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The architecture of the Bulgarian Revival is an Ottoman style architecture developed between 1770 and 1900. [1] Plovdiv's Old Town [2] is a living museum of the type of National Revival architecture that developed there (there were regional differences) in the early to mid-1800. [3]
Other revival styles that were utilised in Victorian architecture in London include Byzantine Revival, Queen Anne Revival, Jacobethan, Renaissance Revival, Romanesque Revival and Tudor Revival. Some buildings built in such revival styles were genuine attempts at faithful re-creations of the original style by strongly referencing historic ...
Neo-Byzantine architecture (also referred to as Byzantine Revival) was a revival movement, most frequently seen in religious, institutional and public buildings. It incorporates elements of the Byzantine style associated with Eastern and Orthodox Christian architecture dating from the 5th through 11th centuries, notably that of Constantinople ...
The Tower House in 1878. In 1863, William Burges gained his first major architectural commission, Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, at the age of 35. [8] In the following twelve years, his architecture, metalwork, jewellery, furniture and stained glass led his biographer, J. Mordaunt Crook to suggest that Burges rivaled Pugin as "the greatest art-architect of the Gothic Revival". [9]
The Russian Revival-representing Uspenski Cathedral from 1868 in Katajanokka, Helsinki, Finland. The idea that architecture might represent the glory of kingdoms can be traced to the dawn of civilisation, but the notion that architecture can bear the stamp of national character is a modern idea, that appeared in the historical and philosophical writing of the 18th century and was given ...
The building was designed by George Smith in the Greek Revival style. [7] Crosby Hall: 15th–17th centuries: 1909–1910: Bishopsgate: Great hall re-erected in Chelsea and incorporated into a new building by Walter Godfrey. Many other buildings in Bishopsgate which escaped the Great Fire survived into the Victorian period. [8] Crystal Palace ...
The period is remarkable for its characteristic architecture which can still be observed in old Bulgarian towns such as Tryavna, Koprivshtitsa and Veliko Tarnovo, the rich literary heritage of authors like Ivan Vazov and Hristo Botev that inspired the Bulgarian struggle for independence and an autonomous church, and the April Uprising of 1876, a significant event of armed opposition to Ottoman ...
Located close to the Holborn Bar city boundary of the City of London Holborn Bars was built on the site of the former Furnival's Inn building of the Inns of Chancery.It was designed in Gothic Revival style for the Prudential Assurance Society by architects initially Alfred Waterhouse and his son Paul Waterhouse who became a partner in his father's firm from 1891, and built by Holland, Hannen ...