Sentence examples for classical villas from inspiring English sources
A few miles west of Old Havana, Vedado's tree-lined streets house classical villas, stylish restaurants, galleries and museums.
The area around Como, on the western shore, is the most developed part of the lake, with elegant gardens and classical villas nearby.
Of all the country houses of the 18th century, its façades replicate in undiluted form not only the classical villas of Italy on which Palladianism was founded, but also the temples of antiquity on which Neoclassicism was based.
One of his loveliest is Charlottenhof, an intimate classical villa in a quiet corner of Sanssouci park.
The roof hovers over the main mass of the building with nearly perfect symmetry, as if the hall were a great country house or a classical villa.
After joining Restoration, Mr. Friedman spent five years designing and building his dream house — "a classical villa but with a modern point of view," he said — in Marin.
There was something undeniably kitschy about the notion of putting a make-believe classical villa atop a hillside overlooking the Pacific Ocean and calling it a museum, but nobody seemed to mind.
Examples of work in this style include a large gabled house (1980 81) in Farm Neck, Massachusetts, designed in emulation of turn-of-the-20th-century Shingle-style homes by Stanford White and Grosvenor Atterbury; the seaside cottagelike Lawson House (1979 81) in East Quogue, New York; and a Tuscan Classical villa (1988 92) at River Oaks in Houston, Texas.
The first pavilion, built in 1787, was a classical villa.
Harrison's plans for he palace at Alupka show a classical villa on the site of the present palace's corps de logis with bedroom floors below, on what are now the lower terraces of the present palace.
However, rather than erect a compact and low classical villa, as Harrison had designed, Blore's plan was radically different, with strong English Tudor Renaissance features on the northern side, and an eclectic medley of western and Islamic features on the southern.
