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Irregular shapes at the Berliner Philharmonie. The external outline of a building includes its shape, size, color, and texture, as well as relational properties, like position, orientation, and visual inertia (appearance of concentration and stability).
Cross hipped: The result of joining two or more hip roof sections together, forming a T or L shape for the simplest forms, or any number of more complex shapes. Satari: A Swedish variant on the monitor roof; a double hip roof with a short vertical wall usually with small windows, popular from the 17th century on formal buildings.
Twisted buildings and structures (1 C, 36 P) Z. ... Pages in category "Buildings and structures by shape" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Masonry is the craft of building a structure with brick, stone, ... which have a darker color or an irregular shape. Others may use antique salvage bricks, or new ...
A style may include such elements as form, method of construction, building materials, and regional character. Most architecture can be classified as a chronology of styles which change over time reflecting changing fashions, beliefs and religions, or the emergence of new ideas, technology, or materials which make new styles possible.
Rubble is broken stone, of irregular size, shape [1] and texture; undressed especially as a filling-in. Rubble naturally found in the soil is known also as 'brash' (compare cornbrash). [2] Where present, it becomes more noticeable when the land is ploughed or worked.
Octagonal buildings and structures are characterized by an octagonal plan form, whether a perfect geometric octagon or a regular eight-sided polygon with approximately equal sides. Octagon-shaped buildings date from at least 300 B.C. when the Tower of the Winds in Athens , Greece, was constructed.
Illustration to Serlio, rusticated doorway of the type now called a Gibbs surround, 1537. Although rustication is known from a few buildings of Greek and Roman antiquity, for example Rome's Porta Maggiore, the method first became popular during the Renaissance, when the stone work of lower floors and sometimes entire facades of buildings were finished in this manner. [4]