Architecture Essays and Research Papers Page 2

  Some characteristics that these two buildings share include quest for height, basic floor plan, and artistic flair. The period of Romanesque architecture, which lasted roughly from 1050 A.D. to 1150 A.D., concentrated mainly on achieving massive proportions, rounded vaulted bays, the round arch, the wall buttress, cylindrical apse and chapels, and towers. Early Gothic…

Church erected in Constantinople during the reign of Justinian, which later became a mosque and a museum; ranks as one of the world’s most important examples of Christian architecture Grand Canal: One of the world’s largest waterworks project before modern times built during the Sui dynasty under second emperor, Sui Yangdi, in order to facilitate…

The Eclipse platform is basically a comprehensive integrated development foundation (IDE) having no restriction on any programming paradigm. The platform itself is structured as subsystems and these sub-systems are running on top of Platform runtime. The following figure represents the high-level platform architecture of eclipse platform. Figure: Eclipse Platform Architecture Here, the platform is built…

Bank of China Tower, known as the tallest building in Hong Kong and Asia from 1989 to 1992, is 1,209-foot and it is a fitting building. The “Tower” sits in the central business district, a ribbon of land densely packed with banks and office buildings squeezed between mountain and harbor. It is one of the…

Essay #1 The Palace of Knossos, a Minoan mud brick and timber structure on a shallow stone foundation, featuring a central courtyard, was constructed on an acropolis. It was a place for rulers to reside, shrines for religious ceremonies to be worshipped, the industrial production of objects, and administrative duties. Ample hallways, stairways, chambers, and…