Casement window
A window with a sash hinged to one side of the frame, opening outward or inward by pivoting around those hinges. It generally refers to side-hinged windows, such as single casement window or double casement window, but it can also include top- or bottom-hinged variations, such as awning window or hopper window. If it opens outward, it is referred to as an outward-opening casement window, and if it opens inward, it is called an inward-opening casement window.
See also single casement window, double casement window, awning window, hopper window.
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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 pine forest beside Suruga Bay is the Serizawa Literary Center…
25 Dec 2024
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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
There are now around 580,000 native Taiwanese (the term used in Chinese. In Japan, it seems the term “indigenous” is often used), representing 2.5% of the Taiwanese population. The governm…
09 Mar 2023
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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 on housing and urban design in Switzerland through numerous…
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
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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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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Dry-cured Ham Culatello in Zibello Village
At the beginning of November, I drove a car north from Parma and aimed for Zibello village. As I passed through the central Old City, I saw fields and houses scattered around. As I advanced the car fu…
28 Jan 2019
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Mido Cafe
The windows of a restaurant in Kowloon. The windows protrude out from the corner of the building. Inside, tables and chairs are lined up along the windows. The upper parts are awning windows, while th…
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
Six years have passed since I arrived in Paris. Although my daily life has been changing and evolving every moment, Paris has kept the skyline since it has been built. The scenery of the small windows…
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
A window in a restaurant in Bowness on Winderemere, which is famous for its lakes. A bench is built-in to the semi-circular window, called a bow window, in front of which are placed round tables. Stee…
26 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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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
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House at Komazawa Park
“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