Architecture 101

My Pure Detroit tour of the Fisher Building started in the barrel-vaulted arcade, with Mr. Hooper giving visitors an excellent sense of what the building was like when it opened.

Inside, the spectacular church is filled with gold; a series of arches leads to an elevated platform where the monks sing and preach in turn.

They smiled from large, sculpted displays in mall atriums and building lobbies.

Also upstairs, a bonus loft is connected to a covered balcony.

The Hamilton children went barefoot, and their overalls were patched and food was sometimes scarce, to pay for the crisp blueprints with cogs and planes and elevations.

Ms. Doermann also rescued the lathe-turned posts and arabesque brackets of the former back porch and split them in half to form pilasters flanking new dining room windows.

Wall supports called buttresses cracked, and some of the 300-plus angels toppled from on high.

Instead I moved away from them, near one of the stone columns set throughout the room.

An excavator ripped through the decorative cornices, arched windows, and bricks laid a century ago.

Vinyl siding, brick and stone cladding, roof gables and dormers, and windows are varied so that no two houses will look alike.

There’s a kind of reading room with old china cups hanging from the eaves, and a balcony that will be open in the summer with views over Rockefeller Plaza.

Most of Wylan’s plans showed the Ice Court from above, but the prison elevation was a side view, a cross section showing the building’s floors stacked on top of one another.

Begun in 1936, it was never completed because of the war, but its natural stone facade still shimmers and the interior is lofty and lyrical.

Architectural features would include a gable roof atop two stories and a wraparound porch.

The reclaimed timber at the site, also known as “heart pine,” includes massive 10-inch by 10-inch structural beams weighing 1,000 pounds and floor joists measuring 2 inches by 11 inches and weighing 200 pounds.

Nearly completed, the exteriors of the townhouses are brick with corbeled cornices and steel window lintels and sills.

Hotel with a clean, contemporary lobby and comfortable rooms overlooking the flat desert plain leading to the edge of Glen Canyon.

The canvas hangs above a mantel on which a bronze figurine of Eleanor Roosevelt gazes up, dwarfed by her Weeksville neighbors.

The staircases’ custom-made balusters and newel posts are a nod to the original design of the houses.

Columns were piled on pilasters, rusticated plinths groaned under heaving cornices and every junction was elaborated with a twiddly moulding.

With a bubble level, check whether the sides of the opening are plumb and whether the floor and top of the opening are level.

He soon volunteered his services to Grant and company, creating five different renderings that would allow Mason his floor area ratio and the tree to live, albeit with fewer parking spaces.

The peeling paint hanging in long dry sleavings down the columns and from the buckled soffits.

Now, the steeple at the landmark historic church is leaning and its supporting tower needs some serious structural stabilization.

Moore took pride that inside the alluring entry arch were a vestibule and hallways finished in white onyx and marble quarried in northeastern Washington.