Cathedral of Learning designed by the architect Charles Klauder is listed in the National Register of Historic Places is the centerpiece of the University of Pittsburgh’s main campus. Standing at 535 feet (163 m), the 42-story Late Gothic Revival Cathedral is the tallest educational building in the Western hemisphere and the second tallest university building (fourth tallest educationally-purposed building) in the world. It is also the second tallest gothic-styled building in the world.
Phipps is one of the “greenest” facilities in the world. Its greenhouse production facility has received Platinum certification, the first and only greenhouse to be so certified. Its purpose is to educate and entertain the people of Pittsburgh with formal gardens (Roman, English, etc.) and various species of exotic plants (palm trees, succulents, bonsai, orchids, etc.)
Listed among Smithsonian‘s Life List of 28 places “to visit before you die”. Fallingwater opened a new chapter in American architecture, and is perhaps rightly considered Frank Lloyd Wright’s greatest work.
Paper House is a real house made of paper. In 1922 he engineer that designed the machines that make paper clips; Elis F. Stenman began to build this summer home out of paper as a hobbie.
The Architectural Digest Design Show is an design exhibition that allows more than 400 brands to showcase their products.
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Calatrava’s sculptural project form is achieved through the modulated repetition of structural steel ribs, which unify the complex composition. Between the ribs, glass allows natural light that flood the facility.
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The Flatiron Building s a triangular 22-story steel-framed landmarked building and is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper.
The design was by Chicago’s Daniel Burnham as a vertical Renaissance palazzo with Beaux-Arts styling.
The Elms is a large mansion, facetiously a “summer cottage”, designed by architect Horace Trumbauer (1868–1938) for the coal baron Edward Julius Berwind (1848-1936), and was completed in 1901. Its design was copied from the Château d’Asnières in Asnières-sur-Seine, France.
The Elms is constructed with a steel frame with brick partitions and a limestone facade.
The Breakers was built between 1893 and 1895 as the Newport summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy United States Vanderbilt family.
It is built in an Italian Renaissance style. Designed by renowned architect Richard Morris Hunt, with interior decoration by Jules Allard and Sons and Ogden Codman, Jr., the 70-room mansion has a gross area of 125,339 square feet (11,644.4 m2) and 62,482 square feet (5,804.8 m2) of living area on five floors.
Marble House is a Gilded Age mansion designed by the society architect Richard Morris Hunt. The mansion was built as a summer “cottage” retreat between 1888 and 1892 for Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt, the fifty-room mansion required a staff of 36 servants, including butlers, maids, coachmen, and footmen. The mansion cost $11 million ($260,000,000 in 2009 dollars) of which $7 million was spent on 500,000 cubic feet (14,000 m³) of marble.
