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The Athenian Treasury in Delphi with two antae framing a set of two columns. An anta (pl. antæ, antae, or antas; Latin, possibly from ante, "before" or "in front of"), or sometimes parastas (pl. parastades), is a term in classical architecture describing the posts or pillars on either side of a doorway or entrance of a Greek temple – the slightly projecting piers which terminate the side ...
The columns are placed 2.5 m away from the walls and in each row the columns are approximately 1.4 m away from the next, while the space between the two rows is 3 m. [ 37 ] A second hall (12.5 by 10 m [ 37 ] ) is accessed by a 3 m door at the center of the back wall of the first.
An often ornate porch- or portico-like structure at a main or secondary entrance to a building through which vehicles can pass in order for the occupants to alight under cover, protected from the weather. Portico A series of columns or arches in front of a building, generally as a covered walkway. Prick post
Trellised entrances supported by paired Corinthian columns break it on the east and west sides. [1] At the center of the south (front) facade, the balustrade is broken by the large projecting entrance portico. Steps lead up to a deck with paired fluted columns with Tuscan capitals supporting a projecting architrave with a paneled
Interior of the Pension Office, c. 1918 The National Building Museum's Corinthian columns are among the largest in the world measuring 75 ft. (23 m) tall and 8 ft. (2.4 m) in diameter. [2] They are made of 70,000 bricks and are painted to look like marble. [3] The museum's south entrance The museum's west entrance
Usually, only the podium or base platform used stone, with the upper parts of wood and mud-brick, greatly reducing what survives for archaeologists. [6] However, there is evidence for the portico columns sometimes using stone, as at Veii. [7] This has left much about Etruscan temples uncertain.
B. Frank Mebane built this two-story brick and timber textile mill in 1896 in what became a huge complex of mills along the Smith River in Eden in Rockingham County. After 105 years of churning ...
The porch of columns that surrounds the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., (in style a peripteral classical temple) can be termed a colonnade. [4] As well as the traditional use in buildings and monuments, colonnades are used in sports stadiums such as the Harvard Stadium in Boston , where the entire horseshoe-shaped stadium is topped by a ...