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Compass Window

A type of bay window with a curved or semicircular shape. Also called a bow window. See also bay window.

Bow Window

A type of bay window with a curved or semi-circular shape. Also called a compass window. See also bay window.

Oriel Window

A type of bay window located on an upper floor commonly found in British architecture. See also bay window.

Bay window

A window that projects outward from the exterior wall typically with three glass panels. It originated in Renaissance Europe and was commonl…

The Diversity of Windows in Kiyonori Kikutake’s Serizawa Literary Center (Serizawa Kojiro Memorial Museum)

Numazu Shizuoka—the birthplace of Kojiro Serizawa the author known for works such as Ningen no Unmei [The Fate of a Human]. Nestled in a pin…

A Culmination of Sutemi Horiguchi’s Aperture Designs: The Tokoname City Municipal Ceramics Research Institute (Tokoname Tounomori Research Institute)

The exhibition Explorations of Horiguchi Sutemi: Modernism Rikyu Garde…

The Windows of the Diffendorfer Memorial Hall and University Chapel at the International Christian University (ICU): Preserving, Passing On, And…

The International Christian University’s campus plan was originally designed by W. M. Vories & Co. and later developed by Antonin Raymon…

Windows of the Villejuif Temporary School｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #3

After being driven out of the Maxéville Factory in Nancy Prouvé was prepared to go into retirement at his self-built home. Yet he would begi…

A Home that Draws in Breezes from All Directions: The Fumiko Hayashi House

Fumiko Hayashi (1903–1951) a prominent Showa era writer established a new residence in Shimoochiai (present-day Nakai) Tokyo in 1941 amid a …

Terunobu Fujimori│007: The Shōji of the Rinshunkaku

In this series architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places will be…

Tokoname City Municipal Ceramics Research Institute (Tokoname Tounomori Research Institute)

Virtual Tour

The gradated purple mosaic exterior tiles are a surprising sight as one approaches this building which is tucked away on a small hill remove…

Fumiko Hayashi Residence

Virtual Tour

Built as two separate structures to comply with wartime restrictions that limited new residential constructions to a maximum floor area of 3…

The Windows of the Komai House by W. M. Vories & Co.

The soon-to-be 100-year-old Komai House now called the Taku & Shizue Komai Museum stands along a canal path in Kitashirakawa a suburban …

The Prince Karuizawa: The Materiality of Kiyoshi Seike’s Windows

The New Karuizawa Prince Hotel (now The Prince Karuizawa) built in 198…

Issue 8: The Town of Floating Pigeon Lofts

Houses stand there dotting the farmland. Small huts sit above them in the sky. It’s a bit of a strange sight but one that you’ll…

Terunobu Fujimori | 004: The French Windows of the Glover House: Arrivals from India

In this series architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places will be…

Arne JacobsenBoll House

This Jacobsen’s early residential work is in the suburbs of Copenhagen. This is a bay window with a semi-regular hexagonal plane protr…

Conversation with EMI Architekten

Ron Edelaar Elli Mosayebi and Christian Inderbitzin founded EMI Architekten in Zurich in 2005. The office has developed a particular focus o…

Architecture with “Madosoto” at all times and in all places

Fushimi: Today as we begin our new series “Madosoto: Outside Scenery” we would like to discuss the scenery outside the window. First let me …

Windowology archive vol.3 2014-2016

The third book in the series that archived “Windowology” research that Window Research Institute has developed together with researchers and…

Kadomi Family Residence/Watchtower Window

This shipping agency in Monzen-machi Kuroshima-machi Wajima City Ishikawa Prefecture got burned down in a large fire in 1871 and was rebuilt…

Movie “A City of Columns”

movie “A City of Columns” Hashirama sōchi (intercolumnar device) is a term used concerning cultural assets that refers to any architectural …

Chapter 2: The frame – the window as optical device or trompe l’oeil from Mantegna to Ryan Gander

Whether facing outwards to the world or inwards to the self an artist is often restrained by the framing device of the window—unable to brea…

Ch.2 Symbolic Realism

The pioneers (2) Talbot View of the Boulevards at Paris 1843 William Henry Fox Talbot was in France between May and June 1843. The main reas…

Thresholds between Coexistence and Architecture

Tom Avermaete is an architectural theorist who teaches at ETH Zurich. Besides working on numerous books and architectural exhibitions focusi…

Goddards

The windows in the dining room of a house designed by Edwin Lutyens in the London suburb of Surrey. Bay windows are repeated across the faça…

Interview with Tom Emerson, 6a architects

Based in London 6a architects is an acclaimed architectural office best known for its numerous cultural and educational projects including t…

Gordon Matta-Clark and Apertures

The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo is currently featuring the exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark: Mutation in Space. Matta-Clark graduated f…

Hill House

The living room bay window of the Hill House designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. A sofa and small bookshelf are built in in fr…

Windows: Openings and devices

Laurent Stalder a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) has researched various threshold devices in archit…

Part 2: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Architect Atelier Bow-Wow) has conducted “Window Behaviorology” an extensive field work on windows around t…

You Make a Better Window Than a Door

Fenestration Observations is a series of window disquisitions by Matthew Fargo. In it the translator of Genpei Akasegawaʼs Hyperart Thomasso…

Garlic Window in Vessalico village

Lemon raised under the shining sun; cured ham aged in a rich flavor by growing mold; wine made from grapes raised under well-ventilated perg…

Windows as Connectors between the Inside and Outside

Architect Ryue Nishizawa has designed a wide variety of projects including houses a church a station square and art museums. He has also fou…

How Technology Changes the Future of Windows

…elf. For example the English Bay Window is not just fenestration. It’s a social space like an inglenook as the threshold between the inside…

Thoughts on “The Joys of Making Windows”

This serial article “the Joys of Making Windows” by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory of Keio University comprises five parts and intr…

Window into Another Culture

Veneer House Project a series of projects implemented by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC propose prototypes of deployable…

Paradise Road

The windows on the second floor of Paradise Road in Colombo. A set of outward-swinging windows sits within the Colonial-style gabled bay win…

Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window @ Tohoku University

Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window @ Tohoku University [ Date+Hours ] 28 February-27 Marcih 2018 10:00-17…

Pleasure of Opening Windows

Part 3 of “The Joys of Making Windows” the serial article by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC introduces a project of maki…

Window Embracing the Hometown

Part 2 of “The Joys of Making Windows” the serial article by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC introduces a project of maki…

Bevis Bawa’s Garden 3

The bay window of a bungalow designed in Bentota by Geoffrey Bawa in which three sets of combined casement windows and projected transom win…

YKK AP Windowology 10th Anniversary

Geoffrey Bawa’s Lunuganga

A window in the guesthouse of Lunuganga designed by Geoffrey Bawa. This bay window raised on concrete pilotis combines a series of small fix…

High-rise condos and windows—from functionality to scenery—

The Attractiveness of A View Partial Ocean View Ocean View Ocean Front. If upon hearing these words you know what they are referring to it i…

Design Action, Self-involvement: The World Seen from Making a Window

Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC implements activities aiming for regeneration and reinforcement of a community with a foc…

Colonial Style House

The windows on the second floor of a Colonial Style house in Bentota. The gabled bay window includes glass windows that pivot on a central v…

Blackwell

A window in the Main Hall of a house designed by Baillie Scott in Bowness on Windermere. The bay window is built next to the fireplace compl…