Capital (Architecture)
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CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head), in architecture, the crowning member of the column, which projects on each side as it rises, ...
Doric capital:
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Terminal building T3 (Terminal Three) at the Beijing Capital International Airport is one of the largest and most advanced airport terminals in the world.
T3 Terminal at the Beijing Capital International Airport
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Capital with concave lower part, usually scalloped, in use in the later 12th century.TrussBraced framework, spanning between supports.
capital - the upper portion of a column or pilaster upon which the entablature rests
casement windows - a window that opens from the outside vertical edge
casing - finished framework around a door or window ...
Capital - The head or crowning feature of a column.
Caprice - A caprice is a design element that is whimsical, light, and fanciful.
Caracol or caracole - A spiral staircase.
Capital - The elaboration at the top of a column, pillar, pier or pilaster.
Carport - A roofed area attached to the house designed to protect the car.
Capitals - The carved stone which caps a column or pier and which forms the transition between the shape of the column and the arches over it.
Censers - A vessel in which incense is burned.
Capital -- The head of a column or pilaster.
Colonial Revival -- House style of the early 20th century based on interpretations of architectural forms of the American colonies prior to the Revolution.
CAPITAL
A decorative element at the head of a column dividing it from the masonry, or shaft, supporting it. The decoration is often a useful guide to the period of architecture.
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Capital: Architectural element that surmounts a column or any other vertical support (fig.5, B).
Chancel: Space around the altar of a church that is usually intended for the clergy (fig.1). From the Latin cancellus for "railing." ...
capital
The decorative head of a column, pilaster, pier, or other vertical support.
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Capital
The carved block separating a column or pier from the arch or lintel that it supports.
Chancel
The area of a parish church at the east end, where the altar was located. Also known as the choir in larger churches.
Capital gains tax - Tax payable to the Inland Revenue from the sale of property or other assets.
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Carcassing - Timber used in structural sections of a building, such as roof rafters and floor joists.
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Capital - Distinctly treated upper end of a column.
Carotid - Heart-shaped.
Casemates - Artillery emplacements in separate protected rooms, rather than in a battery.
CAPITAL The top part of a column or pilaster. Its features are often determined by its classical order.
CASEMENT A window that opens by hinges on one side.
Capital
The top, head or crowning feature of a column or pilaster. Very often ornately decorated.
Cartouche.
capital: the uppermost part of a column, usually carved with abstract or figural ornament.
Carolingian: pertaining to the Emperor Charlemagne.
canted: sloping at the edges or set at a slight angle.
capital - the uppermost part, or head, of a column or pilaster.
cartouche - an ornamental panel in the form of a scroll, circle, or oval, often bearing an inscription.
casement - a hinged window frame that opens horizontally like a door.
CAPITAL The top part of a pillar or column.
CASEMENT A metal or wooden framed window that is hinged to open outward or inward.
CAPITAL
Head or top part of a column
CARYATID
Whole female figure supporting an entablature or other similar member.
Capital
the decorated top of a column or pilaster, providing a transition from the shaft to the entablature.
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capital : Decorative element that divides a column or pier from the masonry which it supports. Types of Capitals : ...
Capital
In architecture, a structural and decorative element that divides a column or pillar from the masonry that it supports. (From the Latin capitellum, "little head".) ...
capital - The head or top of a column or pilaster. (p. 16, p.44, p. 48, p. 52, p. 58 & 59).
cartouche- an oval tablet with an elaborate scroll-carved frame, used as ornamentation for building moldings, borders, panels, etc. (p. 38) ...
Capital - The topmost member, usually decorated, of a column or pilaster and commonly in the Classical orders. It may support an entablature.
COLUMN CAPITALS Capitals are the tops of round columns and may be of several distinct types or orders.
Rustic Capitals: "Medici Vergil", written probably in Rome before 494 (Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana 39.1) Rustic Capitals were the formal bookscript of the Romans.
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The foliate Corinthian style provided the inspiration for many Romanesque capitals, and the accuracy with which they were carved depended very much on the availability of original models, ...
Capital
The uppermost finish or decoration on a column, pier, or pilaster. The style or origin of the column or pier is indicated by the design of the capital as well as the base and shaft. See also Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite.
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louvre - one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain ...
Capital : The upper element of an architectural pillar, often finely decorated in Romanesque and Early Gothic structures.
Column figure : A statue or sculpted figure which serves as a supportive or decorative shaft within a portal.
Capital
- the crowning feature or head of a column or pilaster. See Classical Architecture ...
Capital - a separate, carved stone or façade placed on top of a column to hold the lintel, usually highly decorated.
Cella - a Greek term used of the holy area within a temple, usually where one worships.
capital - top part of a column, usually decorated. (see column for the three classical Greek Orders)
carpenter gothic - ornate wood decoration; also called gingerbread, carpenter's lace ...
Capital
The uppermost elements of a column. In classical architecture capitals are one of the most distinctive elements defining the different orders.
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CAPITAL
Top part of a column or pilaster.
CAST IRON
Molten Iron that is poured into a mold to achieve a design.
CAPITALthe decorative head of a vertical support such as a column or pilaster
CHANCELthe sanctuary area in a church, near the altar, used by the clergy and choir
CLAPBOARDthin wood plank siding applied horizontally, one overlapping the next ...
Capital: The line bisecting the salient angle of a fortification. (L. caput, head).
The capital, Chake, contains a nineteenth-century Swahili fort and the Bohra Mosque. The Bohra Mosque dates to the early twentieth century and was built by the Bohra Indians of Pemba.
(of a capital, corbel etc) carved with leaf ornament.
Frieze
the middle zone in an entablature, between the architrave and the cornice; generally any band of ornament or colour immediately below a cornice.
Buttress A structure built against a wall to support or reinforce it.C
Capital The elaboration at the top of a column, pillar, pier or pilaster.
Casement Window A window that opens in the manner of a door.
buttress - a mass of stone built up to support a wall, usually necessary to strengthen those of great height. See flying buttress.
capital - the cap or crown to a column, usually heavily decorated.
A Abacus: Flat portion on top of a capital. Acanthus: A Mediterranean plant. The leaves are thick, fleshy, and scalloped. A stylization of the acanthus leaf began in Greek and Roman decoration, especially on the Corinthian capital.
abacus Rectangular strip running along the top of a capital, sometimes decoratively carved. ambulatory A covered passage around and behind the altar, linking it with chapels at the east end of the church.
architrave a term generally used for the molding around a door or window, and specifically used for the lowest level of the entablature, directly above the capital of a column.
ABACUS: the flat slab on the top of a capital ACROTERIA: statues or ornaments placed at the apex and the ends of pediments ARCH: the spanning of an opening by reasons other than that of a lintel ARCHITRAVE: the lintel extending from one column or ...
Capital - distinctly treated upper end of a column. Capital the head of a pillar, often decorated.
Caponier - covered passage within a ditch.
abacus A tablet placed horizontally on the capital of a column, aiding the support of the architrave.
capitalA Capital is the crowning feature of a column (from the Latin caput=head). carpet beddingThe nineteenth century practice of using bedding plants to create carpet-like patterns.
Abacus - Flat piece at the top of the capital. (Picture shown above).
Abattoir - A public slaughter house.
Abbey - A convent under an abbot: the church now or formerly attached to it.
Concern for the profile of the building in space spurred designers towards perfection in the articulation of parts, and these parts, known today as the orders of architecture, became intellectualized as stylobate, base, shaft, capital, architrave, ...
The name derives from Byzantium, another name for Constantinople, the eastern capital. The style continued for over one thousand years, surviving until the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453.
They have a capital (the top, or crown) made of a circle topped by a square. The shaft (the tall part of the column) is plain and has 20 sides. There is no base in the Doric order.
In 330 AD, Constantine the Great transferred the capital of the Roman Empire to the city of Byzantion on the shores of the Bosporus.
Parts of a column are (bottom to top): base, shaft and capital. Columns are important design elements in Classical Revival and Neoclassical house styles. The most traditional columns follow the "Greek" and "Roman" orders (e.g.
Similarities arise between the Ionic and Corinthian, however the distinguishing difference lies in the capital. The capital of the Corinthian structure is intricately carved with acanthus leaves, foliage, or different flowers.
- Pincusion type top to columns called capital or "echinus"
- Borders Contain Images of Gods and animals
- Roof usually slanted also contains elaborate images
- Came about in 7th Century B.C.
- Based on early wood construction
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Egyptian columns often have a lotus motif on the capital. Originally used during Ancient Egyptian times, ...
When a classical order is present (i.e. doric, ionic, etc.) the capital is diminutive and the columns are slender.
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