But some analysts said that the giant order was not without risk.

It was the first building to use huge columns called a "giant order".

The two side wings featured blind arcades in giant order.

The arch consists of three fornices with four giant order Corinthian columns.

The main 1624 building was later extended by an eastern wing featuring a giant order of Doric pilasters.

Tuscan pilasters, of the giant order (banked on a base), frame the openings.

At the same time, smaller orders may feature in arcades or window and door framings within the storeys that are embraced by the giant order.

In the giant order pilasters appear as two-storeys tall, linking floors in a single unit.

Michelangelo's innovative giant order at the Campidoglio.

Two 18th-century yards survive behind the noble frontages and giant orders of columns or pilasters of the street.

The giant order became a major feature of later 16th century Mannerist architecture, and Baroque architecture.

But its giant orders keep us properly awed, and the slight forward movement of its center gives it just the right degree of animation.

"It was a little scary because I had to place some giant orders for retailers," he explained, speaking by telephone from his Los Angeles studio.

Both the use of the giant order and this decorative richness are twin traits peculiar to Palladio's language in the last decade of his life.

To Strahan, a throwback to a different era and a modern athlete at the same time, there's a new Giants order and he likes it.

Initially the façades of the palace were unified by a giant order of Ionic pilasters framing huge windows.

The facade is segmented by pilasters in the palladian giant order, that is they continue in the building's entire height.

The first, at 65, Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt, employing his novel giant order, is still used as a reference in Russian textbooks on architecture.

It is in the Greek revival style, with a giant order derived from the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates.

It is built in red brick and decorated with sandstone pilasters in the giant order, cornice, decorations and a portal.

The west front of St Martin's has a portico with a pediment supported by a giant order of Corinthian columns, six wide.

In Classical architecture, a giant order (also known as colossal order) is an order whose columns or pilasters span two (or more) stories.

Noteworthy architectural features of the room are the giant order Corinthian pilasters, a full entablature and the richly detailed ceiling ornamented with various classical motifs.

Clearly influenced by Palladianism and French trends, it has a rusticated base, a giant order of columns and is topped with a series of statues.

Melbourne Synagogue, which was built in 1929 to the design of Nahum Barnet, features a giant order portico and a great copper dome.