Quotes about Architecture

In front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top measuring five cubits.

Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like this had ever been made for any kingdom.

with three layers of cut stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid from the royal treasury.

Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and other costly stones.

Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.

Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network.

Each gate chamber was one rod long and one rod wide, and there were five cubits between the gate chambers. The inner threshold of the gate by the portico facing inward was one rod deep.

Then he measured the portico of the gateway inside;

it was eight cubits deep, and its jambs were two cubits thick. And the portico of the gateway faced the temple.

And he measured the width of the gateway entrance to be ten cubits, and its length was thirteen cubits.

In front of each gate chamber was a wall one cubit high, and the gate chambers were six cubits square.

Next he measured the gateposts to be sixty cubits high. The gateway extended around to the gatepost of the courtyard.