Fisher Building

were there saw many beautiful buildings. My favorite in particular was the Hotel Ponce de León now known as Flagler College. Built in 1888 by Henry Flagler it was used as a hotel until 1967 and then turned into Flagler College. This beautifully intricate building is made of sand, coquina shell gravel, and cement. The building itself is a gray colored and laced with red window panes and archways. There were several elements or principles i noticed in this building. The first one is balance the…

author fails to provide any evidence as to why the current facility would be unable to handle an increase in student population. The issue could be as simple as adding more equipment to the facility or making the current facility larger, rather than building an entirely new facility. Furthermore, the author does not mention his reasoning as to why an increase in commuter students would make the existing facility inadequate. Clarification of this point could strengthen his argument. The author…

selves is through buildings because buildings could represent the values of the people who built them as well as the people who use them. For example, the pyramids in Egypt where built by king Kufu to serve as a tombs for the ruling dynasty of Egypt at that time as well as to express the greatness of this dynasty by enormous size of the building and the placement of gold and jewelry inside. Thus, the rhetorical analysis is important to understand the ideas and motives behind the buildings, the…

1. Of the three different options, I would advise the client to choose to use construction management with a guaranteed maximum price as their construction procurement method, rather than design-bid-build or design-build. Design-bid-build has a stipulated sum which would be useful for the client to know, and the process is linear and familiar to the architect and contractors, but the budget would end up being liable to change for a few reasons. Firstly it would likely change after the design…

January 17th, 1994. For many people in this country, it was just a day to commemorate a federal holiday, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day . However, to the communities of southern California, it was a day that would change their lives forever. The Northridge earthquake, although given the name of Northridge, was centered in the San Fernando Valley. The earthquake, which happened at 4:31 a.m, had a magnitude of 6.7 and it was felt in places such as Baja California and Las Vegas. This earthquake made…

Mexico city was destroyed by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake. The tragedy made the first page of the New York Times on September 20, a day after the disaster happened. According to the article, more than 40 buildings collapsed throughout the city. Many people were trapped under the rubble of the fallen buildings. Mexico was first built on top of a lake. This makes for a slightly different urban structure than we are used to. The soft soil has made it difficult for city planners and geographers…

the art of designing and constructing buildings has existed from the earliest of ancient civilizations. Over time, architecture has evolved with different architectural techniques utilized by different societies such as the Greeks. One primary example of Greek architecture is the Parthenon. The construction of…

they are building codes, construction materials, and population density & urbanization. All of which are an effect of Haiti being a poverty stricken country (Inside Disaster: Haiti). Since Haiti is poverty stricken it lends to the issue of people building where they want and how they can. And according to Cletus Spring, director of the Department of Sustainable Development, Organization of American States, “Not everybody’s going to be able to build to the exacting standards that a building code…

Since the beach house is located in a residential area where there are existing homes, the natural factors were not too difficult to work around. However, when building adjacent to existing structures, it is common practice to attempt to design your structure so that it fits in to the neighborhood and does not stick out like a big ugly thumb. In the case of the Austinmer Beach House, the existing structures adjacent…

The investigation was carried out in these two buildings because of these criteria: These two buildings are the most significant archaeological buildings on the island that still in use until now, they were defensive buildings in the period of construction, then they reused through the following successive historical periods and down to be used as a museum today. Both of them are available and easily accessible to them more than residence buildings, because of the privacy of the…