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The double-functioning element can be a detail. Mannerist and Baroque buildings abound in drip mouldings which become sills, windows which become niches, cornice ornaments which accommodate windows, quoin strips which are also pilasters, and architraves which make arches.
Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966), p. 42.

The pilasters of Michelangelo's niches in the entrance of the Laurentian Library also look like brackets.
Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966), p. 42.

Borromini's mouldings in the rear facades of the Propaganda Fide are both window frames and pediments.
Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966), p. 42.

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