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Casa Batlló
Casa Batlló is a house in Barcelona, remodeled by architect Antoni Gaudí from 1904 to 1906 for textile industrialist Josep Batlló i Casanovas, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Casa Casuarina
Casa Casuarina, widely known as the Versace Mansion, is a 1930 Mediterranean Revival mansion on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, home to designer Gianni Versace from 1992 until his 1997 murder.
Casa Curutchet
Casa Curutchet is a house and medical office in La Plata, Argentina, designed by Le Corbusier for the surgeon Pedro Domingo Curutchet and built from 1949 to the early 1950s.
Casa de Beneficencia
The Casa de Beneficencia, formally the Real Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad, was a charitable institution in Havana, Cuba, founded in 1794 for orphans, beggars, and the mentally ill.
Casa de la Moneda de Potosí
The Casa de la Moneda de Potosí, formally the Casa Nacional de Moneda, is the former Spanish colonial mint of Potosí, Bolivia, now a museum and archive.
Casa de Moneda de México
Casa de Moneda de México is the public mint of Mexico, founded by royal decree in 1535 as the first mint in the Americas, striking the country's legal-tender coins.
Casa de Vidro
Casa de Vidro (Glass House) is a modernist residence in São Paulo, Brazil, designed in 1950 by Italian-born architect Lina Bo Bardi as her home.
Casa Loma
Casa Loma is a Gothic Revival mansion in Toronto built for financier Sir Henry Pellatt between 1911 and 1914 and now a city-owned tourist attraction.
Casa Milà
Casa Milà, also known as La Pedrera, is an apartment building on Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudí and built from 1906 to 1912.
Casa Modernista
The Casa Modernista, officially the Residência Gregori Warchavchik, is a house in São Paulo built 1927 to 1928 and regarded as Brazil's first modernist residence.
Casa rústica
Casa rústica is a traditional rural house of northwestern Spain, especially Galicia, built of stone, timber, and earth, with dry stone construction and hórreo granaries.
Casa torre
A casa torre is a fortified residential tower built by the rural Basque nobility between the 13th and 15th centuries, serving as both stronghold and home of a lineage's head.
Casabella
Casabella is an Italian monthly magazine of architecture, founded in Milan in 1928 as La Casa Bella and still published today under editor Francesco Dal Co.
Casas de Don Antonio Roman Bridge
Casas de Don Antonio Roman Bridge: stone bridge over the Río Ayuela, Cáceres, Spain, on the Vía de la Plata (Vía XXIV) near the mansio Ad Sorores; four granite vaults, medieval features with Roman origins.
CASBEE
CASBEE (Comprehensive Assessment System for Built Environment Efficiency) is a Japanese method for rating the environmental performance of buildings, developed from 2001 under the Japan Sustainable Building Consortium.
Case Study House No. 10
Case Study House No. 10 is a 1947 modernist house in Pasadena, California, designed by Kemper Nomland and Kemper Nomland Jr. for the Case Study House program.
Case Study Houses
The Case Study Houses were experimental modern homes commissioned by Arts & Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1966; 24 of 37 projects were built, mostly around Los Angeles.
Casemate wall
A casemate wall is a fortification of two parallel walls joined by cross walls, forming compartments used for storage or dwelling and filled with rubble in wartime.
Casement window
A casement window has a glazed sash hinged on its side so it swings open like a door, usually outward, and predates the sliding sash window.
Casona (Lima)
The casona limeña is the large manor house of colonial Lima, Peru, organized around interior courtyards and built with adobe ground floors and earthquake-resistant quincha upper storeys.
Castel del Monte
Castel del Monte is a 13th-century castle in Puglia, southern Italy, built for Emperor Frederick II and famous for its regular octagonal plan with eight towers.
Castel del Monte, Apulia
Castel del Monte is a 13th-century castle in Andria, Apulia, Italy, built for Emperor Frederick II as a regular octagon with eight towers, a UNESCO site since 1996.
Castel Nuovo
Castel Nuovo, also called Maschio Angioino, is a medieval fortress-palace in central Naples, Italy, begun in 1279 for Charles I of Anjou and rebuilt under Alfonso I of Aragon after 1442.
Castel Sant'Angelo
Castel Sant'Angelo, also known as the Mausoleum of Hadrian, is a cylindrical fortress on the Tiber in Rome, begun as Emperor Hadrian's tomb in 130.
Castello Sforzesco
Castello Sforzesco, or Sforza Castle, is a medieval and Renaissance fortress in Milan, Italy, rebuilt by Francesco Sforza and now housing the city's civic museums.
Castellum aquae
Castellum aquae (castellum divisorium): Roman terminal distribution basin of an aqueduct, regulating and dividing water into city pipes; best-preserved examples at Nîmes and Pompeii, with others at Ostia, Tharros, and Rome.
Castillo de San Marcos
Castillo de San Marcos, later renamed Fort Marion, is a Spanish-built coquina star fortress in St. Augustine, Florida, constructed between 1672 and 1695 and never taken by force.
Castle
A castle (château fort) is a fortified residence of a noble, combining fortress and dwelling in one stronghold. In England the Normans built about 1,000 after 1066, mostly motte and bailey.
Castle Goring
Castle Goring is a Grade I listed country house in Worthing, West Sussex, built from about 1797 for Sir Bysshe Shelley, grandfather of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Castle Howard
Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, about 15 miles north of York, begun in 1699 and a masterpiece of the English Baroque.