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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 ...
A terrace, terraced house , or townhouse [a] is a type of medium-density housing which first started in 16th century Europe with a row of joined houses sharing side walls. In the United States and Canada these are sometimes known as row houses or row homes.
The London Building Act 1774 made it a legal requirement for all terraced houses there to have a minimum wall thickness and a party wall extending above the roofline to help prevent fire spreading along the terrace, along with other specified basic building requirements. However, these requirements did not extend elsewhere, and towns had ...
Horbury Terrace (c.1843) in Sydney is one of the earliest surviving examples of terraced housing in Australia. Terraced housing in Australia ranged from expensive middle-class houses of three, four and five storeys down to single-storey cottages in working-class suburbs. The most common building material used was brick, often covered with stucco.
Terrace, a street suffix; Terrace, the portion of a lot between the public sidewalk and the street; Terrace (earthworks), a leveled surface built into the landscape for agriculture or salt production; Terrace (building), a raised flat platform; Terrace garden, an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect
Carlton House Terrace is a street in the St James's district of the City of Westminster in London. Its principal architectural feature is a pair of terraces , the Western and Eastern terraces, of white stucco -faced houses on the south side of the street, which overlook The Mall and St. James's Park .
The terrace was mainly occupied by government departments, during and after the war, [6] but by 1957, the freeholder of the terrace, the Crown Estate, had adopted the policy of returning it, and the other Nash terraces, to private residential use, [7] as recommended ten years earlier in the report of a government committee on the post-war ...
The Terrace Plaza Hotel is an 18-story International Style mixed-use building completed in 1948 in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. It sits at 15 Sixth St West between Vine and Race Streets. [1] The building was developed by Cincinnati industrialist John Emery, who also constructed the nearby Carew Tower/Netherland Plaza Hotel mixed-use complex. [2]