(Technically, the city's roads are crowned from the center to the curb, creating side elevation).
A chair back may be shaped in both front and side elevation (and often in plan as well).
It is a beautiful, affectionate, clever extension that resolves the problems of a neglected side elevation of an old building with skill and modesty.
In London, Liberty's department store threw up its hands in despair: it offered a classical façade to Regent Street and a Tudor side elevation to Great Marlborough Street.
The front elevation is bowed in such a way as to incorporate the two towers into this curvilinear structure and to create a transition to the side elevation.
At the roofline, a delicate dormer struggles for place against the faceted turret, which in turn fights against the chimney on the side elevation, as well as a pair of flat arched windows, as taut as clock springs.
The original decoration was adapted to symbolize the contribution of Vicenza to the Venetian victory over the Turks at Lepanto in 1571, and a triumphal-arch motif was added to the side elevation.
You enter what appears to be a modest lobby, and ahead of you the space opens up, Guggenheim-like, into an atrium whose floorplan is elliptical and whose side elevation is shaped like an hourglass narrowing as you look up and then widening again toward the top.
Indeed, the notoriously demanding critic Clarence Cook, writing in New York Quarterly in 1855, called it "decidedly a failure," adding that "its front is tame, its side elevation meager" - but then he also panned Grace Church, at Eighth Street and Broadway.
You enter what appears to be a modest lobby, and ahead of you the space opens up, Guggenheim-like, into an atrium whose floorplan is elliptical and whose side elevation is shaped like an hourglass — narrowing as you look up and then widening again toward the top.
It could be seen the color of solutions with glucose all fade compared with the solution without glucose from side elevation photographs.
