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10-metre (33-foot) high cenotaph in the centre of a 2-metre (6.6-foot) screen wall forming rectangular alcoves on each side. At the top of the cenotaph is a recumbent effigy of an unknown soldier, partially covered by his greatcoat and with his helmet and bayonet at his feet. [54] [55] [56] Miserden War Memorial
The Red House is a 1903 apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was built on land owned by Canadian architect R. Thomas Short of the Beaux-Arts firm, Harde & Short. He and his firm designed and built the building in a free eclectic mix of French late Gothic. and English Renaissance motifs, using red brick and ...
An unusual barn in Schoonebeek, Netherlands with interrupted sills, the posts land directly on the padstone foundation Norwegian style framing, Kravik Mellom, Norway. In historic buildings the sills were almost always large, solid timbers framed together at the corners, carry the bents, and are set on the stone or brick foundation walls, piers, or piles (wood posts driven or set into the ground).
A two-story L-shaped service wing is attached to the east side of the mansion. It is made of red brick and stone, with slate roofs. [10] It was designed by Capability Brown in 1751–1752. [21] On the far side of the service wing, a wall connects it to a stable court. [10]
The simple pictorial language of Warli painting is matched by a rudimentary technique. The ritual paintings are usually created on the inside walls of village huts. The walls are made of a mixture of branches, earth and red brick that make a red ochre background for the paintings. The Warli only paint with a white pigment made from a mixture of ...
The Astral Apartments built in Brooklyn in 1885–1886 to house dock workers provide a similar example of red-brick and terracotta Queen Anne architecture in New York. E. Francis Baldwin 's stations for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad are also familiar examples of the style, built variously of brick and wood.
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The term Brick Gothic is used for what more specifically is called Baltic Brick Gothic or North German Brick Gothic. That part of Gothic architecture , widespread in Northern Germany , Denmark , Poland and the Baltic states , is commonly identified with the sphere of influence of the Hanseatic League .