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Water-Saving Front Yard Landscape Design

Submitted by acox32 on Wed, 05/14/2008 - 6:20pm. Tags for this image:
Following LEED principals, Brytan has incorporated water-saving front yard landscape design
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Palais Royale looking north from center

Submitted by rblood38 on Sun, 02/11/2007 - 5:57pm. Tags for this image:
Corner of a portion of the first large scale mixed use speculative development in Paris created by the Duke of Orleans and opened in 1784. Designed by Victor Louis between 1781-84, it originally contained sixty identical residential units above a continuous arcade and shops designed to serve "a quotidian carnival of appetites." Unfortunately, the composition breaks street and access continuity on an east-west basis making the tranquil square difficult to access as well as cut off from the surrounding neighborhoods.
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Egerton Crescent Plan

Submitted by rblood38 on Sat, 02/03/2007 - 7:31pm. Tags for this image:
Plan illustrating horizontal dimensions. The average cornice height of the townhomes facing the crescent is approximately 44 feet with the roof elevation at about 49 feet. This creates a middle closure ratio of 4.5:1.
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Egerton Crescent

Submitted by rblood38 on Sat, 02/03/2007 - 6:51pm. Tags for this image:
Egerton Crescent was created in the mid 1840s by James Bonnin, Sr. who earlier had built the nearby Pelham Crescent. The Crescent is noteworty for a variety of reaons including masterful architectural differentation and a very pleasant size. Crescents allow the creation of significant frontage for houses without the loss of a large number of buildable lots. The Crescent is 475 feet long when measured face to face of building and 220 feet wide. The middle closure ratio is 1:4.5. Unlike Pelham Crescent, there is no street break at the apex. the overall rhythm is DAAAABAAAABCCBAAAABAAAAD. Great attention was focused on the detailing of the entry porches and their differentation. Balconies are continuous for three or four units and then break for emphasis. Window treatments are carefully modified at each level. My favorite Belgrave square.
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Palais Royale

Submitted by rblood38 on Sun, 01/28/2007 - 1:13pm. Tags for this image:
Corner of a portion of the first large scale mixed use speculative development in Paris created by the Duke of Orleans and opened in 1784. Designed by Victor Louis between 1781-84, it originally contained sixty identical residential units above a continuous arcade and shops designed to serve "a quotidian carnival of appetites." Unfortunately, the composition breaks street and access continuity on an east-west basis making the tranquil square difficult to access as well as cut off from the surrounding neighborhoods.
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Palais Royale

Submitted by rblood38 on Sun, 01/28/2007 - 3:32am. Tags for this image:
Passage into the NE corner of the gardens of the Palais Royal. This residential square, void of automobiles, is also void of urban noise and is one of the most peaceful spots in Paris. Designed by Victor Louis between 1781-84 as a speculative mixed use venture for the Duc D'Orleans, it originally contained sixty identical residential units above a continuous arcade and shops. The rectangular space measured approximately 306 by 760 ft (1:2.5). Perceivable height is approximately 52 ft. for a closure ratio of height to width of 1:6 and height to length of 1:14.6. These ratios are larger than recommended for an adequate sense of enclosure, but work because of the introduction of tight repeated rows of clipped trees and the power of the repeated architectural motif including superscaled columns which heighten the effect of grandeur. Jefferson was clearly influenced by this striking development when he served as Ambassador to France soon after the complex opened, and the concept of a covered and continuous pedestrian arcade is reminiscent of his treatment diagrammatically of the Lawn in the University of Virginia plan of 1819.
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