Returning to Italy, the most celebrated doors are those of the Battistero di San Giovanni ( Florence ), which together with the door frames are all in bronze, the borders of the latter being perhaps the most remarkable: the modeling of the figures, birds and foliage of the south doorway, by Andrea Pisano ( 1330 ), and of the east doorway by Ghiberti ( 1425 – 1452 ), are of great beauty ; in the north door ( 1402 – 1424 ) Ghiberti adopted the same scheme of design for the paneling and figure subjects in them as Andrea Pisano, but in the east door the rectangular panels are all filled, with bas-reliefs, in which Scripture subjects are illustrated with innumerable figures, these being probably the gates of Paradise of which Michelangelo speaks.

By 1923, he had entirely abandoned architecture and design and moved to the south of France with Margaret where he concentrated on watercolour painting.

Though U. S. Route 101 remains a major coastal north – south link along the Pacific coast north of San Francisco, it has been replaced in overall importance for transport through the West Coast states by Interstate 5, which is more modern in its physical design, goes through more major cities, and has more direct routing due to significantly easier geography over much of the route.

To accommodate the fact that the Smithsonian would have to fund the memorial, they used the design of Gutzon Borglum, which suggested a remodel of the south tower room of the Smithsonian Castle to house the memorial surrounded by four Corinthian columns and a vaulted ceiling.

The design of the Original Town was centered on a wide railroad ground with eight blocks north of the tracks and eight blocks south of the tracks.

U. S. Ethanol has hired AGAR Industries of Merrill, Wisconsin to design and build the facility, which will be built in the newly formed industrial park on the city ’ s south side.

However, only two buildings in his design were ever built: one angle in the south-east corner of the Old Quadrangle ( nowadays known as the Cottage ), and his simple stone Chapel on the south side ( consecrated 25 November 1716 ), which now serves as the College's Library.

As of 2007 there stands on the south side of Maple Avenue, about 100 feet west of the intersection with Paxton Street, a house of unusual design.

The town design initially called for the acquisition of, and included four sections — Vose and Springbrook in the north ( around what is now Springbrook Park ) and Bassel and Hall in the south ( around what is now the South Plant ).

A junior high continued to be built on the south lot and the new elementary school which matched the junior high in brick color and design was erected on the site of the fire-destroyed building.

In due course, the Brookes failed in the male line and the house descended to Robert Townley Parker of Cuerden, who added the south wing in 1825 and stuccoed the exterior, probably to the design of Lewis Wyatt, who worked for him at Cuerden Hall.

Castles began to take on a more regular, enclosed shape, ideally quadrilateral or at least polygonal in design, especially in the more prosperous south.

The fully Barry design was never completed, the design would have enclosed New Palace Yard as an internal courtyard, the clock tower would have been in the north-east corner, with a great gateway in the north-west corner surmounted by the Albert Tower, and continuing south along the west front of Westminster Hall.

Witham has a mainly linear town centre, concentrated on the high street and its two modest shopping precincts form a cross, bisecting the high street, the Newlands Shopping Centre of 70s design to the north and the Grove Centre an 80s brick design to the south.

Another initiative was taken in the early 1990s by the developers Trafalgar Brookmount Ltd who commissioned an artist to design and produce two large brown terracotta ' gate statements '; these are located at the east end of Wellington Way and the south end of Sopwith Drive and feature representative images of Brooklands ' pre-1940 history namely the Napier-Railton, Vickers Vimy and the two former Clubhouses.

Ltd, in 1961, with the design carried out by BR's own architects in consultation with Richard Seifert & Partners, who were also responsible for the second phase of the Euston complex in the late 1970s which saw a bus terminal and three office towers constructed to the south of the station plaza.

The landscaping design was undertaken in 1912 by M. J. Manning, and comprises large playing fields at the east and south sides, and Westmount Arena and adjacent swimming pool at the southesast corner.

The projection effect can be used in architecture to design buildings that are cool in summer and warm in winter, by providing large vertical windows on the equator-facing side of the building ( the south face in the northern hemisphere, or the north face in the southern hemisphere ): this maximizes insolation in the winter months when the Sun is low in the sky, and minimizes it in the summer when the noonday Sun is high in the sky.

After the turn of the new century Gertrude Jekyll offered a chapter of suggestions for " Wood and Shrubbery edges " in Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden ( London, 1908 ) in which her descriptions were based on her own garden at Munstead Wood, south of Godalming, Surrey, but her shrubbery and hardy perennial plantings were design to soften the effect " Where woodland joins garden ground there is often a sudden jolt ; the wood ends with a hard line, sometimes with a path along it, accentuating the defect.

As the town of New York grew into a city, the only direction it could grow on the island was toward the north, proceeding upriver from the original settlement ( the " up " and " down " terminology in turn came from the customary map design in which up was north and down was south ).

Also in 1924, Pick commissioned Holden to design seven new stations in south London for the extension of the City and South London Railway ( now part of the Northern line ) from Clapham Common to Morden.

Although a design by Erik Dahlbergh was approved in 1686, construction was slow due to financial difficulties and by the start of the Great Northern War only two bastions had been completed around Toompea as intended-the Swedish Bastion and the Ingermanland Bastion, both protecting Toompea from the south.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

Terracotta Sunburst ( design ) | sunburst design above the front doors of the Eastern Columbia Building in Los Angeles ; Claud Beelman, 1930

The Abbey was built over some sixty years using local red sandstone, but gives the impression of a single coherent, mainly ' Early English ' architectural design, though the round-arched processional doorway in the western front looks back to late Norman or transitional work.

In the early 1860s, Frenchmen Pierre Michaux and Pierre Lallement took bicycle design in a new direction by adding a mechanical crank drive with pedals on an enlarged front wheel ( the velocipede ).

The gatefold sleeve design uses illustrations by Gopala on the front and back, and contains a monochrome glued-in booklet inside.

Its external design has been reported to be the direct inspiration for the front panel of the MITS Altair ( 1975 ) microcomputer.

His design of the Piazza San Pietro in front of the Basilica is one of his most innovative and successful architectural designs.

A division of Chrysler Group LLC, the most recent successor company to the Jeep brand, now holds trademark status on the name " Jeep " and the distinctive 7-slot front grille design.

The Agera's design follows a clear lineage from the previous Koenigsegg supercars, but adds many special new features, such as a wider front track, new styling and aero features, and a new interior ; including a new lighting technique they call " Ghost Light ," which consists of microscopic carbon nanotubes to hide the interior lighting until it's turned on, which then shines through what appeared to be solid aluminium.

* Noborigama kiln-the Noborigama is an evolution from Anagama design as a multi-chamber kiln, usually built on a slope, where wood is stacked from the front firebox at first, then only through the side-stoking holes with the benefit of having air heated up to 600 ° C from the front firebox, enabling more efficient firings.

Lin defended her design in front of the United States Congress, and eventually a compromise was reached.

The DKW Schnellaster, manufactured from 1949 to 1962 was a small monospace ( or one-box ) design featuring its front wheels set forward of the passenger cabin, a short, sloping aerodynamic hood, front-wheel drive, transverse engine, flat load floor throughout with flexible seating and cargo accommodations – the key design ingredients that describe the modern minivan configuration popularized in such notable examples as the Renault Espace and Chrysler Voyager / Caravan minivans.

In 2010, the second-generation Volkswagen Sharan and SEAT Alhambra were presented, making the debut of the brand new Volkswagen group's MQB platform, and like their predecessors did, they were both again almost identical in design one to another, with the exception of the front fascias, rear ends and some minor details.

The design was changed to feature three rows of eight columns across the front and back of the temple and a double row of twenty on the flanks, for a total of 104 columns.

Porsche chose a rear wheel drive layout and a rear-mounted transaxle for the design to help provide 48 / 52 front / rear weight distribution ; this slight rear weight bias aided both traction and brake balance.

Ideally, safety-engineers take an early design of a system, analyze it to find what faults can occur, and then propose safety requirements in design specifications up front and changes to existing systems to make the system safer.

Thornton was inspired by the east front of the Louvre, as well as the Paris Pantheon for the center portion of the design.

Despite the wishes of Jefferson and the President, Hallet went ahead anyway and modified Thornton's design for the East front and created a square central court that projected from the center, with flanking wings which would house the legislative bodies.

It was derived from a previous, unsuccessful Curtiss-Wright design, which failed because of a well-known problem with all internal combustion engines: the fixed speed at which the flame front travels limits the distance combustion can travel from the point of ignition in a given time, and thereby limiting the maximum size of the cylinder or rotor chamber which can be used.

The design also included a two-level road in front of the terminal to separate arrival and departure traffic and a federally owned limited access highway connecting the terminal to the Capital Beltway ( I-495 ) about to the east.

Some versions of this design allowed the bell to also rotate forward, projecting the sound to the front of the band.