Greek Revival characteristics
Looking for that historic house that reminds you of an antebellum plantation in the South? You know the one. It’s large and imposing, with thick white columns that flank the front entrance and support a porch that spans the width of the house. Imagine Scarlet O’Hara from Gone With the Wind inside the parlor. She’s sewing her green gown from those heavy velvet curtains. If you like…
I House Architecture
From the architect. The house is located not too deep in a rather quiet lane on the outskirts of Saigon. Like many houses in Vietnam, it has constantly exposed to the bustling surroundings as dust, heat, noise etc. Because of these factors, the house owner (also active in designing industry) pretty much…
Architectural Design pictures
Some images are digitized | Some jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress | View All The Architecture, Design, and Engineering category covers about 40, drawings (described in more than 3, 900 catalog records), spanning 1600 to 1989, with most dating between 1880 and 1940. The designs are primarily…
History architecture
Art expresses the depth and breadth of what it means to be human. Through courses covering many time periods and cultures, art history students learn how art is made and how it relates to social, theoretical and historical circumstances. In many classes, students work closely with the collections of…
Farmhouse style Architecture
Did you know if you read the word “farmhouse” in a description of the historic house you want to buy, the term doesn’t necessarily apply to style? Farmhouse is a term used more often to describe function. Very simply put, homes built on agricultural lands were called farmhouses. They were built out of necessity - to house and protect the inhabitants who either owned or worked the…
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Client server design pattern
In our project, we have done exactly what you are looking for: a single RPC function which transports wrapped requests to the server, the server executes the corresponding code, and then returns the result to the client again. How much of that is smelly code - I am not sure. But here s a brief summary of what we did: RPC function: public where Command and CommandReturnValue are…
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Famous Ancient Roman buildings
The Temple of Augustus and Livia, built at the end of the 1st century BC, survives today basically intact in the city of Vienne, France. Closely similar to the famous Roman temple Maison Carrée in Nîmes, the temple in Vienne was originally dedicated to Augustus. In 41 AD the ancient Roman temple was rededicated to his wife Livia in by her grandson Claudius, the Roman emperor who…
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