Steel Connection
Elements Of Design - January 2010
This innovated design of steel and glass amalgamated with clean geometric shapes and decorative surfaces can be found at the Niagara Falls Fallview Casino/Resort's Rotunda Entrance.
If you look beyond the gray/purpley curved steel bars, notice the vibrant blue glass like tunnel above... it is actually called a porte-cochere(coach gate or carriage porch). This architectural term for porch or portico-like structure are usually found at main entrances. The purpose is too make it possible so that horse and carriage (1900's) or motor vehicles could drop off their passengers under cover, protecting them from weather. This porte-cochere leads into the glass enclosed galleria.
Uploaded on January 18, 2010