Architecture: Architecture Updates: Oct. 22-28, 2011

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Architecture Updates: Oct. 22-28, 2011
Oct 28th 2011, 07:00

This week we dug deeper into Victorian styles, explored spooky architecture, and received some amazing submissions from our readers. New and updated: Reader Submissions:

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Architecture: Birth of the Arch

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Birth of the Arch
Oct 28th 2011, 08:00

Gateway Arch in St. Louis - Image from ClipArt.com The famous Saint Louis Gateway Arch in Missouri celebrates a birthday today. Designed by Finnish-born architect Eero Saarinen, the arch officially opened on October 28, 1965.

The Saint Louis Gateway Arch is actually an enormous steel catenary curve. It commemorates Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and symbolizes the gateway to the American West.

Challenge: Are you a math whiz? See if you can solve this Catenary Curve problem.

St. Louis Gateway Arch Photo: ArtToday.com

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Architecture: What's Hot Now: Second Empire Architecture

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Second Empire Architecture
Oct 28th 2011, 10:03

With tall mansard roofs and wrought iron cresting, Victorian Second Empire homes create a sense of height. But, despite its regal name, a Second Empire isn't always elaborate or lofty. So, how do you recognize the style? Look for these features:
  • Mansard roof
  • Dormer windows project like eyebrows from roof
  • Rounded cornices at top and base of roof
  • Brackets beneath the eaves, balconies, and bay windows
Many Second Empire homes also have these features:
  • Cupola
  • Patterned slate on roof
  • Wrought iron cresting above upper cornice
  • Classical pediments
  • Paired columns
  • Tall windows on first story
  • Small entry porch
Next: Is it Second Empire or Italianate?

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Architecture: What's Hot Now: The Woolworth Building

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The Woolworth Building
Oct 28th 2011, 10:03

The Woolworth Building
Location: 233 Broadway, New York, NY, USA
Architect: Cass Gilbert
Year: 1911â€"1913
Height: 241 meters / 792 feet
Stories: 57

About the Woolworth Building:

Architect Cass Gilbert spent two years, drawing thirty different proposals, for the office building commissioned by Frank W. Woolworth, owner of the dime store chain. Soaring 792 feet high, the Neo-Gothic skyscraper was the world's tallest building until the Chrysler Building was erected in 1929.

Cass Gilbert combined Gothic design with modern technology in this New York highrise. It had a steel frame to withstand high winds and high-speed elevators with air cushions that would stop a car from falling. The ornate lobby was lavished with marble, bronze and mosaics. Gothic-inspired details adorned the cream-colored terra cotta facade.

The gargoyles on the Woolworth Building caricature Gilbert, Woolworth, and other famous people.

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Architecture: What's Hot Now: Haunted House Books - True

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Haunted House Books - True
Oct 28th 2011, 10:03

Don't turn off the light while you immerse yourself in these tales of haunted houses, inns, and restaurants around the world. Are they really true? Who cares! Anyone who's ever designed or remodeled a building knows how easy it is to become possessed by turrets, corbels, stairways, and all sorts of architectural things.

1. Haunted Houses: Chilling Tales from American Homes

From the Lizzie Borden House in Fall River, Massachusetts, to the Winchester Mansion in San Jose, California, author Nancy Roberts brings us 24 spine-chilling tales of ghostly hauntings across America. Roberts interviewed each contributor and includes brief historical background on each haunting, information on the sites, phone numbers for potential visitors, and more.
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2. Where the Ghosts Are: The Ultimate Guide to Haunted Houses

Collected from his own personal investigations, Hans Holzer takes readers to more than 50 locations, both private homes and public places, where ghosts have been spotted. This book includes case studies, photos, and the history and psychology of each ghost.
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3. More Where the Ghosts Are: The Ultimate Guide to Haunted Houses

Another ghostly book by Hans Holzer, this one continues where the first left off. Holzer provides a fascinating tour of haunted locations, with pictures he claims proves the the existence of spirits.
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4. Historic Haunted America

Beth Scott and Michael Norman spent 18 years collecting "true" ghost stories from all 50 states and some Canadian provinces. This 672-page book covers all types of hauntings, from the terrifying to the sublime, from the yarns and folklore to current news stories.
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5. Haunted Inns of the Southeast

Sheila Turnage takes readers to 90 of the Southeast's best haunted inns across nine states, with telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and rates for visitors. The book includes eyewitness stories of the hauntings from guests, employees, and owners. The introduction gives helpful information for the first-time ghost hunter.
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6. Haunted Hotels: A Guide to American and Canadian Inns and Their Ghosts

Robin Mead's guide to haunted hotels in Canada and the U.S. covers 27 states, 3 territories, and more than 80 possessed lodgings. Stories of each ghost's past and appearances accompany hotel descriptions, along with the travel information for the curious and thrill-seekers who want to plan a supernatural vacation.
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7. Dinner and Spirits: America's Most Haunted Restaurants, Taverns & Inns

Authors Robert James and Anne Wlodarski take readers to more than 500 places where you can have dinner, a drink, and perhaps spend the night with a spooky guest. The illustrated and detailed listing includes history of the hauntings with telephone numbers and other information for making reservations.
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8. The Field Guide to North American Hauntings

Subtitled, "Everything You Need to Know About Encountering over 100 Ghosts, Phantoms, and Spectral Entities," this guide from W. Haden Blackman itemizes more than 100 haunted sites and their resident ghosts. Blackman includes addresses, the number of ghosts present, their identities, the type of activities observed, and more.
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9. Haunted Places: The National Directory

Dennis William Hauck leads us to more than 2,000 sites of paranormal activity across the United States, organized by state. Often used as a "travel guide" for those interested in paranormal activity, "The National Directory" is the good book for planning a spooky trip alone or with the kids. Not just haunted locations, but sacred sites, UFO landings, and more are listed here.
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10. The International Directory of Haunted Places

The perfect companion to "The National Directory," here Hauck takes us around the world to more ghostly abodes and other supernatural locations in Great Britain and Europe, Canada, South America, Australia, Northern Africa, and Asia. Included are more than ninety black-and-white photos, travel directions, phone numbers, and more.
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Architecture: What's Hot Now: Oslo Opera House, Norway

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Oslo Opera House, Norway
Oct 28th 2011, 10:03

The striking white marble Oslo Opera House is the foundation of a sweeping urban renewal project in the waterfront Bjørvika area of Oslo, Norway. The stark white exterior is often compared to an iceberg or a ship. In stark contrast, the interior of Oslo Opera house glows with curving oak walls.

With 1,100 rooms, including three performance spaces, Oslo Opera House has a total area of about 38,500 square meters (415,000 square feet).

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Architecture: What's Hot Now: Haunted House Books : Fiction

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Haunted House Books : Fiction
Oct 28th 2011, 10:03

A dilapidated old Victorian house may be an architect's nightmare, but it's the perfect environment to enjoy a spooky novel about haunted houses. In these creepy tales, architecture plays a staring role with houses that change shapes, make scary noises, and take on horrific, surreal personalities.

1. The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red

A turn-of-the-century mansion, built out of arrogance and greed, becomes a living spirit in Joyce Reardon's page-turning novel. Mysteriously in the night, the house grows, creating a maze of hallways, chambers and twisting stairways where wanderers vanish.
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2. The Haunting of Hill House

Author Shirley Jackson describes the fictional Hill House as a foreboding structure "without kindness, never meant to be lived in...." Her ghostly tale unfolds amidst towers, buttresses, Gothic spires, gargoyles, strange angles, and rooms within rooms.
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3. The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories

A wonderful anthology of new and classic short stories, for those who like their shivers in small doses. Peter Haining has assembled works from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, L. P. Hartley, James Herbert, and many more, in this 512-page paperback guaranteed to produce nightmares.
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4. The Shining

"Wendy, I'm home!" Who can forget a possessed Jack Nicholson's creepy greeting to his wife in the movie based on Stephen King's novel? Strange things happen when the Torrances become winter caretakers at the Overlook Hotel, a place that contains an awesome power and a horrible past that only 5-year-old Danny can see. One of Stephen King's most engrossing stories of all time.
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5. Hell House

Stephen King once said "Richard Matheson's 'Hell House' is the scariest haunted house novel ever written," and we agree. All those sent to investigate Belasco House were ultimately destroyed by murder, suicide, or insanity. Now, for the first time in two decades, a new team has been assembled to dissect the secrets of the haunted mansion. Will they meet the same horrible fate?
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6. The Amityville Horror

When Jay Anson wrote The Amityville Horror, he claimed the story was true. Fortunately, the terrifying experiences of paranormal activity in a pretty suburban house proved to be mostly fabrications. Still, the tale is chilling and, if you want, you can drive by the real Amityville Horror house in Amityville, New York.
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