The plainest, strongest and oldest of the classical orders of architecture is the Doric, developed by mainland Greeks and familiar to us all in the form of the Parthenon. Doric columns rest directly ...

Columns, capitals and their respective bases have long endured the test of evolving architectural styles and interpretations. Although the classical orders of architecture can be traced to ancient ...

What’s a column writer to do week after week? Why, come up with yet another column of course. Got no choice. Today, you’re in for a treat: a column column. I’m no architect, but I am an architecture ...

Miss A. D. BETTS, Thorn Cottage, Byways, Berk-hamsted, Herts, writes to suggest that the fluted columns of Greek architecture were copied from plant stems, such as those of an umbelliferous plant.

Writing in this newspaper on September 20, 2008, I congratulated those responsible for re-erecting two Doric columns at Tal-Erwieħ cemetery in Tarxien. However, now I realise that it would have been ...

FAIRFIELD — The stately house at 536 Old Post Road was once described as “the finest example of Greek Revival Architecture in Connecticut” in 1971 by Lloyd Marsh of the Society for the Preservation of ...

A few weeks ago (Madras Miscellany, September 2), a reader sent me an old postcard featuring Popham's Broadway and I’ve had a rather detailed response to it which I will get to in a few minutes.

Features in the gourmet kitchen include a two-tiered center island, brushed granite counters, a farm sink, custom cabinetry, 12-foot tall tin ceiling, and Viking six-burner range. The sizable heated ...