rotunda - a building having a circular plan and a dome
building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" ...
Rotunda
Any room that is built on a circular plan, particularly a round room that has a dome as in the Pantheon.
Château d'Amboise - France (1500) ...
ROTUNDA An internal space, perhaps domed, round, or oval in plan; often part of the circulation pattern in a building.
ROUNDEL A circular panel or decoration.
rotunda: a building or room of circular plan, usually domed.
Rundbogenstil: ‘round arch style’, German with Romanesque origins.
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.
Rotunda
In architecture, this is a round building, or room, usually with a domed roof.
Rotunda - Domed building, circular in plan, such as the Pantheon.
Spina - The center strip running down the middle of a circus.
Sudatorium - Sweat room, steam room of a Roman bath complex.
The Rotunda, University of Virginia
Palladian design e.g. central core, symmetrical wings
Main floor slightly elevated above ground level
Red brick construction
White painted columns and trim
Octagons and octagonal forms
Chinese railings ...
Two photos: Villa Rotunda (Villa Capra) Perhaps Palladio's most influential building
Five examples of Palladio's villas ...
rotundaA Rotunda is a round building.Example 1: Roman gardens and Gothic invaders, Example 2: Gardens in Middle Germany (2) rusticationRustication is stonework with roughened surfaces and recessed joints.
Palladio Picture Gallery: Villa Capra (The Rotunda)
Palladio's design for Villa Almerico-Capra expressed the humanist values of the Renaissance period.
Villa Almerico-Capra, also known as Villa La Rotonda, by Andrea Palladio ...
entrance porch to a building, which is carried by columns, and either constitutes the whole front of the building, as in the Greek and Roman temples, or forms an important feature, as the portico of the Pantheon at Rome attached to the rotunda.
Thus the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was expanded by adding a Romanesque transept to the east side of the Rotunda. Elsewhere in the city over sixty churches were built or renovated, whilst mosques were converted into churches.
Exterior view #1 of the Hall of Great Americans
Exterior view #2 of the Hall of Great Americans
Interior view of auditorium (beneath rotunda)
Interior view #1 of entrance hall
Interior view #2 of entrance hall
Interior view #1
Interior view #2 ...
The centralized plan of the rotunda presents an alternative to the longitudinal structures of the basilica. The form is based on a characteristic Roman form of mausoleum as exemplified by mausoleum of Diocletian built as part of his palace in Split: ...
Rotunda - Round building, sometimes enclosed in a colonnade ;also a round room
Roughcast - Covered in a rough material such as pebble dash.
Row Housing - A row of houses with only front, rear and interior open spaces.
RosetteA flat circular ornament in the shape of a flower.Rose windowCircular window with tracery radiating from the centre.RotundaBuilding or room circular in plan.RoughcastWall plaster mixed with a coarse aggregate such as gravel.
architecture, a sepulchral monument in the form of a huge stone structure with a square base and sloping sides meeting at an apex QUOIN: the stones at the corners of buildings, usually laid so that their faces are alternately large and small ROTUNDA: ...
rotunda a circular, domed building or hall. rustication the roughened finish, naturally or artificially created, on blocks of stone or masonry, and the deep engraving of the joints between the blocks; ...
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