enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. French ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ambassador's...

    Known for its elegant parties, [9] the home features art and decoration in both formal/traditional styles and modern styles. [3] The main floor features several large reception rooms, [3] [9] including a dining room, an Empire Salon in the formal style, a "Winter Salon" in the modern style, and the Salon des Boiseries (paneled room) and, to the ...

  3. Terraced house - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraced_house

    A type of terraced house known latterly as the "one-floor-over-basement" was a style of terraced house particular to the Irish capital. They were built in the Victorian era for the city's lower middle class and emulated upper class townhouses. [10] Single floor over basement terraced houses were unique to Dublin in the Victorian era.

  4. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Empire_architecture...

    This caused more modest homes to depart from the ornamentation found in French examples in favor of simpler and more eclectic American ornamentation that had been established in the 1850s. In practice, most Second Empire houses simply followed the same patterns developed by Alexander Jackson Davis and Samuel Sloan , the symmetrical plan, the L ...

  5. Hôtel particulier - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hôtel_particulier

    The English word hotel developed a more specific meaning as a commercial building accommodating travellers; modern French also uses hôtel in this sense. For example, the Hôtel de Crillon on the Place de la Concorde was built as an hôtel particulier and is today a public hotel. In French, an hôtel de ville or mairie is a town hall and not a

  6. French architecture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_architecture

    French Creole buildings borrow traditions from France, the Caribbean, and many other parts of the world such as Spanish, African, Native American, and other heritages. French Creole homes from the Colonial period were especially designed for the hot, wet climate of that region. Traditional French Creole homes had some or all of these features:

  7. House plan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_plan

    They illustrate how the home relates to the lot's boundaries and surroundings. Site plans should outline location of utility services, setback requirements, easements, location of driveways and walkways, and sometimes even topographical data that specifies the slope of the terrain. A floor plan [2] is an overhead view of the completed house. On ...

  8. Château de Chambord - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Château_de_Chambord

    The king's plan to divert the Loire to surround the château came about only in a novel; Amadís de Gaula, which Francis had translated. In the novel the château is referred to as the Palace of Firm Isle. Chambord's towers are atypical of French contemporary design in that they lack turrets and spires.

  9. Villa Savoye - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Savoye

    Villa Savoye (French pronunciation:) is a modernist villa and gatelodge in Poissy, on the outskirts of Paris, France.It was designed by the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931 using reinforced concrete.