The Easton Local Historic District includes within
... Vertical considerations include floor-tofloor heights, first floor height above the ground, the vertical distance between rows of windows and windows and cornices, and cornice heights. The principal facade of new construction should reflect and maintain neighborhood and streetscape ...
... Vertical considerations include floor-tofloor heights, first floor height above the ground, the vertical distance between rows of windows and windows and cornices, and cornice heights. The principal facade of new construction should reflect and maintain neighborhood and streetscape ...
Al Ain Architectural Guidelines
... The plan for Al Ain is based on the idea of a “city in the oasis”. This overarching concept should find its way into the design of individual buildings in the city, as well as their adjacent open spaces. The purpose of this document is to provide explicit design direction towards the achievement of ...
... The plan for Al Ain is based on the idea of a “city in the oasis”. This overarching concept should find its way into the design of individual buildings in the city, as well as their adjacent open spaces. The purpose of this document is to provide explicit design direction towards the achievement of ...
Appendix D Historic Resources Evaluation
... Certificate of Occupancy forms for those years. Several garage entrances at the north façade of the building were infilled and various window openings were boarded up with plywood; building permits for these alterations could not be found. ...
... Certificate of Occupancy forms for those years. Several garage entrances at the north façade of the building were infilled and various window openings were boarded up with plywood; building permits for these alterations could not be found. ...
Ensuring good seismic performance with platform-frame
... practice, and outlines new developments in technology, standards and codes. Residential housing in North America consists predominantly of wood-frame construction. Most is of the platform-frame type, so called because the walls are erected on top of the completed platform provided by the flooring.1 ...
... practice, and outlines new developments in technology, standards and codes. Residential housing in North America consists predominantly of wood-frame construction. Most is of the platform-frame type, so called because the walls are erected on top of the completed platform provided by the flooring.1 ...
860 | 880 Lake Shore Drive
... three bays, each bay twenty-one feet wide. This clear expression of the structural skeleton establishes the first division of the buildings total volume, and is emphasized at the ground level by the columns that stand free of the recessed wails of the lobby, forming an arcade around the base of the ...
... three bays, each bay twenty-one feet wide. This clear expression of the structural skeleton establishes the first division of the buildings total volume, and is emphasized at the ground level by the columns that stand free of the recessed wails of the lobby, forming an arcade around the base of the ...
sf design guidelines midcoast
... protecting ridgelines and skylines. As defined by LCP Policy 8.7, ridgelines are the tops of hills or hillocks normally viewed against a background of other hills. A skyline is the line where sky and land masses meet. The Cabrillo Highway Scenic Corridor offers perhaps the most significant public vi ...
... protecting ridgelines and skylines. As defined by LCP Policy 8.7, ridgelines are the tops of hills or hillocks normally viewed against a background of other hills. A skyline is the line where sky and land masses meet. The Cabrillo Highway Scenic Corridor offers perhaps the most significant public vi ...
CTBUH Technical Paper - Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
... to think about the “what-ifs.” They need to have a vision. That does not necessarily mean implementing controls from day one, but designing provisions into the architecture so security controls can be easily and quickly adopted in the future if higher threat scenarios arise. The downside of shortsig ...
... to think about the “what-ifs.” They need to have a vision. That does not necessarily mean implementing controls from day one, but designing provisions into the architecture so security controls can be easily and quickly adopted in the future if higher threat scenarios arise. The downside of shortsig ...
Urban Density and the Porous High-Rise - ctbuh
... Urban density, as measured by the concentration of built area, rate of occupancy, and intensity of user activity, is one of the most important factors affecting our ability to deal with critical opportunities and challenges of today’s cities. The potential for high efficiencies of land use, energy c ...
... Urban density, as measured by the concentration of built area, rate of occupancy, and intensity of user activity, is one of the most important factors affecting our ability to deal with critical opportunities and challenges of today’s cities. The potential for high efficiencies of land use, energy c ...
Architecture of the United States
The architecture of the United States demonstrates a broad variety of architectural styles and built forms over the country's history of over four centuries of independence and former British rule.Architecture in the United States is as diverse as its multicultural society and has been shaped by many internal and external factors and regional distinctions. As a whole it represents a rich eclectic and innovative tradition.