Top Architecture jokes

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Berthold Lubetkin: Penguin Pool

In 1934, London Zoo (the Regent`s Park zoo in London) unveiled its famous spiral-ramped "Penguin Pool," designed by...

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Le Corbusier & the Salvation Army Hostel

Mies van der Rohe first proposed building monumental glass-walled skyscrapers in the 1920s, long before they were...

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Frank Lloyd Wrong

In 1937, Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned by an industrialist named Hibbard Johnson to build his new Wisconsin...

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Guggenheim

Though many marveled at Frank Gehry`s curvaceous titanium-clad Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, many critics deemed...

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Mystery House (long)

Shortly before the beginning of the Civil War, Sarah Lockwood Pardee met a man by the name of William Wirt Winchester,...

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Renzo Piano explains his design to a New York Times chairman

In 2002, Renzo Piano (in association with New York architectural firm Fox & Fowle) won a major competition with a design for...

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Smart Brick

In 2003, professor Chang Liu and his team of structural engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...

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Frank Lloyd Wright: Shopping Mall Visit

In 1953, Austrian architect Victor Gruen unveiled his design for the world`s first modern shopping mall: Southdale Mall...

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Eiffel Tower

During William Morris`s last visit to Paris, he spent a great deal of time eating and writing in the restaurant at the...

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Majestically Rising?

Marc Connelly was once invited to a lecture on the recently completed bridge over the Tagus river in Lisbon, Portugal....

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