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2. House numbering - Wikipedia

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   A house number in Paris, France. House numbering is the system of giving a unique number to each building in a street or area, with the intention of making it easier to locate a particular building. The house number is often part of a postal address. The term describes the number of any building (residential or commercial) with a mailbox, or ...

3. Villa Cavrois - Wikipedia

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   The black door that opens to the hall-salon is framed by a pair of light boxes which look like those that Mallet-Stevens designed for the set of Marcel L'Herbier's movie Le Vertige. The hall-salon is a big double-height cubic room with a large glass window overlooking the park. The floor is covered with parquet and the walls are painted green.

4. Shoji - Wikipedia

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   In modern construction, the shoji often do not form the exterior surface of the building; they sit inside a sliding glass door or window. [ 5 ] Shoji are valued for not setting a sharp barrier between the interior and the exterior; outside influences such as the swaying silhouettes of trees, or the chorus of frogs , can be appreciated from ...

5. Insulated glazing - Wikipedia

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   Surface #1 is facing outside, surface #2 is the inside surface of the exterior pane, surface #3 is the outside surface of the interior pane, and surface #4 is the inside surface of interior pane. The window frame is labelled #5, a spacer is indicated as #6, seals are shown in red (#7), the internal reveal is on the right hand side (#8) and the ...

6. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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   An exterior side of a building, usually the front. Fanlight A window, semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan. Fan Vault A conoid architectural element in which a series of equidistant curved ribs projects radially from a central axis, often a vertical wall support such as a column.

7. Contemporary architecture - Wikipedia

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   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.