This is a truncated column crowned by a huge concrete cast of a hand cradling a skull.

Montferrand designed the monument to the late Alexander I as a column, crowned with a cross; later, he changed the cross to an angel.

The hall is in a classical style, its vaulted ceiling supported by Corinthian columns crowned by statues representing the arts.

The shul had columns crowned with acanthus-leafed capitals on either side of the main door, and rounded-arched windows on the side, reflecting the Colonial Revival style of the time.

Bold modern paintings harmonize with tall antique columns crowned by Boston ferns.

As a tourist, you might have passed it by, hardly noticing, the last time you were there: a tall Doric column crowned with a gilt-bronze urn at the head of London Bridge, a few hundred yards from the Tower.

The central disc consists of a sky blue enamel background upon which is depicted a column crowned with a globe, the whole resting on a ground compartment (the central design is taken from the then Chilean coat of arms).

The lower level, in a granite bugnato ashlar, has a terrace with a three-arched porch while the upper level is decorated with a double row of columns crowned by an entablature.

These exploits were, by the order of Catherine, commemorated by a triumphal column, crowned with naval trophies, erected at Tsarskoe Selo.

It has a makeshift look, a gritty charm, with its garage-gray walls (enlivened by cartoonlike Parisian murals), a worn wooden floor, exposed heating ducts overhead and columns crowned with weird-looking felt fabric.