Guthrie Masonic Lodge (Guthrie, Oklahoma)

I just visited this building couple days ago. To be honest I never though I was going to find one building like this one at Oklahoma. To start, first this building was the first state government of Oklahoma building, when the capital city was Guthrie. Then a university bought this building and hosted classes for a while. Around 1920s the Masonic Brother or the Scottish Rite brothers, they are the masons of higher rank, decide to start their temple in this building. The building has more than 400000 sq feet, and everything is beautiful.  

The building has more than 400 rooms; the main rooms are dedicated to different periods of history (Pompeii, Asyrrian, Egyptian) with every single detailed (architectonic, furniture, windows from the era. It was two big auditoriums with perfect acoustic were concerts are hosted as well, almost all the windows and roofs were designed by an alchemist giving you optical illusions (the roof is moving, the painted faces at the windows are looking at you). As any temple, from the outside has a greek style, with the masonic symbols, columns and material of construction. 

I liked that the rooms were dedicated to different ancient civilizations. The library had quotes wrote or painted on the walls, the windows art and colors. The optical illusions of the roof (if you stand on a corner, it looked like the roof was shipping places; the same applies for every corner. I like to call it water illusion). The windows painting and illusions. It was great.

The Master Piece (Asuncion, Paraguay)

The Master Piece is an exhibition house that opened doors in Asuncion, Paraguay in the year 2007. The house was built in a 17300ft² lot, with the collaboration of the most known architectures and designers of Paraguay, around 35+ collaborators. The main goal of this exhibition was to show the future and development of the vanguardist edge cutting architectonic style in Paraguay. This was the first house with the vanguardist style. The exhibition was a total success that people started hiring architects to develop more houses with the vanguardist style. Personally I don't like houses with a vanguardist style to live on, but I do like them for business, shopping centers and others. This house/exhibition in addition to the CONMEBOL Complex not only gave a shout out to the architects and engineers but it set a trend for the design, simplicity and sophistication in Paraguay.

You can observes some details from the out (how the house is hiding behind walls and fences) while the outside the is also a vanguardist/ edge cutting style backyard and pool. Many houses are adopting this style.

El Saladillo (Marcaibo, Venezuela)

  

 This particular neighborhood located near the city of Maracaibo is one of the oldest and brightest cities of Venezuela in terms of its architecture. When you look at the architecture you can see the roots of colonialism from South America. This part of the city is no longer for use, is a historic place at Venezuela that once served as the most important part (religious, cultural and governmental activities). Urban development almost caused the lost of this precious city. By the colors you can it gives life to the neighborhood and goes in par with Venezuela climate; this gives it an autochthonous and identity to the city. The city was established before the independence of Venezuela.