Colonnade
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COLONNADE, in architecture, a range of columns (Ital. colonna) in a row.
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A series of columns in a straight line carrying an entablature
In Classical architecture, a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often freestanding ...
colonnade - structure consisting of a row of evenly spaced columns
peristyle - a colonnade surrounding a building or enclosing a court ...
Colonnade
A regular series of columns in a straight line or creating a curve or circle. These generally indicate a classical design, but are also used on modern structures.
Ottawa ...
colonnade:
a series of columns set at regular intervals
corbeled towers:
a tower that is stepped outward and upward from a vertical wall ...
colonnade - a series of regularly spaced columns
colossal column -column that spans more than one floor
conical roof - cone-shaped roof ...
Colonnades: A series of columns supporting either arches or an entablature, and usually one side of a roof. These were common architectural features of Early Roman churches.
Colonnade - A long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing.
Column - A vertical, usually circular pillar, generally used as a support for a beam or other structure, such as an entablature.
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Colonnade
A grouping of columns spaced at regular intervals and supporting either arches or a straight entablature.
Column ...
colonnade (12) -- a range of columns rupporting an entablature (Pedley, 353) Sample Image (Lesson 12)
colonnaded portico (6) ...
COLONNADE A row of columns supporting an entablature.
COLONNETTE A very reduced column.
COLUMN A vertical supporting post, usually composed of a base, a shaft, and a capital.
Colonnade - A row of columns carrying an entablature or arches.
Composite pier - A type of pier that is composed not of a single member but has shafts, half-columns, or pilaster strips attached to it.
Colonnade - A row of columns forming an element of an architectural composition, carrying either a flat-topped entablature or a row of arches.
colonnade: a row of columns.
colonnette: a small column.
column: free-standing vertical support; in the classical orders this consists of (from top to bottom) abacus, echinus (or volute) and shaft, together with optional base and plinth.
colonnade : A row of columns, usually equidistant. colonnade: A row of columns which support horizontal members, called an architrave, rather than arches ...
Colonnade
A row of freestanding columns that support a horizontal entablature called an architrave, or a series of arches. Also see arcade.
Colonnette
A small column. In Armenian architecture they are often found in blind arcades.
colonnade: A row of columns which support horizontal members, called an architrave, rather than arches Contrast with arcade. See also architrave, column, pier.
colonnade A row of regularly spaced columns supporting an entablature.
colonnette A diminutive column which is usually either short or slender.
Colonnade
A row of columns, usually equidistant, supporting a beam or entablature.
Column
A cylindrical vertical support usually consisting of a base, shaft, and capital.
COLONNADEa row of columns usually supporting the base of the roof structure
CORNICEa moulded projection at the top of the wall (interior or exterior) of a building, or arch or window ...
Beyond the colonnade is a peristyle courtyard, which also dates back to Amenhotep's original construction. The best preserved columns are on the eastern side, where some traces of original colour can be seen.
Pteron: the colonnade extending the length of the temple
Quadriga: a four-horse chariot; a quadriga was at the apex of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus ...
covered arcade or colonnade
Longbow
large, powerful wooden bow, used to shoot arrows, often over long distances ...
E. Koch, 'The lost colonnade of Shah Jahan's bath in the Red Fort at Agra', Burlington Magazine 124: 331- 9, 1982.
--- 'The Zahara Bagh (Bagh-i Jahanara) at Agra', Environmental Design 1986: 30-7.
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Alternation of support: A system of supports for an arcade or colonnade in which there are two different types of support.
(1) Architecturally, a basilica is an oblong, colonnaded building that was used in the Roman Empire as a town hall or law court. The style was later adapted by Christianity in its church architecture.
that of a lintel ARCHITRAVE: the lintel extending from one column or pier to another BUTTRESS: a mass of masonry or brickwork projecting from or built against a wall to give more strength CAPITAL: the head or crowning feature of a column COLONNADE: a ...
colonnadeA Colonnade is a row of columns. columnA Column is a post or pillar used for support or decoration (from the Latin columna=post).
Porch - A building forming an enclosure or protection for doorway, a portico or colonnade, a veranda.
Portal - A gate or doorway, esp. great or magnificent one, any entrance, the arch over a gate.
Colonnade - range of evenly spaced columns.
Column - pillar (circular section).
Concentric - having two sets of walls, one inside the other.
Concentric - castle with two or more rings of defences, one inside the other.
A pilaster respond is set at the end of a colonnade, arcade etc. to balance visually the column which it faces. A pilaster strip is a pilaster without base or capital (also called a lesene).
The churches bore little resemblance to the houses that preceded them, but they drew on one feature, the atrium, or courtyard with a colonnade surrounding it. Most of these atriums have disappeared.
Of all the famous Greek structures, there is a common thread, colonnade, or columns. There are three classic styles of architectural pillars that were originated by the ancient Greeks: the Doric Column, the Ionic Column, and the Corinthian Column.
Basilica - Rectangular hall with double colonnade and apse for altar at one (east) end, used by the Romans for law courts and other assemblies and later for the basic Christian church form.
a covered entrance to a building, colonnaded, either constituting the whole front of the building or forming an important feature.
Principals
in a roof of double-framed construction, the main as opposed to the common rafters.
Plans for the colonnade were postponed and eventually eliminated. The Washington Monument evolved into a simple tapered obelisk made of white marble, granite, and sandstone.
Portico
- a porch in the form of a classical colonnade, usually described in terms of the number of columns, ie Hexastyle (6), Octastyle (8) Decastyle (10) (all from Greek ie deka, ten, stulos a column) ...
LOGGIA
Gallery, usually arcaded or colonnaded; sometimes free-standing.
LOZENGE
A diamond-shaped pattern characteristic of Romanesque decoration that is often carved around pillars, arches and doorways.
A loggia is a gallery formed by a colonnade open on one or more sides. The space is often located on an upper floor of a building overlooking an open...
Maksoora ...
A porch or vestibule of a church, generally colonnaded or arcaded and preceding the nave.
The building was generally rectangular and was divided by colonnades. The wall at one end formed a semi-circular or rectangular apse. The term later came to mean a Christian church which adopted the same design as the Roman basilica.
5) Side Aisle- one of the corridors running parallel to the nave of a church and separated from it by an arcade or colonnade.
6) Crossing- the area in a church where the transept and the nave intersect.
NARTHEX A porch or vestibule of a church, generally colonnaded or arcaded and preceding the nave.
Embraces classical precedents, such as arches, colonnades, classical columns and entablatures
Smooth wall surfaces
Delicacy of details
Formal landscape; use of pools, fountains, sculpture within a central plaza ...
A small porch composed of a roof supported by columns, often found in front of a doorway,that is leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls ...
From the monumental gilded-bronze baldacchino erected by an army of craftsmen in the 1620’s beneath Michelangelo’s dome to the embracing colonnaded piazza of the 1650’s, Bernini defined the character of 17th-century Rome.
That is why the Chinese have added an additional colonnade to support the weight under the outer edges, reducing the bracket system to mere decorations.
colonnade A row of columns, usually equidistant. column A vertical support; in an order it consists of a shaft and capital, often resting on a base.
A typical Greek agora (public square or meeting place) included a temple, a council chamber (bouleuterion), a theatre, and gymnasiums, all enclosed within a colonnade.
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