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    A hallway (also passage, passageway, corridor or hall) is an interior space in a building that is used to connect other rooms. Hallways are generally...
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    influenced by its formal architectural relatives, the Palladian and Georgian styles with their emphasis on symmetry. The central-passage house was built much...
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  • Look up passage in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Passage, The Passage or Le Passage may refer to: Passage (2008 film), a documentary about Arctic explorers...
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  • Side passage plan architecture is an architectural style. The Spencer Buford House and the Dr. Urban Owen House are historic houses in Tennessee that...
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    arcades are a feature of Romanesque architecture that influenced Gothic architecture. In the Gothic architectural tradition, the arcade can be located...
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    small room leading into a larger space such as a lobby, entrance hall, or passage, for the purpose of waiting, withholding the larger space from view, reducing...
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    A rite of passage is a ceremony or ritual of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another. It involves a significant change...
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    Kailasanathar Temple, Kanchipuram (category Pallava architecture)
    the oldest surviving monuments in Kanchipuram. It reflects a Dravidian architecture and was built about 700 CE by Narasimhavarman II with additions by Mahendravarman...
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  • subset of double-pen architecture with two rooms, a central chimney, and one or two front doors. Dog trot architecture Central-passage house Slave pen Wright...
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    Base Mérimée: Passage Choiseul et passage Sainte-Anne, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Ayers, Andrew (2004). The Architecture of Paris. Paris:...
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    A passage grave or passage tomb consists of one or more burial chambers covered in earth or stone and having a narrow access passage made of large stones...
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  • Araeosystyle An architectural term applied to a colonnade, in which the intercolumniation is alternately wide and narrow. Arcade A passage or walkway covered...
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  • Thumbnail for Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
    Queen Anne style architecture was one of a number of popular Victorian architectural styles that emerged in the United States during the period from roughly...
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    Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages...
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    Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenics, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and...
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    Descending Passage that hid the entrance to the Ascending Passage, and the noise of that stone falling, then sliding down the Descending Passage alerted...
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    Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries. The style eventually developed...
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    Hindu temple architecture and Indo-Islamic architecture, especially Rajput architecture, Mughal architecture, South Indian architecture, and Indo-Saracenic...
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    The English Passage (Romanian: Pasajul Englez) is a passage in the centre of Bucharest, Romania. The passage lies between the Calea Victoriei and the Strada...
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    pedestrian traffic to cross over the waterway while allowing adequate passage for the water. Dry culverts are used to channel a fire hose beneath a noise...
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    people or conceal their activities. Entrances to some secret passages appear as architectural features, such as a fireplaces or built-in sliding bookcases...
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    /-ˈroʊk/ -⁠ROHK; French: [baʁɔk]) or Baroquism is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished...
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  • Pteron (category Ancient Roman architectural elements)
    an architectural term meaning the external colonnade around a building, especially an Ancient Greek temple. The pteroma or peristasis is the passage between...
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    The history of architecture traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, and dates. The beginnings...
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    Korean architecture (Korean: 한국건축) refers to an architectural style that developed over centuries in Korea. Throughout the history of Korea, various kingdoms...
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    Hindu temple architecture as the main form of Hindu architecture has many varieties of style, though the basic nature of the Hindu temple remains the...
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    Alcazaba of Málaga (category Nasrid architecture)
    entry fortifications. The outer entrance to the citadel is via a climbing passage that passes through multiple gates and doubles back on itself twice (known...
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    Camden Passage is a pedestrian street, close to the Angel tube station off Upper Street in the London Borough of Islington. The passage is known for its...
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    Porte-cochère (category Architectural elements)
    arriving by motorized transport. A porte-cochère, a structure for vehicle passage, is to be distinguished from a portico, a columned porch or entry for human...
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    Fauces is an architectural term given by Vitruvius (Arch. 3.6.3) to narrow passages on either side of the tablinum, through which access could be obtained...
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