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My buildings- 1. The Astor Court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2. Kentucky Knob 3. Tower Bridge in London From top to bottom: Tower Bridge,

Kentucky Knob, The Astor Court.
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Influences: Tower Bridge- My influences for this particular structure (Influences being different parts of the bridge) was mostly for the towers. I liked the shape of the towers, as well as the outsides of the towers which were basically 2 smaller towers. Also, i chose this bridge for the reason that it was very even and symmetrical. Also, the structure had some interesting features that i didnt use in my building. It had 2 elevated walkways, which in the ages that the bride was built, didnt have much of a use. A funny story about the bridge; a pilot had to fly through the middle of the bridge itself and the walkways in order to avoid a crash.

Kentucky Knob- The Kentucky Knob is a beautifully modern building. It formerly housed the Hagans, a wealthy family who asked Frank Loyd Wright to design a house for them. Now it serves as kind of an event holding location. The Hagans lived there for 30 years, but even though it did serve as a house, it is art. This house has aspects that are so different from any other house I've seen. So, for my building, i decided to take the designs of the railings from the Kentucky Knob.

Astor Court- The Astor Court was a very interesting building for me to research. This building was hard to research because there was not much about it on the internet. My primary source was the book i used, which was written primarily about The Astor Court. This building was built using traditional Chinese and Japanese methods. This was very evident in the roofs, as well as several other parts of the building including the railings and especially the stone sculptures in the courtyard. From this structure, i picked the curved roofs of the buildings to be the roofs at the top of the towers from Tower Bridge.