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Luscombe Castle       Luscombe Castle is a home located in Dawlish, England. The land for the house was purchased in 1797 by Charles Hoare whom demolished the original home, and immediately began the planning of his new home. The architects for the building were John Nash and Humphrey Repton. The design for the home was based on Downtown Castle and Gothic Revival. It included Tudor-Gothic style windows, castellated parapets, turrets, pinnacles, and chimney stacks. What made the design different from standard Gothic Revival was the irregularities, such as the varying roof elevations, and the roofs not being flat, as well as the strategic view points that focused on the surrounding landscape, all of which was in the picturesque ideal. Nash had the intention of showing that classicism did not have to mean flat roofs and a symmetrical design.   The layout was comprised of an asymmetrical...

Buckingham Palace The Neoclassical movement emerged as a revival of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. The movement came across as a kind of “back to the basics” mindset throughout European countries such as France, Italy, and Germany. Before the movement, Baroque architecture was in high demand. Big ornamental, unnecessarily decorated interiors and exteriors of buildings were popping up all over Europe. However, Baroque architecture never really appealed to the United Kingdom, so Neoclassicism in England was a bit different throughout the rest of Europe. In England, the revival of Greek and Roman architecture resulted in many governmental buildings resembling big temple like structures. The United Kingdom has always had a habit of wanting to be the best of the best. One of the most successful places full of rich beautiful architecture was the Roman Empire. The United Kingdom thought that, they could in fact be the new modern Roman Empire by implementing their architectural i...