Bridging
Bridging is small wood or metal members that are inserted in a diagonal position between the floor joists acting both as tension and compression members for the purpose of bracing the joists and spreading the action of the effect of ...
Bridging Cross - Wood or metal strips nailed diagonally between floor joist tp prevent lateral movement and dissipate weight.
Bridging Solid - Wooden blocks used to separate floor joists beneath partition walls.
Bridging land and sea, the Tenerife Concert Hall by architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava is an important part of the urban landscape in Santa Cruz on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Block Bonding - Connecting several courses of brickwork of one wall into the courses of another, often in order to bond shallow facing bricks into thicker common bricks in the backing
Block Bridging - Solid bridging ...
the vertical face of an archway, doorway, or window KEYSTONE: the central stone of a true arch of rib vault LANTERN: a small circular or polygonal turret with windows all round, crowning a roof or a dome LINTEL: a horizontal beam or stone bridging an ...
PENDENTIVE, the term given in architecture to the bridging across the angles of a square hall, so as to obtain a circular base for a dome or drain.
Horizontal beam or stone bridging an opening.LoftA upper room or floor, especially within a roof space; also, a gallery in a church.Loggia(Italian): A gallery or room with regular openings along one main side, sometimes free-standing.
- a horizontal beam bridging an opening in a wall. In traditional stone construction, a stone lintel was used on the outer leaf of a wall with a "timber safe lintel" on the inner leaf.
Lintel - Horizontal stone or beam bridging an opening.
Loophole - Narrow, tall opening, wallslit for light, air, or shooting through.
Louvre - Opening in roof (sometimes topped with lantern) to allow smoke to escape from central hearth.
Lintel (or Lintol) - A horizontal beam bridging an opening.
Loggia (c/f Belvedere) - An open (at least on one side) usually colonnaded, gallery, used as a meeting place. Loggias were first developed in Renaissance Italy.
Lintel -- A horizontal beam or stone bridging an opening.
Mansard Roof -- A roof with two slopes on all four sides, with the lower slope almost vertical and the upper almost horizontal.
the horizontal beam or stone bridging an opening.
Lunette
a crescent shaped or semi-circular space or alcove which contains a painting, statue, etc.
lintel (6) -- a horizontal block or beam bridging a door or other opening (Pedley, 355)
loomweight (2) -- small terracotta pieces used to hold down the warp threads on a weaving loom ...
lintel A horizontal beam or stone bridging an opening, most often a door.
loggia A gallery that is open on one or more sides, often with an arcade.
In the narthex people often gather before and after a service to greet each other It is an area for bridging the "sacred" and the "secular."
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Lintel: A flat horizontal beam which spans the space between two supports; Horizontal stone or beam bridging an opening. Loggia: An exterior gallery, open on one or more sides, with a colonnade or an arcade.
Scrim - coarse mesh used for bridging the joint between plasterboard sheets to prevent cracking. Used to be cotton or canvas, now mainly plastic.
Secondary Glazing - additional layer of glazing fixed in its own frame within a window opening.
 See also: Floor, House, Frame, Church, Ornament
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