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The striking design, departing from traditional Arab and European architecture, made the hotel a symbol of modernism in Tunis. It remains an important example of Brutalism in North Africa. Its distinctive shape has prompted comparisons with the sandcrawler vehicle of the Star Wars films. [1] [2]
In the early 1920s, the Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank tore down its head office, the Sweerts-Sporck Palace [] in Prague, and had it rebuilt behind the preserved façade on a design by architect Josef Gočár, visible in the background Preservation of a 19th-century facade, Noordereiland, Rotterdam Reverse façadism: New construction with an old-looking façade hung in front of a cast concrete wall ...
The palm court of the 19th century was reinvented by John Portman who created an influential design of grand atrium for the Hyatt Regency Atlanta in 1967. [13]Contemporary hotel design can be sophisticated and functional, involving specialist architects and designers, [14] environmental and structural engineers, interior designers and skilled contractors and suppliers, particularly for large ...
Contemporary architecture is the architecture of the 21st century. No single style is dominant. [1] Contemporary architects work in several different styles, from postmodernism, high-tech architecture and new references and interpretations of traditional architecture [2] [3] to highly conceptual forms and designs, resembling sculpture on an enormous scale.
The main facade is divided by pilasters into fifteen bays, equalling the number of windows. Looking down the central aisle of the Saint Roch Parish Church of Lemery, Batangas, Philippines, the spaces between each set of columns and roof trusses are bays. An interior bay, between the supports of the vaults, in Lyon Cathedral, France
The Italian architect Aldo Rossi has designed a number of Palazzo style buildings, including Hotel Il Palazzo in Fukuoka, Japan, (1989) which combines elements of a typical palazzo facade, including projecting cornice, with the intense red found in Japanese traditional architecture, and the green of patinated bronze. [9]