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Better known as the castle the Smithsonian institution began its construction in 1846 and was designed by architect James Renwick Jr, who had won the design competition held for said building. Renwick was known for his work I the Romanesque and Gothic styles and had also designed the gothic revival church in New York City. As it was being designed the original requests specified that it had to look very different from the other surrounding buildings in Washington at the time and for that reason it was built in the Medieval Revival Style. The materials were also to be locally sourced. The Building itself is constructed from red sandstone from Seneca Creek, Maryland. The eastern part of the building was the first to be complete and a majority of the work went into this piece until it was complete in 1855. Once it reached completion in 1855 the Castle was on a lone piece of land due to it being cut off from downtown Washington, DC, by a canal. In the following years the Castle sat as the ...

Kisairis Espinal  Glass Pavilion The Glass is located at the Cologne Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition designed by Bruno Taut in 1914. This is a prismatic glass dome structure constructed using concrete and glass. The façade has colored glass plates that act as mirrors and reflect everything around it. The architect Bruno describes his project as a “little temple of beauty” the reason he refers to it like because it has changed color through time, it started with a dark blue to rose to moss green and golden yellow. This is Taut best known architectural achievement know throughout his whole career, he designed this for an exhibition in 1914 for the industry association. The whole purpose of this element was to show that throughout architecture the using of glass can be explored in many different ways, he also related it to human emotion of a spiritual utopia.             This pavilion was shaped like a pineapple with...