casement window
Casement window sashes are attached to the frame with hinges and swing open or shut by pushing or pulling. Windows with a single sash are single casement windows. Double casement windows have a pair of sashes.
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The Windows of Hiroshi Hara’s Awazu House: Spaces of Light Illuminating the Darkness
The Awazu House, designed by Hiroshi Hara, now searches for a path toward continuity. A number of masterpieces have been created here at this home and atelier of world-famous graphic designer Kiyoshi …
26 Apr 2024
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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 neighborhood in Kyoto’s Sakyo Ward with open views of Mou…
15 Jan 2024
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Issue 7: The Slate Village Down the Mountains: Pingtung
… a frame and fittings as part of a set, such as a casement window or a double sliding window. This feeling of something being off may also be due to the way it is cut out from the wall using thin slat…
09 Mar 2023
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Conversation with EMI Architekten
…uction of these windows is rather simple. They’re casement windows, with a metal and timber frame, and their only special feature is the pivot hinge fixed to the top and bottom of the frame (rather th…
15 Dec 2022
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Casement Window
,Casement windows open by rotating horizontally to the left and right from the center, taking either the left or right edge as an axis. Some open into the interior, while others open onto the exterior…
18 Dec 2019
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Goddards
…mposed of a combination of both fixed windows and casement windows. ,,,Goddards 2 House / Surrey, England / Cfb This article is an excerpt from “Window Behaviorology,” a joint research project concern…
05 Jun 2017
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Hill House
…e within the large living room. Fixed windows and casement windows alternate on the front face, while two glass doors allow one to step into the garden. ,,,,Hill House House / Glasgow, Scotland / Cfb …
17 Apr 2017
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Dry-cured Ham Culatello in Zibello Village
…ocated on the second floor. The room has a French casement window with a window screen, and is left open. During this drying and fermentation process, meats other than Culatello are also hung in the s…
28 Jan 2019
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Mido Cafe
…g windows, while the lower parts are steel double-casement windows, fitted with blinds. ,,,Mido Cafe Cafe / Hong Kong, China / Cw This article is an excerpt from “Window Behaviorology,” a joint resear…
24 Jan 2017
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America (1)
When we hear the term “American houses”, we may generally tend to think of timber-frame houses that incorporate European styles. But the original American houses were actually built in accordance with…
19 Jan 2017
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Mu’s Mansion Hotel
The windows of a hotel in Li Jiang. Three sets of double-casement windows are lined in a row, the upper part of which are latticed. The swastika-shaped lattice is called manji, believed to originate f…
10 Jan 2017
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House for an Art Lover
A window of the restaurant in the House for an Art Lover designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. It combines a fixed window with casement windows in a large but thin, semi-circular steel fra…
26 Jul 2018
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Pousadas Santa Maria do Bruno
A window in the corridor of an old monastery renovated as a hotel, in Bouro, Braga. It was designed by Souto de Moura. The slender steel sash of the single casement window contrasts with the thickness…
31 May 2016
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Fresca
The window of a restaurant in Mykonos, Greece. A set of table and chairs are arranged within the low-ceiling alcove around the window. A set of double-casement windows has been removed from its frame,…
19 Dec 2017
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la fenêtre à la française
…indow like the Japanese traditional window, but a casement window that opens inward. By opening both of the windows, the wind jumps into the room and shakes the window on the other side of the room. I…
17 Sep 2015
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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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Hostal Vallarta
A window looking out onto an interior courtyard in a hotel in Guadalajara. The arch-shaped opening, made with inexpensive steel angles, is divided into a set of doors, a pair of pivoting casement wind…
28 Nov 2014
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Lou Kao Mansion
A window in Mandarin’s House in Macau. The continuous double casement windows are fitted with red, blue and white stained glass; above them is transom window that allows for the flow of air. A shallow…
07 Sep 2015
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Spinnery Restaurant
…placed round tables. Steel sash fixed windows and casement windows are built into a wooden frame. ,,,,Spinnery Restaurant Restaurant / Bowness on Windermere, England / Cfb This article is an excerpt f…
26 May 2015
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Blackwell
…tel and sill are made out of stone, fitted with a casement window and fixed windows with steel sashes. ,,,Blackwell 1 House / Bowness on Windermere, England / Cfb This article is an excerpt from “Wind…
11 May 2015
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Lantern Shop in Hoi An
The windows of a lantern shop in Hoi An. The wooden, louvered double casement windows are fitted not with glass, but with built-in folding countertops. Shop goods are crammed onto the counter and arou…
28 Apr 2015