BP 9 March 14-18

Colonial expansion in my opinion is a way to have the best of both sides of the world. It gives people the option of having a structure that normally is seen in a certain area of the world and be able to bring that design to another part of the world. For example Mediterranean style homes. Near beaches and lake there are many homes that have that style and they aren’t on the Mediterranean side of the world. It also gives the ability to add on to a design from another culture in the world and add onto it to fit your region. When talking in our discussion groups we came up with the Chateau de Versailles as our west structure that had an analogy. This structure on colonial expansion to the U.S I think is shown through the White House. Although it’s not exactly imitated I see similar resemblances in them. The roof, the windows, the emphasizes on the front door, and how the windows are in lines across the top and bottom stacked I think all resemble how the Chateau was built. Although the White House may not have even been built upon this idea or look I still think with colonial expansion it brought this idea over to the U.S. and it was used with a tweak of American qualities. Columns are still used with different use as a front door roof entrance unlike the Chateau where it is used for decoration with stacking the two layers of major windows. The window set up is fairly similar and the decorative railings on the top of the roof. Both buildings have purity with light colors where they expand horizontally to show importance on the landscape. Colonial expansion from the U.S.  I would have to say would come from the Empire State/Chrysler Building.  Today in the eastern world many cities are growing there cities up and not across. I think these two buildings helped expand others to build tall skyscrapers to save room and also to have buildings that showed great importance by its mass. The world today is moving towards building up than across because of population and lack of space. I believe the U.S. had a good influence for bigger cities across the world to build aerodynamic buildings, with sleek exteriors that showed its importance within a city. The new tallest building in the world Burj Khalifa in Dubai shows similar features as the Chrysler Building. Both the tall point of the towers is similar, and the stacking layers upon layers. In Dubai they added on more layers upon layers but its similar to the Chrysler Building.

Comparing the Chrysler and Burj Khalifa design.