cornices

While landmarks commission members went over the existing building's architectural features such as cornices and colonnades, some in the audience of about 60 at Pace University in lower Manhattan held signs telegraphing their opposition.

Ground Zero Mosque Site Denied Landmark Status 2010

Fragments such as cornices, frames, pilaster bases, and Corinthian pilaster capitals bore reliefs.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 6 2003

He understood how to contrast wide unbroken surfaces with certain important parts of his _ensemble_, such as cornices, plinths, and especially doorways.

A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Georges Perrot 1873

The French Quarter, with its picturesquely spalling walls and tendrilly weeds spilling from cornices, often feels like a movie set, especially in the light of summer.

All the Street’s a Stage 2009

Sticking out the wall, a hideous copper excrescence, was the new gas pipe, vertical from waist height but then, up above my head, twisting out to disappear through the ceiling at the point where the cornices met.

It Gets Worse « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

The Ionic order is more elegant and matronly – think Boticelli's Venus – with often unfluted columns, scrolled capitals, friezes that are sometimes adorned with elaborately sculpted bas-relief and dentils – a row of small blocks – below the cornices.

Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders 2011

The earth wrinkled its back for twenty-eight seconds, and the lying cornices crashed down as all lies are doomed to crash down.

The House Beautiful 2010

I mean, those enormous ornate cornices you all chose in your bedroom I can overlook.

PS 2009

Upon the tops of the simple, severe walls of their buildings they plastered huge projecting cornices.

The House Beautiful 2010

Penny Miller, London N16Skirting boards and cornices at the wall-ceiling joint are also a way of softening the cognitive dissonance that occurs when the retina provides curves that the optic lobe knows are straight lines or flat planes.

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