The Steel House by Robert Bruno, located in Ransom Canyon, roughly fifteen minutes from Lubbock, Texas. Depending on who you talk to the house is considered a sculpture, artwork, eyesore, landmark, and or home. Designed with only a vision, no definite floor plan was ever used in the structure. The Steel House was the lifelong vision of architect Robert Bruno, born on January 30, 1945 in Los Angeles, California. Obtaining his sculpting training in Mexico, Bruno move to Lubbock, Texas to becoming part of the faculty at Texas Tech University. The construction on the Steel House began in 1974, when Bruno was twenty-nine years of age, consisting of three levels of steel and bizarre design. After creating smaller sculptures designed by Bruno, …show more content…
The walls are double layered in steel with fiberglass insulation within for cooling purpose. The steel continues on the inside of the home, along with the walls and winding stairway. Large stained glass windows curve along in the same way as the unusual design of the home, to allow light to shine within. The house estimated at around twenty-two hundred feet to twenty-seven hundred feet of living space. Features of the home would include a living room, dining room, and bedrooms. The four supports holding the home up where designed as a wine room, library, storage and elevator. On the third floor of the home you can exit to a balcony that overlooks the lake and canyon. Never designed as a permanent home, Bruno had lived in the home for around six months until his death. Nevertheless Bruno had died from his battle with cancer in 2008, before being able to finish the home. To this day lying on the ground around the home, Bruno’s equipment still lies unused within the tall grass. Finally, the well renowned home has been opened to the public for tours along with a stop for the Lubbock Art Walk. The home was also publicized on the television show Texas Country Reporter. The magazine Vogue has even used the home as a background in their photo
Eric Walters wrote the historical fiction novel Safe as Houses, to state the strange occurrence that happened in Weston, Toronto 1954. Back in 1954, U.S had a hurricane named Hurricane Hazel, it was so strong that it caused a flood in Weston, Toronto and it had never happened before. Many Canadian authors had to write a non-fiction or fiction stories about it, such as an author named Eric Walters. Many people were wondering why would Eric Walters write about some flood, there were many reasons why.
‘Corrinne Terrace’ by Ian Strange was created in 2011. Strange is an Australian, New York based artist whose work relates to the themes of identity and home. The ‘Suburban’ collection features a series of eight abandoned suburban houses which have been transformed by spray painting specific shapes and patterns over particular sections of the houses. Some houses have been repainted using a single colour, and in one case, set on fire. The image depicts a house which has been painted black with the exception of a white circle which has been left from when the house was previously painted.
Brian Turner's "The Hurt Locker" captures his personal and painful experiences during his time spent in war and furthermore, express the tragic events he witnessed. Brian Turner's poem is miraculously able to gather multiple first hand accounts of tragic, gory, and devastating moments inside a war zone and project them on to a piece of paper for all to read. He allows the audience of his work to partially understand what hell he himself and all combat veterans have endured. Although heartbreaking, it is a privilege to be taken inside "The Hurt Locker" of a man who saw too many things that should not ever be witnessed by anybody. Turner's words bring to life what many have buried deep inside them which subsequently is one of the major underlying problems facing combat veterans today. Reading this poem, I could not help but wonder what the long term effects of war are on a human being, if it is worth the pain, and how does a combat veteran function properly in a society that is unfamiliar with their experiences?
The ceiling was made of plasterboard and the walls were of Masonite coved with artificial leather.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”
Neither white nor black people want to be poor, hungry, or unfair judgment put on them. However, being born with the blood of their parents, they have to live under different circumstances. Their lives are comfortable or struggled that depends on the kind of blood their parents give them. Especially, the mulattos who have mixed blood of white and black have more difficulties in life because of having multiple cultures. Indeed, the novel “the House Behind the Cedars” of Charles W. Chesnutt main message about race relation is that mulattos struggle dramatically in racial society of white, black, and mulatto their own kind people.
In The Houses of History, many different schools of historical thought are presented and light in shed on what exactly it means to be those different types of historians. Not all historians think the same way or approach history from the same perspective, but some similar groups of thought have converged together and have formed the various types of historians that will be presented, such as empiricists, psychohistorians, oral historians, and gender historians. All of these groups can approach the same event or concept and look at them in an entirely different way simply due to the way the historical approach they are accustomed to views things.
Each house has two floors, one garage, and enough space for a garden and small lawn in the front. It’s almost like they were all made with the same cookie cutter template. You can really only tell who lives where by seeing what the garden looks like.
As a whole, the architecture is immensely pleasing to the eye. Once I looked closer at individual pieces of the building, I realized how much work and design went into the construction of these walls. The walls are not just brick, but they are colored brick, which were laid in a pattern that perfectly complements the Venetian Gothic style. Overlooking the Sarasota Bay is the Cà d’Zan Porch. The flooring is made of several different types of marble laid in a unique pattern that aligns with the Venetian style. Along with the humongous porch are steps leading to the bay. These steps were carved from different marble slabs than the slabs used for the porch, but create a genius contrast between
My first impressions of the outside court house was that it looks huge. It is a huge brown brick building that houses multiple departments. It is next to downtown Dallas, next to the jail and near the Trinity River. The jail Lew Sterrett is directly behind the court building. The jail is divided into different units, including the North Tower, West Tower and Katy Tower. The building stands out on the busy Riverfront Street.
John Grisham’s book, ‘A Painted House’ places the reader within the walls of a simple home on the cotton fields of rural Arkansas. Within the first few pages, the author’s description of the setting quickly paints a picture of a hard working family and creates a shared concern with the reader about the family’s struggle to meet the basic needs of life. The description of the dusty roads, the unpainted board-sided house, the daily chore requirements and their lack of excess cause the reader a reaction of empathy for the family. Although the story takes place in a dusty setting very unfamiliar to most readers, the storyline is timeless and universal. Most everyone has a desire to meet the basic needs of life, embrace their family ties, and make others and ourselves proud. The crux of this book is that it does an excellent job in showing the reader through other’s examples and hardships to persevere and never give up.
Pastier, John. “Frank O. Gehry House, Santa Monica, California; architect & Owner: Frank O. Gehry” AIA Journal, vol.69, no.6 (Mid-May 1980): 169.
He liked the idea of a roof garden in his previous design and wanted to incorporate it in the Carpenter Center. On the third floor facing the Quincy Street there is a garden on top, which consist of grass and bushes. Having a roof garden creates a space to go out and enjoy without being disturbed to the outside world, to make a peaceful place to take a break. He wanted to have the garden be as naturally as possible without the look of it being man made on top. Giving a rooftop is a good design for insulation to the third floor. The ondulatories are these vertical struts made out of concrete that are placed around the curvature of the building, that create a ripple into the motion of the window as its being curved. The windows are large planes of glass to bring in as much day lighting as possible and make the inside feel more
made of stucco and it has an old fashion shingles that are a clay color.
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss is a story about a family who are shipwrecked on an uninhabited island.