This cab was named for an English architect, not for its good looks
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#34 Architecture | Stuff White People Like  Jan 28, 2008 ... Just say his name and white people will hump your leg. ... Even when they visit a big city like Washington, DCthey have to take a cab. ... Look at a Frank Gehry building an tell me it's not spectacular. ..... one good thing about about the architecture profession is that it attracts a lot of douche bags and thus...
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Flatiron Building - Wikipedia  The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, is a triangular 22-story steel-framed ... The neighborhood around it is called the Flatiron District after its signature ... Frederick P. Dinkelberg, a Pennsylvania-born architect in Burnham's office, who first ... New York's Flatiron Building was not the first building of its triangular...
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This wine sometimes called Cab is known for its cherry & raspberry ...  Jun 29, 2016 ... Miles Davis recorded Freddie Freeloader, Cab Calloway recorded Minnie ... This cab was named for an English architect, not for its good looks...
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50 reasons Singapore is the world's greatest city - CNN.com  Aug 7, 2015 ... Architectural jaw-droppers  Singapore is home to two of the world's three ... Street food in Singapore isn't just delicious, it's hygienic. ..... Celebratory events last the best part of the year, highlighted by the ... Raffles Hotel sounds British and looks it. .... No one (with any pride) complains about being cold.
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Hansom cab - Wikipedia  The hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn carriage designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from York. The vehicle was developed and tested by Hansom in Hinckley, Leicestershire, England. Originally called the Hansom safety cab, it was designed to combine speed ... There were up to 7500 hansom cabs in use at the height of their popularity...
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The Chrysler Building History and Photography - James Maher  Mar 4, 2016 ... But because of its iconic and beautiful design, the height of the building never really mattered. ... In 2005, New York's Skyscraper Museum asked one hundred ... Gargoyles and eagles ornamented the building like the hood ... The corner ornaments were made to look like the 1929 Chrysler radiator caps.
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Free Flashcards about ARCHITECTURE - StudyStack  THIS ARCHITECT, BORN IN 1573, FOUNDED THE ENGLISH SOCIETY OF ... FOUND IN CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE, A CARYATID IS A COLUMN SHAPED...
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The History of Big Ben - BigBenFacts.co.uk  In the end, the committee chose the design of Charles Barry, but here's a little ... Britain were upset that he had asked Benjamin Louis Vuillamy to design the ... Here's my favourite part of the story: Edmund Beckett Denison wasn't even a ... It's the famous "Westminster Chime" that you hear just before Big Ben strikes the hour.
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Thophile Gautier's Architectural Tastes - jstor  dislikes; if the style happened to be Gothic, Gautier was not deterred by earlier ... whose novel he carried in his pocket on his way to the towers. Towards the end of ... Certainly he will praise similar buildings at Munich in 1854, and in ... cathedral, an experience recorded in Le Sommet de la tour, that exhilarating post-.
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13 Wren and the English Baroque - Art History | by Laurence Shafe  ... architecture follows in the aftermath of the Great Fire of London of 1666. ... The aristocracy also saw the dramatic style of Baroque architecture and art as a ... One published account of him at the time was, 'after a fortnight's work he will ..... As Whitehall Palace burned down in 1698, William stepped up his efforts to finish.
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Cunard Building, First Floor Interior Designation Report - NYC.gov  Sep 19, 1995 ... through the media of polychrome stucco, painted murals, and metalwork ... businessman Samuel Cunard, the Cunard company pioneered ... erection of a large office building to be turned over ... between New York and Liverpool in 1966-67; and .... but unexecuted projects for the Metropolitan Opera. House...
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Jeopary Questions page 1100 - ON THE LONE PRAIRIE ...  THE ARTS: The name of this plaster used in the 18th C. to make faux marble refers to rough exterior coating  TAXI!: This slang word for a taxi or its driver is...
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Houses of Parliament | buildings, London, United Kingdom ...  Aug 3, 2016 ... Sir Charles Barry, assisted by A.W.N. Pugin, designed the present buildings in the Gothic Revival style. Construction was begun in 1837, the cornerstone was laid in 1840, and work was ... Learn More in these related articles:.
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Modeled after the Italian form of the word, in architecture it's a bunch ...  Jul 7, 2016 ... This novel's Mr. Micawber was modeled on Dickens' father # Quiz # ... The fact that Leslie Hornby modeled under this name sticks in our minds...
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The architects: Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin - UK Parliament  Find out about the men responsible for the Palaces stunning Gothic ... to redesign the Palace was won by the Westminster-born architect Charles Barry. By then, the 40-year-old Barry was already quite a famous architect, having built ... Pugin was nevertheless known to have been displeased with the result of the work.
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The Cult of Beauty is at the V&A: Escape into style - Telegraph  Mar 30, 2011 ... He had made his name in 1882, on a lecture tour of the United States in which he ... by a famous passage in Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times (1854). ... Pater was denounced by the Bishop of Oxford and hauled before the ... industry, enterprise and morality, let alone Mr Gradgrind's facts, facts, facts.
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Blackfriars Bridge fire causes traffic chaos in London as black cab ...  Jul 18, 2016 ... Dramatic pictures show the taxi ablaze, which closed the busy bridge to traffic in both directions.
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American Antique Furniture Styles - 18th, 19th, 20th Century  Apr 13, 2016 ... Though named for Queen Anne of Great Britain, (1702-1714) the name was not ... Swooping S-curves, scallop and shell details, cabriole legs and .... Art Nouveau style were complex, featuring graceful, carved wood details...
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Jeopary Questions page 1727 - POP STARS A.K.A. - TriviaBistro.com  A DATE WITH DISASTER: It was not a merry Christmas for this man on ... ARCHITECTURAL STYLES: The simple 18th century British style named for this queen features red brick, not her lace ... ARCHITECTURAL STYLES: This vertical, pointy-arched style of 12th-15th century Europe was revived in the late 18th century.
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Christopher Wren - Wikipedia  Sir Christopher Wren PRS is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history. ... Other notable buildings by Wren include the Royal Naval College, .... Wren submitted his plans for rebuilding the city to King Charles II, although they .... The second was the design of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, completed in...
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Thomas Affleck | American cabinetmaker | Britannica.com  ... Townsend  Thomas Goddard  William Savery  John Henry Belter  Duncan Phyfe ... John Penn and other leading Philadelphia citizens. ... various styles of furniture fashionable in the third quarter of the 18th century and named ... rather than a monarch, it became the most famous name in the history of English furniture.