architecture
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- bull's eye window
- a round window
- transom
- a window above a door.
- quions
- obvious blocks on the outside corners of a building.
- classic architecture
- ancient Greek and Roman architecture, which had an emphasis on form, simplicity, and proportion.
- facade
- the face or front of a building
- keystone
- the wedge-shaped piece at the top of an arch.
- fanlight
- semi-circular or fan-shaped window set over a door or another window
- side light
- A framed area of fixed glass alongside a door or window opening
- cupola
- A dome, usually small, topping a roof.
- architecture
- a method or style of building
- palladian window
- a three-part window with the center section arched and the two sides rectangular.
- bay window
- A projecting window
- style
- classifications of architecture according to a building's type of structure and decoration
- story
- the height of a building measured by floor levels
- asymmetrical
- not symmetrical; two halves of a building façade that do not match.
- dormer
- a structure with a window that projects from a roof.
- portico
- A roofed entrance porch supported on at least one side by columns
- architect
- a professional designer of buildings
- column
- A supporting pillar.
- balance
- one half of a building has the same amount of decorative elements as the other half.
- gable
- The triangular part of a wall that is enclosed between the sloping portions of a roof.