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Stuart Jacome Arch. 211 M-11 Prof. Khorsandi Blog Post St. Peter’s Basilica St. Peter's Basilica is an Italian renaissance church in Vatican City. The construction of the Basilica began on April 18 th 1506 and was completed on November 18 th 1626. Saint Peter’s Basilica is 452 feet high, 730 feet in length, and 500 feet in width and large enough for 60,000 people. Designed principally by Donato Bramante and later Continued by Michelangelo but finished by Giacomo Della Porta. This plan was in the form of an enormous Greek cross with a dome inspired with a dome inspired by that huge circular roman temple, the pantheon as well as four rows of columns, a nave with two aisles on either side. Bramante had envisioned that the central dome would be surrounded by four lower domes at the diagonal axes. Michelangelo designed a massive dome, made almost entirely of heave masonry, that would sit in the middle of the cross above the altar. Carlo Maderno designed and built the atri...

Bibliotheque Sainte Genvieve is a public and university library in Paris.This is the first time of the library that not change to palace, school or apart of chapel. The building is designed by  Henri Labrouste . The library must be built on a narrow strip of land 85 meters long and 21 wide, located on the top of the Sainte-Geneviève Mountain, overlooking the Pantheon. The construction has spent eight years, the new library being opened in 1851. It leaves the neoclassical style in vogue at the time for large public buildings, for a much more sober and sleek style. It can be defined as neo-Gothic Style. The library is organize by two rows of cast iron arches. The arches are a part of decoration of the library.  The building load support by thin black iron columns. Gallery space is located in the top part of the bookcases. On the facade, no element protrudes and a single and modest door is in the center. The architecture of this one is entered in the masonry of the buil...