• aedes: In Roman antiquity, a building, as distinguished from a temple, set apart for worship without formal consecration by the augurs.
• aedis: Also see aedes.
• AEG Turbine Factory: Iconic example of early modernist architecture designed by Peter Behrens (1868-1940), who was also noted for his pupils Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe.
• Aesymnium: The building erected by Aesymnus the Megarean by suggestion of the Delphic Oracle.
• Alhambra: A palace in Granada, Spain, famous example of medieval Moorish architecture.
• Altis: The sacred enclosure at Olympia, near the western shores of the Peloponnesus…
• Amenopheium: A group of important buildings dedicated to or erected by the Egyptian king Emenotop III, at Thebes, on the west bank of the Nile.
• Angkor-Vat: The architecturally famous ancient city of Southern Siam.
• Aya Sophia: Same as Hagia Sophia.
• Azekura: An ancient Japanese building, used for storage, made of logs which have been carefully shaped so that they are triangular in section.
• Bigallo: In Florence, a very beautiful fragment of a 15th century structure fronting on the piazza where stands the cathedral and baptistery.
• Blenheim Palace: Like The Palace of Versailles in France, Blenheim – designed by Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) – was a symbol of the Baroque style in England.
• Brandenburg Gate: Iconic neoclassical building in Berlin designed and built by Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732-1808) during the period 1789-94. His pioneering neoclassicism was further popularized by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841).
• Chinatown pavilion: A pavilion over the street that marks the entrance to the Chinatown district.
• Crystal Palace: An exhibition building constructed in large part of iron and glass in Hyde Park, London for the great exhibition of 1851. 2. Any exhibition building similarly constructed.
• edifice: A building of dignity and importance.
• Elysee: Official residence in Paris of the President of the Republic of France.
• EPCOT: A development in the USA of the amusement- or theme-park, including housing developments, water parks, a monorail system, a conservation area, artificial lakes, canals, streams, hotels, resorts, freeways, parking spaces, a wilderness area, ancient cities, modern shopping areas, and topiary whimsically clipped into Disney characters.
• Erechtheum: A temple on the Acropolis in Athens; the most important monument of the Ionic style, including a fine example of a porch of caryatides.
• Erecthion: A temple on the Acropolis in Athens; the most important monument of the Ionic style, including a fine example of a porch of caryatides.
• Golden House: Domus Aurea built by Emperor Nero to designs by Severus and Celer on the Esquiline Hill, Rome. A large palace with landscaped gardens, it was remarkable for its complex plan with rooms of different geometrical shapes, may vaulted and sumptuously decorated.
• Great Wall of China: A fortified wall commenced under the Zhou dynasty to protect China against nomads from the north and serve as a means of communication. Various sections were built and connected until, during the Ming dynasty, 1368-1644, it extended for 1,500 miles (2,415 km), from southern Kansu province to the coast east of Peking. Rebuilt and refaced repeatedly, it is the only human-made construction visible from outer space.
• hadish: A palace built by Xerxes at Persepolis.
• Hagia Sophia: Same as Hagia Sophia.
• Hanging Gardens of Babylon: A series of irrigated ornamental gardens planted on the terraces of the Citadel, the palace complex in ancient Babylon: regarded as one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
• Hotel Tassel: Iconic Art Nouveau building in Brussels, designed by Victor Horta (1861-1947).
• Incantada: The ruins of a late Roman building in Salonica, Turkey in Europe. It is generally in the Corinthian style, and its purpose is not perfectly understood. Only five columns remain with their entablature, above which rises a low attic with engaged figure sculpture. The work appears to be of the 2nd century A.D.
• Jesuits, Church of Il Gesu: Famous church in Rome designed (1568-73) by Vignola (1507-73), which set the standard for ecclesiastical architecture during the early Baroque.
• kaabah: A central shrine of the Mohammedan religion, standing in the heart of Mecca and in the courtyard of the great mosque. It is a perfectly plain, nearly cubical mass, which, at certain times, is concealed by a black cloth cover, which fits it closely.
• Ka’ba: A small, cubical stone building in the courtyard of the Great Mosque at Mecca containing a sacred black stone and regarded by Muslims as the House of God, the objective of their pilgrimages, and the point toward which they turn in praying. Also, Ka’aba, Ka’abah.
• Kahri Jami: In Constantinople, originally, the church of a great monastery dating from the 5th century, the church itself of the 12th century, with later additions…
• Kailasa: A multistoried Brahmanical temple, constructed as an allegory of the sacred mountain, Kailasa, favorite abode of Hindu got Shiva. Located at Ellora, India, an outstanding example of an ancient rock-cut temple.
• Kalighat: Indian temple in Calcutta, built in 1809 and dedicated to the Buddhist deity Kali.
• Knole House: In Kent, England. A magnificent seat, the main house dating from the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII…
• Lascaux Cave: A cave in Lascaux, France, containing wall paintings and engravings thought to date from c13,000-8500 B.C.
• Lateran: Originally in Latin, Lateranus, the family name of a branch of a great Roman gens; by extension, belonging to or forming part of the mansion and gardens of this family on the Caelian Hill, near the southeastern extremity of Rome, and in later times, to the buildings erected upon the same site.
• Longleat house: A mansion built in 1578 upon an estate which is on the border between Wiltshire and Somersetshire, England…
• Nikko: A religious center in the Tochigi prefecture of Japan, famous for its shrines and temples…
• Omphalos: A sacred stone in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, believed by the ancient Greeks to mark the exact center of the earth.
• pandroseion: Also see pandrosium.
• pandrosium: A building or enclosure on the Acropolis of Athens, sacred to the Nymph Pandrosos…
• Parthenon: Originally, the room behind the cella in the great temple of Athena Parthenos on the Athenian Acropolis. 2. More commonly the name of the entire temple.
• Phoenix Hall: A structure located in Uhi, in the Kyoto prefecture of Japan…
• Pnyx: A public place of assembly in ancient Athens near the Acropolis; an open, paved, semicircular area surrounded by a wall; speakers addressed the people from a platform.
• Rokuonji: Formerly the villa of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the third Shogun of the Muromachi period in Japan, located in Kyoto city… Same as kinkakuji.
• Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Giza Pyramids; Hanging Gardens and Walls of Babylon; Temple of Artemis, Ephesus; Statue of Zeus, Olympia; Mausoleum, Halicarnassus; Colossus of Rhodes; and the Alexandrian Pharos.
• Seven Wonders of the World: Name given to a list of ancient architectural structures and monumental sculptures, compiled by the Greek poet Antipater of Sidon (170-120 BCE).
• St Paul’s Cathedral: Iconic example of English Baroque architecture, designed by Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723).
• tachara: The residence hall at Persepolis, built by Darius.
• Thersilium: A building at Megalopolis in Greece, described by Pausanias as already in ruins, and as a council house for the Arcadian Ten Thousand…
• thesilium: Same as thersilium, probably a mistaken reading.
• Tuileries: The Paris palace of the French kings, built between 1564 and 1700.
• Versailles Palace: Iconic architectural building of the 17th century French Baroque. Among the many architects who worked at Versailles were: Louis Le Vau (1612-70), Jules Hardouin Mansart (1646-1708), and Andre Le Notre (1613-1700).
• Vienna Secession House: The iconic building known as Haus der Wiener Sezession (1897-98), designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867-1908), to exhibit modern art in Vienna at the turn of the century.
• Weissenhofsiedlung: Literally the ‘white house estate’, developed by the Deutscher Werkbund as an exhibition of workers’ housing in Stuttgart… Directed by Mies van der Rohe, it included buildings by Le Corbusier, Gropius, and others, and got its name from the flat-roofed, white-painted minimalist International-Modern style of the houses which established paradigms for many years to come.
• White House: In Washington, capital of the U.S.; the official residence of the President, finished in its present form in 1818.
• carina: In Roman antiquity, a building in the form of a ship.
• intelligent building: Building in which the services (e.g. heating), environmental design, security, performance, maintenance, outbreaks of fire, leaks, etc., are controlled by computers.
• panorama: In architecture, a building arranged to contain a large picture with or without accessories, and of the kind known as cyclorama, diorama, or panorama; those three terms being used without clear distinction in describing the representations themselves…
• polygonal building: Masonry laid up with irregular polygonal-faced stones fitted together…

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