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The Robie House is located next to the campus of University of Chicago, the district of southern Chicago. It was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright at Oak Park Studio from 1908 to 1909. The project was designed for Frederick C. Robie, which is a business person in Chicago. The Robie family moved in shortly after completing the project in 1910, but they sold the house due to financial issue. The Robie family lived here for only 14 months. The project was faced to tear down after the right had changed to several buyers. It has saved because of Wright and the people who related to the project. The house has operated and opened visit by The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust. The Robbie House is the great model of Prairie Style. And it has named as the pioneer of American Architecture Style. It has collected in National Historic Landmark in 1963. Based on the site of Robie House is 180 feet wide and 60 feet deep only, and it is located in the corner. The landlord required t...

The Bibliotheca Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt was built to commemorate the historical library of Alexandria which burned down after its slow decline which began in the 3rd century AD. The Library of Alexandria is known the be the largest and most concentrated place of knowledge in all of ancient history. Construction of the Bibliotheca Alexandria  began in 1989 and was completed in 2001.The 11 story library can hold up to four million volumes of books, up to eight million if compact storage was to be used. Programmatically the project is very interesting as it consists of a planetarium, several museums, a school for informatio n science, and conservation facilities. This project is largely characterized by its massive circular tilted-off-axis form.  “The main concept of the project is a disc rising from the water, representing the past, tilting towards the future, with the ground level representing the present Main building of library complex. by a granite wall ca...