SPANDRELS
Roughly triangular spaces between and arch and its containing rectangle, or between adjacent arches. Also non-structural panels under the windows in a curtain-walled building.
fan spandrels - see below
Tudor arch - a triangular arch with soft curves at the bottom two corners.
Carved spandrels
Saturn Club
Clement House/Red Cross Building
Tudor Revival ...
Spandrels : The semi-triangular space formed by arches and the moldings surrounding them.
Eastern Spandrels on the North and South Walls
The eastern spandrel on the south wall shows the mission of Moses who appears first at the bottom tending the sheep of Jethro and again above with the calling of Moses by God in the Burning Bush to lead ...
fretwork spandrels
Made with intricate cutwork, skillfully joined with Ball & Dowel or Spindle sections. The lacy scrollwork was first handcut, one piece at a time.
It is however worrying that past repairs have not been sympathetic, stonework is starting to deteriorate badly on the cutwaters and large areas of the spandrels and parapet, due to the unsympathetic pointing.
It is lavished with carved buttresses, spires, and lacy spandrels. However, these details are merely frosting, applied to the facade of a refined brick home in the Federal style. Paired chimneys flank a low, hipped roof.
The trefoil patterns in the spandrels over the doorway illustrate a Gothic influence, as does the lancet or gothic arch, while the column capitals are verging on a Renaissance style, like that found in the French Chateaux.
The iwans are all composed of four centre-pointed arches with pietra dura decoration in the spandrels. The corners of the building are cut off or chamfered with projecting pillars marking the change from one face to another.
It can include statues, keystones, gargoyles, pediments, caryatids and atlantes, figures or designs on spandrels and tympana, cornices, brackets, columns and capitals, frieze panels and decorative bricks.
It has only one clear story above the ground-floor; but the roof, rising steeply, has several projecting windows, with carved spandrels rather elegantly enclosed in oaken frames, and externally adorned with balustrades.
pier-and-spandrel motif A wall treatment that emphasizes the play between vertical piers and horizontal spandrels.
pigment Substances used as a coloring agent ...
Bargeboards are sometimes moulded only or carved, but as a rule the lower edges were cusped and had tracery in the spandrels besides being otherwise elaborated.
The vault of the Abbaye aux Dames may be considered either as a ribbed quadripartite vault of square plan, bisected and strengthened by a transverse arch with solid spandrels, or as a series of transverse arches, one on each pair of nave piers, ...
canopy over a pulpit; also called a tester.SouterrainUnderground stone-lined passage and chamber.Space frameA three-dimensional framework in which all the members are interconnected, designed to cover very large areas.Spandrels ...
Lace-like spandrels are common and turned balusters are used as porch railings. Balusters are also used in suspended form (in the frieze) from the porch ceiling. Eaves may be open rafter tails or boxed with brackets along the cornice.
 See also: Spandrel, Architecture, Facade, Arch, Arches
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