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  2. L-plan castle - Wikipedia

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    An L-plan castle is a castle or tower house in the shape of an L, typically built from the 13th to the 17th century. This design is found quite frequently in Scotland, but is also seen in England, Ireland, Romania, Sardinia, and other locations.

  3. Tower houses in Britain and Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Tower houses are often called castles, and despite their characteristic compact footprint size, they are formidable habitations and there is no clear distinction between a castle and a tower house. In Scotland a classification system has been widely accepted based on ground plan, such as the L-plan castle style, one example being the original ...

  4. Z-plan castle - Wikipedia

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    The Z-plan castle has a strong central rectangular tower with smaller towers attached at diagonally opposite corners. [1] Prominent examples of the Z-plan include Brodie Castle in Moray, Castle Menzies in Perthshire, [2] Glenbuchat Castle in Aberdeenshire, [3] Castle Fraser in Aberdeenshire, Claypotts Castle in Dundee [4] and Hatton Castle ...

  5. Tower house - Wikipedia

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    The Tower of Hallbar in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. A tower house is a particular type of stone structure, built for defensive purposes as well as habitation. [1] Tower houses began to appear in the Middle Ages, especially in mountainous or limited access areas, to command and defend strategic points with reduced forces.

  6. The Tower House - Wikipedia

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    The Tower House in 1878. In 1863, William Burges gained his first major architectural commission, Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, at the age of 35. [8] In the following twelve years, his architecture, metalwork, jewellery, furniture and stained glass led his biographer, J. Mordaunt Crook to suggest that Burges rivaled Pugin as "the greatest art-architect of the Gothic Revival". [9]

  7. List of visionary tall buildings and structures - Wikipedia

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    It is a part of the Asia Plaza Tri-Tower Complex, that comprise three buildings, located in the new CBD of Asia New Bay Area. [27] [28] 103 GIFT Diamond Tower: 410 m (1,350 ft) 2002 Skyscraper Commercial India Gandhinagar: Diamond Tower and the core CBD of GIFT will comprise a total of 25,800,000 sq ft (2,400,000 m 2). [29] 87 Solar updraft tower

  8. List of octagonal buildings and structures - Wikipedia

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    Plan of the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem The Tower of the Winds in Athens. Octagon 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.

  9. Vancouver House - Wikipedia

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    Vancouver House is a neo-futurist residential skyscraper in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Construction of the skyscraper began in 2016 and was expected to be finished by the end of 2019, but completion was postponed to summer of 2020.

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