Dome
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DOME (Lat domes, house; Ital. duomo, cathedral), an architectural term, derived from a characteristic feature of Italian cathedrals, correctly applied only to a spherical or spheroidal vault, ...
Semi-dome: half dome.A common feature of the apse at the end of Ancient Roman secular basilicas, Semi-domes are a common feature of apses in Ancient Roman and traditional church architecture, and mosques and iwans in Islamic architecture.
Dome
Circular vaulted construction used as a means of roofing. First used in much of the Middle East and North Africa whence it spread to other parts of the Islamic world, because of its distinctive form the dome has, like the minaret, ...
The Millennium Dome
From your Guide, facts and links for the enormous Millennium Dome in Greenwich, England.
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onion dome - a dome that is shaped like a bulb; characteristic of Russian and Byzantine church architecture
dome - a hemispherical roof ...
Dome - Vault of even curvature on a circular base. The section can be segmental, semicircular, pointed, or bulbous.
dome-on-drum construction
The Romans used this method to construct their domes. The dome section was placed on top of a round drum (like a low cut cylinder) section which often was placed over a square or rectangular section.
donjon or keep ...
Dome - a convex covering over a circular, square, or polygonal space. Domes may be hemispherical, semi-elliptical, pointed or onion-shaped.
Dome
A vault of even curvature most usually erected on a circular base. The section can be segmental (eg saucer shaped dome) Semi circular, pointed or bulbous (Onion dome).
(EE) Early English.
DOME Often a hemispherical covering rising from a roof; may be surmounted by a cupola and may be raised over a circular or polygonal drum. This drum is frequently pierced by openings or windows.
DRIPSTONE See hood-mould.
Dome (Cupola). Curved or spherical vault (may also be semi-circular with an oval section) mainly found in religious buildings.
Dome
In architecture, a hemispherical vault or ceiling over a circular opening. Usually, and almost always in the case of Armenian churches, the dome is elevated further by being placed on a circular or polygonal base, called a drum.
Dome
a vaulted (frequently hemispherical) roof or ceiling, erected on a circular base, which may be envisaged as the result of rotating an arch through 180 degrees about a central axis.
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dome : A roof formed by a series of arches, roughly forming a semicircle.
donjon (keep) : The principal tower of a castle;.
dome: A hemispherical vault See also semi-dome, squinch, pendentive.
drum: A cylindrical wall which supports a dome.
drum pier: Find definition See also: pier, alternation of support Other types of piers: composite ...
Dome
Any roof structure that is curved and spans an ultimately circular base. Squinches and pendentives are used to provide a circular base on a square or rectilinear tower. See also cupola.
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Dome
A vaulted roof of circular or polygonal shape.
Doric
Order The first and simplest of the three Greek orders and the only one that normally has no base.
The dome permitted construction of vaulted ceilings and provided large covered public spaces such as the public baths and basilicas.
Cupola A dome or lantern shaped feature built on top of a roof.
Dado The bottom one metre or so of wall clad with timber, originally designed to provide protection to the wall, ...
CUPOLA A dome, usually small, topping a roof or turret.
There is a copper one on top of the central building of the Houses of Rest for Miners, Hucknall.
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
Modern Architecture (Oxford History of Art)
Form and Design in Classic Architecture ...
cupola A small dome on a base crowning a roof.
dentil A small, square, toothlike block in a series beneath a cornice.
onion-shaped dome: used in Russian and Islamic architecture and derived from the domes of Byzantine basilicas. As well as being aesthetically pleasing it throws off snow more easily than a conventional dome.
Cupola A small, dome-like structure, on top of the house.
Cutstone Large stones cut individually, used for a foundation or wall of a house.D
Dado The zone between a chair rail or lower part of a sill and the baseboard.
or crowning feature of a column COLONNADE: a row of columns carrying an entablature or arches COLUMN: a free-standing, upright member of a circular section, usually for a support DENTIL: a small square shape often repeated in a horizontal line DOME: ...
The two basic solutions to spanning are post-and-lintel construction and arch and vault construction, and its offshoot the dome.
Capitol Building, with Greek Revival additions and dome, constructed in the years before and during the Civil War.
12. Washington, D.C. Supreme Court building.
13. Upstate New York. Upright and wing design.
14. Upstate New York.
Pendentives - Horizontal triangular constructions at the top of a square or rectangular building that allow a dome to be set centrally above.
Penthouse - A shed or lean to projecting from or adjoining the main building.
The church of St Sophia at Istanbul, built by Justinian (reigned
527-565), offers the most typical specimen of the style, of which the fundamental principle was an application of the Roman arch, the dome being the most striking feature of the ...
Arch or series of arches thrown across an interior angle of a square or rectangular structure to support a circular or polygonal superstructure, especially a dome or spire.
Exterior view of Chateau and front gardens from dome
Exterior view of front steps
Exterior view of gardens from dome
Exterior view of gardens
Interior view of banqueting hall
Interior view of bath antechamber
Interior view of billiard room ...
Lantern - small structure with open or windowed sides on top of a roof or dome to let light or air into the enclosed space below.
Lattice - laths or lines crossing to form a network.
Lias - greyish rock which splits easily into slabs.
In a centralized church, a circular dome is supported by triangular supports on a square base. In effect, the triangular supports in the corner of the square made the space below the dome an octagon.
In examining the Palatine Chapel in Aachen we noticed how the original dome mosaic of the Adoration of the Lamb put the Carolingian Emperor within the hierarchy of divine order.
He eventually became an architect, the first truly Renaissance builder, and in that capacity designed the enormous octagonal dome of Florence Cathedral, also called the Duomo, completed in 1436.
- a sort of curved triangle, which is the solution to the problem of placing a dome on top of a square.
First, the sticking-out stone, dome roof, and second, the concrete covered beam roofs of lime. There is not much information on the first type, but a little more on the second. This type of roofing is flat and made of beams and lime concrete.
Coffer - An inset decoration in a ceiling, vault, or dome. They range from the undecorative types such as in the inner dome of the Pantheon, to more ornate ones decorated with moldings and rosettes.
Cupola
Is a small, most-often dome-like structure, on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome.
coffer A recessed decorative panel in a ceiling, vault, or dome. Such a boring word, really. see lacunar
corbel A kind of bracket composed of a single projecting block, or of several graduated projecting courses of masonry, providing a ledge.
a raised structure on a dome, glazed to admit light or ventilation.
Lath and plaster
thin flat strips of wood used collectively as a foundation for supporting plaster.
Cupola : The turret which serves as the crown to the dome or roof of a structure.
Garth : The garden or court within a cloister, usually attached to or near a cathedral.
Cupola: A cupola is a short windowed tower, or dome, typically located in the center of a flat or low-slope roof. Many Italianate houses have cupolas.
Lantern
The windowed upper stage of a tower or dome.
Lay
A lay person was anyone who was not a priest, monk, or otherwise in religious orders.
LANTERN
Circular or polygonal windowed turret crowning a roof of a dome. Also the windowed stage of a crossing tower lighting the church interior.
The space at the intersection of the nave, chancel, and transepts of a church; often surmounted by a crossing tower or dome.
Cruciform
In the shape of a cross, often used to describe the plan of a church.
One of the most important Gothic buildings of Europe, the cathedral was built largely in the 14th and 15th centuries, with its Renaissance dome being added between 1556 and 1587.
The ultramodern Bob's Big Boy restaurants, early McDonald's restaurants, Disneyland's Tomorrowland and Monsanto House of the Future, Seattle's Space Needle, and the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood are all well-known examples of Googie architecture.
Squinch - An arch or a series of corbelled arches, diagonally across an angle (e.g. the internal angles of a square tower, to support a polygonal or round dome, or spire).
pendentive A curved support shaped like an inverted triangle, used to support a dome. pier A large pillar used to support a roof.
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