(1) Arch; pediment; Ionic, Doric and Corinthian columns; ornamental motifs such as dentils and scrolls; and types of roofs such as mansard , pyramidal, domed and gabled.(2) Some workers had found her dead in her tiny mansard apartment.(3) But asking Murial Cooper to deliver an ugly and ordinary book design would be like forcing Mies van der Rohe to put a mansard roof on the Seagram Building.(4) In the spirit of the colonial revival, they replaced the Victorian era mansard roof with a hip roof with dormers, removed the two-story service wing, replaced windows and doors, and restored or embellished interior woodwork.(5) On the ground floor of the entrance facade, a shallow porch with four columns links the two bay windows, and a steep mansard roof with dormer windows is crowned by a grand octagonal cupola.(6) Under the mansard roof of structure number 14, a figure rested in a rocking chair, studying a magazine.(7) My house has a mansard roof , with pan tiles, and it was once owned by the great Scottish colourist painter, a Belfast man originally, Sir John Lavery.(8) Constructed in 1878 for coal storage and later used as housing for African American male patients, the Lodge once displayed a tin mansard roof , floors laid with narrow oak boards, and plastered walls and ceilings.(9) Several years ago Kevin had a similar problem on the mansard roof of a Victorian he owned in Alameda, Calif.(10) This 2,900 square foot architect-designed house with a mansard roof is in pristine condition and finished to an exceptional standard, overlooking a wonderful award winning garden from everywhere in the house.(11) The buildings were combined and rebuilt from the third floor down and the original mansards reshaped into a single half barrel-vaulted roof.(12) There was a classic late - 60s early 70s apartment complex slumping under a heavy mansard roof ; it was called ÔÇÿPleasant View,ÔÇÖ and it overlooked a heap of dirt.(13) The first version of the house he designed for James McNeill Whistler was rejected by the Metropolitan Board of Works but, even so, the finished product in white brick with a high, green-tiled mansard roof has the austerity of Modernism.(14) The house, near to the junction with Tor Avenue, was built more than 50 years ago with rendered walls and a red tiled mansard roof .(15) Originally it had five stories and the triple mansard roof and iron tower at the top were later additions.(16) On a drive around the county's back roads, the sheriff pointed to new house after new house, some with mansard roofs , some with Palladian windows, that he said were built with drug profits.
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