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Hace 22 horas · Architecture in Algiers during this period showed the convergence of multiple influences, as well as innovations by local architects. Mosques began to have domes under Ottoman influence, but minarets generally still had square shafts in the local tradition, not the round or octagonal shafts seen in other Ottoman provinces, where pencil-shaped minarets were symbols of Ottoman sovereignty.
- State affiliated to the Ottoman Empire (Nominal since 1659)
Hace 1 día · The culture of the United Kingdom is influenced by its combined nations' history; its historically Christian religious life, its interaction with the cultures of Europe, the individual cultures of England, Wales and Scotland and the impact of the British Empire. The culture of the United Kingdom may also colloquially be referred to as British ...
Hace 4 días · The St. Regis New York is a historic luxury hotel at 2 East 55th Street, at the southeast corner with Fifth Avenue, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The hotel was originally developed by John Jacob Astor IV and was completed in 1904 to designs by Trowbridge & Livingston. An annex to the east was designed by Sloan ...
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- 2 East 55th Street, Manhattan, New York
Hace 4 días · Grosvenor Square. The great square which lay at the heart of the Grosvenors' Mayfair estate was notable more for its size, and fame, than for its architectural distinction.
Hace 4 días · Maya and Aztec builders used lime mortar as stucco or plaster, that could be painted on. Nahua (Aztec) scribes specifically referred to its qualities in Sahagún’s encyclopaedic work the Florentine Codex: ‘Its name comes from tezontli and tlalli [earth]. This is pulverised tezontli. It is made into fragments, broken up, roughened, sticky.
Hace 5 días · architecture, the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. The practice of architecture is employed to fulfill both practical and expressive requirements, and thus it serves both utilitarian and aesthetic ends.
Hace 4 días · Built in 1806-1809, Paxton’s Tower is the least Regency in appearance on our list, as its three arches evoke a foreboding Gothic impression. The motivation for building such a monument is unclear, but the entrance proudly displays an engraved marble plaque dedicating the tower to the Regency war hero Admiral Horatio Nelson.
