The Architects’ Alphabet is a 26-part series describing design elements featured in Gregory J. Scott’s upcoming book, “Urban Legend, The Life & Legacy of C. Emlen Urban,” Lancaster’s most renowned ...

An example of ionic columns can be seen at the entry of a residential building at 726A S.W. 11th Ave., Portland. (Damon Johnstun) Walk-by architecture Portland is a great city to see architectural ...

The building at 306 Walnut was the first headquarters of PSFS. The Ionic columns lend the little building a powerful presence. The Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insuring of Houses from Loss by ...

What’s a column writer to do week after week? Why, come up with yet another column of course. Got no choice. Today, you’re in for a treat: a column column. I’m no architect, but I am an architecture ...

Columns, capitals and their respective bases have long endured the test of evolving architectural styles and interpretations. Although the classical orders of architecture can be traced to ancient ...

For most people, the soaring columns of Greek temples wouldn’t immediately conjure up visions of seating. But Laurie Beckerman, a New York designer, saw the Ionic column capital as an obvious model ...

NAGOYA -- Built in 1914, the first water pump station in this central Japan city is decorated with Renaissance, Ionic and English elements. The old Nabeyaueno Water Purification Plant No.1 pump ...