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  2. Floor plan - Wikipedia

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    A floor plan is not a top view or bird's-eye view; it is a measured drawing to scale of the layout of a floor in a building. A top view or bird's-eye view does not show an orthogonally projected plane cut at the typical four foot height above the floor level. A floor plan may show any of the following elements: [3] interior walls and hallways ...

  3. Architectural drawing - Wikipedia

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    An architectural drawing or architect's drawing is a technical drawing of a building (or building project) that falls within the definition of architecture.Architectural drawings are used by architects and others for a number of purposes: to develop a design idea into a coherent proposal, to communicate ideas and concepts, to convince clients of the merits of a design, to assist a building ...

  4. Site plan - Wikipedia

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    Site plans are often prepared by a design consultant who must be either a licensed engineer, architect, landscape architect or land surveyor". [3] Site plans include site analysis, building elements, and planning of various types including transportation and urban. An example of a site plan is the plan for Indianapolis [4] by Alexander Ralston ...

  5. GMW Architects - Wikipedia

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    The practice was established in 1947 by Frank Gollins (1910–1999), James Melvin (1912–2012) and Edmund Ward (1912–1998), and operated as Gollins Melvin Ward.In the 1950s it designed Castrol House, a tower on Marylebone Road in London, notable as one of the first uses of curtain walling on a building in the United Kingdom, and the central campus for the University of Sheffield.

  6. House plan - Wikipedia

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    Elevation view of the Panthéon, Paris principal façade Floor plans of the Putnam House. A house plan [1] is a set of construction or working drawings (sometimes called blueprints) that define all the construction specifications of a residential house such as the dimensions, materials, layouts, installation methods and techniques.

  7. Plan (drawing) - Wikipedia

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    Plans are usually "scale drawings", meaning that the plans are drawn at a specific ratio relative to the actual size of the place or object. Various scales may be used for different drawings in a set. For example, a floor plan may be drawn at 1:48 (or 1/4"=1'-0") whereas a detailed view may be drawn at 1:24 (or 1/2"=1'-0").

  8. National Register of Historic Places listings in Marathon ...

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    Classical Revival house built around 1901 and expanded around 1908. [62] Yawkey was a lumberman, helped organize Marathon Paper Mills, and helped lead several other local companies, as well as being a philanthropist. [63] The building now houses the Marathon County Historical Museum. [64] 34: Zion Lutheran Church: Zion Lutheran Church: April 11 ...

  9. Marathon House - Wikipedia

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    Marathon House behind Marylebone Station. Marathon House is a landmark building completed in 1960 (then Castrol House), it exhibited the first use of an American-style fully-glazed curtain wall in England. It is 162 feet (49 m) high and has 15 floors. The building was influenced by New York City's Lever House (1951-2).