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It’s all in the name here. The hotel, after an elaborate renovation, is now presented in a luxury design. The modern 20 suites, full of cool colors and airy fabrics, have exclusive bathrooms and private terraces with ocean views. A composition of white walls and dark teak wood characterizes the ambience of the suites. [...]

Largely on the strength of Supports, N John Habraken (b 1928, Bandung, Indonesia, of Dutch parents) was Director of the Stichting Architecten Research (SAR) from 1965 until 1975. SAR was a working party of Dutch architects creoted to explore the possibilities of support structures and in fill building as an alternative to mass housing. [...]

Modern Movement in history of architecture is the search for a rational and democratic architecture in the 1920s. In one sense, the ?Modern Movement? in history of architecture was born in Weimar Germany and certainly its enduring principles have a post-war optimistic social flavour. Modernism offered a new possibility of rational utility and democratic [...]

Samara Central Railway Station – This project is not only a new train station but also a redevelopment of the central Komsomolsky Square. The station and its tall tower with its reflecting, brightly illuminated facade, trapezoidal extensions, soaring lift tower and tube-shaped concourse is striking in its functional construction. A tube-like steel and glass construction [...]

Relax under a frangipani tree: situated on the still very much pristine Choeng Mon beach in the north east of Thai island Koh Samui, this spa resort offers a secluded hideaway for beach lovers Even so, it is just a few minutes to the nearby fisherman’s village of Bo Phut and the bars and boutiques [...]

If you are looking for customized, unique and magnificent home, Schumacher Homes could be your answer. Like many other top custom builders, they can built a dream home for you that speaks of an perfect floor plan and meticulous attention to fine details that’s beyond compare. Besides, the greatest benefit of doing business [...]

With its steel cross-ribbed arches, the station is reminiscent of the great epoch of railway stations, when stone-hewn neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic cathedrals of mobility attested the unshakable faith in the technological power of the steam age.
The steel crossbeams have a purely aesthetic function and belong to the post-modern repertoire.
With its multilevel construction, unique expressiveness and [...]

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As historicist styles spread, European architecture began showing the tendency to employ decorative and structural elements drawn from the art and architecture of the East. In the period between the English expansion in India during the first half of the 18th century and the French conquest of Algeria in 1830, what had initially been idle [...]

Modena is a city situated in the mid north west of the Italian peninsula and is most famous for being the home town of the Ferrari but it’s also right in the middle of the Italian food corridor which runs from Bologna, the father of Italian food to Parma, the home of ham and down [...]

Around 1650, baroque forms began to appear in Latin America, where they were applied atop the stylistic stratifications deposited by Spanish domination dating back to the early 16th century. There were also contributions from local traditions and hybrid forms that resulted from crosses. Despite the reception of the treatises by Vignola and Serlio over the [...]

Hotel Maya, located on Jalan Ampang, is part of a mega structure comprising two other components, Menara Chan Chim Mooi (an office tower) and Plaza 138 (office suites). The complex is naturally ventilated and lit by a 20 storey high atrium running the entire length of the building. Cross ventilation of the atrium is facilitated [...]