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The staircases of the interior façade are decorated with cartouches similar to those found in First Quad, and likewise bear the arms of important figures in the College's history ; ( 13 ) Sir Walter Raleigh who was an undergraduate from 1572 to 1574, ( 14 ) John Keble who was a Fellow between 1811 and 1835 ), ( archway ) Edward Hawkins who was Provost from 1828 until 1882 and ( 15 ) Gilbert White who was an undergraduate from 1739 until 1743 and a Fellow from 1744 until 1793.
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The interior makes much use of marble in the entrance hall and flanking staircases, although the galleries as originally designed were white with restrained classical detail and mouldings, very much in contrast to the elaborate decoration of the Victorian galleries, although much of this decoration was removed in the early 20th century.
The building itself is a remarkably preserved purpose-built theatre complete with period interior design, sumptuous colours with winding staircases and fancy plasterwork.
Certain houses with their interior Florentine staircases are remarkable.
The interior also features a grand double-height foyer with coffered ceilings, a 30 metre wide mural by the famous Toronto-born artist R. York Wilson, cantilevering staircases that appear to be floating, bright bronze auditorium doors, and a fan-shaped auditorium with a huge curving balcony.
Much of the interior is built with high-quality ashlar stonework, with broad, 5 foot 6 inch ( 1. 7 metre ) wide staircases.
The focal point of the interior space is a two-story atrium with dual staircases and a skylight with glass etched in the outline of an eagle.
Most of the interior of the Citadel fortress itself is accessible to visitors, who may also climb the numerous staircases to the fortress's roof, which is free of guardrails.
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The last modifications were made: a new façade with several columns and a wide set of staircases were projected and the covered dome was eliminated.
The classic French Renaissance-styled Union League of Philadelphia building, with its brick and brownstone façade and dramatic twin circular staircases leading to the main entrance on Broad Street, was designed by John Fraser and completed in May 1865 opening was originally scheduled for March 1865, with President Lincoln in attendance, but was delayed due to Civil War-related construction supply shortages.
The façade towards the baptistery has Ghibelline-style merlons with two large staircases.
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Baroque palaces are built around an entrance of courts, grand staircases and reception rooms of sequentially increasing opulence.
In contrast to the static levels of Wolfenstein 3D, those in Doom are highly dynamic: platforms can lower and rise, floors can rise sequentially to form staircases, and bridges can rise and fall.
In many houses stone staircases are still intact, and they contain huge ceramic storage jars ( pithoi ), mills, and pottery.
In many old houses the former staircases used to unload goods are now flooded, rendering the former ground floor uninhabitable.
# Paradox illusions are generated by objects that are paradoxical or impossible, such as the Penrose triangle or impossible staircases seen, for example, in M. C.
Since the loggia divided the building into two halves, there are two symmetrical staircases on either side of it, rather than a single staircase.
The balustrades of the staircases, also marble, are supported by unusual transparent yellow glass balusters.
Though some are long abandoned ( e. g., Grauert Causeway ), there are still several outdoor public staircases ( e. g., Shippen Steps ) throughout the town, and more than 15 " dead-end " streets.
The buildings are also notable for breaking from Oxbridge tradition by arranging rooms along corridors rather than around staircases.
Whereas the staircases on the first three quadrangles are marked with Arabic numerals, the Island site is marked with Roman numerals.
St Catherine's has recently completed the construction of seven new accommodation staircases with en suite rooms, which means that most undergraduates are able to live on the main College site for the duration of their course.
The majority of St Catherines ' buildings are in the form of ' staircases ' that open directly onto the quad ( s ) outside ; these are filled with student rooms and the occasional office space.
There are staircases of various sizes and grandeur in the central block, but none are designed on the same scale of magnificence as the palace.
Examples of helixes are coil springs and the handrails of spiral staircases.
Foxton Locks () are ten canal locks consisting of two " staircases " each of five locks, located on the Leicester line of the Grand Union Canal about 5 km west of the Leicestershire town of Market Harborough and are named after the nearby village of Foxton.
There are paired staircases flanking the saloon, with further battle pieces by Laguerre.
There are few signs explaining the structures within, but in one section allows a view of main staircases of one of the pyramids, whose nine floors have been excavated from bottom to top.
The tiers, corridors, staircases, landings are all constructed of concrete to reduce the risk and damage that might be done by fire.
Pilgrims are guided by the system of staircases and corridors ascending to the top platform.
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Pillars of marble and granite give way to staircases of Carrara marble, freestone, and alabaster, and a ceiling decorated in gold leaf is topped by a stained glass dome.
One of the very decorated staircases of the castle where King Francis I signed the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts.
It is a large L-shaped room with staircases decorated with sculptures of eagle heads.
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The house incorporated a number of curiosities and innovations he has designed including gas lighting, a doorbell worked by compressed air and an air conditioning system: described by Joshua Field as " He has a good stove for heating the rooms with hot air which enters the rooms and staircases at convenient places.
William Feaver describes the Festival Style as " Braced legs, indoor plants, lily-of-the valley sprays of lightbulbs, aluminium lattices, Costswold-type walling with picture windows, flying staircases, blond wood, the thorn, the spike, the molecule.
The underside of the staircases is covered with tiles that form gleaming canopies on either side of the vestibule.
The Rector's Lodgings were designed by Gilbert Scott and constructed in 1864, with staircases nine, ten and eleven also being erected during the nineteenth century.
Finalists usually live in the newer Maplethorpe Building, whose rooms have en-suite facilities and clusters of eight rooms sharing a kitchen on each of the three floors, with four staircases altogether.
Because they were built with spiral staircases ( long since removed ), people rode horses or took carriage rides to the towers in order to climb the stairs and view growing Cincinnati to the south and countryside to the north.
In comparison to Norman castles the gatehouses were much weaker in design, with almost no use of portcullises or spiral staircases, and the stonework of the outer walls was also generally inferior to Norman built castles.
Old Court, whose construction began in 1880 and is built in red brick in the Victorian Late Perpendicular Gothic Revival style, was largely designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield and comprises seven staircases ( A to G ), together with a tower and gateway, Master's Lodge, Chapel, Hall, Kitchens, Music Practice Room, and Archives.
The Herschend Family modernized the cave with electricity and concrete staircases, and in 1960, the Herschends opened Silver Dollar City which was a re-creation of a frontier town that featured five shops, a church and a log cabin with actors that played out the feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys.
Students and fellows contributed to the design with such ideas as intersecting staircases and elongated windows.
In addition, to access the new ring, four entrance towers were erected on the outside, each with two staircases and a central spiral ramp.
It was again expanded in the mid-nineties beginning with a larger entrance on Montgomery Street which utilized existing spiral marble staircases.
Col. Evan George Stewart highlighted the primitive facilities of the school at this time in his article about St. Paul's history: " Some of us can remember the old south wing – two enormous classrooms on the first floor and one on the ground floor – the rest of the space taken up with wide verandahs and staircases, the whole constructed of ancient and somewhat worm-eaten wood, which must have caused a headache to the Insurance Company ; the bad lighting and amazing discomforts which would not be tolerated by modern schoolboys.
The courtyards, usually stone-flagged, are generally at a higher level than the outside and approached by massive staircases and narrow defensible entrances with large wooden doors.
Temples are usually set at a level above the courtyard with further staircases up to them.
In the outer would be built a triple staircase, the inner acting as a light well with " windows " cut in its outer wall to illuminate the staircases.
When the prime minister arrives for an audience with the governor in the latter's study, he or she uses the dedicated Prime Minister's Entrance, which sits on the north side of the Monck addition, and opens into the east-most of the wing's two staircases, from which it is only a short walk to the viceroy's office.
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