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Camden Malthouse (left) and Camden Mill (1880) beyond, Bath [1] In general architecture a lucarne is a dormer window.The term is borrowed from French: lucarne, which refers to a dormer window, usually one set into the middle of a roof although it can also apply to a façade lucarne, where the gable of the lucarne is aligned with the face of the wall.
An office building in Accra, Ghana.. Office buildings are generally categorized by size and by quality (e.g., "a low-rise Class A building") [2]. Office buildings by size. Low-rise (less than 7 stories)
A street in SoHo in New York City famous for its cast-iron facades. Spa Colonnade in Mariánské Lázně, 1889.Nearly every element is cast iron. Cast-iron architecture is the use of cast iron in buildings and objects, ranging from bridges and markets to warehouses, balconies and fences.
Factory buildings often are built with clerestory windows; modern housing designs sometimes include them as well. Modern clerestory windows may have another especially important role, besides daylighting and ventilation : they can be part of passive solar strategies, in very energy-efficient buildings ( passive houses and zero-energy buildings ).
A façade or facade (/ f ə ˈ s ɑː d / ⓘ; [1]) is generally the front part or exterior of a building. It is a loanword from the French façade ( pronounced [fasad] ), which means " frontage " or " face ".
In the early 1920s, the Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank tore down its head office, the Sweerts-Sporck Palace [] in Prague, and had it rebuilt behind the preserved façade on a design by architect Josef Gočár, visible in the background Preservation of a 19th-century facade, Noordereiland, Rotterdam Reverse façadism: New construction with an old-looking façade hung in front of a cast concrete wall ...
Mid-century modern 1950s–1960s California, US, Latin America; Mission Revival Style architecture 1894–1936; California, US; Modern movement 1927–1960s; Modernisme 1888–1911 Catalan Art Nouveau; National Park Service Rustic 1872–present US; Natural building 2000– Nazi architecture 1933–1944 Germany; Neo-Byzantine architecture 1882 ...
Contemporary architecture is the architecture of the 21st century. No single style is dominant. [1] Contemporary architects work in several different styles, from postmodernism, high-tech architecture and new references and interpretations of traditional architecture [2] [3] to highly conceptual forms and designs, resembling sculpture on an enormous scale.