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Name Image Type Date Coordinates Notes Ref Aalholm: Manor house: 1918: Corselitze: Manor house: 1777: Neoclassical residence built by Johan Frederik Classen and designed by Andreas Kirkerup with an English landscape garden
The architecture of Norway has evolved in response to changing economic conditions, technological advances, demographic fluctuations and cultural shifts. While outside architectural influences are apparent in much of Norwegian architecture, they have often been adapted to meet Norwegian climatic conditions, including: harsh winters, high winds and, in coastal areas, salt spray.
Charlottenborg manor house: Charlottenborgs slott Östergötland: 1651 Museum Charlottenlund Castle: Charlottenlunds slott Scania: 1849 Private residence Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm: Kina slott Stockholm: 1769 Museum One of the royal palaces of Sweden: Christinehof Castle: Christinehofs slott Scania: 1740 Museum Claestorp Castle ...
Stockholm Court House (Stockholms Rådhus) (1915, Sweden) Taagepera Castle (Taagepera mõis) (1912, Estonia) Tarvaspää, (1913, Finland) the house and studio built for himself by Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela; Tolstoy House (Толстовский дом) (1912, Russia) Church of the Epiphany (Uppenbarelsekyrkan) (1913, Sweden)
The floor of a turf house could be covered with wood, stone or earth depending on the purpose of the building. They also had a fireplace that would be in the center of the house heating and lighting the whole house. Over time, the turf houses changed in size which directly related to their purpose and status of the owner.
One such site is Hedeby, located 45 km (28 mi) south of the Danish border near Schleswig, it probably dates back to the end of the 8th century. Oak frames were used for the walls, and the roofs were probably thatched. [1] Viking ring houses, such as those at Trelleborg, have a ship-like shape with long walls bulging outwards. Each house had a ...
Built in 1640, C. A. Nothnagle Log House, located in Swedesboro, New Jersey, is likely the oldest log cabin in the United States. A conjectural replica of the log cabin in which U.S. president Abraham Lincoln was born, now at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Mortonson–Van Leer Log Cabin in New Sweden Park in Swedesboro, New Jersey A replica log cabin at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania A log house ...
Alvar Aalto, too, became involved, from 1936, in standard small houses, designing for the Ahlström timber and wood product company, with three types of the so-called AA system: 40 m 2 (Type A), 50 m 2 (Type B) and 60 m 2 (Type C). Though based on traditional farmhouses, there are also clear stylistic elements from Nordic Classicism but also ...