Topics: Architecture : Building Types
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Educational Institutions
For sites focusing on the architecture and architectural history of schools, colleges and universities.
One-Room Schools,
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Exhibition
Buildings created to display objects to the public: museums, art galleries, exhibition halls.
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Follies
A costly but useless structure, often a tower or sham Gothic or classical ruin in a landscaped park, intended to enhance the view or picturesque effect.
United Kingdom,
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Fortifications
Defensive works, walls and towers of all periods.
Castles,
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Government Buildings
Buildings used by national, regional and local government, including parliament buildings, state capitols, city halls, town halls and courthouses.
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Hospitals and Asylums
Buildings designed to lodge and care for the sick, injured, aged, infirm, disabled or mentally disordered.
Byberry State Hospital,
Kirkbride,
Medieval,
Tuberculosis Sanatoriums,
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Houses
Domestic buildings.
Country,
Log Cabins,
Town,
Villas,
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Iconic
Buildings in the shape of divinities, persons, animals, characters or other recognized symbols. The shape of the building has a meaning derived outside the world of architecture.
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Inns and Public Houses
An inn provides temporary accommodation for travelers. It also serves beverages and cooked food on the premises.
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Libraries
The architecture or architectural history of buildings (or rooms within buildings) intended to house books.
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Lighthouses
The houses and stations which utilize a light beacon as a means of aiding maritime navigation.
Caribbean,
Europe,
North America,
Oceania,
Pharos of Alexandria,
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Mills
Building containing machinery for grinding grain or processing other materials, powered by wind or water.
United Kingdom,
Watermills,
Windmills,
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Palaces
The present or former official residences of monarchs or bishops.
Alhambra,
France,
Italy,
United Kingdom,
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Piers
Raised walkways built over water, supported by piles or pillars, sometimes with superstructures intended for entertainment purposes.
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Pyramids
Pyramids are stone structures with a square base and sloping sides meeting at the apex.
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Religious
Architecture for religious purposes.
Christian,
History,
Islamic,
Jewish,
Temples,
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Restaurants
The architecture of buildings designed solely or primarily to serve food and/or non-alcoholic beverages to the public to be consumed on the premises, including cafes, coffee-houses, teashops and restaurants.
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Retail Buildings
Focuses on the architecture of buildings designed to house retail trade. Includes shops, shopping arcades, shopping centres and malls, market houses and market halls.
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Skyscrapers
A multi-storey building constructed on a steel skeleton, provided with high-speed electric elevators and combining extraordinary height with ordinary room-spaces such as would be used in low buildings.
Regional,
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Theaters and Cinemas
Structures designed for viewing dramas, operas and other spectacles either on stage or on screen or both.
Ancient Theaters,
Balaban and Katz,
Elizabethan Theaters,
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Water Houses
Buildings intended primarily to contain and deliver water. These include aquaducts, baptisteries, conduits, lavoirs, fountains, public baths, spring-houses, step wells and well-heads.
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