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The homes usually feature a rectangular floor plan. Exterior is usually brick or stucco with symmetrically placed exterior components. [3] [2] The design of doors is rectangular with an arched opening. The French provincial homes are two stories tall. [4] The original modest designs ranged from modest farmhouses to wealthy aristocrat country ...
The Lavirotte Building, an apartment building at 29 Avenue Rapp in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, was designed by the architect Jules Lavirotte and built between 1899 and 1901. The building is one of the best-known surviving examples of Art Nouveau architecture in Paris.
The Unité d'habitation (French pronunciation: [ynite dabitasjɔ̃], Housing Unit) is a modernist residential housing typology developed by Le Corbusier, with the collaboration of painter-architect Nadir Afonso. It formed the basis of several housing developments throughout Europe designed by Le Corbusier and sharing the same name.
A wooden house in Tartu, Estonia. This is a list of house types.Houses can be built in a large variety of configurations. A basic division is between free-standing or single-family detached homes and various types of attached or multi-family residential dwellings.
The two-bedroom apartment he shares with his wife, Sabrina Medaghri Alaoui, in the 11th arrondissement, serves as a testament to his family firm’s 183-year history, with carefully placed pieces ...
1919 Monol Hou1934 Apartment block, Esplanade des Invalides, Paris. 1935 Bata works at Hellocourt, Lorraine.ses (no site agreed). 1919 Distillery, near Lyons. 1920 Citrohan House (1st version) (No site agreed). 1921 Garage, Lille. 1922 Citrohan House (2nd version) (no site agreed) (exhibition model built). 1922 La Roche- Jeanneret houses, Auteuil.
French Creole buildings borrow traditions from France, the Caribbean, and many other parts of the world such as Spanish, African, Native American, and other heritages. French Creole homes from the Colonial period were especially designed for the hot, wet climate of that region. Traditional French Creole homes had some or all of these features:
Loggia Valmarana in Vicenza, Italy, by Palladio, UNESCO. The main difference between a loggia and a portico is the role within the functional layout of the building. The portico allows entrance to the inside from the exterior and can be found on vernacular and small scale buildings.