Unlike the earlier designs, this building does not have any decoration, although thecornice-like horizontal line below the top storey still remains.
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Statues, cornices, and balustrades are made of cement, although not always in good taste, and the use of cement is increasing wonderfully fast.
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The upper part of the ice cliff was consistently corniced, and at only a few spots was thecornicemissing.
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Of these, there would befivefrom floor tocornice; eight to the beams of the ceiling.
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Here, under thecorniceand in between the slats, a square motif is stencilled on the wall.
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A prominent entablature andcorniceaccented the building near its summit.
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Characteristic elements of each were perfected over many years (as columns, capitals, beams, friezes, cornices, etc) and then combined to make coherent and identifiable building types.
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Peckham acknowledged that opponents had criticized height limits as aesthetic measures, designed to beautify the city by promoting a uniformcorniceline.
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We excluded naming latencies for one picture from the different-gender set (cornice'frame') because of the high naming inconsistency observed during the familiarization phase.
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A building of such size, with its horizontal and vertical divisions, needed a crowningcorniceto finish it off if it was to fit into its immediate surroundings.
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He has redecorated the inside of the house, because the wallpaper came away at the corners and round the cornices.
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We made certain regulations that buildings should not be more than 80 feet to thecorniceand 100 feet high in total.
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They have not said whether they would have preferred the neo-classical style, with cornices and mouldings of that kind.
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Licences were issued for the necessary repairs to the cornices, balcony, parapet and stucco work generally, including painting to prevent further deterioration by damp penetration.
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As a result, there have been instances of squares, terraces, and so on being damaged by the removal of certain architectural ornaments, such as cornices and ironwork.
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