Medieval cities consisted of small, compact houses. In order to conserve land, the homes built within the city were usually two stories high. Consisting of a shop on the ground floor and a living space above, local materials such as earth, wood and thatch would be used to build these homes. Because of the fire hazard these materials created, some towns started to regulate how town houses were built. Mason walls and tile or slate roofs were to be used rather than the flammable materials. There
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In 1982 the hospital extend its service and become Saint Vincent School of Nursing. The previous structure was a small brick house and then was rebuilt and extends to patient home care and nursing home care. This renovation did occur at the same time for all the building that was occupied by the hospital. The latest was 40 years ago. For the last century this place was the front
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1940s Architecture The Pentagon, built in 1943, has twice as many bathrooms as needed. The reason for this is because the Pentagon was built in a time when the United States was still segregated by race, therefore when they built the pentagon they needed bathrooms for whites, and bathrooms for blacks so, now, since the United States is no longer segregated by race, the pentagon has twice as many bathrooms than needed. In the 1940s architecture was still based upon segregation laws and the separation
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Resident Assistant Emily Gicewicz was on her second round of the evening on the 7th floor, when loud screaming and talking was heard from the hall way coming from Suite 7D. Resident Assistant Emily entered the room at 12:10am and found the source of the noise coming from room 7D3. Upon entering suite 7D3, a large half-empty bottle of liquor was seen on the dresser and Resident Larissa Clark was seen with a blue can of alcohol in hand on the bed closest to the door next to Resident Laura Graf. Six
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another, leading to awkward, infrequent gatherings. “Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles came through the front door and vanished into the volcano’s mouth [the parlor] with martinis in their hands… he saw their Cheshire smiles burning through the walls of the house, and now they were screaming at each other above the din.” (Bradbury 89). The absence of the items also takes away contact with nature from society. “‘Bet I know something else you don’t. There’s dew on the grass in the morning.’ He suddenly couldn’t
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occupying the partially enclosed court. […] This simple form of ruin is so common, and it enters so frequently into the structure of many of the larger and more complex buildings that I have found it convenient to refer to it as the “unit type.” Houses of this type may have only three or four rooms along the back, with single rooms in the wings. Or there may be eight or ten rooms at the back with two or three in each wing. Frequently when there are several rooms along the back there are two or more
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The purpose of our houses are to shelter us and provide a place for us where we are protected, but that is not the purpose of the white house. This 54,900 square foot home was created for different purposes including tours and important work that affects everyone. This house was designed in 1792 by an Irish architect named James hoban. John Adams had started a competition for the designs of the white house, and Hoban won. He was hired and started the construction of the house and later finished in
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What's on your mind? Lovely Amor Lovely got busy in your Kingdom! Lovely gave you a hand in your kingdom, and you get all the rewards! Come see the neighborly gesture and get free Energy Lovely left for you! Like · · Get Energy · 14 minutes ago via CastleVille Bryan Glomel Sorongon Silverio Astrology - Today's Libra Horoscope Here is your Today's Libra Horoscope If you've decided to make a change, you'll move so fast that you'll probably scare your friends
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architecture, which he had been developing throughout the 1920s; the first of these five points was the use of pilotis (concrete columns which support the building above ground). In Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier uses all of his five points to develop this house including the pilotis and they serve an important function. Of there functions is how they free a space below the building allowing spatial and formal flexibility and increasing the area for circulation and services in the small available area also
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Cuddy orders House to make a final decision on which two candidates he's going to hire permanently. She says that if he doesn't make a decision, she'll reduce his salary to pay the two too many of them, but he appeared to not care, so she tells him she'll also move his parking space far away to the E lot, and it works. House visits Cameron in the emergency room to try to find a new case to help him make his decision and finds an uncooperative punk rock musician with a multitude of health problems
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