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Aerial render of the Build The Earth project on a modified Airocean World Map. Build the Earth was created by YouTuber PippenFTS in March 2020 as a collaborative effort to recreate Earth in the video game Minecraft. [1] During the COVID-19 lockdowns, the server aimed to provide players with the opportunity to virtually experience and construct ...
Villa: a large house which one might retreat to in the country. Villa can also refer to a freestanding comfortable-sized house, on a large block, generally found in the suburbs, and in Victorian terraced housing , a house larger than the average byelaw terraced house , often having double street frontage .
Villa Capra "La Rotonda" in Vicenza.One of Palladio's most influential designs. Villa Godi in Lugo Vicentino.An early work notable for lack of external decoration. The Palladian villas of the Veneto are villas designed by Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, all of whose buildings were erected in the Veneto, the mainland region of north-eastern Italy then under the political control of the ...
Villa Barbaro, also known as the Villa di Maser, is a large villa at Maser in the Veneto region of northern Italy.It was designed and built by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, with frescos by Paolo Veronese and sculptures by Alessandro Vittoria, for Daniele Barbaro, Patriarch of Aquileia and ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I of England and his brother Marcantonio, an ambassador ...
This is a list of the 100+ largest extant and historic houses in the United States, ordered by area of the main house. The list includes houses that have been demolished, houses that are currently under construction, and buildings that are not currently, but were previously used as private homes.
The villa was a principal location in the 2007 film Hannibal Rising, serving as the villa of the villain, Vladis Gutas. Simon Mawer's 2009 Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, The Glass Room, is a fictional account of a house inspired by the villa. [12] A film based in part on the novel, The Affair, was shot at the villa and released in 2019. [13]
A plan of Hadrian's Villa The villa's recreation area known as Canopus, as seen from the temple of Serapis A model of Hadrian's Villa Hadrian's Villa is a vast area of land with many pools, baths, fountains and classical Greek and Roman architecture set in what would have been a mixture of landscaped gardens, wilderness areas and cultivated ...
[1] [2] [3] There are about 4 metres of open space between the road and the villa, and again between the villa and the lake. [ 3 ] The building makes use of three of Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture : the free plan , the roof terrace , and the horizontally-oriented "ribbon" window.