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Unity Temple (Oak Park,   Illinois): 19 05-1908      Unity Temple was built between 1905 and 1908. It  is a Unitarian church in Oak Park, Illinois. It's also the home of the Unity Temple Congregation. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, who designed more than 1,000 structures. He believed in designing structures that were in harmony with its environment. He called it organic   architecture. The temple is considered by many architects to be the first modern building in the world.      When the original Unity Church burned down, the Universalist congregation of Oak Park turned to Frank   Lloyd   Wright to design the new structure. The congregation needed a space of worship and a community room. There   were   some   problems that the architect had to work with like budget issues. The budget was small for what the congregation was asking for, the budget was $40...

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...

Sainte-Genevieve Pantheon History The Saint Genevieve Pantheon was built by Jacques-Germain Soufflort in about 1757 on the Latin Quarter of Paris France. It was meant to replace an existing older church [2]. After the French revolution it was secularized and dedicated to inspiring Frenchman, hence the name pantheon, “a building in which the illustrious dead of a nation are buried or honored.”[1] The purpose of the Pantheon has changed of the past few centuries since its construction:   Today, the structure that we see now is a third reiteration of the pantheon, having been rebuilt over the centuries. Architecture: Outside: The Pantheon is a cruciform shaped building having a high dome in the middle and four smaller domes in its arms. The facade is much like the Roman Pantheon and is formed by a portico of Corinthian columns and triangular pediments attached to the ends of its eastern arms. Instead of joining directly to the rotunda the pedimen...

St Peters Basilica (Rome); 1506-1626   St.  Peter' s  Basilica also called New St. Peter's Basilica is in Vatican City, Rome. Situated   on the Vatican hill in the UNESCO world heritage site.   It   replaced the O ld S t.  Peters Basilica.  The  Old  St  Peter's Basilica  was  the 4 th -century church begun by the  Emperor Constantine the Great.   Designed  by Donato  Bramente , Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo  Bernini.  They all had different ideas on how to go about the design of the building.  Construction  began in 1506 and completed in 1626. This specific location was symbolic because it was where St. P eter died a martyr and was buried on those same grounds. The basilica contains  over  100 tombs , many  located  in the  Vatican  grotto, beneath the Basilica.   The Basilica is the largest church in the wor...