Wing (building)

The Queen's House in Greenwich as viewed from the foot of Observatory Hill, showing the original 1635 house and the additional 1807 wings linked by colonnades

A wing is part of a building – or any feature of a building – that is subordinate to the main, central structure.[1] The individual wings may directly adjoin the main building or may be built separately and joined to it by a connecting structure such as a colonnade or pergola. New buildings may incorporate wings from the outset or these may be added at a later date as part of an expansion or remodelling.

  1. ^ Curl, James Stevens (2006). Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, 2nd ed., OUP, Oxford and New York, p. 853, ISBN 978-0-19-860678-9.