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The highly decorated two-storey porch of St Mary's, Yatton, England [1] [2] A church porch is a room-like structure at a church's main entrance. [3] A porch protects from the weather to some extent. Some porches have an outer door, others a simple gate, and in some cases the outer opening is not closed in any way.
The Villa la Vigie in 2020 The villa overlooking the Monte-Carlo Beach hotel. Villa la Vigie is a villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the Cote d'Azur in southern France. It was built by the British publisher Sir William Ingram, 1st Baronet in 1902 and occupied and renovated by the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld in the 1980s.
The portico of the Croome Court in Croome D'Abitot (England) Temple diagram with location of the pronaos highlighted. A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.
Porch of the Queen Anne style cottage William G. Harrison House. In northeastern North America, a porch is a small area, usually unenclosed, at the main-floor height and used as a sitting area or for the removal of working clothes so as not to get the home's interior dirty, when the entrance door is accessed via the porch.
Karl Otto Lagerfeld [1] was born in Hamburg on 10 September 1933 to Elisabeth (née Bahlmann) and Otto Lagerfeld.His father, coming from a family of wealthy wine-merchants, was a prosperous businessman and polyglot, speaking nine languages; [7] [8] his father owned an import company (Lagerfeld & Co.) specialising in evaporated milk, leading him to work with the American dairy company Carnation.
Unlike the Southern France, Paris has very few examples of Romanesque architecture; most churches and other buildings in that style were rebuilt in the Gothic style.The most remarkable example of Romanesque architecture in Paris is the church of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, built between 990 and 1160 during the reign of Robert the Pious.
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A caryatid (/ ˌ k ɛər i ˈ æ t ɪ d, ˌ k ær-/ KAIR-ee-AT-id, KARR-; [1] Ancient Greek: Καρυᾶτις, romanized: Karuâtis; pl. Καρυάτιδες, Karuátides) [2] is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.