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  2. Conservation and restoration of immovable cultural property

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    Historic buildings, notably pre-WWII, are built with higher quality materials and built under different standards than modern buildings. Architectural Design - Buildings have personalities, specific architectural elements that make the building unique and more valuable. Saving these unique traits within original building are ideal.

  3. Architecture of Bengal - Wikipedia

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    Bengali architecture includes ancient urban architecture, religious architecture, rural vernacular architecture, colonial townhouses and country houses and modern urban styles. The bungalow style is a notable architectural export of Bengal. The corner towers of Bengali religious buildings were replicated in medieval Southeast Asia.

  4. America's Favorite Architecture - Wikipedia

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    America's Favorite Architecture" is a list of buildings and other structures identified as the most popular works of architecture in the United States. In 2006 and 2007, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) sponsored research to identify the most popular works of architecture in the United States.

  5. Architecture of Zimbabwe - Wikipedia

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    The government had the clear intention of creating a unique Zimbabwean-style structure when constructing the terminal building. [2] This was intended to promote Zimbabwe's economy by boosting the travel industry and marketing Zimbabwe to other countries. [2] The conical Tower inside the Great Enclosure, Great Zimbabwe.

  6. Case Study Houses - Wikipedia

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    The Stahl House, Case Study House #22. The Case Study Houses were experiments in American residential architecture sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, which commissioned major architects of the day to design and build inexpensive and efficient model homes for the United States residential housing boom caused by the end of World War II and the return of millions of soldiers.

  7. Edward Killingsworth - Wikipedia

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    Edward Killingsworth FAIA (1917–2004) was an American architect.He is best known as a participant in Arts & Architecture's Case Study program in the mid-1950s. He designed and built Case Study House #25, "The Frank House," in Naples, California.

  8. National Centre for the Performing Arts (China) - Wikipedia

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    National Grand Theater of China: a steel architecture case study on Constructalia; Robbie Moore, "Left of the Forbidden City", Specifier Magazine online, date unk. Profile of the Centre retrieved 11 May 2008; National Grand Theater of China, Beijing "National Grand Theater of China, Beijing" at website of Paul Andreu

  9. Citicorp Center engineering crisis - Wikipedia

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    However, it is not clear whether her study ever came to the attention of LeMessurier, the chief structural engineer of the building. At around the same time as Hartley was studying the question, an architecture student at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) named Lee DeCarolis chose the building as the topic for a report assignment in his ...