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They are both lavishly decorated with colorful tiles, sculpture and wrought iron. One house, at 40 Linke Wienzeile, has a facade covered with majolica, or glazed earthenware tiles in floral designs, is popularly known as the Majolica House. The second, at 38 Linke Wienzeile, is called the Medallion House, for the bronze medallions on the facade.
underside of a flight of stairs, under the classical entablature: framework-filled area beneath kink of a chimney: undercroft of chimney: wall into which loudspeakers are mounted in a recording studio: wall with speaker recesses curvature of e.g. plasterwork to fill the space above the kitchen cabinets, at the corner of the ceiling and wall
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]
The eastern side entrance is located at the center bay of the main house. [2] The arrangement of the interior design, such as the parlor fireplace which is placed between "round-arched recesses", or the curved staircase, are considered by architectural aficionados to resemble the contemporary design of the John Warren House in Middlebury ...
Casa Malaparte is a red masonry box with reverse pyramidal stairs leading to the roof patio. On the roof is a freestanding curving white wall of increasing height. It sits on a dangerous cliff 32 metres above the sea overlooking the Gulf of Salerno .
The Mount, Lenox The Mount, Lenox. The Mount's main house was inspired by the 17th-century Belton House in England, with additional influences from classical Italian and French architecture. Edith Wharton used the principles described in her first book, The Decoration of Houses (1897, co-authored with Ogden Codman, Jr.), when she designed the ...
Connecticut: Louis' Lunch. New Haven. The holy grail of burger joints, not just hole-in-the-wall ones, is Louis' Lunch.The hamburger sandwich is thought by many to have been invented here, way ...
Robinson's Arch was a monumental staircase carried by an unusually wide stone arch, which once stood at the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount. It was built as part of the expansion of the Second Temple initiated by Herod the Great at the end of the 1st century BCE. Recent findings suggest that it may not have been completed until at least ...