Three Styles of Architecture on Campus

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Paris, England, Greek and Roma in one place !!. These places have a lot of styles of architectures. Actually, all these are perfect, and they have their own style, structure. Almost all universities of U.S. used these styles, By the way, I'm student at PSU, and it got almost all of these styles. Now, at PSU there're many attractive buildings. In fact, three buildings of them have ancient decoration, and they are: Whitesitt Hall, Family Consumer Sciences, and Proter Hall.

The first one inspired from Paris, you can see the features that in Art Deco style that on Whitesitt Hall. First of all, this building has a wonderful location, and it's in south of campus plaza. Obviously, the building is huge with three wide floors, and the building has terrific features from Art Deco. Second, it's clearly the bold outlines around the building, and it got beige color with hard-edged. Third, on the top of the building there's something called facade. Additionally, facade usually found in the front of a building with name engraved and the form of this is look like a wide triangular. By the way, the facade of Whitesitt has words that say " MCMX II INDUSTRIAI ARTS ". Fourthly, the building has a lot of windows. Actually, there's a hard-edged low relief ornamentation around the windows, under the windows there's a straight, beige, and bold line, and it gave the windows a good view. Moreover, the windows are striped with decorative iron grille from inside. Finally, it's evident the gate is curved with two short white columns in the front of the gate. Also, it made from stone. Moreover, if you look at the building from two meter you'll see dark red bricks with surly touch. The building decorated by beige zigzag around all. In the end, Whitesitt is an awesome building with ancient architecture.

The second building took from Greek and Roman ruins. Also, the architecture called

Neoclassicism or Classical Revival. The name of the building is Family Consumer Sciences, and it located south...