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Recent Examples of caryatidThe site includes a central area with a cross vault and large caryatids with baskets, a large niche with a rocky backdrop and fountain, and three arms.—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 16 Apr. 2025 Best of all are the caryatids of the St. Pancras New Church, four toga-wearing terra-cotta ladies who bear part of the roof, austerely holding the gaze of passengers on the top level of the No. 30 bus.—Francesca Carington, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025 In a quiet section of Paris, in the 13th Arrondissement, a large building with recessed columns, Romanesque windows, and caryatids preserves an ancient art.—Peter Saenger, airmail.news, 28 Dec. 2024 The Greek key patterns inscribed on the floors of tenement bathrooms are repurposed as part of an architectural frieze, and Woodman’s friends—Rankin among them—are transformed into towering caryatids.—Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2024 Sometimes a caryatid has been compared to the unseen slave who carried society’s burdens.—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023 Her inaugural works for the Met’s façade—a set of four female bronze caryatids, larger than life and stylized in the tradition of high-ranking African women—challenge the institution’s own history of Eurocentrism and patriarchy.—Time Staff, Time, 20 Dec. 2019
Mix your Grandmother's French sideboard with modern upholstered chairs, or pair a sleek pedestal table with antique Windsor chairs.
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Heather Bien,
Southern Living,
3 Sep. 2025
The vaulted primary bedroom sports an inviting bath with a pedestal soaking tub and access to a large outdoor lava rock shower, while a cupola up top has two separate decks.
Waterspouts are spinning columns of air and water mist above bodies of water and can take two forms, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Additionally, Wheatley contributed columns to publications like Sainsbury's Magazine and The Sun.
According to a five-pillar plan shared with CNBC, Cruz also aims to create federal standards for AI, prevent AI from being used in harmful ways such as scams, allow free speech and address ethical concerns.
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Emily Wilkins,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
China has committed $9B+ to its National Stem Cell Program, making regenerative medicine a pillar of state science.
With pilasters, a limestone facade, and classic symmetrical design, the three-story building exemplifies the Beaux-Arts style popular at the turn of the 20th century, grand but not ostentatious.
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Irene S. Levine,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
But entering via the Park Avenue lobby, with its walls and pilasters of Rockwood stone, still feels like a moment.
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