Building Styles

The Buildings I choose to include in my 10 are all examples of styles or define words that i didn"t at first have a keen grasp on . I was curious as to what words like renaissance, post modern, and modern all mean in the world of design and Architecture.

Googie

"Googie" describes a futuristic, often outrageous, building style that evolved in the United States during the 1950s. Googie architecture was designed to attract customers.
The name "Googie" comes from a famous coffee shop in Los Angeles. Like the shop, Googie buildings often have flashing lights, sharp angles, boomerang and flying saucer shapes, and lots of glass and steel. On the east coast, googie ideas were expressed in the zig zag rooflines of coffee shops.

Also Known As: The Googie style is sometimes called called Coffee House Modern, Doo-Wop, Populuxe, and Space Age.

Examples: "Googie" is just one type of Roadside Architecture that evolved after World War II when Americans began to spend more time in cars. Other types of American Roadside Architecture include Tiki and Mimetic. Tiki buildings look like Polynesian huts. Mimetic buildings are shaped like the products they sell. For example, a hot dog restaurant might be shaped like a giant hot dog.

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VICTORIAN STICK STYLE HOME

The house shown above is an early example of Victorian Stick architecture. The exterior walls are ornamented with "stickwork," or decorative half-timbering. The house also has brackets, rafters, and braces. These details are not necessary structurally. They are decorations that imitated architecture from the medieval past.

Victorian Stick Style homes have these features:
Rectangular shape
Wood siding
Steep, gabled roof
Overhanging eaves
Ornamental trusses (gable braces)
Decorative braces and brackets

TIDE WATER STYLE

Tidewater homes have extensive porches sheltered by a broad hipped roof. The main roof extends over the porches without interruption.

FOSHAY TOWER ART DECO

Wilbur Foshay, who spent $119,000 for a three-day bash in August 1929 to celebrate the opening of the Foshay Tower, hired John Philip Sousa to create and play a special march for the occasion. Unfortunately for Sousa, the $20,000 check bounced; unfortunately for Foshay, the crash destroyed his paper profits, he lost the building, was convicted of mail fraud and spent three years in Leavenworth.

JIN MAO TOWER

MODERN

The Jin Mao building is an 88 story retail, commercial,a nd hospitality centre with The Grand Hyatt Hotel with in the top 38 stories. It was designed mimicing the shape of a chinese pagoda and with variations of the number 8. The lowest segment of the building is sixteen stories high and eash succeeding segment is 1/8 smaller than it predecessor. Built in shaghai China in 1999 by the american architectral team of Skidmore, Ownings, and Merrill.

SONY BUILDING

POST MODERN

The building that was built for AT&T headquartes but now serves as the sony building in New York, NY is a very sleek skyscrapper designed by architect philip johnson in 1958. today the Sony building is cited ad a materpiece of post modernism. Criticized in its day for its incorporation of romantic details suc as pediments into such a sleek sky scrapper.



Postmodernism: combing new ideas with traditional forms., familiar shapes and details are used. Some other post modern architects include: Robert Venturi ,Denise Scott Brown and Micheal Graves.