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Office buildings by size. Low-rise (less than 7 stories) Mid-rise (7–25 stories) High-rise (more than 25 stories), including skyscrapers (over 40 stories) Office buildings by quality[3][4] Trophy or 5-star building: A landmark property designed by a recognized architect. Class A or 4-star building: Rents in the top 30-40% of the local market ...
A hut is a dwelling of relatively simple construction, [11] usually one room and one story in height. The design and materials of huts vary widely around the world. Roundhouse: a house built with a circular plan. Broch: a Scottish roundhouse. Trullo: a traditional Apulian stone dwelling with a conical roof. Igloo.
World's littlest skyscraper. The Newby-McMahon Building, commonly referred to as the World's littlest skyscraper, is a historic four-story [4] building located at 511 7th Street [5] (on the corner of Seventh and La Salle streets) in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas. [6] It is a late Neoclassical style red brick and cast stone structure.
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A time often depicted as a rural idyll by the great painters, but in fact was a hive of early industrial activity, with small kilns and workshops springing up wherever materials could be mined or manufactured. After the Renaissance, neoclassical forms were developed and refined into new styles for public buildings and the gentry. New Cooperism
Turret (architecture) Turret (highlighted in red) attached to a tower on a baronial building in Scotland. In architecture, a turret is a small circular tower, usually notably smaller than the main structure, that projects outwards from a wall or corner of that structure. [1] Turret also refers to the small towers built atop larger tower structures.
Cupolas on the towers of Montefiascone Cathedral, Italy. In architecture, a cupola (/ ˈk (j) uːpələ /) [1] is a relatively small, usually dome -like structure on top of a building [2] often crowning a larger roof or dome. [3][4] Cupolas often serve as a roof lantern to admit light and air or as a lookout. The word derives, via Italian, from ...
Small finials may also be used as ornamentation for furniture, poles, and light fixtures. Flushwork The decorative combination on the same flat plane of flint and ashlar stone. It is characteristic of medieval buildings, most of the survivors churches, in several areas of Southern England, but especially East Anglia. If the stone projects from ...