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  2. Tholos (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    A tholos (pl.: tholoi; from Ancient Greek θόλος, meaning "conical roof" [1] or "dome"), in Latin tholus (pl.: tholi), is a form of building that was widely used in the classical world. It is a round structure with a circular wall and a roof, usually built upon a couple of steps (a podium), and often with a ring of columns supporting a ...

  3. History of early and simple domes - Wikipedia

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    Other examples of mud-brick buildings that also seemed to employ the "true" dome technique have been excavated at Tell Arpachiyah, a Mesopotamian site of the Halaf (c. 6100 to 5400 BC) and Ubaid (c. 5300 to 4000 BC) cultures. [19] Excavations at Tell al-Rimah have revealed pitched-brick domical vaults from about 2000 BC. [20]

  4. History of Roman and Byzantine domes - Wikipedia

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    The upper floor contained a likely cruciform room with a small dome at the center, in imitation of the audience halls of the Byzantine emperors. Bulgarian tsars had similar halls. [238] Byzantium's neighboring Orthodox powers in Europe emerged as architectural centers in their own right during the Late Byzantine Period.

  5. History of early modern period domes - Wikipedia

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    The church of St Benet Fink (1670-1675) was an elongated 10-sided building with six thin stone columns at its center supporting pendentives under a timber oval dome with a small 12-sided lantern. Although admired at the time as one of Wren's finest designs, it was demolished in the early 1840s.

  6. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    A small, most often dome-like, structure on top of a building. Cyma A projecting moulding whose edge forms an S-curve. The two major types of cyma are the cyma recta, in which the upper curve is concave, and the cyma reversa (also known as the ogee), in which the lower curve is concave. [22] Cyrto-style A circular projecting portico with ...

  7. List of Roman domes - Wikipedia

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    The Pantheon in Rome.Largest dome in the world for more than 1,300 years. Oculus of the Pantheon. This is a list of Roman domes.The Romans were the first builders in the history of architecture to realize the potential of domes for the creation of large and well-defined interior spaces. [1]

  8. Zome (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    A zome is a building designed using geometries different from of a series of rectangular boxes, used in a typical house or building. [1] The word zome was coined in 1968 by Nooruddeen Durkee (then Steve Durkee), combining the words dome and zonohedron. [2] One of the earliest models became a large climbing structure at the Lama Foundation ...

  9. Volkshalle - Wikipedia

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    The oculus of the building's dome, 46 metres (151 ft) in diameter, would have accommodated the entire rotunda of Hadrian's Pantheon and the dome of St. Peter's Basilica. The dome of the Volkshalle was to rise from a massive granite podium 315 by 315 metres (1,033 ft × 1,033 ft) and 74 metres (243 ft) high, to a total inclusive height of 290 ...