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Amaliehaven

Amaliehaven is a rectangular park built to a stringent, symmetrical design centred on a large fountain to respect and accentuate the Frederiksgade axis which unifies the entire area.

Avro 642 Eighteen

The second aircraft was ordered by the Viceroy of India, Lord Willingdon and was completed in November 1934 with four Armstrong Siddeley Lynx IVC engines and long rectangular windows on each side.

Barrel die

The cricket game Owzthat uses barrel dice which were essentially short lengths of hexagonal bar (i.e. with 6 rectangular faces).

Bujang Valley

An inscribed stone bar, rectangular in shape, bears the ye-dharmma formula in Pallava script of the 4th century, thus proclaiming the Buddhist character of the shrine near the find-spot (site I) of which only the basement survives.

Burh

Substantial new towns were built on flat land with a rectangular layout, at for example Oxford, Wallingford, Cricklade and Wareham.

Church of São Mateus da Calheta

Sensibly recessed from the main facade, the three-story towers are separated by cornices and friezes, with the two inferior floors occupied by rectangular windows, and the third register occupied by the belfry, with Roman Arch and flanked by pilasters.

Commodore 8280

They used a wide rectangular steel case form similar to that of the Commodore 4040, and used the IEEE-488 interface common to Commodore PET/CBM computers.

David Don

In 1938 the London County Council marked Don at 32 Soho Square with a rectangular stone plaque, commemorating him as well as botanists Joseph Banks and Robert Brown and meetings of the Linnean Society.

De Bruijn's theorem

In a 1969 paper, Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn proved several results about packing congruent rectangular bricks (of any dimension) into larger rectangular boxes, in such a way that no space is left over.

Digital micromirror device

A DMD chip has on its surface several hundred thousand microscopic mirrors arranged in a rectangular array which correspond to the pixels in the image to be displayed.

East Raynham

Raynham Hall is a rectangular mansion built of brick and stone dressings.

Fatimid architecture

Bab al-Nasr is a massive fortified gate built in 1087 with rectangular stone towers.

Finite Fourier transform

Equivalently, it is the Fourier transform of a function x(t) multiplied by a rectangular window function.

Fochabers

During the late 18th century, during the Scottish Enlightenment, it was fashionable for landowners to found new towns and villages, and these can be found all over Scotland because unlike their predecessors they all have straight, wide streets in mainly rectangular layouts, a central square, and the houses built with their main elevations parallel to the street.

Gibson Guitar Corporation product list

H-5E Mandola (193?-194?) Acoustic-Electric F-Style; Charlie Christian pickups/"sawed-off P-90" (rectangular screw pole) pickups

Golden rectangle

Le Corbusier's 1927 Villa Stein in Garches features a rectangular ground plan, elevation, and inner structure that closely approximate golden rectangles.

Guide-A-Ride

It is a rectangular box attached to the bus stop pole that displays a route map and a schedule.

Hanover Junction Railroad Station

It was built between 1852 and 1854, and is a three-story, three bay by six bay rectangular frame building built by the Hanover Branch Railroad.

Hispellum

Five other gates may still be seen as well as part of the city wall, built of rectangular blocks of Subasio limestone: the wall is among the finest specimens of Roman wall in central Italy.

Homec, Rečica ob Savinji

In the early 20th century the original L-shaped building was converted into a rectangular structure with a steep roof.

Humuhumu nukunuku apua'a

Reef triggerfish (also 'rectangular triggerfish', 'wedge-tail triggerfish') Rhinecanthus rectangulus

Ice cream sandwich

In Scotland and Ireland they are known as "sliders" or an ice cream wafer, and are usually served as vanilla ice cream sandwiched between two rectangular chocolate wafers.

India ink

Hanetsuki (羽根突き, 羽子突き) is a Japanese traditional game, similar to badminton, played by girls at the New Year with a rectangular wooden paddle called a hagoita and a brightly colored shuttlecock.

Ipso calypso

The packaging was similar to large rectangular Lego bricks which could be connected together, and came in four colours which also reflected their flavours.

Junkers Ju 90

On the first four Ju 90As, there were five pairs of rectangular windows on each side, each double pair lighting a divided-off section of the cabin containing eight seats in facing pairs on either side of a central aisle.

Land surveying in Kentucky

Parts of Western Kentucky, since it was acquired under the Jackson Purchase in 1818, utilizes a rectangular system based on the Public Land Survey System created by the Land Ordinance of 1785.

Living with the Future

"Skywood", Denham, Buckinghamshire – rectangular glass box, with floating roof set by an artificial lake, reminiscent of Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion (architect/owner: Graham Phillips, chief executive of Foster and Partners)

Mather Tower

The lower, rectangular portion of the building currently houses the River Hotel, while the octagonal upper stories are occupied by a branch of the Club Quarters chain of membership corporate accommodations.

Metropolitan Cathedral, Iași

Architect Alexandru Orăscu, rector of the University of Bucharest, designed new plans that added two rows of massive pilasters to the interior, creating a rectangular basilica shape, with a central nave and two smaller side naves.

Moto Guzzi Le Mans

The second production run, known as the Series 2 and totaling around 4,000 bikes, used a De Tomaso-designed rectangular taillight/reflector and modified rear guard.

Odd Tablet

笏 was a long, rectangular tablet that court officials used to record matters when seeing the Chinese Emperor.

Palace of the Counts of Redondo

The Baroque palace is in a rectangular conformation and composed of four wings around a courtyard square plan.

Palisades Center

New York Times writer Joe Queenan criticized the mall's Brutalist exterior for lacking any sense of design or theme, and characterized its rectangular layout as "a series of interlocking coffins".

Pancha Rathas

Next in line is the Bhima Ratha built to a rectangular plan and with lion mounted columned (four columns) galleries on both long sides.

Pendopo

Either square or rectangular in plan, it is open on all sides and provides shelter from the sun and rain, but allows breeze and indirect light.

Process duct work

Rectangular ductwork is covered be the ASCE "The Structural Design of Air & Gas Ducts for Process Power Stations and Industrial Applications".

Punnathurkotta

The compound also has a naalu kettu, a traditional rectangular home with a central courtyard, which belonged to the Punnathur Raja.

Rama Krishna Puram

It is roughly rectangular, enclosed by Ring Road to the north, Outer Ring Road to the south facing Vasant Vihar, Rao Tula Ram Marg to the west and Africa Avenue to the east.

Richard Sapper

In 1980 Sapper was appointed principal industrial design consultant at IBM and began designing numerous portable computers, including the first ThinkPad 700C in 1992, which broke with the company's tradition of pearl-grey machines with a simple and elegant black rectangular box.

Royal College Curepipe

The college built of blue basalt, resembled the Buckingham Palace, London with its characteristic symmetrical rectangular form.

Saqqara

The last Second Dynasty king Khasekhemwy was buried in his tomb at Abydos, but also built a funerary monument at Saqqara consisting of a large rectangular enclosure, known as Gisr el-Mudir.

Stadium Mackay

Stadium Mackay, currently known as its sponsored name Virgin Australia Stadium, is a rectangular football stadium situated in Mackay, Queensland, Australia.

Suncorp Group

It is a rectangular sporting stadium located in the Brisbane suburb of Milton, and is the home of the Brisbane Broncos, Queensland Reds and Brisbane Roar FC.

Temple House Manor and Castle

Temple House Castle (Irish: Caisleán) was a rectangular keepless castle, built in 1181 located near the townland of Ballinacarrow on the outskirts of Ballymote in south County Sligo, Ireland.

Terence the Tractor

In the illustration showing Terence, Clive Spong depicted Terence with a rectangular face and no widow's peak.

Tetra Brik

Despite the revolutionary character of the new retail system, by the end of the 1950s Ruben Rausing and the Tetra Pak management team realised that the Tetra Pak package portfolio needed to be supplemented by an additional rectangular model to continue to be competitive.

Triple-decker

In Worcester, Massachusetts sewer connection charges were based on street frontage, so builders favored houses with as little frontage as possible, This is one reason why three-deckers are often situated on narrow lots and are in rectangular shape, with the smaller sides at the front and the rear.


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