mullioned window
Two or more windows installed horizontally in a row, or two or more windows in a single frame divided by mullions are called mullioned windows. A pair of adjacent windows are double mullioned windows, while three in a row are triple mullioned windows. In Japan, double-mullioned windows are also called rensō-mado or meoto-mado.
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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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Terunobu Fujimori│005: The Katōmado of the Shizutani School Auditorium: An Un-Japanese Japanese Window
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…
05 Jul 2023
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The Divine Invasion: Aldo Rossi’s Windows without Glass
When we face the presence of towering walls, massive mountains, or solid architectural volumes, we feel both fear and affection. The nature of a solid wall seems to suggest something divine or sublime…
13 Feb 2023
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Vol. 4: Windows in Italian
…on preceding a noun include “finestra a bifora” [“mullioned window”], “finestra con doppio telaio” [“window with two frames”], “finestra di opportunità” [“window of opportunity”], and “finestra sopra …
11 Sep 2018
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Vol. 2: Windows in German
…enfenster” [“arched window”], “Sprossenfenster” [“mullioned window”], and “Fensterangel” [“window hinge”] are words that are listed in the German dictionary Duden – Deutsches Universalwörterbuch…
27 Jun 2018