Browse Items (16 total)

  • Collection: Location/Architecture

IMG_9011-min.JPG
This is the courtyard of the NC State Prague Institute building. I studied abroad there summer of 2018. One of the four walls is a living wall covered in ivy and the other three are glass with artwork etched on it. The floor is stone and there are…

chapel.png
The Rothko Chapel was constructed in 1971, at the height of artist Mark Rothko's fame. Rothko was one of the first and only minimalist abstract artists, and certainly the most successful. His work is extraordinary from a rhetoric of design…

IMG_5228.JPG
This is the Crystal Palace in the Magic Kingdom at Disney World. It's actually a restaurant that serves fantastic chicken nuggets, but that's not the most interesting aspect of the building. Walt Disney was enamored with the idea of nostalgia, and so…

p1000964.jpg
Disclaimer: unfortunately, these photos are not my own. I have visited this exhibit before, but cannot find any of the photos I took.This is an outdoor exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art. This piece is all about using art as shelter and…

Screen Shot 2020-01-26 at 10.48.22 PM.png
Stanhope is a student apartment on Hillsborough street. The building itself creates a feeling of having been there for much longer than it has with the bricks, arranged in certain patterns as well as the brick "stanhope" arranged on the side of the…

IMG-2151.jpg
This sculpture, featured within the NC Museum of Art, is called “The Kiss” and was created in 1889 by Auguste Rodin. The sculpture captures a man and a woman passionately kissing in the nude which highlights their sensuality and the realness of their…

IMG_0819.jpeg
The Chrysler Building is an iconic Art Deco skyscraper in New York City on the east side of Manhattan. The Chrysler Building built in 1928, and was the tallest building in the world until the Empire State Building was created in 1931. It has…

MElliott Jan 26 Union Station, DC 2.jpg
The internal architecture of Union Station located in Washington, DC. It was designed by architect Daniel Burnham and was completed in April 1908. Since its opening, it has been a thriving multi-use transportation hub and in 1964 it was designated as…

20200126_174006.jpg
The Triad Pavilion is situated between Syme, Gold, and Welch Residence Halls on NC State's East Campus. It offers the 400+ residents a lawn and park-like space for recreation and relaxation. It tends to be more populated in the warmer months of…

Jasmine-Brodie-Main-with-Bell-Tower.jpg
The Cathedral is a modern building but has design concepts with historical features. It is made primarily of brick but has stone features built in as well. The heights of the building is numerous stories and can be viewed from distances due to…
Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2