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krater

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kra·ter or cra·ter  (krtr)
n.
A wide, two-handled bowl used in ancient Greece and Rome for mixing wine and water.

[Greek krtr; see ker- in Indo-European roots.]


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As landscape architect to the project, my role was not only the planting design but also the design of external features such as the parking structures slipped into the hill on the south face of the house (photograph 1), the traditional 'pezoules' (stone retaining walls) descending like waves from the Krater to the 'lava flow' and the characteristic 'lava flow' itself (photograph 3) which connects the Krater to the guesthouse.
Krater is a house on Antiparos, one of the smaller islands of the Cycladic archipelago.
Two houses, Krater in the Cyclades by DECA Architecture (p66), and David Mc Dowell's transformation of a derelict farm in County Dublin (p76), show great sympathy with their completely different sites and circumstances.
 
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