Geometrical: style of tracery in which the patterns are formed by regular circles or segments of circles.
giant order: columns or pilasters rising from the ground floor through more than one storey.
Geometrical stairs usually enclose a well, which may vary very much in size and shape from merely a narrow slit between the flights to a square opening admitting of ample ventilation and lighting.
(= geometrical form, outline) → Form f; what shape is it? → welche Form hat es?
Tracery is geometrically constructed building ornament such as a foil found in the upper part of Gothic rose windows.
Tracery was especially typical in Gothic Revival.
fret A geometrical pattern of horizontal and vertical lines making a pattern band. Also called a "meander" or a "greek key"
frieze The middle portion of an entablature, or any decorated horizontal band.
a recessed geometrical panel in a ceiling.
Collage
a work of art formed by pasting fragments of printed matter, cloth, and other materials (occasionally three-dimensional ) to a flat surface.
A four-lobed geometrical motif with a triangular projection at the intersection of two adjacent foils. Compare with cinqfoil, trefoil, quatrefoil
barbican
Outwork defending the entrance to castle ...
Fret - A geometrical ornament of horizontal and vertical straight lines repeated to form a band.
Interlocking geometrical designs cut from the piece's own wood and used ornamentally.
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Low relief geometrical designs, often in the form of parallel straight lines, zigzags, chevrons, and stylized floral motifs.
Buffalo Central Terminal
General Electric Tower
Buffalo Industrial Bank
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Barbed Quatrefoil: A four-lobed geometrical motif with a triangular projection at the intersection of two adjacent foils. Barbican: The gateway or outworks defending the drawbridge; An outwork or forward extension of a castle gateway.
basinThe word Basin is used in French gardens (pronounced 'bass-an') to mean a geometrical pool of the type made in Baroque gardens.
The main advantage was geometrical. Vaults of various proportions could cover a rectangular or even a trapezoidal bay, so that nave bays could correspond with the narrower aisle bays, ...
Coincidentally with the building of Westminster went on such works as the retro- choir of Exeter, the nave of Lichfield, and Tintern Abbey, wherein are the first signs of change from Early English to Geometrical.
Among the most notable styles of architecture are Art Deco, a style popular in the 1920's and 1930's characterised by geometrical shapes and stylised natural forms and symmetry; Art Nouveau, ...
As in El Tránsito, the vegetal and geometrical stucco decorations are purely Moorish, but unlike the former, the epigraphic texts are in Hebrew.
Chip-carvingSimple geometrical patterns cut into a surface.ChoirThe part of a cathedral, monastic church or collegiate church where services are sung.
There are various forms of bar tracery such as:- Geometrical tracery characteristic of c1250 to 1310.consisting of circles or foiled circles in the head.
Y Tracery. A type of tracery each mullion branches in two forming a Y shape. Typical of c1300.
Art Deco ornamentation consists of low-relief geometrical designs, often with parallel straight lines, zigzags, chevrons, and stylized floral motives.
Bastioned trace: The geometrical system of arrow headed bastions and ramparts, which were used to defend fortifications dating from the 16th century. See arrow headed bastion, bastion.
Queen Anne sash - A window with many small geometrical shaped panes running along the edges
quoins - Alternating large and small stone, brick or wood used to decorate and accentuate the corners of a building ...
Decorated buildings tend to strive for the massive, but cover these with geometrical patterns and points of naturalistic carving.
design in Ontario was the adaptation of the Italian palazzo silhouette and a multitude of 'Italian' leaning detailing to both residential and commercial architecture. Renaissance Revival is more a transferal of the more precise, geometrically based, ...
Geodesic Dome - Hemispherical dome made of prefabricated geometrically shaped units interconnecting to give stability in all directions.
Gothic - West European architectural style of the 12th -15th centuries, characterised by pointed arches.
Breakfast nooks off the kitchen
Recessed window seats
Beamed ceilings with dark wood or plaster beams finished to look like wood
Stone floors or plain wide boards or parquetry in herringbone, checkered, or geometrical patterns ...
The upper portion of the window within the arch was filled with tracery, consisting at first of geometrical patterns, then later of flowing patterns, ...
San Andrea al Quirinale and Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, less than a mile apart in Rome, succinctly summarizes what these two masters shared and how they diverged. In no other buildings of the period is the simple geometrical ...
 See also: Geometric, House, Church, Gothic, Architecture
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