Used for both practical and decorative purposes, cupolas top everything from civic buildings and historic houses to gazebos and barns. Common to architecture in the U.S., a cupola is a tower-like ...

Outdoor structure specialist Kevin King told me that 'Traditionally, gazebos often have a double-tiered roof (with a cupola or double deck roof) and are built in a hexagonal or octagonal shape.

Lopsided, haphazard, covered with cupolas and gimcracks, the program already looks like a Gothic gazebo conceived during a half-mad architect’s nightmare. From its cellar up, it is improvised.