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  2. Quadrangle (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Tom Quad, Christ Church, Oxford Quadrangle of the University of Sydney. In architecture, a quadrangle (or colloquially, a quad) is a space or a courtyard, usually rectangular (square or oblong) in plan, the sides of which are entirely or mainly occupied by parts of a large building (or several smaller buildings).

  3. Humanities Quadrangle - Wikipedia

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    The Humanities Quadrangle (HQ), originally the Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), is an academic quadrangle at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. First opened in 1932, the building was designed as a Collegiate Gothic structure by architect James Gamble Rogers .

  4. Collegiate Gothic - Wikipedia

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    What he produced, the Cathedral of Learning (1926–37), has been described as the literal culmination of late Gothic Revival architecture. [21] A combination of Gothic spire and modern skyscraper, the steel-frame, limestone-clad, 42-story structure is both the world's second tallest university building and Gothic-styled edifice. [22]

  5. Blue Boar Quadrangle - Wikipedia

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    Blue Boar Quadrangle was built on the site of an old car park and garages, next to the narrow, high-walled Blue Boar Street. [1] The quadrangle was designed so that the top floor penthouses provide a broken, set-back series of horizontal planes that help to reduce the scale of the development seen from the street and is constructed almost entirely of characteristic Portland Whitbed and Roach ...

  6. University of Sydney Quadrangle - Wikipedia

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    The abundance of a variety of gargoyles featured in the Quadrangle's architecture relates to gargoyles being characteristic of Neo-Gothic medieval architecture, as they have a symbolic role of warding off evil spirits in the Catholic tradition. Traditionally, gargoyles often depicted fantastical and mythical creatures, but in the turn of the ...

  7. BDP Quadrangle - Wikipedia

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    A complex adaptive re-use project, Quadrangle was asked by KingSett Capital to both renovate and add a 7-storey condo on top of an existing 1960s 14-storey commercial building (by Bregman + Hamann, now B+H Architects) that is topped by the heritage-listed modernist Toronto Penthouse (restored and updated in 2012 by interior designer J.F ...

  8. Cloister - Wikipedia

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    768–814) the requirements of a separate monastic community within an extended and scattered manorial estate led to the development of a "monastery within a monastery" in the form of the locked cloister, an architectural solution allowing the monks to perform their sacred tasks apart from the distractions of laymen and servants. [8]

  9. Quadrangle - Wikipedia

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    Quadrangle Group investment fund in New York City; BDP Quadrangle, Toronto, Canada; Complete quadrangle (projective geometry), a configuration with four points and six lines; Love quadrangle, variant form of a love triangle, in which three people vie for the affections of a fourth; The Quadrangle (Antarctica), a glacial cirque on Alexander Island