Outdoor decorative rocks - Put Pebble decoration in garden

Here are some nice examples of usage of rocks in garden and pebbles. Check these pictures out!

House interior design!

This is nice example of stairway design! It looks nice.
Please feel free to drop a comment and share this picture.

Glass building architecture

Here is one tall building all done in glass. Nice modern design!

Modern building design

Here we have a nice building with quite unique design. Architecture of this building is amazing! It was made mostly from glass and metal but it has great design!

Modern house architecture

This is beautiful modern house design! An eco house with efficiant usage of glass and plastic!

Modern architecture family house

This is one big family house with awsume design! It has all features of mdern architecture. Concgrats to the architect of this masterpiece family house!

Beautiful interior with nice view

This is one great interior solution. Really nice design!

Beautiful modern, green architecture building design

Here is perfect example of modern architecture and its achievements! This is one fully sustainable building with great design. However this is just project for now. I do hope this plan will be realise soon.

Modern Architecture - What is modern architecture?

Modern architecture is the style that introduced a lot of new things in architecture as art. Introduction of new building materials like glass, steel.. changed architecture in a way that no other architecture style has done so far. 

When we say modern architecture what do we mean? Which pictures do we have in our thoughts?

It is what I am trying to define in here. Architecture is art and as one follows its artistic surroundings. Now in last couple decades people started to be interested in homes which are plain but with great design "modern".

Perfect example of such house is Modern house architecture. It is simple but with beautiful design.

This new architecture style emerged in 19-20century after world war. People started being amazed with height and glass impression so that is how skyscraper arose! 

                                      

One of the first examples of tall buildings is Eiffel tower. It is not building it is decorative statue in Paris.

Art reached its maximum at that time and such a creation was something magnificent!

                            

With new materials and new physical studies it was possible to do what was imagined by great architects!

Here are some of the nicest examples of today's modern architecture:

           

                         

This was a little bit about modern architecture I will write more in future about it!

Nora house plan

This is one interesting house design. Modern house plan.
House design is quite simple but nice.

The most beautiful building

This is one of the most beautiful buildings there are! Design is perfect! This is great example of modern architecture and design.

Beautiful small bridge over the lake

This bridge is very nice.
I like its architecture design and beauty. This design used power of nature around it and fit it perfectly!

Unique artistic architecture design

Check this odd looking design. I supose it is nice but it doesnt really have a purpose other than design.
I do like it.

Modern architecture family house

This is one beautiful eco and with great design family house!
This house design won award for best house design in 2009

Modern interior design

This is one modern white interior design. It has beautiful stair way design.

Modern architecture - Plastic building - Eco building

Hi, this is one plastic building. Building is not plastic only the fasade is. It is ecological design.
Beside its green proporties it has beautiful modern design.

Seven Miles Bridge - Florida Keys

This bridge is one among the biggest ones in the world. This bridge is located in United States (USA) in Florida, Florida Keys. It is big tourist attraction. It is seven miles long or in km it is 11km long.
This is engineering masterpiece. It was made out of prestressed concrete. Two famous engineers were working on it.
Once a year every april marathon is held there. On that day the bridge is closed for traffic.
The bridge is beautiful. Design is simple but very nice.
On the center of the bridge is arc udner which boats, and ships can pass trough. Arc height is 20m.
Please leave comment if you need some more details or wish to say something.

Beautiful Modern Inerior - Stairway interior

Hi everyone check this inetrior design. There are some kind of water panels on the ceeling and they produce beautiful light.
This is very unique interior design. I like it a lot.

Eco city - Architect masterpiece

This is one fully sustainable city.
It is green architecture project that hasn't been built yet, I hope it will be.
This is amazing.
Do you like it?

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Beautiful interior design - Old fashion wood design

This is absolutly amazing!
It is beautiful it made me feel great when I saw it. The tree is used in context of the house.
Do you like it? Feel free to comment.

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Modern Architecture Family House

Hi everyone. This is one nice house I wanted to share with you.
It has modern design. Do you like it?
Feel free to post a comment if you want to know something specific about it.

Beautiful hotel architecture

This is one gret hotel. With a water style.
Architecture it self is not "modern" but has beautifup design.
Everything is great. Stair design, Windows and water place.

Beautiful artistic building - Modern architecture

This is one masterpiece of modern architecture.
The concept and the idea of this project are ingenious!

Unique architecture project - Eco architecture

I love when a building has ecological features.
This building for example is made so that interacts with wind.
Beside that architecture it self is perfect, just take a few moments to examine its details.
Please tell me what do you think about it. Post your oppinion in comment.

Modern and unique architecture

Check this unique building.
I like such structures. It is not too complex but yet beautiful and original, inovative.

Beautiful towers in Dubai - Modern architecture

This is one great example of modern architecture situated in Dubai.
This project cost milions of dollars but it worts every penny.
Please comment what do you think about it. I want to hear from you

Great family house on cliffs

This is one perfect house.
It has a garage and two floors.
Do you like such houses?
Please comment below.

Old Postal building in Belgrade made from stone

This is Postal building in Serbia, Belgrade made from stone.

Please leave comment below do you like it? I want to hear your oppinion.

Sweet wood house in nature!

This is no house to live at. It is nice for weekend in nature.
Do you like it?
Feel free to post comment about it.

Ukranian Hotel from 20th century

This is great looking hotel designed by Ukranian architect Igor.
Would you stay in?

Please comment do you like the design? What do you like at design?

Modern shack house - Modern Family house

Eco friendly house!
This house has S design.
It is Ukranian architects project.
House is made purely from wooden logs on traditional way.

This house is good enough for a big family with two children.

Beautiful family house - Modern Eco House

Here is one really nice house
Great project!

Beautiful Architecture Of Barcelona – Sagrada Família

One great cathedral with long history.
I will write more about it in future

Modern architecture - Famoly house

One inovative perfect modern family house!

Salisbury Cathedral - English Gothic Architecture

Salisbury Cathedral, formally known as the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Anglican cathedral in Salisbury, England, and is considered one of the leading examples of Early English architecture. The main body was completed in only 38 years, from 1220 to 1258.
Building such a great and tall Cathedral in only 38 years was a great success for English people. Such a cathedrals were usually built for over 100 years.

                                     

The cathedral has the tallest church spire in the United Kingdom (123m/404 ft). Visitors can take the "Tower Tour" where the interior of the hollow spire, with its ancient wood scaffolding, can be viewed. The cathedral also has the largest cloister and the largest cathedral close in Britain (80 acres (320,000 m2)). The cathedral contains the world's oldest working clock (from AD 1386) and has the best surviving of the four original copies of the Magna Carta (all four original copies are in England). Although commonly known as Salisbury Cathedral, the official name is the Cathedral of Saint Mary. In 2008, the cathedral celebrated the 750th anniversary of its consecration in 1258.
The cathedral is the Mother Church of the Diocese of Salisbury and seat of the Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt Revd Nick Holtam.

History:

As a response to deteriorating relations between the clergy and the military at Old Sarum, the decision was taken to resite the cathedral and the bishopric was moved to its present place in Salisbury. The move occurred during the tenure of Bishop Richard Poore, who was a wealthy man and donated the new land for construction. The new cathedral was also paid for by donations, principally by all the canons and vicars of South East England, who were asked to contribute a fixed annual sum until its completion. Legend has it that the Bishop of Old Sarum shot an arrow in the direction he would build the cathedral; the arrow hit a deer and the deer finally died in the place where Salisbury Cathedral is now.
The foundation stone was laid on 28 April 1220. Much of the freestone for the cathedral came from Teffont Evias quarries. Due to the high water table in the new location, the cathedral was built on only four feet of foundations, and by 1258 the nave, transepts and choir were complete. The west front was ready by 1265. The cloisters and chapter house were completed around 1280. Because the cathedral was built in only 38 years, it has a single consistent architectural style, Early English Gothic.
The only major sections of the cathedral built later were the cloisters, chapter house, tower and spire, which at 404 feet (123 m) dominated the skyline from 1320. Although the spire is the cathedral's most impressive feature, it has also proved to be troublesome. Together with the tower, it added 6,397 tons (6,500 tonnes) to the weight of the building. Without the addition of buttresses, bracing arches and anchor irons over the succeeding centuries, it would have suffered the fate of spires on later great ecclesiastical buildings (such as Malmesbury Abbey) and fallen down; instead, Salisbury remains the tallest church spire in the UK. To this day the large supporting pillars at the corners of the spire are seen to bend inwards under the stress. The addition of reinforcing tie beams above the crossing, designed by Christopher Wren in 1668, arrested further deformation. The beams were hidden by a false ceiling, installed below the lantern stage of the tower.
Significant changes to the cathedral were made by the architect James Wyatt in 1790, including replacement of the original rood screen and demolition of the bell tower which stood about 320 feet (100 m) north west of the main building. Salisbury is one of only three English cathedrals to lack a ring of bells, the others being Norwich Cathedral and Ely Cathedral. However it does strike the time every 15 minutes with bells.

This is one of the best examples of English Gothic architecture.

Gothic Architecture

Gothic architecture was developed in first half of the 12th century.
It was developed first in the north Europe.

At first it begun on small part of the Paris. About a hundred years later it spread over the entire France.
You could say that the France is "the crib" of Gothic architect style.

Some characteristic of the Gothic style:

Gothic cathedral was in center of the city (usually) and was the most important building. It was taller than any other. The entire city was building it.
A characteristic of Gothic church architecture is its height, both absolute and in proportion to its width, the verticality suggesting an aspiration to Heaven. A section of the main body of a Gothic church usually shows the nave as considerably taller than it is wide. In England the proportion is sometimes greater than 2:1, while the greatest proportional difference achieved is at Cologne Cathedral with a ratio of 3.6:1. The highest internal vault is at Beauvais Cathedral at 48 metres (157 ft).
One of the most distinctive characteristics of Gothic architecture is the expansive area of the windows as at Sainte Chapelle and the very large size of many individual windows, as at York Minster, Gloucester Cathedral and Milan Cathedral. The increase in size between windows of the Romanesque and Gothic periods is related to the use of the ribbed vault, and in particular, the pointed ribbed vault which channeled the weight to a supporting shaft with less outward thrust than a semicircular vault. Walls did not need to be so weighty.



The façade of a large church or cathedral, often referred to as the West Front, is generally designed to create a powerful impression on the approaching worshipper, demonstrating both the might of God and the might of the institution that it represents. One of the best known and most typical of such façades is that of Notre Dame de Paris.
Central to the façade is the main portal, often flanked by additional doors. In the arch of the door, the tympanum, is often a significant piece of sculpture, most frequently Christ in Majesty and Judgment Day. If there is a central door jamb or a trumeau, then it frequently bears a statue of the Madonna and Child. There may be much other carving, often of figures in niches set into the mouldings around the portals, or in sculptural screens extending across the façade.
Above the main portal there is generally a large window, like that at York Minster, or a group of windows such as those at Ripon Cathedral. In France there is generally a rose window like that at Reims Cathedral. Rose windows are also often found in the façades of churches of Spain and Italy, but are rarer elsewhere and are not found on the façades of any English Cathedrals. The gable is usually richly decorated with arcading or sculpture or, in the case of Italy, may be decorated with the rest of the façade, with polychrome marble and mosaic, as at Orvieto Cathedral.
The West Front of a French cathedral and many English, Spanish and German cathedrals generally has two towers, which, particularly in France, express an enormous diversity of form and decoration. However some German cathedrals have only one tower located in the middle of the façade (such as Freiburg Münster).

                                                       
                                                                       Notre Dame de Paris.


France

The distinctive characteristic of French cathedrals, and those in Germany and Belgium that were strongly influenced by them, is their height and their impression of verticality. Each French cathedral tends to be stylistically unified in appearance when compared with an English cathedral where there is great diversity in almost every building. They are compact, with slight or no projection of the transepts and subsidiary chapels. The west fronts are highly consistent, having three portals surmounted by a rose window, and two large towers. Sometimes there are additional towers on the transept ends. The east end is polygonal with ambulatory and sometimes a chevette of radiating chapels. In the south of France, many of the major churches are without transepts and some are without aisles.

Interior of Amiens Cathedral, France.


England

The distinctive characteristic of English cathedrals is their extreme length, and their internal emphasis upon the horizontal, which may be emphasised visually as much or more than the vertical lines. Each English cathedral (with the exception of Salisbury) has an extraordinary degree of stylistic diversity, when compared with most French, German and Italian cathedrals. It is not unusual for every part of the building to have been built in a different century and in a different style, with no attempt at creating a stylistic unity. Unlike French cathedrals, English cathedrals sprawl across their sites, with double transepts projecting strongly and Lady Chapels tacked on at a later date. In the west front, the doors are not as significant as in France, the usual congregational entrance being through a side porch. The West window is very large and never a rose, which are reserved for the transept gables. The west front may have two towers like a French Cathedral, or none. There is nearly always a tower at the crossing and it may be very large and surmounted by a spire. The distinctive English east end is square, but it may take a completely different form. Both internally and externally, the stonework is often richly decorated with carvings, particularly the capitals.

The longitudinal emphasis in the nave of Wells is typically English



Plan
Most Gothic churches, unless they are entitled chapels, are of the Latin cross (or "cruciform") plan, with a long nave making the body of the church, a transverse arm called the transept and, beyond it, an extension which may be called the choir, chancel or presbytery. There are several regional variations on this plan.
The nave is generally flanked on either side by aisles, usually single, but sometimes double. The nave is generally considerably taller than the aisles, having clerestory windows which light the central space. Gothic churches of the Germanic tradition, like St. Stephen of Vienna, often have nave and aisles of similar height and are called Hallenkirche. In the South of France there is often a single wide nave and no aisles, as at Sainte-Marie in Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges.
In some churches with double aisles, like Notre Dame, Paris, the transept does not project beyond the aisles. In English cathedrals transepts tend to project boldly and there may be two of them, as at Salisbury Cathedral, though this is not the case with lesser churches.
The eastern arm shows considerable diversity. In England it is generally long and may have two distinct sections, both choir and presbytery. It is often square ended or has a projecting Lady Chapel, dedicated to the Virgin Mary. In France the eastern end is often polygonal and surrounded by a walkway called an ambulatory and sometimes a ring of chapels called a "chevet". While German churches are often similar to those of France, in Italy, the eastern projection beyond the transept is usually just a shallow apsidal chapel containing the sanctuary, as at Florence Cathedral.

The structure of a typical Gothic cathedral.


Plan of Amiens Cathedral.


Plan of Wells Cathedral.


Gothic style influenced Renaissance style a lot. And even today a lot of architects use some of the characteristics from Gothic style when designing.
This period has left us some of the most beautiful buildings of all time.
Specially Notre Dame cathedrals.