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White House second floor showing location of principal rooms. The Executive Residence is the central building of the White House complex located between the East Wing and West Wing. It is the most recognizable part of the complex, being the actual "house" part of the White House. This central building, first constructed from 1792 to 1800, is ...
The design and construction of the World Trade Center, most centrally its twin towers, involved many other innovative techniques, such as the slurry wall for digging the foundation, and wind tunnel experiments. Construction of the World Trade Center's North Tower began in August 1968, and the South Tower in 1969.
Aureus of Trajan (r. 98–117) with part of the forum on the reverse, marked: forum traiana and showing the decorative statuary. The Forum consisted of a sequence of open and enclosed spaces, beginning with the vast portico-lined piazza measuring 300 metres (980 feet) long and 185 metres (607 feet) wide, with exedrae on two sides.
The Stahl House (also known as Case Study House #22) is a modernist -styled house designed by architect Pierre Koenig in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles, California, which is known as a frequent set location in American films. Photographic and anecdotal evidence shows that the architect's client, Buck Stahl, provided the inspiration ...
Dick Stewart of 303 Associates, stands at the corner of Port Republic and Charles streets on May 30, 2023 looking at the site where he plans to build apartments while a future hotel and parking ...
Jettying. A double jettied timber-framed building. The ends of the multiple cantilevered joists supporting the upper floors can easily be seen. Jettying (jetty, jutty, from Old French getee, jette) [ 1] is a building technique used in medieval timber-frame buildings in which an upper floor projects beyond the dimensions of the floor below.
Ulm Minster is the world's tallest church. The church has a length of 123.56 metres (405.4 ft) and a width of 48.8 metres (160 ft). The building area is approximately 8,260 square metres (88,900 sq ft). The height of the central nave is 41.6 metres (136 ft), whilst the lateral naves are 20.55 metres (67.4 ft) high.
Room and pillar mining. Room and pillar or pillar and stall is a variant of breast stoping. It is a mining system in which the mined material is extracted across a horizontal plane, creating horizontal arrays of rooms and pillars. To do this, "rooms" of ore are dug out while "pillars" of untouched material are left to support the roof ...