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Há 3 dias · Alfred Waterhouse (born July 19, 1830, Liverpool, Eng.—died Sept. 22, 1905, Yattendon, Berkshire) was an English architect who worked in the style of High Victorian medieval eclecticism. He is remembered principally for his elaborately planned complexes of educational and civic buildings.
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11 de set. de 2024 · Plan of Alfred Waterhouse's design for the Natural History Museum attached to the south side of the Royal Horticultural Society's garden, 1868. The development of plans 1870–2. In May 1870 attention reverted to South Kensington.
Há 6 dias · At Girton College the original small central block of 1873, designed by Alfred Waterhouse, was extended eastward and westward in the 1880s, c. 1900, and c. 1930, to designs by his descendants. (fn. 45) Its extensive grounds covered 37 a. along the main road by 1910.
Há 6 dias · Next in age to the Huxley Building (and now demolished) were the original premises of the City and Guilds College, built in 1881–4 to a design by Alfred Waterhouse, simultaneously with the later stages of his Natural History Museum.
Há 5 dias · The section on the corner is the original building of 1891 by Alfred Waterhouse, in a French Renaissance style rather than his more usual Gothic-inspired work. The tower and the section beyond were added in 1910-12 by his son Paul Waterhouse. Built in red brick with dark red terracotta for the detailing and the top storeys on the corner. The later tower is in a Baroque idiom with buff rather ...
3 de set. de 2024 · The ceiling of the Hintze Hall is made up of 162 panels, 108 of which depict individually identifiable plants. It was (likely) designed by Alfred Waterhouse (architect of the building), presumably from specimens found in the museum, and executed by Charles James Lea.
Há 3 dias · The offices of the Ship Canal Company were given a Grecian colonnade perched high above street level, and the Town Hall, designed by Alfred Waterhouse, is regarded as perhaps the ultimate in Victorian Gothic fantasies.
