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Since the beginning of time, people have always tried to find a sense of belonging. Whether this belonging or acceptance comes from the home or the outside world, people long for the need to be acknowledged. For some individuals, the ideas of having people behind you is everything but when society and in most cases, family turns away, another form of acceptance can come into play when dealing with where you live and who you ultimately want to be. When acceptance isn’t reached with family or…

He came to realize how powerful the gods were. At the end of the epic Gilgamesh said to Ur-Shanabi, the boat man. “Go up, Ur-Shanabi, pace out the walls of Uruk. Study the foundation terrace and examine the brickwork. Is not its masonry of kiln-fired brick? And did not seven masters lay its foundations? One square mile of city, one square mile of gardens, One square mile of clay pits, a half square mile of Ishtar’s dwelling, Three and a half square miles is the measure of Uruk! (Puchner…

to the street line by extending the brick terrace walls and the cantilevers roof projecting far beyond the neighbors’ façade. It had layers of horizontal lines which makes it the most horizontally emphatic designed on one axis. Even with its brick masonry and dramatic cantilevers, it appears to float in tiers with sweeping lines and low proportions. Frank Lloyd Wright reexamined and reinterpreted nature’s principles to come up with forms himself.7 He believed that simplicity and repose are the…

I. Introduction a. Background on Resilient Neighborhoods • Description of overall Resilient Neighborhoods initiative • Relation to the City’s overall response to Sandy and resiliency planning • Relation to other DCP work, such as Citywide Text Amendment • Relation to other state and federal initiatives • Why this study area was chosen Following Superstorm Sandy in October 2012, New York City developed a detailed action plan for recovery from the storm and the long-term resiliency of the…

When building any structure, forming a strong foundation can make or break the final product. A focus on customer satisfaction and the delivery of a high-quality product has remained the core of Seufert Construction since the beginning (Tretter, Scott 1). The base of this prosperous company began with a business not of construction, but rather monument making. A crafty artist and stone mason, Benedict Seufert went into business in 1870, hand-carving monuments and tombstones (Tretter, Kathy 1).…

A great backyard landscaping idea is something that all people can make use of. There are a lot of different backyard landscaping ideas and most of them are very good. To find the right one for you and what your yard needs could take some extra research. This article will help you to figure out the most appropriate backyard landscaping idea for your needs. One great idea is to use evergreens. The use of evergreens will do a lot for any persons backyard. Evergreens will add a stately nature to…

Alexander Jackson Davis During the mid nineteenth century America, American renowned architect, Alexander Jackson Davis, began a new revival of architecture known as Gothic Revival. Gothic Revival is a style of architecture that used traditional styles of thirteenth century Gothic architecture such as; ornamented facades, high pitched roofs, and pointed arches to revive medieval architecture and applied to a modern time. Alexander Jackson Davis was one of the most successful and influential…

whatever 's bad or needs to be changed. Dystopia novels always show the bad side of things. In the book The Hunger Games there are 12 districts of Panem. Each district is allocated by what the capital tells them to do:district 1 luxury,district 2 masonry/stonework,district 3 electronics, district 4 fishing, district 5 power,district 6 transportation, district 7 lumber, district 8 textiles,district 9 grain, district 10 livestock,district 11 agriculture and district 12 coal mining. Every year…

The Telecom Building, Wellington I have chosen the (Old) Telecom Building in Wellington as my study of Wellington buildings. The reason why I have made this selection is because of my curiosity. The way this building appeals to me and attracts me in is its strange green façade exterior, hooked my eyes every time I walk pass Manners Street. The Telecom Building is located at 13 – 27 Manners Street, Te Aro, Wellington. After a quick online search, it was very easy to find out that the building…

The Sumerians developed one of the earliest civilizations on earth from 3500 to 1750BC. Their existence and civilization was not even discovered until the middle of 1800AD. Because the ancient Greeks and Egyptians wrote about the Babylonians most people did not realize that the Sumerians preceded the Babylonians. Furthermore, it was the Sumerians who developed writing, religious and agricultural systems which later the Babylonians continued. During the early 1800's it was the British, German…