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In the first half of the fifth century BC, the Locrians demolished their archaic temple and rebuilt a new temple in the Ionic style.
The formal vocabulary of Ancient Greek architecture, in particular the division of architectural style into three defined orders: the Doric Order, the Ionic Order and the Corinthian Order, was to have profound effect on Western architecture of later periods.
The Centre Refreshment Room 1865 – 77 was designed in a Renaissance style by James Gamble, the walls and even the Ionic columns are covered in decorative and moulded ceramic tile, the ceiling consists of elaborate designs on enamelled metal sheets and matching stained glass windows, the marble fireplace was designed and sculpted by Alfred Stevens and was removed from Dorchester House prior to that building's demolition in 1929.
The facade is made of gray cantera stone in Renaissance style, using Ionic columns and pediments, differing from the other buildings that border the main plaza.
Byzantine architecture emphasized a Greek cross layout, the Byzantine capitol style of column ( a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian capitols ) and a central dome surrounded by several smaller domes.
The current Municipal Palace is of Ionic architectural style and occupies part of the site of the old " Colegio Grande del Seminario de los Padres Paulinos " ( Grand Seminary College for Pauline Priests ) who had to abandon the city in 1860.
Executed in the Kentian style, the small Ionic pilasters in the overmantle are miniature duplicates of the large ones in the room.
It is an austere cubic three-story building in the Ionic style, with a portico of four giant Ionic columns.
Both of Carr's buildings were designed in a distinctive neoclassical style ; the Assize Court building was particularly praised at the time as being " a superb building of the Ionic order ".
At the east end of the square is St Peter's Church, a large Church of England building, in a classical style, which features a six-columned Ionic portico and a clock tower.
She engaged the most fashionable Russian architect, Fyodor Schechtel, to remodel the mansion in the then current Neoclassical style, complete with a six-column Ionic portico.
The two-storey granite building is neo-classical in style supported by Ionic columns.
The style is neoclassical with Ionic columns and arches on the facade.
In a Renaissance style, the proportion of the screen's Ionic order | ionic columns suggests an uncertainty of classical motifs so newly introduced to England.
Designed by Sir Aston Webb, the RSM building is Classical in style with Ionic pilasters.
Constructed in an austere style, the church ( 51 ft. by 45 ft .) was divided into a nave and six aisles by six Ionic columns upon which rested a barrel vault.
Works in his native Hertfordshire include the church of St. Peter, London Colney, a very early example of the Norman revival style ( 1825 ) and the Neoclassical Town Hall at St Albans ( 1829 ), with a giant portico of four Ionic columns
The temple to Artemis is said by Vitruvius to have been built by the architect Hermogenes, in the Ionic style.
Later in his career he would abandon his eclecticism and adopt the purely Ionic Greek style for which he is best known, as such he is perhaps the last in a continuous tradition of British Greek Revival architects.
| Ionic: relating to Ionia or to a style of classical architecture
* Church of the Suffragio ( 18th century ) was built with a Greek cross-layout and an Ionic style façade.
The south front and plan of Mistley Church by Robert and James Adam. The square symmetrical towers are in the neoclassical style, resembling tall pavilions rather than towers, with each facade pedimented and the whole surmounted by a cupola decorated with blind windows interspersed by Ionic columns.
The capitals of the columns are mainly Ionic and Corinthian styles, with the exception of a few Doric style with no engravings.

Ionic and columns
The belly boites, with their papier-mache palm trees or hand-painted Ionic columns, heretofore existed mainly on the patronage of Greek and Turkish families.
Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the sixteenth century, modeled his designs on its Doric and Ionic columns.
The Greek Revival façade facing Great Russell Street is a characteristic building of Sir Robert Smirke, with 44 columns in the Ionic order high, closely based on those of the temple of Athena Polias at Priene in Asia Minor.
Illustration of Doric ( first three ), Ionic ( next three ) and Corinthian ( final two ) columns.
It was built in the Ionic order and consists of seven fluted columns, unusually carved from single pieces of stone ( most columns were constructed from a series of discs joined together ).
Its height is now: the cylindrical portion, the pyramid The base, in diameter, is ornamented with 60 engaged Ionic columns.
The temple has seventeen Ionic columns on the long side, and six on the front.
The interior of the Memorial is divided into three chambers by two rows of Ionic columns.
This gives the Doric columns a shorter, thicker look than Ionic columns, which have 8: 1 proportions.
It is suggested that these proportions give the Doric columns a masculine appearance, whereas the more slender Ionic columns appear represent a more feminine look.
The Ionic columns normally stand on a base which separates the shaft of the column from the stylobate or platform ; The cap is usually enriched with egg-and-dart.
This feature of the Ionic order made it more pliant and satisfactory than the Doric to critical eyes in the 4th century BC: angling the volutes on the corner columns, ensured that they " read " equally when seen from either front or side facade.
The Ionic column is always more slender than the Doric: Ionic columns are eight and nine column-diameters tall, and even more in the Antebellum colonnades of late American Greek revival plantation houses.
Ionic columns are most often fluted.
English architect Inigo Jones introduced a note of sobriety with plain Ionic columns on his Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace, London, and when Beaux-Arts architect John Russell Pope wanted to convey the manly stamina combined with intellect of Theodore Roosevelt, he left colossal Ionic columns unfluted on the Roosevelt memorial at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, for an unusual impression of strength and stature.
The Tower is so named because it is ornamented, in ascending order, with the columns of each of the five orders of classical architecture: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite.
This neoclassical pile features a long portico topped by a cornice supported by massive Ionic columns.

Ionic and were
Their Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders were expanded by the Romans to include the Tuscan and Composite orders ( see below ).
Commentary on the appropriateness of the orders for temples devoted to particular deities ( Vitruvius I. 2. 5 ) were elaborated by Renaissance theorists, with Doric characterized as bold and manly, Ionic as matronly, and Corinthian as maidenly.
Aside from the complete rebuilding of the ancient church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, which boldly features Ionic capitals from former colonnades in the Baths of Caracalla and other richly detailed spolia from Roman monuments, the remaining years of this Pope's life were almost as barren of permanent political results as the first had been.
The mid-16th century Italians, especially Sebastiano Serlio and Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, who established a canonic version of the orders, thought they detected a " Composite order ", combining the volutes of the Ionic with the foliage of the Corinthian, but in Roman practice volutes were almost always present.
Their settlement was connected with the legendary history of the Ionic people in Attica, which asserts that the colonists were led by Neleus and Androclus, sons of Codrus, the last king of Athens.
Ionic cornices were often set with a row of lion's masks, with open mouths that ejected rainwater.
The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of ancient Greek or classical architecture ; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.
The contemporary Parthenon, the largest temple in classical Athens, is also in the Doric order, although the sculptural enrichment is more familiar in the Ionic order: the Greeks were never as doctrinaire in the use of the Classical vocabulary as Renaissance theorists or neoclassical architects.
Immediately behind the ha-ha and positioned between the two Deer Houses was a building known as the Orangery, which, as its name suggests, originally housed Lords Burlington's orange trees over the cold winter period ( some of these trees were once positioned around the perimeter of the Ionic Temple ).
The works of Homer ( the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns ) and of Hesiod were written in a literary dialect called Homeric Greek or Epic Greek, which largely comprises Old Ionic, with some borrowings from the neighboring Aeolic dialect to the north.
Ionic columns were then added to both curved walls, giving the extensions an architectural and visual unity that had been lacking and producing the building's exterior as it is today.
In 494 BC, when the defeated Ionians were obliged to sue for terms, he was one of the ambassadors to the Persian satrap Artaphernes, whom he persuaded to restore the constitution of the Ionic cities.
Originally Doric, Ionic and Corinthian, these were added to and modified by the Romans.
It remained the only Doric colony along the Black Sea coast, as the rest were typical Ionic colonies.
This little tholos ( rotunda ) was built on a square base of side 5. 20 m. It is appears that the Ionic and Composite columns were standing directly on the stylobate without column bases.
During the subsequent reconstruction the side outbuildings were enhanced, the Ionic colonnade above the main entrance was erected and the whole structure was adorned with sculptures.
The pediments were each supported by six Ionic columns.
Ionic agents were developed first and are still in widespread use depending on the requirements but may result in additional complications.
The central building was covered by a tall steep-pitched, copper-dressed roof surrounded by the cupolas of the corner pavilions, while the façades were decorated with Ionic pilasters, festoons and portraits of Roman Emperors.
They reflect the light hearted elegance of much of Anacreon's genuine works although they were not written in the same Ionic Greek dialect that Anacreon used.
The goatish element has disappeared and the satyrs resemble the old Ionic Sileni who were horse deities.
Haigh claims that the Doric satyrs were the original performers in Attic tragedy and satiric drama, whereas the Ionic element was introduced at a later stage.

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