transitional - of or relating to or characterized by transition; "adolescence is a transitional stage between childhood and adulthood"
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Transitional:
A style of design that blends influences from various style categories.
Transom: ...
Transitional - The period around the 1890s between Victorian and Edwardian architecture and incorporating elements from each period.
Transom - A horizontal member across an opening or panel (e.g. below a verandah valance. q.v.).
[edit] Transitional style
During the 12th century, features that were to become typical of Gothic architecture began to appear.
Transitional -
A period of architecture which marked the period between the Norman and Gothic styles when both were inter mingling. Late twelfth to early thirteenth centuries
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Transitional keep: The polygonal or round keep of the 12th century, which was designed to overcome the problems associated with square and rectangular keep.
An early transitional Richardsonian Romanesque building - some would say the beginning of the style - is the Buffalo Psychiatric Center.
Examples in Buffalo: ...
TRANSITIONAL: the period of change from one architectural style to another, but as used with a capital "T", especially the transition from the Romanesque to the Gothic, c. 1200. TREFOIL: divided into three foils.
Tudor : A style of English architecture prevalent during the reigns of the Tudors (1485- 1558), transitional between Gothic and Palladian, with emphasis on privacy and interiors.
Early Classical Revival: The Early Classical Revival style (1770-1830) can be considered a transitional style between the Federal and Greek Revival styles.
The buildings of this time are transitional - many still have the thick piers and rounded window openings of the earlier Romanesque style. Vaulting and decoration are simple; there is little sign of the elaborate stonework to come.
Some of the most beautiful work in glass, such for example as that at Auch, is so plainly intermediate between two styles that it is impossible to describe it as anything but "transitional.
The stick style was a transitional style that followed Gothic Revival architecture and preceded Queen Anne architecture which was a more widespread and popular style.
Saxo-NormanTransitional Romanesque style combining Anglo-Saxon and Norman features, current c. 1060-1100.
Balustrade
Early Gothic or transitional balustrade....
Balustrade
Early Gothic balustrade....
If raised over a square or polygonal base transitional squinches or pendentives must be inserted at the corners of the base to transform it into a near circle. Image courtesy of Gayle Goudy Kochanski ...
It is within this period that the more distinctive features of English Gothic emerge, leaving behind evident transitional links with the Romanesque. Westminster Abbey is an example of construction during this era ...
Transitional forms are found throughout the eleventh century, and the development from such a plan as that of St.
 See also: Architecture, Gothic, Roman, Ornament, Arch
  
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