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The roof terrace of the Casa Grande hotel in Santiago de Cuba. Terraces need not always protrude from a building; a flat roof area (which may or may not be surrounded by a balustrade) used for social activity is also known as a terrace. [2] In Venice, Italy, for example, the rooftop terrace (or altana) is the most common form of terrace found ...
Inner city terrace house design tended to lack any frontal yard at all, with narrow street frontages, hence the building's structure directly erected in front of the road. One of the reasons behind this was the taxing according to street frontage rather than total area, thereby creating an economic motivation to build narrow and deeply.
Some of the most eminent examples of the style were terrace rows built by leading architects such as John Nash, [142] and it is no surprise that Australians sought to emulate these examples. Horbury Terrace, Macquarie Street (c. 1836) reproduces many of the components associated with the English Regency style, including a stucco-rendered facade ...
The various acts led to a uniform design of terraced houses that was replicated in streets throughout the country. [6] This design was still basic, however; for example, in 1906, only 750 houses out of 10,000 in Rochdale had an indoor WC. [16] Sanitation was handled, imperfectly, by outhouses (privies) shared between several dwellings. [17]
A terrace in agriculture is a flat surface that has been cut into hills or mountains to provide areas for the cultivation for crops, as a method of more effective farming. Terrace agriculture or cultivation is when these platforms are created successively down the terrain in a pattern that resembles the steps of a staircase.
The cities of Birmingham and Liverpool, where thousands of back-to-backs were built, both chose to retain a single example as a tourist attraction. The Birmingham Back to Backs are now operated as a historic house museum by the National Trust ; other museum examples of back-to-back houses are managed by the Museum of Liverpool and Bradford ...
Victorian houses are also found in many former British colonies where the style might be adapted to local building materials or customs, for example in Sydney, Australia and Melaka, Malaysia. The Victorian Society is a membership charity which campaigns for Victorian architecture.
The revived Georgian style that emerged in Britain during the same period is usually referred to as Neo-Georgian; the work of Edwin Lutyens [40] [41] and Vincent Harris includes some examples. The British town of Welwyn Garden City, established in the 1920s, is an example of pastiche or Neo