Architectural Designs
Welcome to architecture online, the leading architecture reference site on the web, GreatBuildings.com. This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds.
A site to help the non professional understand and enjoy architecture
MoCo Loco is a web magazine featuring modern contemporary design news and views.
We have a great year in store for you here at Jetsetmodern. There are articles on everything from Chicago’s biggest urban success story, Marina Towers, to America’s biggest automotive flop, the Edsel. We also have a look at what America was really like in that long-ago Mid-Century era; nostalgia aside, it was a pretty good time to be around. We’ve also got great reading about the design seen in Rogers and Astaire movies, and about the fight to save a Modernist national treasure, Richard Neutra’s Cyclorama Building at Gettysburg. And- as we always say around here- MORE.
San Francisco is known worldwide as a hotbed of Victorian era architecture. There are countless books, calendars and tours devoted to these buildings that were constructed over a relatively short time during the turn of the century. The taste of the day was eclectic since Victorian art and architecture reflected an era that loved a wide variety of cultures and styles, and combined them in every which way to suit personal expression. A love of the Far East, Egypt, the Italian Renaissance, Ancient Greece and Rome was prevalent, and writers, artists, crafts people and architects drew from these cultures and incorporated motifs into their own globalized vision of the world. Decoration and clutter were in vogue. Homes were filled with furniture, walls covered with paintings and every item was embellished with intricate detailing.
Tom Fletcher's pictures and information about the city's 1000 most impressive buildings. Includes old postcards, suggested walks and a forum
The Architect of the Capitol is responsible to the United States Congress for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Complex, which includes the Capitol, the congressional office buildings, the Library of Congress buildings, the Supreme Court building, the U.S. Botanic Garden, the Capitol Power Plant, and other facilities.