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  2. High-tech architecture - Wikipedia

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    High-tech architecture, also known as structural expressionism, is a type of late modernist architecture that emerged in the 1970s, incorporating elements of high tech industry and technology into building design. High-tech architecture grew from the modernist style, utilizing new advances in technology and building materials.

  3. Australian residential architectural styles - Wikipedia

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    Home in the Queenslander style. Australian residential architectural styles have evolved significantly over time, from the early days of structures made from relatively cheap and imported corrugated iron (which can still be seen in the roofing of historic homes) to more sophisticated styles borrowed from other countries, such as the California bungalow from the United States, the Georgian ...

  4. Victorian architecture - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, 'Victorian' architecture generally describes styles that were most popular between 1860 and 1900. A list of these styles most commonly includes Second Empire (1855–85), Stick-Eastlake (1860–c. 1890), Folk Victorian (1870–1910), Queen Anne (1880–1910), Richardsonian Romanesque (1880–1900), and Shingle (1880–1900 ...

  5. Ranch-style house - Wikipedia

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    The 20th-century ranch house style has its roots in Spanish colonial architecture of the 17th to 19th century. These buildings used single-story floor plans and native materials in a simple style to meet the needs of their inhabitants. Walls were often built of adobe brick and covered with plaster, or more simply used board and batten wood siding.

  6. Beaux-Arts architecture - Wikipedia

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    The Beaux-Arts style evolved from the French classicism of the Style Louis XIV, and then French neoclassicism beginning with Style Louis XV and Style Louis XVI.French architectural styles before the French Revolution were governed by Académie royale d'architecture (1671–1793), then, following the French Revolution, by the Architecture section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

  7. List of video games notable for negative reception - Wikipedia

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    Paramount Pictures faulted Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life's lackluster box office performance on the poor critical reception the video game received from reviewers and fans. [ 120 ] [ 121 ] The head of Core Design , Jeremy Heath-Smith, resigned after the release of the game, [ 122 ] and plans for a sequel called The Lost ...

  8. Death Star - Wikipedia

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    The grid plan animation shown during the Rebel briefing before the Death Star attack in A New Hope was an actual computer-graphics simulation developed by Larry Cuba at the University of Illinois Chicago alongside computer graphics researcher Tom DeFanti. [9]