Sentence examples for cornice line from inspiring English sources

If a single building breaks the proposed 50-foot cornice line, the openness of the square will be lost.

The drip moldings around the windows and the verge-board — pierced wooden trim — at the cornice line make these a particular pleasure to contemplate.

"Its scale is similar to the adjoining buildings, as it should be to maintain the prevailing street-wall and cornice line".

A glazed terra-cotta frieze runs just below the cornice line, the Greek meander pattern in blue and white evoking the sense of an ancient monument, like something unearthed at Bronze Age Knossos.

They pick up on the structural grid and cornice line of the adjacent Edwardian wing – itself a steel frame clad in stone – but strip everything back to its component parts.

The result was a "great and apparently architecturally unified palace ... uniform in all sorts of ways, as to roof line, window heights, cornice line, floor and ceiling heights".

The design guidelines have mandated a comfortable, moderate scale, stone bases, variation in brick, and roughly even cornice lines, and they work.

The lower-level windows have flat-arched surrounds with keystones; the oculi break the cornice lines beneath segmentally arched pediments.

Their architectural contributions set the tone for the block, which uses mostly brick and limestone houses that share porch and cornice lines.

Narrow brownstones with intact cornices line 21st Street, off Ninth Avenue.

Historic Italianate buildings with painted cornices line Main Street, and South Main has Greek Revival homes with huge columns.