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Building Types

This category is for sites focusing on the architecture of a particular type of building or a significant example of the type.

If a sub-category does not yet exist for a particular type of building, sites on that type may be submitted to the main category.

Please submit only sites focusing on the architecture of a single type of building, or an example of that type.

Barns

A rural building traditionally used in agriculture for livestock, grains and other farm produce. Also used as part of agritourism.

Sites about barn (and related rural structures) history and preservation.

Educational Institutions

For sites focusing on the architecture and architectural history of schools, colleges and universities.

Sites submitted to this category must contain information on the architecture of one-room schools. Minimally sites must include a picture of the schoolhouse or a description of the building.

Exhibition

Buildings created to display objects to the public: museums, art galleries, exhibition halls.

Follies

A costly but useless structure, often a tower or sham Gothic or classical ruin in a landscaped park, intended to enhance the view or picturesque effect.

Fortifications

Defensive works, walls and towers of all periods.

Post-medieval houses that are not fortified, but are called x or y Castle or Ch�teau or Schloss, because there once was a castle on the site, should be submitted to Arts/Architecture/History/Building Types/Houses/

Government Buildings

Buildings used by national, regional and local government, including parliament buildings, state capitols, city halls, town halls and courthouses.

Hospitals and Asylums

Buildings designed to lodge and care for the sick, injured, aged, infirm, disabled or mentally disordered. Medieval hospitals housing the poor, lepers, aged and infirm are included, even if medical care was minimal.

Houses

Domestic buildings.

This category is not for commercial sites. Please submit only informational sites relating to log-built cabins.

Iconic

Buildings in the shape of divinities, persons, animals, characters or other recognized symbols. The shape of the building has a meaning derived outside the world of architecture. To qualify as a building, the interior should be designed for some practical use.

Inns and Public Houses

An inn provides temporary accommodation for travelers. It also serves beverages and cooked food on the premises. The core function of a public house is to serve alcoholic drinks on the premises, but it may also serve food and provide accommodation or have done so in the past.

Please only submit sites which focus on the architecture or history of inns and/or public houses.

Libraries

The architecture or architectural history of buildings (or rooms within buildings) intended to house books.

Lighthouses

The houses and stations which utilize a light beacon as a means of aiding maritime navigation.

Please submit sites whose primary focus is the architecture or history of lighthouses.

Sites primarily using lighthouses as a subject for non-commercial photography may be submitted to Arts: Photography: Photographers: Nautical

Sites whose primary focus is sales of lighthouse photographs may be submitted to Shopping: Visual Arts: Photography: Exhibits: Realistic: Nautical

Sites whose primary focus is sales of other lighthouse-related merchandise may be submitted to Shopping: Home and Garden: Accessories: Nautical: Lighthouses

Mills

Building containing machinery for grinding grain or processing other materials, powered by wind or water.

Please only submit sites with a focus on the architecture of mills.

Palaces

The present or former official residences of monarchs or bishops.

Piers

Raised walkways built over water, supported by piles or pillars, sometimes with superstructures intended for entertainment purposes.

Pyramids

Pyramids are stone structures with a square base and sloping sides meeting at the apex. In ancient Egypt they were built as burial monuments. They are usually very large monolithic structures with only a few small rooms.

There is a lot of controversy about the function and the construction of the pyramids. This category is for sites which offer a rational approach to the question.

Religious

Architecture for religious purposes.

This category is NOT for the business sites of church architects, which should be submitted to Business: Industries: Construction and Maintenance: Design: Architects: Religious.

Restaurants

The architecture of buildings designed solely or primarily to serve food and/or non-alcoholic beverages to the public to be consumed on the premises, including cafes, coffee-houses, teashops and restaurants.

Please only submit sites which focus on the architecture or architectural history of restaurants.

Retail Buildings

Focuses on the architecture of buildings designed to house retail trade. Includes shops, shopping arcades, shopping centres and malls, market houses and market halls.

Skyscrapers

A multi-storey building constructed on a steel skeleton, provided with high-speed electric elevators and combining extraordinary height with ordinary room-spaces such as would be used in low buildings.

Submit sites focused on a city (or other type of region). Sites such as ''Chicago Skyscrapers'' or ''South-East Asian Highrises''.

Theaters and Cinemas

Structures designed for viewing dramas, operas and other spectacles either on stage or on screen or both. Theatres were open-air in ancient Greece and Rome, but usually covered in Europe from the 16th century. An intermediate form was partially covered.

Please only submit sites here that are concerned primarily with the architecture of theaters, cinemas or opera houses.

Water Houses

Buildings intended primarily to contain and deliver water. These include aquaducts, baptisteries, conduits, lavoirs, fountains, public baths, spring-houses, step wells and well-heads. To be listed here a site should have a focus on the architecture of the structure, rather than its engineering or social value.

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