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Floor plan of a basic central-passage house. The central-passage house , also known variously as central hall plan house , center-hall house , hall-passage-parlor house , Williamsburg cottage , and Tidewater-type cottage , was a vernacular , or folk form, house type from the colonial period onward into the 19th century in the United States .
Free plan, in the architecture world, refers to the ability to have a floor plan with non-load bearing walls and floors by creating a structural system that holds the weight of the building by ways of an interior skeleton of load bearing columns. The building system carries only its columns, or skeleton, and each corresponding ceiling.
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The Big Duck is a duck-shaped building in Flanders, New York, 18 by 30 feet (5.5 by 9.1 m) and 20 feet (6.1 m) tall to the top of the head, enclosing 11 by 15 feet (3.4 by 4.6 m) of interior space. [1] The building was designed in 1931 by duck farmer Martin Maurer; shaped like a Pekin duck, it was intended as a farm shop as well as for publicity.
Elevation view of the Panthéon, Paris principal façade Floor plans of the Putnam House. A house plan [1] is a set of construction or working drawings (sometimes called blueprints) that define all the construction specifications of a residential house such as the dimensions, materials, layouts, installation methods and techniques.
Architectural Record named it House of the Year in 1963, and it's considered a pivotal work in Rudolph's career. [10] In 1958, Rudolph was commissioned to create a master plan for Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama. He later collaborated with graduates of Tuskegee's architecture school on the design of a new chapel building, completed in ...
Duck End House in 2011. Duck End House is an early-17th-century property, probably a manor house, in the parish of Rollright, near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England. The house was built in 1628 by Lady Anne Cope, widow of the leading Puritan Sir Anthony Cope. [1] The property was once owned by the seventeenth-century politician Sir William ...
Woodway had formerly been a farm, originally constructed in the form of a Devon longhouse until Captain James Spratt built the large cob and thatch cottage on the front in around 1815. A mansion house on the lower boundary of the Woodway grounds was known as Gorway. Demolished in the 1970s, it was named after the Norman baron, Serlo de la Gore.