Gateway Arch

I. Some structures are built for a specific purpose, others as a form of art and some, a symbol of a growing country. After 2 ½ years later the Gateway Arch has become one of America’s iconic symbol of growth and prosperity. The Gateway Arch is located in St. Louis Missouri, it’s also on the east side of the Mississippi River. Eero Saarinen an architect came up with the design and won a contest from it. The Gateway arch is a fascinating historical structure built through the hard work of American men, linked to Lewis and Clark Westward Expansion and intended to remind us of our forefather’s committee to America. II. The structure was built through the hard working of American men. A. The Arch is located in a significant spot. 1. Located in St. Louis…

little world below you. The itty bitty cars and teeny tiny people. It is hard to believe you were once down there, that the world shrunk or that you grew. The Mississippi River and beyond on one side, St Louis on the other. That's right, you're at the top of the western hemisphere's tallest monument, the Gateway Arch! The Gateway Arch is 630 feet tall and wide, as well as being 43,306 tons and costing 13 million dollars. Four million people visit the park each year. Located at 11 North Fourth…

Getting out our disposable cameras all three of us got pictures of the arch. I remember seeing other cool landmarks of the United States like the largest tire in Michigan, the largest Travel America truck stop, and of course the Saint Louis Arch. I admit, seeing the country was really cool, but under the circumstances of moving cross country were less than ideal. The second day came to a close, and the three-day road trip was almost over, but not without stopping at a KOA campground. KOA is a…

Triangle: The Best Geometric Shape to Build Better Bridges and Structures Bridges are incredibly important to our civilization. The building of bridges can be recorded back to ancient times. They are the very means to “bridge” the gap between two or more spaces when a roadway cannot be built. They go across oceans and lakes, they go around and between mountains and cross over valleys. The world is filled with many types of bridges. According to History of Bridges (2017, [online]), some types…

Bridge Background and Types Bridges are manmade structures that are necessary in able to cross vast areas of rugged land or bodies of water easily. They have highly developed over time, with more advanced technological structures and materials to keep crossers safe without the bridge collapsing. There are several types of bridges, but the major ones being the beam, truss, arch, and suspension bridges. These bridges are all made for the same task, to safely let people cross an otherwise…

builder, instead, built smaller relieving vaults into these ridges, such as at St. Simons monastery at Aswan (Kemp, 2000: 93). 3.1.1.2 The special construction techniques used for the barrel vault and plain walls of the two case studies The pitched bricks were laid with alternating angles of inclination with alternating angles of inclinatio. The Ancient Egyptian builder used the thicker and stronger (sometimes haunching) supporting walls, the parallelism (arcades), to create counter resistance,…

Arch Bridges, Beam Bridges, Cantilever Bridges are just some types of bridges. One of the most famous types of bridges, though, are the “Truss” Bridges. The Warren Truss is one of the most famous of this category, while the Howe Truss is not as well known it is, still, a strong bridge. “Historyofbridges.com” states that “[A] Truss bridge is a type of bridge whose main element is a truss which is a structure of connected elements that form triangular units. Truss is used because it is a very…

The Romans recognized that the arch would allow them to make structure with a much larger span than was possible with post and lintel construction. (Klein, 336). Made of wedge shaped stones, called vousiors, each cut to fit into the semicircular form, an arch is not stable until the keystone. A stone at the very top, has been put into place. At this point, equal pressure is exerted by each stone on its neighbors, and the scaffolding that is necessary to support the arch while it under…

Julie Mehretu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1970. She was schooled in Kalamazoo, where she received her bachelor degree in Art, and continued on to receive her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Art and Design in 1997 (Artnet). She lives and works in Harlem New York with her artist and partner (Plagens). Mehretu works on drawings influenced by architectural plans and aerial maps. She adds many layers to increase complexity. She relates the layering to herself as parts of who she is. She…

revival architecture as it was referenced from Italian Gothic Cathedral Interiors and the striped polychromy was particularly success. Also, the Kauri pine ceiling is one of the characteristics of the Cathedral13. Stone The stone used to build the St. Paul’s Cathedral was the stone commonly use in Melbourne, as William Butterfield would like to use the materials to make contrast to other architecture in Melbourne. Butterfield had decided to use cream- coloured stones including Waurn Ponds,…