Castle - The Winter Palace
For this assignment, I looked at the architecture of the Baroque period. I tried to Model after The Winter Palace, Located in St. Petersburg, Russia. I chose this building for two reasons. The first one is that I thought the highly repetitive style of the baroque period represented an exciting challenge that I wanted to take on. The second reason that I chose this building is simply that I am very fond of the baroque architecture style. I s find the style to be quite beautiful with its bright colours and simple building shape, which emphasizes the complex decorative inlays. When people think of 'castles,' they likely think of Victorian or Gothic style Architecture. The Winter Palace, with its baroque style, is a building that I find very unique and one that I was pretty excited to work on. The shape that I used the most was the rectangle. The Baroque style is very square in building shape and has several rectangular windows. The circle tool was used primarily for the decorati...