Notes and sketches of an architect taken during a journey in the northwest of Europe; (1877)
Narjoux, Félix, Peto, John Frederick, 1854-1907 · Boston, J. R. Osgood · leaf 177
other; the angular point is occupied by a bay-window of picturesque appearance; the two retreating fronts 172 GEEMANY. are much varied in their outlines, with very decided projections;their principal lines being also broken up by buttresses andgables, as well as by many recessed and prominent… … Fig. 90. — House in Hanover. At an obtuse angle, on the contrary, as in Tig. 90, the facadesare thrown forward, and may be taken in at a single glance;there would be, in such a case, some fear of the monotony re-sulting from a long line of similar openings ; in order to obviatethis inconvenience,…
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