Podium
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PODIUM (Gr. 7roocov, diminutive of ir-ous, foot), the name in architecture for a continuous pedestal, or low wall on which columns are carried, consisting of a cornice or capping, a dado or die, ...
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A podium (plural podia) is a platform that is used to raise something to a short distance above its surroundings. In architecture a building can rest on a large podium.
Acropodium
An elevated plinth or pedestal bearing a statue, generally raised above the substructure. See also acroterion.
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Podium
in Classical architecture, a basis, usually solid, supporting a temple or other superstructure.
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PODIUM
A continuous raised platform supporting a building; or a large block of two or three storeys beneath a multi-storey block of smaller area.
Podium
(a) the masonry forming the base of a temple; (b) a raised platform or pedestal.
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Podium - Roman temples were often raised up on high masonry bases called podiums.
Pozzolana - A rust colored volcanic ash, found in the regions in central Italy around the town of Pozzuoli, which was a crucial component in Roman concrete.
Podium - a raised platform with seats for privileged attendees.
Poppy heads - finials or other ornaments which terminate the tops of bench ends, either to pews or stalls.
Podium - Platform supporting more than one column.
Porch - A building forming an enclosure or protection for doorway, a portico or colonnade, a veranda.
Portal - A gate or doorway, esp.
The central part of the complex is raised on a rectangular podium decorated with arcades of blind niches. At each corner of the podium is an octagonal base for a minaret whilst the tomb stands in the centre.
Buildings usually set on a podium
Designed to achieve modern monumentality
Embraces classical precedents, such as arches, colonnades, classical columns and entablatures
Smooth wall surfaces
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Apex - The highest point of a structure. The apex can be plain or decorated with an acroterion, an acropodium, a symbol, or a finial.
Apophyge - The slight curve at the top and bottom of a column where the shaft joins the capital or base.
Loculus: a place for the deposit of valuables, especially a chamber in the podium of a temple, accessible from the exterior; the Temple of Castor and Pollux was ringed with loculi.
The Rectangular Temple on the right is Ionic in style (capitals with characteristic volutes) and is built of tufa and travertine with a superficial coating of stucco( bonding material). It stands on a lofty podium in the Republican manner.
The center columns have larger capitals and rafters than those on the end. This gives the illusion that the columns are farther apart than they really are. Adding to the illusion, the podium beneath the columns slopes slightly down at the edges.
 See also: Architecture, House, Classical, Plinth, Pedestal
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