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Architecture of Bermuda. White-roofed, colourful houses dot Bermuda's hills. The architecture of Bermuda has developed over the past four centuries. The archipelago's isolation, environment, climate, and scarce resources have been key driving points, though inspiration from Europe, the Caribbean and the Americas is evident.
Release. 6 January 2017. (2017-01-06) –. present. The World's Most Extraordinary Homes is a British documentary miniseries presented by Piers Taylor and Caroline Quentin and is broadcast on BBC Two. [1] The series was also picked up by Netflix between March 2018 and July 2022. [2][3]
On the inside there is a courtyard, surrounded by beautiful columns and windows. Architects like Michelozzo, who worked for Cosimo de' Medici, looked at the Roman Colosseum for inspiration. Saint Peter's Basilica. The most famous church in Rome was the Old St. Peter's Basilica, built over a small shrine believed to mark the burial place of St ...
American historic carpentry is the historic methods with which wooden buildings were built in what is now the United States since European settlement. A number of methods were used to form the wooden walls and the types of structural carpentry are often defined by the wall, floor, and roof construction such as log, timber framed, balloon framed ...
Priced at $117,000, the Moon Dragon house design isn't available to build until 2023. Zyl Vardos. One of Vardos' design stamps are windows of many different sizes, shapes, and even colors (he uses ...
Japanese architecture (日本建築, Nihon kenchiku) has been typified by wooden structures, elevated slightly off the ground, with tiled or thatched roofs. Sliding doors (fusuma) and other traditional partitions were used in place of walls, allowing the internal configuration of a space to be customized for different occasions.
Rock-cut architecture in Cappadocia in Central Turkey includes living and work spaces as well as sacred buildings like churches and monasteries, that were carved out of the soft tuff landscape. Mount Erciyes south of Kayseri, Mount Hasan southeast of Aksaray, Mount Melendiz in Niğde, and some smaller volcanoes covered the region of Cappadocia ...
The architecture of Iceland is mainly low-rise, with many low tower blocks and two- or three-storey buildings with pitched roofs predominating. Houses and smaller municipal buildings were traditionally wooden-framed, and clad in wooden planks or corrugated metal. Often they were painted in traditional bright colours. [2]