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pergolas


Garden structures with open wood-framed roofs, often latticed, supported by regularly spaced posts or columns; often covered by climbing plants such as vines or roses, shading a walk or passageway. Di [..]
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topography


Art or practice of the accurate graphic delineation of the natural and man-made surface features of a specific urban area, tract of land, or other place, especially so as to show their relative positi [..]
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aerial views


Designates views achieved by photographing from an aircraft or other high locations. For nonphotographic depictions with high viewpoints, see bird's-eye views. [view larger image]
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arboretum


Botanical gardens devoted to the cultivation and exhibition of trees and other woody plants, rare or otherwise.
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arbors


Light, open structures either formed from trees, shrubs, or vines closely planted and twined together to be self-supporting or formed from a latticework frame covered with plant materials; generally l [..]
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arcades


A range of arches raised on columns or piers that may be either freestanding or attached to a wall. This term may also designate covered walks with such lines of arches along one or both sides. [view [..]
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arches


The spanning of an opening by means other than that of a lintel. [view larger image]
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atriums


The main inner halls of Roman houses having a compluvium (opening in the roof) for rainwater and an impluvium (rectangular basin) to collect the water. [view larger image]
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automata


Mechanical figures or contrivances, as toys, amusements, and in clocks, constructed to move as if by their own power, generally by intricate hidden mechanisms; known since at least the Hellenistic per [..]
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