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Brandenburg Gate History The Brandenburg gate was built between 1788 and 1791 by Prussian king Frederick William II as key entry to the city of Berlin. The gate topped of a statue which depicted the goddess of victory driving a chariot pulled by four horses, called the “Quadriga”. The statue stayed there until Napoleon Bonaparte and his grand army occupied berlin and decided to steal it, shipping it to Paris. Napoleon forgot about the statue, and it stayed in storage until the Prussian army took over Paris after his defeat. The statue was returned to the gate and became a symbol of the Prussian army’s victory over France. During world war II, the gate received heavy damages, and after the berlin wall was erected both east and west Germany worked together to restore the gate. After the restoration, the gate was completely shut off from west berlin. It wasn’t 1963 when John Kennedy said his “I am a jelly donut Speech” right near the gate that the wall was torn down.  ...

REDWOOD HARRISON The Redwood Library and Athenaeum are in Newport. It is the oldest community library still occupying its original building in the United States founded in 1747.  His way of the design was widely copied since then, it was the beginning of the New World.  Harrison had a lot of inspirations from those before him. He had the most stylistic and most advanced private library designs of his era. Harrison used Roman Doric temple with portico and wings, which was probably an inspiration from 1735 edition of Andrea Palladio’s architecture.  The building is crafted of wood, with a rustic appeal to look like stone. This was done to make use of local materials while mimicking the look of stone because that’s what’s was big at that time. Stone shows order and power which is meant to leave a statement. The two small projecting wings of the facade provided for office space and allowed for four large windows on the front as well as three small windows in the at...