Corner Tower: A Landmark on the Street Corner

At the corner where two streets meet, an Art Nouveau apartment building features a circular tower at the corner. Each floor of the tower has curved cast-iron balconies, and it is topped with an onion-shaped dome covered in verdigris metal, surmounted by a wrought-iron floral finial. A band of colorful glazed tiles encircles the base of the dome. It is visible from afar down both streets. Avoid: a right-angled corner without a tower, a classical hemispherical dome, shiny new copper-colored metal, or a tower proportioned too high like a church spire.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

兩條街交會的轉角處,一棟新藝術公寓建築把轉角做成一座圓形的塔樓,塔樓每層都有弧形的鑄鐵陽台,頂端是一個覆蓋銅綠色金屬的洋蔥形小圓頂,上面立著一支鍛鐵的花形尖頂飾;圓頂下緣一圈彩色釉面磚。從兩條街遠遠就能看見它。避免:轉角是直角而沒有塔樓、圓頂是古典的半球形穹頂、金屬是閃亮的新銅色、塔樓比例過高像教堂尖塔。