Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Pavilion
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1. A projecting element of a façade, used especially at the center or at each end and usually treated so as to suggest a tower.
2. A summerhouse or other decorative building used as a shelter in a park or large garden.
May also describe a projecting subdivision of a monumental building, notably the central or end bays of a Classical facade.
Examples from Buffalo as an Architectural Museum website:
- Projecting subdivision of a monumental building - H. H. Richardson's Buffalo State Hospital
- Projecting subdivision of a monumental building - Stephen Clement Mansion
- Projecting subdivision of a monumental building - Rand House
- Projecting subdivision of a monumental building - Saturn Club
- Projecting subdivision of a monumental building - Genesee Building/Hyatt Regency-Buffalo
Other examples:
- Projecting subdivision of a monumental building - Pavilions at the Louvre Museum, Paris, France
