The plainest, strongest and oldest of the classical orders of architecture is the Doric, developed by mainland Greeks and familiar to us all in the form of the Parthenon. Doric columns rest directly ...

Columns, capitals and their respective bases have long endured the test of evolving architectural styles and interpretations. Although the classical orders of architecture can be traced to ancient ...

What’s a column writer to do week after week? Why, come up with yet another column of course. Got no choice. Today, you’re in for a treat: a column column. I’m no architect, but I am an architecture ...

Reading letters from my friends Alfred Massa and Joseph Farrugia which you published recently about the two Doric columns now at Tarxien cemetery, I think it was four or five years ago that I wrote ...

Miss A. D. BETTS, Thorn Cottage, Byways, Berk-hamsted, Herts, writes to suggest that the fluted columns of Greek architecture were copied from plant stems, such as those of an umbelliferous plant.

Writing in this newspaper on September 20, 2008, I congratulated those responsible for re-erecting two Doric columns at Tal-Erwieħ cemetery in Tarxien. However, now I realise that it would have been ...

A $7M exterior renovation at the historic Barnstable Superior Court will close it for a year. Court operations will shift to ...