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Definition of Sightlines
1. sightline [n] - See also: sightline
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sightlines
Literary usage of Sightlines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Alison and Peter Smithson: From the House of the Future to a House of Today by Dirk van den Heuvel, Peter Smithson, Max Risselada, Beatriz Colomina (2004)
"Each intervention meant a new reorganisation of the house based on four main
instruments: the incidence of light, sightlines, seating areas and movements in ..."
2. Architecture of Instruction and Delight: A Socio-historical Analysis of by Pieter van Wesemael (2001)
"The three centrally situated units were linked to one another by means of three
sightlines and three landmarks. An area of several square kilometres was ..."
3. Continental Stagecraft by Kenneth Macgowan, Robert Edmond Jones (1922)
"... for the substitution of an amphitheater type of house with no balconies and
with a steeper floor to allow of better sightlines. The fight of Ring vs. ..."
4. The Creative City by Charles Landry, Franco Bianchini (1995)
"As a consequence the shapes of many of the skyscrapers curve back to allow
unimpeded sightlines. This means that, in contrast to the monolithic square ..."
5. W.M. Dudokby Herman van Bergeijk by Herman van Bergeijk (2001)
"Sightlines have been created in this closed, rigid facade, which ensure that
people can monitor events from various points outwards. ..."
6. The Nature of Landscape: A Personal Quest by Han Lorzing (2001)
"The long vistas across the lake in Cava Nord look baroque at first sight but are
actually more related to the sightlines preferred by the English landscape ..."
7. Sculpture in Rotterdam by Jan van Adrichem, Jelle Bouwhuis, Mariette Dölle (2002)
""Space, perspectives and sightlines of a city - that is what you must work with.
[...] Every spot requires other dimensions and proportions", de Vries said ..."
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