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Tom Quad, Christ Church, Oxford Quadrangle of the University of Sydney. In architecture, a quadrangle (or colloquially, a quad) is a space or a courtyard, usually rectangular (square or oblong) in plan, the sides of which are entirely or mainly occupied by parts of a large building (or several smaller buildings).
Blue Boar Quadrangle was built on the site of an old car park and garages, next to the narrow, high-walled Blue Boar Street. [1] The quadrangle was designed so that the top floor penthouses provide a broken, set-back series of horizontal planes that help to reduce the scale of the development seen from the street and is constructed almost entirely of characteristic Portland Whitbed and Roach ...
Collegiate Gothic is an architectural style subgenre of Gothic Revival architecture, popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries for college and high school buildings in the United States and Canada, and to a certain extent Europe. A form of historicist architecture, it
The history of college campuses in the United States begins in 1636 with the founding of Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, then known as New Towne.Early colonial colleges, which included not only Harvard, but also College of William & Mary, Yale University and The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), were modeled after equivalent English and Scottish institutions, but ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... which is located just outside the California Quadrangle. ... Homer Laughlin and the Beginnings of Modern Architecture in Los ...
The Quadrangle and its associated main building and interior was listed on the City of Sydney local government heritage list on 14 December 2012. [ 1 ] Built between 1854 and 1966 in the Victorian Academic Gothic Revival architectural style, the Quadrangle was designed and developed by numerous contributors including Edmund Blacket , James ...
Quadrangle Group investment fund in New York City; BDP Quadrangle, Toronto, Canada; Complete quadrangle (projective geometry), a configuration with four points and six lines; Love quadrangle, variant form of a love triangle, in which three people vie for the affections of a fourth; The Quadrangle (Antarctica), a glacial cirque on Alexander Island
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.