Crescent (architecture)
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Royal Crescent, Bath.
A crescent is an architectural structure where a number of houses, normally terraced houses, are laid out in an arc to form of a crescent shape. A famous historic crescent is the Royal Crescent in Bath, England.[1]
Examples
The following are examples of architectural crescents:
- Bofills båge, Stockholm, Sweden, by architect Ricardo Bofill
- The Crescent, Limerick, Ireland, double Georgian style crescent
- Grove Crescent, Camberwell Grove, Camberwell, London[citation needed]
- Lansdown Crescent, Bath, England
- Park Circus, Glasgow, Scotland
- Park Crescent, Brighton, England
- Park Town, Oxford, England
- Royal Crescent, Brighton, England
- Somerset Place, Bath, England
- Wellington Crescent, Ramsgate, England
- Tontine Crescent, Boston, Massachusetts, USA[2]
References
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