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  2. Casa das Histórias Paula Rego - Wikipedia

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    Its two pyramid-shaped towers and the red-coloured concrete are very distinctive and the previously existing mature trees of the park have been incorporated as elements in the design. The building consists of four wings, of different heights and sizes, subdivided into connecting rooms that are laid out around a central room designed to house ...

  3. Portuguese colonial architecture - Wikipedia

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    Unlike in the previous epoch, however, 16th-century Portuguese colonial architecture did not skip aesthetics in order to pursue functionality, instead it was, for the first time, able to truly compromise the two ideals of beauty and function, an ideal persistent throughout the Portuguese Renaissance. As in most times, military structures of the ...

  4. Duplex (building) - Wikipedia

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    A duplex house plan has two living units attached to each other, either next to each other as townhouses, condominiums or one above the other like apartments. By contrast, a building comprising two attached units on two distinct properties is typically considered semi-detached or twin homes but is also called a duplex in parts of the ...

  5. Casa do Penedo - Wikipedia

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    The house is located between the Marão mountain range, Senhora da Graça and the mountains of Sameiro and Penha , at the intersection of the parishes of Várzea Cova and Moreira do Rei, in the so-called Serras de Fafe. [2] Its construction began in 1972 and lasted about two years until its completion in 1974. [3]

  6. Portuguese architecture - Wikipedia

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    During the union of Portugal and Spain, the period between 1580 and 1640, a new style developed called "Arquitecture chã" (plain architecture) by George Kubler. [1] Basically mannerist, this style also marked by a clear structure, a sturdy appearance with smooth, flat surfaces and a moderate arrangement of space, lacking excessive decorations.

  7. List of house types - Wikipedia

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    An I-house is a two or three-story house that is one room deep with a double-pen, hall-parlor, central-hall or saddlebag layout. [15] New England I-house: characterized by a central chimney [16] Pennsylvania I-house: characterized by internal gable-end chimneys at the interior of either side of the house [16]

  8. Cobe Estate - Wikipedia

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    The Cobe Estate, also known as Cariad or Oak Hall, is a historic summer mansion house on Bluff Road in Northport, Maine. Overlooking Penobscot Bay, this 1910s mansion is one of the largest Colonial Revival houses in the state. It was built in 1912-14 for Chicago lawyer Ira M. Cobe, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...

  9. California bungalow - Wikipedia

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    Zellers-Langel House, Franklin County, Ohio. Bungalows are 1- or 1 + 12-story houses, with sloping roofs and eaves with unenclosed rafters, and typically feature a dormer window (or an attic vent designed to look like one) over the main portion of the house. Ideally, bungalows are horizontal in massing, and are integrated with the earth by ...