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The architecture revolving around the industrial world uses a variety of building designs and styles to consider the safe flow, distribution and production of goods and labor. [1] Such buildings rose in importance with the Industrial Revolution, starting in Britain, and were some of the pioneering structures of modern architecture. [2]
A distinctively different inter-war building is the Carreras Cigarette Factory, built 1926–1928 on an inner-city site in Mornington Crescent, Camden. It was designed by the architects M. E. Collins, O. H. Collins, and A. G. Porri in a combination of Art Deco and Egyptian Revival styles. The factory has a frontage of 550 feet (170 m) under a ...
Van Nelle Factory is an icon of modernist and functionalist architecture. [8] It might also show the influence of Constructivism [citation needed].The main contributor to the factory's design was Leendert van der Vlugt, while after his death the design was often referenced to Johannes Brinkman and Mart Stam. [9]
During the 1960s and 1970s, he became noted for his designs for Chicago's 100-story John Hancock Center, which was the first building to use the trussed-tube design, and 110-story Sears Tower, since renamed Willis Tower, the tallest building in the world from 1973 until 1998, which was the first building to use the framed-tube design.
Pages in category "Manufacturing buildings and structures" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Bauhaus Dessau, also Bauhaus-Building Dessau, is a building-complex in Dessau-Roßlau. It is considered the pinnacle of pre-war modern design in Europe and originated out of the dissolution of the Weimar School and the move by local politicians to reconcile the city's industrial character with its cultural past. [1]
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2004: Building for Invention; 2006: The Cutting Edge: Machines that Shaped Our World; 2007: Doodles, Drafts, and Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian [11] 2007: Windsor Post-Pastoral: The Changing Landscape of the Birthplace of Vermont; 2008-2011: From Muskets to Motorcars: Yankee Ingenuity and the Road to Mass Production