ARCHITECTS’ ALPHABET, PART 9: I IS FOR IONIC (COLUMNS) The Architects’ Alphabet is a 26-part series describing design elements featured in Gregory J. Scott’s upcoming book, ...

Since its launch in 2012, the Frieze New York art fair, which takes place this year from May 14 through May 17 on Randall’s Island, has revived and reinterpreted oddball classics like Food, the ...

Among the design elements created by Montgomery C. Miegs, then the US Quartermaster General, were a 1,200-foot frieze that wraps around the exterior, a presidential seal embossed on the atrium’s floor ...

The Ionic order's most distinctive characteristic is the large double scroll which adorns the capital. The columns typically have more flutes than their Doric counterparts, and the base consists ...

An example of ionic columns can be seen at the entry of a residential building at 726A S.W. 11th Ave., Portland. (Damon Johnstun) Walk-by architecture Portland is a great city to see architectural ...