Timber frame houses such as the Javanese traditional house or "Joglo" performed well because of their good connection between roof, columns, and floor.
Squeezed in between two nondescript buildings on the rather scruffy main street, the toilet entrance resembles a Moorish fantasy with colorful bulbous towers, a sod roof, and columns fashioned from construction pipe and pottery.
More than $1.2 million Bedford $3.5 million320-322320-322in Street NuMcClain bedroomStreetumber of full bathrooms: 6 Number of half bedroomss: 2 Time on the market: 50 weeks 105-year-old Greek Revival; 9 fireplaces, slate roof, Corinthian columns, eat-in kitchen, in-ground pool, 4-acre lot, 2 cottages on separate lot; taxes $55,500; listed at $3.75 million.
When it was excavated, traces of a tiled roof, Corinthian columns and a fresco decorated with fish and dolphins were discovered in a fragmentary condition.
With its bright blue roof, red columns and pristine white walls, the Hafun Community Learning Centre is an oasis of sorts.
It was fortunate that he did so, for the site was plundered in the 1960s, but in retrospect one can only regret that, since he lacked the means to consolidate it, he did not dismantle the remaining section of vaulted roof and remove Column 1 as well as Column 2, for collapse was clearly imminent; in fact it occurred within three years, as Alberto Ruz reported (1945, p. 48).
The naves, the roofs, the columns, the ceiling vaults are exactly as he modelled them and follow the geometrical and structural rules that Gaudí set up, allowing us to build exactly as he set the project out".
In '70s and '80s, it was a reinterpretation of [traditional] Korean architecture — things like tile roofs and columns" being added to Soviet-style neoclassic designs, said Chua. "Today, the interpretation is much more open-ended.
But neither is it 'informal' in a derogatory sense; most houses are built from cement blocks, increasingly many are multi-storey and freshly painted, displaying 'luxury' features like balconies, tiled roofs and columns, while some have (small) walled and gated 'compounds' that fetch a premium on the rental market.
Flames curled out of the side windows and hurled onto the roof, and a column of smoke gushed into the sky.
