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Prayer hall of the Great Mosque of Kairouan, in Kairouan, Tunisia. In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. [1] In the Iron Age and early Middle Ages in northern Europe, a mead hall was where a lord and his retainers ate and also slept.
A great hall is the main room of a royal palace, castle or a large manor house or hall house in the Middle Ages. It continued to be built in the country houses of the 16th and early 17th centuries, although by then the family used the great chamber for eating and relaxing.
The timber-framed hall house with great hall, in a late medieval pattern which continued in use in Tudor times, was built for Sir Robert Hesketh in about 1530. The hall, which formed the south wing of the present building, is substantially as built, 46.5 feet (14.2 m) long and 22 feet (6.7 m) wide, with the timbers sitting on a low stone wall.
Holkham Hall (/ ˈ h oʊ k ə m / or / ˈ h ɒ l k ə m / [1]) is an 18th-century country house near the village of Holkham, Norfolk, England, constructed in the Neo-Palladian style for the 1st Earl of Leicester (of the fifth creation of the title) [2] [3] by the architect William Kent, aided by Lord Burlington.
Model of the Große Halle. The Volkshalle (German pronunciation: [ˈfɔlksˌhalə], "People's Hall"), also called Große Halle ([ˌɡʁoːsə ˈhalə], "Great Hall") or Ruhmeshalle ([ˈʁuːməsˌhalə], "Hall of Glory"), was a proposal for a monumental, domed building to be built in a reconstituted Berlin (renamed as Germania) in Nazi Germany.
Hyde Hall is a neoclassical country mansion in Springfield Center, New York, designed by architect Philip Hooker for George Clarke (1768–1835), a wealthy landowner. The house was constructed between 1817 and 1834, and designed with English and American architectural features.
A hall church is a church with a nave and aisles of approximately ... In German literature on English medieval architecture, they are mentioned as a frequent type ...
Rudolph Hall in 2022, showing the 2008 addition to the right of Paul Rudolph's original Brutalist structure. Rudolph Hall (built as the Yale Art and Architecture Building, nicknamed the A & A Building, and given its present name in 2007 [1]) is one of the earliest and best-known examples of Brutalist architecture in the United States.