NOUN | an architectural style | architectural styles | |
SYNO | architectural style | style of architecture | type of architecture |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Beginning with subsequent Byzantine architecture, Hagia Sophia became the paradigmatic Orthodox church form and its architectural style was emulated by Ottoman mosques a thousand years later.
- Between World Wars I and II, Functionalism, with its sober, progressive forms, took over as the main architectural style.
- Wilkins, a disciple of the neo-classical architectural style, designed the first wholly campus-based college plan in the world based on a magnificent entrance on Downing Street reaching back to form the largest court in Cambridge, extending to Lensfield Road.
- This architectural style is characterized by slender fluted columns and elaborate capitals decorated with acanthus leaves and scrolls.
- By the late 1990s the building was restored to its Art Deco glory and a further accommodation block added in a similar architectural style.
- However, the purchase of a Scottish estate by Victoria and Albert and their adoption of a Scottish architectural style were influential for the ongoing revival of Highland culture.
- Palladio was to transform the architectural style of both palaces and churches by taking a different perspective on the notion of Classicism.
- Examples of this architectural style can be found in modern-day Denmark, Germany, Poland, and Kaliningrad (former East Prussia).
- It was erected in the early 20th century as the residence of the Ortiz Taranco brothers on the ruins of Montevideo's first theater (of 1793), during a period in which the architectural style was influenced by French architecture.
- The Art Nouveau movement finds expression through new architectural style initiated by Ion Mincu and taken over by other prestigious architects who capitalise important references of Romanian laic and medieval ecclesiastical architecture (for example the Mogoșoaia Palace, the Stavropoleos Church or the disappeared church of Văcărești Monastery) and Romanian folk motifs.
- In the Portuguese colonies of India (Goa, Daman and Diu) an architectural style of Baroque forms mixed with Hindu elements flourished, such as the Goa Cathedral and the Basilica of Bom Jesus of Goa, which houses the tomb of St.
- The attached New Graduate College provides a modern contrast in architectural style to the gothic Old Graduate College.
- Still, the Ottomans developed their own architectural style characterized by large central rotundas (sometimes surrounded by multiple smaller domes), pencil-shaped minarets, and open facades.
- After the boom of the oil industry and the tourist sector in the 20th century the architectural style of the island incorporated a more American and international influence.
- Mies sought to establish his own particular architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras.
- During the interwar period, Art Deco, Lithuanian National Romanticism architectural style buildings were constructed in the Lithuania's temporary capital Kaunas.
- The concept did not last for a long time, but its presence is very distinctive in Aveiro; it is one of only 20 cities in the world that are included in the Réseau Art Nouveau Network, listing cities in Europe that are known for this architectural style.
- The Georgian stone buildings in Charlestown that are visible today had to be partially rebuilt after the earthquakes, and this led to the development of a new architectural style, consisting of a wooden upper floor over a stone ground floor; the new style resisted earthquake damage much more effectively.
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