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Hôtel De Ville, Antony
The (, ''City hall (administration), City Hall'') is a municipal building in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, standing on Place de l'Hôtel de Ville. History Following the French Revolution, the new town council established an office in a building near the Church of Saint-Saturnin: this served as the Maison Commune until the council moved to a purpose-built town hall on Rue de la Gare (now Rue Auguste-Mounié) in 1835. The new building was designed by Auguste Molinos in the Neoclassical architecture, neoclassical style and built in ashlar stone. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of five bays facing onto Rue Auguste-Mounié. The central bay featured a recessed opening formed by two pairs of Doric order columns supporting an entablature. The building was fenestrated by casement windows by iron grills on the ground floor, by plain casement windows on the first floor, and by an Oculus (architecture), oculus supported by scrolls and surmoun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Architecture
Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, or the modern movement, is an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements. Modern architecture was based upon new and innovative technologies of construction (particularly the use of glass, steel, and concrete); the principle functionalism (i.e. that form should follow function); an embrace of minimalism; and a rejection of ornament. According to Le Corbusier, the roots of the movement were to be found in the works of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, while Mies van der Rohe was heavily inspired by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The movement emerged in the first half of the 20th century and became dominant after World War II until the 1980s, when it was gradually replaced as the principal style for institutional and corporate buildings by postmodern architecture. Origins Modern architecture emerged at the end of the 19th century from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
