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A veranda (also spelled verandah in Australian and New Zealand English) is a roofed, open-air hallway or porch, attached to the outside of a building. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A veranda is often partly enclosed by a railing and frequently extends across the front and sides of the structure.
The traditional Maltese balcony is a wooden, closed balcony projecting from a wall.. In contrast, a Juliet balcony does not protrude out of the building. It is usually part of an upper floor, with a balustrade only at the front, resembling a small loggia.
The main difference between a loggia and a portico is the role within the functional layout of the building. The portico allows entrance to the inside from the exterior and can be found on vernacular and small scale buildings. Thus, it is found mainly on noble residences and public buildings.
This townhouse on Decatur Street has a gallery on the second floor and a balcony on the third floor. The City of New Orleans provides specific definitions for platforms projecting from the face of the building, differentiating between balconies and galleries. Balconies typically have a projection width of up to 4 feet (1.2 m), lacking ...
Palma Rosa, Hamilton (1887) [11] was proposed by Apperly, Irving, & Reynolds as an example of a building whose defining feature is its verandah screen. "Filigree" was first proposed as a style descriptor by architectural historian Richard Apperly, and was popularised in 'A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture: Styles and Terms from 1788 to the Present' (1989) by Richard ...
A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cultures, including most Western cultures. Porticos are sometimes topped with pediments.
A lanai or lānai is a type of roofed, open-sided veranda, patio, or porch originating in Hawaii. [1] [2] Many homes, apartment buildings, hotels and restaurants in Hawaii are built with one or more lānais.
The porch of columns that surrounds the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., (in style a peripteral classical temple) can be termed a colonnade. [4] As well as the traditional use in buildings and monuments, colonnades are used in sports stadiums such as the Harvard Stadium in Boston, where the entire horseshoe-shaped stadium is topped by a ...