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2. Imperial Crown Style - Wikipedia

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   The Imperial Crown Style (帝冠様式, teikan yōshiki) of Japanese architecture developed during the Japanese Empire in the early twentieth century. The style is identified by Japanese-style roofing on top of Neoclassical styled buildings; [ 1] and can have a centrally elevated structure with a pyramidal hip roof.

3. Imperial roof decoration - Wikipedia

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   Highest possible status imperial roof decoration - man riding bird, nine beasts, immortal figure, and dragon Chinese imperial roof decorations or roof charms or roof-figures (Chinese: 檐獸/檐兽; pinyin: yán shòu) or "walking beasts" (Chinese: 走獸/走兽; pinyin: zǒu shòu) or "crouching beasts" (Chinese: 蹲獸/蹲兽; pinyin: Dūn shòu) were statuettes placed along the ridge line ...

4. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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   Arched roof, bow roof, [11] Gothic, Gothic arch, and ship's bottom roof. Historically also called a compass roof. [12] Circular Bell roof (bell-shaped, ogee, Philibert de l'Orme roof): A bell-shaped roof. Compare with bell-cast eaves. Domed; Onion dome or rather an imperial roof; Bochka roof; Conical roof or cone roof; Hyperbolic Saddle

5. Meridian Gate (Huế) - Wikipedia

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   Meridian Gate (Huế) Coordinates: 16.4680°N 107.5760°E. The Meridian Gate to the Imperial Citadel, Huế. Closer view of the gate. The Meridian Gate ( Vietnamese: Ngọ Môn, Chữ Hán: 午門), also known as the South Gate, is the main gate to the Imperial City, Huế, located within the citadel of Huế.

6. Chinese architecture - Wikipedia

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   One example is the use of yellow (the imperial color) roof tiles. Yellow tiles still adorn most of the buildings within the Forbidden City. Only the emperor could use hip roofs, with all four sides sloping. The two types of hip roof were single-eave and double-eave. The Hall of Supreme Harmony is the archetypal example of double eaves. [26]

7. Tuileries Palace - Wikipedia

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   The land was occupied by the workshops and kilns craftsmen who made "tuiles", or roof tiles. Because of its proximity to the Louvre Castle, members of the royal family began buying plots of land there. [1] After the death of Henry II in 1559, his widow Catherine de' Medici moved into the Louvre Castle with her son, Francis II. She planned a new ...