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  2. Dingbat (building) - Wikipedia

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    A dingbat apartment building in Southern California (Santa Monica) A dingbat is a type of apartment building that flourished in the Sun Belt region of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, a vernacular variation of shoebox style "stucco boxes". Dingbats are boxy, two or three-story apartment houses with overhangs sheltering street-front ...

  3. Duplex (building) - Wikipedia

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    An over-and-under two storey apartment duplex in Southeastern Pennsylvania A large, modern side-by-side duplex in downtown Sausalito, California. A duplex house plan has two living units attached to each other, either next to each other as townhouses, condominiums or one above the other like apartments.

  4. Tower block - Wikipedia

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    These towers were designed to house two-story apartments, in which every inhabitant would enjoy "the illusion of living on the second floor", accomplished by folding concrete floor planes (like "bamboo mats," claims the firm), so that every third story opens into a private courtyard.

  5. Split-level home - Wikipedia

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    Typically, the garage is on one side of the house and there is a floor above the garage housing the bedrooms. The other half of the house is the main living area, part of a story above the garage level and part of a story below the bedroom level. Grading or steps connect the exterior street to the front door on the main level.

  6. Apartment - Wikipedia

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    A lower-rise apartment building on the left side of the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, juxtaposed next to a skyscraper apartment building. An apartment (American English, Canadian English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English) [a], or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building ...

  7. Scissor section flat - Wikipedia

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    The scissor section flat is a distinctive way of arranging the flats in an apartment block that was developed in the 1950s by London County Council Architects department. [1] The interlocking design provides a way of maximising the space given to flats in any building volume by reducing the space needed for entrance corridors and providing a ...

  8. Loft - Wikipedia

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    In US usage, a loft is an upper room or storey in a building, mainly in a barn, directly under the roof, used for storage (as in most private houses).In this sense it is roughly synonymous with attic, the major difference being that an attic typically constitutes an entire floor of the building, while a loft covers only a few rooms, leaving one or more sides open to the lower floor.

  9. Villa Riviera - Wikipedia

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    Built in 1928 at a cost of $2.75 million, [2] the Villa Riviera is a 16-story French Gothic Building. The steel-framed [ 3 ] structure is topped with a steeply pitched verdigris copper roof. The building was designed by architect Richard D. King who won a grand prize at an international contest for the design that he referred to as "Tudor Gothic."