find old houses as an ideal escape and meditate themselves under the shadow of the serene and peaceful past. However‚ with regard to growing population‚ particularly‚ in inner cities‚ it is essential for governments to widen roads and construct skyscrapers. Old houses‚ despite their undeniable beauty‚ hardly
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relics and paintings. Besides‚ Shanghai has many structures of various architectural styles. One of the most famous architectures is Shanghai World Financial Center‚ which has 492 meters tall. It is not only the tallest skyscraper in China‚ but also the third tallest skyscraper in the world. Oriental Pearl Tower‚ a TV tower‚ attracts people by its unique shape. It consists of three spheres‚ which are supported by three enormous columns. In the tower‚ it has a shopping mall‚ restaurants‚ exhibition
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“Air-King Midget” Radio‚ from 1933‚ was made of cheap plastic‚ but the Egyptian illustration on the front brings the piece back to ancient times. This blast from the past is juxtaposed by the design of the radio itself‚ which looks like an imposing skyscraper. It was in the 1930’s that the radio became the dominant form of mass media in most industrialized nations‚ including America. During this period‚ the Empire State building was constructed and it would remain the tallest building in the world for
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himself‚he would have not had the right to call himself the Crown of Creations and God’s Viceroy on Earth.His prodigious journey from burning fire with stone to building up huge dams for generating electricity‚from living in caves to constructing skyscrapers and unimaginably comfortable residences are all the result of his unflinching struggle and hardwork. Respected Listeners‚ Man has developed a tremendous ability of bringing the floods‚the storms and even the
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SOURCE: http://www.google.com.au/images LOCATION: Location: Melbourne is located in Victoria Australia‚ the Melbourne CBD is located south central in Victoria. Collins Street is located in Melbourne’s CBD‚ it is one of the oldest streets it is also Melbourne’s traditional main street with some of the finest era buildings. Collins Street was designed by Robert Hoddle; it is 2 kilometres in length. It
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In the novel “Peak” written by Roland Smith are conveyed the important of themes adventure‚ friends and family and betrayal. The novel “Peak” is a story about a young boy who began climbing and tagging‚ but this all changes when he is caught and is sent to juvenile detention. But when he gets to choose his sentence to either go to Thailand with this real father or stay in jail‚ his life changes. Firstly one of the important themes in the novel is friends and family. Friendship and family plays a
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The Fountainhead takes place in the 1920s-1930s in New York City. It chronicles the struggles of the innovative architect Howard Roark in his effort to achieve success on his own terms. As the story opens‚ twenty-one-year-old Roark is expelled from the Stanton Institute of Technology for "insubordination." Most faculty and administration members want him to design in traditional styles‚ but Roark has his own ideas. On the other hand‚ Peter Keating‚ a classmate of Roark’s and the son of the woman
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“less is more‚” which describes the simplicity of his modernist architectural style. As described by Robert Hughes in Visions of Space‚ Mies van der Rohe transformed America’s major cities from heavy‚ clad masonry to high-rising steel and glass skyscrapers. Mies van der Rohe’s style was praised and adopted by many other architectural professionals. However‚ not all architects were fond of Mies van der Rohe’s “less is more” style. In 1966 Robert Venturi published Complexity and Contradiction‚ a
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Engineering the Impossible focused on three incredible‚ yet physically possible‚ engineering projects: the 170-story Millennium Tower‚ the nine mile (14 km)-long Gibraltar Bridge‚ and the 4000+-foot-long Freedom Ship. Millenium Tower Imagine a skyscraper almost twice the size of the Empire State Building. This colossus would be a city within a city‚ hosting its own hospitals‚ schools‚ and a range of entertainment and retail options large enough to attract and keep the traffic necessary for the financial
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like any other day of the week. Maybe the author was just having fun by taking it. He could’ve been an employee from the same construction site too‚ just like the ones shown taking lunch atop a skyscraper. But to me‚ it is not like that‚ I have my own perception of it. Lunch-atop-a-skyscraper (Charles c ebbets) Images like this‚ specifically‚ fill me with feelings of pride. My parents taught me that good people move ahead in their ways through life‚ by working‚ and doing it hard
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