bay window
Synonym:
bow window,
oriel window,
Bay windows project from the exterior wall of a building. If the projection is semi-circular, it is called a bow window. Bay windows installed on the upper floors only are also called oriel windows.
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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 Raymond. The Diffendorfer Memorial Hall and University Chapel, whi…
28 Aug 2024
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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 begin developing new window designs again after reuniting with…
28 Mar 2024
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Terunobu Fujimori│007: The Shōji of the Rinshunkaku
…the shoin style itself originates from such small bay windows that monks used for reading and writing scripture. Next, there is the ceiling. In shoin architecture, proper ceilings should be coved and …
01 Feb 2024
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The Windows of the Komai House by W. M. Vories & Co.
…. Its east side features a large double-sidelight bay window that brings in views of the garden. The row of six sash windows projects out towards the garden to form an alcove equipped with a bench. Kn…
15 Jan 2024
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The Prince Karuizawa: The Materiality of Kiyoshi Seike’s Windows
The New Karuizawa Prince Hotel (now The Prince Karuizawa) built in 1982 was designed by Kiyoshi Seike. Seike is known as the architect of a number of Prince hotels locations, with Karuizawa being the …
12 Oct 2023
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Issue 8: The Town of Floating Pigeon Lofts
…h are apparently built without permission). Added bay windows are also commonly seen, where you may find hanged laundry that feels like it may never dry. This is an especially impressive sight in urba…
17 Aug 2023
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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 introducing a selection of notably intriguing windows fo…
20 Feb 2023
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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 protruding from a traditional yellow brick wall, and a radiator i…
10 Feb 2023
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Conversation with EMI Architekten
… or outwards, building on the Zurich tradition of bay windows. ,EM: So on the one hand we have the more representative front facade, which has double bays that point outwards. And then, as Ron mentio…
15 Dec 2022
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Architecture with “Madosoto” at all times and in all places
…indow itself is attached to the building as a big bay window. This window has an L-shaped space overhanging the cliff, looking out toward the Pacific. Adding to one’s conform is a backrest on the end …
18 Apr 2022
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Windowology archive vol.3 2014-2016
29 Mar 2018
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Kadomi Family Residence/Watchtower Window
…80 square feet) in size. The opening section is a bay window with a depth of 450mm between the screen door and the shoji window. ,,,Kadomi Family Residence (Shipping agency/Monzen-machi Kuroshima-mach…
14 Jan 2022
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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 element that can be placed in the bays between columns. Ex…
03 Aug 2020
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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 break free from a rectilinear box or blank surface that demands…
03 Feb 2020
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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 reason for his trip was to teach a series of aspiring calotypi…
11 Jul 2019
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Thresholds between Coexistence and Architecture
…n the other, public life. The windows here, these bay windows, these symbolize that threshold. ,,,If youʼre really all together as a family, if you look at this, I donʼt know if you can see the interi…
25 Jun 2019
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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 façade, creating a large aperture for the room, in which a long …
05 Jun 2017
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Interview with Tom Emerson, 6a architects
…s in this building. Why did you decide to install bay windows in each of the rooms? In the original college built in 1960s, every room had a bay window with a window seat, and students could sit in th…
22 Apr 2019
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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 from Cornell University, where he had majored in architectur…
17 Sep 2018
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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 front of the window, creating a small space within the large …
17 Apr 2017
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Part 2: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto “Window Behaviorology”
…d on the building? One can observe repetitions of bay windows on apartment facades along the streets in Munich. Bay window spaces are the best “rooms” in the apartments. They are like salo…
13 Nov 2018
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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 Thomasson probes the city for hidden and forgotten features of the …
18 Jul 2018
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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 pergola. We can see architectures particular to each region with…
19 Jun 2018
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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 found international success through SANAA, a practice that …
06 Sep 2016
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How Technology Changes the Future of Windows
Nader Tehrani is an Iranian-American designer who has completed numerous architectural projects worldwide. Having served as the Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT from 2010 to 2014, he is n…
06 Sep 2016
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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 introduces their window-making projects in various locations a…
20 Mar 2018
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Window into Another Culture
Veneer House Project, a series of projects implemented by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC, propose prototypes of deployable architecture made of plywood veneer boards, a commonly us…
30 Jan 2018
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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 window, fitted with louvers allowing for ventilation. A table i…
23 May 2016
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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 10:00-17:00(Closed on Sat./Sun./Holidays) [ Admission ] Free [Venue…
11 Jan 2018
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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 making windows at an elementary school in the Democratic Repub…
21 Dec 2017
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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 making a window for a kominka (old folk house) in a small town…
08 Nov 2017
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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 windows are arranged. An antique bench is placed near the wind…
06 Nov 2017
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YKK AP Windowology 10th Anniversary
Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window Participating architects, scholars, and artists include Taro Igarashi, Hiroshi Hara, Leandro Erlich, and Takashi Homma, among many…
26 Apr 2017
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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 fixed windows with a row of wooden windows that open for vent…
28 Nov 2014
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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 is probably safe to say that you enjoy traveling. This i…
22 Aug 2019
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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 focus on its rich heritage and micro-culture as well as creatio…
06 Sep 2017
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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 vertical axis. Chairs are set in front of the window. ,,,Colo…
11 May 2015
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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, complete with a built-in bench facing the fire. The lintel and s…
11 May 2015
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YKK AP presents Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window
Thursday, September 28 – Monday, October 9, 2017 (public holiday) @ Spiral Garden, Minato-ku, Tokyo A confluence of academic research and contemporary art themed on windows Participants include archit…
10 Jul 2017
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Steel House
“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2016, one of the world’s largest modern architecture festivals. How are …
27 May 2016
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House at Komazawa Park
…he half-external window and it looks like a small bay window attached outside the opening. I think details like that actually greatly affect how our bodies feel. Also, for the details of the windows, …
27 May 2016
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Hiroshi Nakamura Windows and Affection
…I saw when I went to Marrakesh was nice. It was a bay window that faced a courtyard, and there were cushions with backrests that were faced toward each other. The courtyards in the Middle East have a …
19 Aug 2013
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Vol. 5: A Contrastive Linguistic Analysis of Words for “Window”—Based on Comparative Analyses of Japanese, German, English, and Italian Idioms
…d eye (i.e. minor injuries]”] (German) – “a bay window” [used with the meaning “potbelly” based on the rounded protruding form of a bay window] (English) – “fare una finestra sul tetto” [l…
27 Nov 2018
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Vol. 0: Windows from the Perspective of Contrastive Etymology
…iality, position, or purpose (e.g. “出窓” [demado, “bay window”], “飾り窓” [kazarimado, “ornamental window”], “天窓” [tenmado, “skylight”], etc.). It is also worth nothing that there are windows such as so-c…
28 Mar 2018
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Vol. 3: Windows in English
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to explore the process through which the concepts of the word have expanded over the ages. In Volume 3, …
30 Aug 2018