephone Box!).  He got the job aged just 21, and is one of the few architects of a Cathedral who lived to see it completed from start to finish.  It took 74 years though.  It's such an ...

... . The place was a gift: hand-crafted in Boulder's twin city in Tajikstan; then packed and shipped to Boulder along with the architects to re-assemble it. It was a thank-you for the work Boulder had done setting up hospitals and infrastructure in it's twin ...

... often referred to as miraculous, inexplicable, marvellous and is sometimes called St. Joseph’s Staircase. The stairway confounds architects, engineers and master craftsmen. It makes over two complete 360-degree turns, stands 20’ tall and has ...

... women, children, and priests. The buildings are thought to have been planned and built under the supervision of professional Inca architects. Most of the structures are built of granite blocks cut with bronze or stone tools, and smoothed with sand. The ...

... women, children, and priests. The buildings are thought to have been planned and built under the supervision of professional Inca architects. Most of the structures are built of granite blocks cut with bronze or stone tools, and smoothed with sand. The ...

... to build a boutique winery with a "signature" building, simply because he could.  The story has him visiting many architects and such looking for inspiration as to what kind of building to commission.  He was meeting with the U.S. Capitol ...

... that they no longer are feeling well. The result is that a number of the residents have moved out of the apartments.The architects of the buildings have allowed for sunlight to stream into the foyer of the building.  This concept of balance is ...

... site, so you cant get too close to the from far you can see how spectacular the stadium is. Its designed by Swiss Architects Hertzog & DeMuron. (they also designed Tate Modern in London). It is inspired by a berds nest (Famous in Chinese Culture). As ...

... is that he finds the students disregard any sort of design that is not absolutely new, and his feeling is that only 1% of architects actually create new designs, and of those architects they usually get a client and build a structure for them that is not ...

... town. It contains the largest organ found in a Catholic church anywhere in the world. The baroque appearance was created by Italian architects after the town was destroyed by fire twice in the 1600s. Our local guide met us just outside of our ship. She ...

... a chinese architect who was the son a communist party bigwig. He was a total prick, I have never met someone so self absorbed. Architects are known for this but I figured being a product of the one-child policy didn't help either. He styled himself as ...

... in Spokane for a stroll and late lunch. We read that Riverside Park was originally designed by the Olmsted family of landscape architects, the same folks that did Central Park, Bok Tower Gardens and the Biltmore grounds, The plan was not implemented ...

... "laying-down" bike and even a mobility scooter.  I'm half expecting to see a unicycle! Bodmin looks like it shared architects and town planners with some of the Highlands towns and villages.  What is the obsession with pebbledash?! Not ...

... and switchbacks.  Through the mist we arrived in Sea Ranch.  This is a community that was designed by a couple of architects in the late 1960s and all the houses look similar but are all slightly different.  There are strict rules governing ...

... of Cagli's theatre began in 1871 as a replacement for the old Teatro delle Muse which had been inaugurated in 1754. The architects were Giovanni Santini of Perugia and Coriolomo Monti of Bologna. By December 1876, with the completion of the decoration ...