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.
Mount Auburn Cemetery is the first rural cemetery in the United States. With classical monuments set in a rolling landscaped terrain, it marked a distinct break with Colonial-era burying grounds and church-affiliated graveyards.
Mount Auburn Cemetery was inspired by Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris and was itself an inspiration to cemetery designers, most notably at Abney Park in London. Mount Auburn Cemetery was designed largely by Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn with assistance from Jacob Bigelow and Alexander Wadsworth.
In 2009 a monumental underwater contemporary museum of art called MUSA (Museo Subacuático de Arte) was formed in the waters surrounding Cancun, Isla Mujeres and Punta Nizuc.
A cenote is a natural pit, or sinkhole, resulting from the collapse of limestone bedrock that exposes groundwater underneath.
-Cenote Saamal-
Located at Hacienda Selva Maya outside the city center of Valladolid, Mexico. This open air cenote is surrounded by pristine, tropical jungle. Open to the sky, this natural pool is surrounded by high walls and entry is via many steps down to water level.
Chichen Itza was one of the largest Maya cities. It was established before the period of Christopher Colombus and probably served as the religion center of Yucatan for a while.
Tulum is the site of a pre-columbian Mayan city serving as a major port for Coba. The ruins are situated on 12-meter (39 ft) tall cliffs, along the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula.
