Architecture Brew #20

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This is our 20th edition where we have selected architecture and design posts for upvotes and curation trail this week. Special thanks to @OCD for the support.

Each week, we nominate the Top 3 features among the curated posts based on high-quality content defined by the following criteria: (1) originality, (2) timely and relevant, (3) authenticity, (4) clarity, (5) readability, (6) versatility (7) inspires action, captivates interest, and/or entertains and lastly, have conformed to our community rules and comprehensive guidelines.

We are proud and excited to present this week's highlights from April 8, 2021, to April 11, 2021:

Author	Title
@sjarvie5	Art Talk: Architecture of the US Capitol

"Neoclassical architecture is a revival or new interest in classical (Greek or Roman) architecture in the 18th and 19th centuries. It followed and was directly opposite the flamboyance of Rococo and Baroque periods.

In 1792 there was a competition that "would award $500 and a city lot to whoever produced "the most approved plan" for the U.S. Capitol. In 1793 construction for the capitol began on William Thornton's design which won for its "grandeur, simplicity and convenience."

Author	Title
@afterglow	Capsule Hotels - From Sci-Fi Escape Capsule to Commercial Sleeping Capsules

"When I was young my first encounter with the words "escape capsule" or "escape pod" was on sci-fi movies situated in outer space. In the movies, an escape pod or escape capsule was usually portrayed as a capsule or craft that is big enough to carry one person and used to escape from a larger vessel or mothership during an emergency. In the movies, it is usually portrayed as a last resort of survival.

Today, capsule hotels or pod hotels are sprouting one by one and are largely look the same as the ones from the sci-fi movies (just like an escape pod or escape capsule), there's no doubt capsule hotel owners take inspiration straight from sci-fi movies. Capsule hotels are slowly gaining popularity and are showing potentials for mass adoption. Capsule hotels or pod hotels can be a good alternative to traditional hotels (good news to travelers on a tight budget)."

Author	Title
@juancar347	Civic: chronicle of a cave architecture

"Within this apparently idyllic perspective, we will see to our left, just stopping a few meters beyond a small and surprising waterfall, a peculiar rocky promontory, pierced with caves, in whose innumerable interstices the hand of man can be clearly seen.

Within this apparently idyllic perspective, we will see to our left, just stopping a few meters beyond a small and surprising waterfall, a peculiar rocky promontory, pierced with caves, in whose innumerable interstices the hand of man can be clearly seen."