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Adam volume 28
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Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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Contents of Adam volume 28
- Capriccio for a vast symmetrical building showing an elevation composed as a five-storey centre block with seven-bay entrance on steps, with three-bay wings and domed pavilion linked on either side by a triumphal arch and screen to three pavilions with towers, in front of a vast exedra terminated in towers.
- London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a large building composed as a main block with a portico, with quadriga of three-bay coupled columns with sculpture in niches on either side of the door, a cupola on drum above and three pantheon domes, all linked by a seven-bay colonnade to domed and bowed pavilions at either end.
- London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design for a large building composed around a circular hall with octagonal entrance chamber and portico with coupled columns, and with a court on either side with bowed pavilions, behind which are irregular buildings.