East Wing, National Gallery in Washington DC
1978, by Pritzker Prize Laureate Ieoh Ming Pei
I.M. Pei designed a museum wing that would contrast with the classical design of surrounding buildings.
Upright-and-Wing
1.5-2 Stories
The Upright refers to the vertical part of the house and the Wing to the usually lower side section. This very simple 19th century house style is found in the countryside and cities.
Wing-wall - Wall downslope of motte to protect stairway.
Yett - Iron lattice gate.
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Wing-walls - walls extending out from the line of the front wall of a building, often dividing individual houses in terrace rows and sometimes decorated.
Bat-wing Drawer Pull:
A brass drawer pull that is in the shape similar to a bat. Usually on Queen Anne pieces.
Bead: ...
wing - one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane
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rib - any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates) ...
Wing - Building part projecting from a central or main part
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Xystus - Tree-lined walk ...
Wing chair (Ansley Wilcox Mansion / Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site)
Beaux Arts Classicism
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Aile: A wing or flank of a fortification.
Alatorium: The Latin term for the wall walk behind the battlements of a fortification, which enables the defenders to protect their position from the tops of the walls. Also known as an allure or parapet walk.
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Wing of a mission building or the set of rooms in which the missionaries lived; missionaries' living quarters.
Mission
Santa Barbara ...
Lean-to - A wing or extension of a building having a single pitched roof, and usually projecting from a higher structure with a double pitch or complete roof.
Gable front and wing: This term refers to an L- or T-shaped house plan in which a gable end of the main block faces the street, and a wing is attached at a ninety-degree angle to the rear portion of the main block.
(Literally ‘A wing') Subsidiary space alongside the nave, choir or transept of a church, separated from it by columns or piers.
Altar.
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South wing, view to west
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Courtyard with domed ablution fountain ...
Ell -- The rear wing of a house, generally one room wide and running perpendicular to the principal building.
Engaged Column -- A round column attached to the wall.
7rmpirytov, diminutive of 7r7puE, wing, is also used in this sense), an architectural ornament originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but afterwards used on parapets at the corners of towers and in many other situations.
Wing nut - A nut that can be tightened or removed without tools by turning it with figures
Wiped joint - A bulging joint round the outside of a lead pipe, made by wiping on heated solder with a cotton ...
Alliance of the arts under the wing of architecture. 50 artists, architects and patrons join lead by Bruno Taut, Walter Gropius and Adolf Behne.
L-plan tower house - distinctive Scottish form of the tower house in which a wing was added at right angles to the main tower block
Label - projecting weather moulding above a door or window to deflect rainwater.
The complex includes 451 Madison Avenue and its extension, 29 1/2 East 50th Street, which occupy the south wing of the palazzo on 50th Street; 453 and 455 Madison Avenue, which occupy the center wing; 457 Madison Avenue, ...
Other distinguishing details of the Neoclassical home plan include roof-line balustrades, dentil molding below the cornice, and side and wing porches or porticos where one can enjoy vistas and sunshine.
Symmetrical and proportional.
The type continued well into the 17th century in its modified forms: L-plan, with a jamb or wing at one corner; Z-plan, with a jamb or wing at each diagonally opposite corner.
Derived from the Latin word ala meaning wing. Describes the part of the church running parallel to the nave and separated from it by an arcade or row of piers.
A single-story lean-to wing of a building that usually contains a kitchen or covered porch. Ells were added to many houses with wooden frameworks in New England, and are also common add-ons to Victorians.
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ell - an addition or wing to a house that shapes it like an "L" or a "T"
entablature - in classical architecture, the part of the structure between the column capital and the roof or pediment ...
Back Addition The narrower part of a building, or wing, which extends rearwards beyond the "main" structure, being an original feature rather than a subsequent extension. This is sometimes called an "outrigger" in different parts of the country.
Exterior view of Jardin de Diane
Exterior view #1 of Jardin Anglais
Exterior view #2 of Jardin Anglais
Exterior view #1 of Henri IV wing
Exterior view #2 of Henri IV wing
Exterior view of Grotte des Pins ...
distinctive Scottish form of the tower house in which a wing was added at right angles to the main tower block
Label
projecting weather moulding above a door or window to deflect rainwater ...
Pollak Library Building, south wing (1966)
CSU Fullerton campus
Langsdorf Hall (1971)
CSU Fullerton campus ...
The central tower is square with an iron balcony atop the wooden entrance. The left wing of the building has a similar wooden porch.
Mallorytown Ontario
Waterdown ...
By extension, sometimes refers to the whole end wall of a building or wing having a pitched roof.
May also refer to a triangular, usually ornamental architectural section, as one above an arched door or window.
gable : the triangle formed by a sloping roof. A building may be front-gabled or side-gabled. The house shown here is cross-gabled - It has a gabled wing. Porches and dormers may also be gabled.
 See also: Architecture, House, Arches, Tower, Classical
  
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