Its turrets, arches, conical roofs, and many architectural devices give it the appearance of a fairytale mansion.
Its upper parts are supported by hidden wooden hammer-beams, an architectural device unique to English Gothic.
The tourist attraction is one of its architectural devices.
Conventional modern forms join more traditional architectural devices stripped down to their naked modern skins.
Other developers have used the same architectural device to convert the area's three- and four-story industrial buildings into residential complexes.
The shikharas of all these temples have a curvilinear form and are adorned with the miniature architectural devices.
Reviewer Windsor writes that "As an architectural device, this is inspired.
An abat-son (usually plural abat-sons) is an architectural device constructed to reflect sound in a particular direction.
Richard Artschwager's painted sculpture, done 10 years later, is essentially a dictionary of architectural and domestic devices that has been pressed into a pyramidal mold.
He called them a common architectural device and explained that he had found their prototype in a watercolor of the garden scene from the original 1890 production.