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Florida cracker style house. Florida cracker architecture or Southern plantation style is a style of vernacular architecture typified by a low slung, wood-frame house, with a large porch. It was widespread in the 19th and early 20th century. Some elements of the style are still popular as a source of design themes.
Buildings can appear to be twisted by design, where the twisting (torsion, helix, etc.) is structural rather than merely an ornamental detail.The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat defines a twisting building as one that progressively rotates its floor plates or its façade as it gains height. [1]
A designed twist in the spire of old western town gate of Duderstadt in Germany An unintended crooked spire on St Mary's Church in England. A crooked spire, (also known as a twisted spire) is a tower that, through accident or design, contains a twist or does not point perfectly straight upwards. There are about a hundred bell towers of this ...
An example of a Tudor Revival house where the exterior and interior were treated with equal care is Old Place, Lindfield, West Sussex. The property, comprising an original house of c.1590, was developed by the stained glass designer Charles Eamer Kempe from the 1870s.
The sculpture is made of cedar wood and depicts a tall house, bent in such a way that it appears to rest on its foundation and roof. [3] The roof of the house digs into the forest floor and five square, glass windows travel upwards on the house and a distorted door juts to the right, open for viewers to interact with—inside one can step and look out a large window looking out into the forest.
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Cotswold-style house at 300-04 West Willow Grove Avenue, in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1913), Duhring, Okie & Ziegler, architects. The leading feature of Cotswold architecture is the grouping of the gables. [1] Since lead was not available, slate was used in its place.
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