Drayton Hall
Near Charleston, S.C.
1738-42
Official Site
Style: Georgian
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Seinajoki Town Hall by Alvar Aalto
The Seinajoki Town Hall is part of an Administrative and Cultural Center that Alvar Aalto designed for Seinajoki, Finland.
Hall church - A German type of church in which nave and aisle are of approximately equal height often united under a single immense roof.
hall crypt
A crypt in the form of a large space of uniform height, subdivided by columns.
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Hall - Principal room or building in complex.
Herringbone - Brick or stone laid in alternate diagonal courses.
Hillfort - Bronze or iron age earthwork defenses of concentric ditches and banks.
hall church: one with aisles equal in height to the nave
hammerbeam: type of roof construction in which the braces rest on cantilevered beams supported on brackets.
Lecture-Hall Floor Plan: As viewed by a worshiper in the congregation, there is one speaker's stand, centered in the front of the church. It is technically an ambo, but is often incorrectly called the pulpit.
Chaitya hall
a U-shaped Buddhist structural or rock-cut chamber for congregational worship centered on a stupa.
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hall, hallway - an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open; "the elevators were at the end of the hall"
overhead - (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship ...
HALL: The principal room in the keep, used for receiving guests and for a major entertainments.
KEEP: The strongest tower of a castle. Usually where the lord lived.
LANCET: A tall narrow, pointed window.
Hall: principal living quarters of a medieval castle or house
Hoarding: covered wooden gallery affixed to the top of the outside of a tower or curtain to defend the castle
Inner Ward or Inner Bailey: open area in the center of a castle ...
Hall church : A structure which does not contain a Clerestory or Triforium, thus the Aisles and Nave will be approximately the same height.
Hall
principal room or building in a castle, used for meals, meetings and formal occasions. It also served as a sleeping area for servants
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Hall keep: Originally a type of rectangular keep, which later developed into a round design with more than one storey, including a main hall and apartments. See keep.
The Hall of Supreme Harmony within the Palace Museum (Forbidden City) grounds in Beijing, built during the Yongle era (1402-1424) of the Ming Dynasty.
Large hall in the ancient Palaestra furnished with seats, the length of which should be a third larger than the width. It served for the exercises of...
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Austin Hall Harvard Richardson
Richardson's style is characterized by dramatic semicircular arches as can be seen in this doorway at Harvard.
The widest hall vaulted by the Romans was that of the throne room in the palace of Diocletian on the Palatine Hill, and this had the enormous span of zoo ft., its thrust being counteracted by other halls on either side with buttresses outside.
St George's Hall, Liverpool
A term used for the architecture of Ancient Greece and Rome, revived at the Renaissance and subsequently imitated around the Western world.
Hypostyle Hall
In architecture, this is a hall with a roof supported by many columns.
The hypostyle hall of Karnak Temple
The key difference between Karnak and most of the other temples and sites in Egypt is the length of time over which it was developed and used. Construction work began in the 16th century BC.
Fullerton City Hall (1963)
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Western State University College of Law (1975)
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Pantry - associated with the Buttery in the Great Hall complex. I'm not sure what its function was as differentiated from the former. Pantry actually means 'bread room' (pan French equals bread).
concourse : a hall in a pedestrian precinct, or a piazza
concrete : A mixture of sand, cement and aggregate (stone or gravel) that may be reinforced with ferrous metals.
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Other types of crypt: hall crypt Coping: Covering stones. Corbel: A projection from a wall which sometimes supports (or appears to support) a structural member such as a shaft; A projecting block of stone built into a wall during construction; ...
(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.
Penn State University campus, Irvin Hall. c.1926.
5. Stafford Springs, CT. Borough School. c.1920s. Originally the town's high school.
6. Harrisburg, PA. Front Street.
Gallery - An intermediate floors or platform projecting from a wall of an auditorium or a hall providing extra floor area, additional seating accommodation etc. Long thin room, also in a church, an upper floor overlooking the nave.
Three square rooms and an entrance hall on the first floor and four square rooms on the second floor
Low hipped or pyramidal roof
Wide roof overhangs with exposed rafter tails or decorative beams or braces under the gables ...
The Cape Cod originated in the early 18th century as early settlers used half-timbered English houses with a hall and parlor as a model, and adapted it to New England's stormy weather and natural resources.
To look at the basic floor plan of a typical Cape Cod house you would notice it was generally a formal, centre-hall plan.
This building is the Charlotte City Hall. City Hall has pairs of Corinthian columns and the typical flat Corinthian roof. The coumns have entasis. If you go see City Hall in person, the shafts will look straight to your eye, but they aren't! ...
The door leads to an entryway with stairway and hall aligned along the center of the house. All rooms branch off of these.
A typical building of the period is Wollaton Hall (1588), Nottinghamshire, built by Robert Smythson; ...
Interior view of entry hall
Interior view #1 of reading room
Interior view #2 of reading room
Interior view #3 of reading room
Interior view #4 of reading room
Interior view of stairway, lower landing
Interior view of stairway, mid-landing ...
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.
The style copied Greek and Roman features and symmetry, which were especially well suited for colossal public buildings, such as the Eau Claire City Hall and the previous Carnegie-endowed Library.
- Roman, a public hall, usually where justice was administered. The semi-circular space at one end where the judges sat was called the tribune, this later became known as the apse, ...
3) Narthex- the entrance hall or porch proceding the nave of a church.
4) Nave- the great central space in a church.
foyer The entrance hall of a home.
fresco A method of painting on fresh plaster with water based paints; the design is then absorbed into the plaster as it dries and becomes a permanent part of the surface.
Basilica - The public hall that formed a gathering point in every Roman city, usually with a rectangular plan ending in as apse and divided by a double file of columns. It was the inspiration for the early Christian churches.
The civic work of Flanders is perhaps its most distinctively national creation, and the Cloth Hall, Ypres, with the great group of fourteenth-century town halls -- Bruges, Brussels, Louvain, Oudenarde, Alost, ...
Pronaos: the porch or entrance hall to the temple cella
Pseudo-peripteral: as peripteral, but with some of the columns engaged instead of free standing
Pteron: the colonnade extending the length of the temple ...
Refectory
The communal dining hall of a monastery. Sometimes called a 'frater'.
Renaissance
The 15th- and 16th-century intellectual and artistic revival of forms from Ancient Greece and Rome.
(Pronunciation: "DING-dahng") The Main Hall of a traditional Chinese family home.
Tokonoma
(Pronunciation: "toh-koh-NOH-mah") In Japanese architecture, an alcove for displaying art.
Narthex
The transverse entrance hall of a church.
Nave
In a Roman basilica, the central aisle. In a church, the main section extending from the entrance to the crossing.
Pedley, John Griffiths. Greek Art and Archaeology. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1993.
The Oxford English Dictionary. Eds. James A.H. Murray, Henry Bradley, W.A. Craigie, and C.T. Onions. Second Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, vols. 1-20.
The great circular hall, roofed by a hemispherical vault with an opening at the center 9 m. in diameter, is due entirely to the reconstruction. The inside has a diameter of 42.75 m., equal to the greatest height of the building.
NARTHEX The entrance hall that stretches across the church's main entrance.
NAVE The principal room in a church for the congregation.
BASILICA
A Roman public hall; hence an aisled building with a clerestory.
BATTER
An inclined face of wall; hence battered ...
cella - the main room of a temple - the narrow hall that ran the entire length of the temple.
Rotunda. A round building often covered with a dome. A large round room or hall, generally in the centre of a building.
Round arch. * Arch.
BAY: a division of space that is repeated within a building, a three bay house would have three spaces repeated along one side as in two rooms and a hall. A space that projects from the rest of the building as in a bay window. (IMAGE) ...
The mark or marks designating that a piece of metalwork has received an official approval of quality. Usually given by Goldsmith's Hall, London.
Hassock
A tightly stuffed, upholstered cushion used as a footstool or seat.
Another term for battlements, but used to describe decorative battlements. Often these are made of ashlar or fine brick and include arrow slits. Many later medieval houses and churches were crenellated, like Oxbrugh Hall and Jesus College, Cambridge.
Later, it was used for a hall with seating, attached to a peristyle, gymnasium, palaestra or private house. In gardens, it usually means an area with a semicircular area backed by a wall or hedge.
Two subsets of the National style, known as "hall-and-parlor family" and "I-house," are characterized by layouts that are two rooms wide and one room deep.
In American architecture, frequently used in Richardsonian Romanesque buildings. Minneapolis examples include the Municipal Building (aka City Hall) and several buildings in the Warehouse Historic District.
In modified form (typically, without the semicircular sash) it is also seen in Greek Revival and later styles. A typical location for a Palladian window is above the entry door, where it lights a central upstairs hall or stair landing.
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