Broken pediment
Architecture
A pediment open or broken at the apex, base or both, and the gap often filled with an urn, cartouche, or other ornament ...
Broken pediment - a pediment over a door, window or on a gable with cornices ending before they meet at the top; a finial is often placed in the center.
Bullseye window - small oval window, set horizontally.
Broken Pediment - a Baroque and Rococco style of pediment that is purposely broken either at the bottom or at the top for decorative effect.
broken reed a weak, unreliable, or ineffectual person
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1. to fashion into or supply with reeds or reeding ...
Broken Pediment
A pediment in which a part of the cornice is discontinuous (deliberately missing). If the cornice is discontinuous at its apex then it is called an open topped or broken-apex pediment.
Broken pediment
a pediment in which the cornice is discontinuous or interrupted by another element.
Bronze ...
broken pediment
a pediment over a a door, window or on a gable that is incomplete in the center of the bottom part of the triangle.
Brutalism ...
Broken pediment with each half shaped in the form of a reverse curve, and ending in an ornamental scroll. Usually a finial is placed in the center between the two halves.
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Crushed, broken hardstone that passes through the smallest screen or aperture (usually 5mm or 3.35mm).
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HARDCORE - Broken brick, stone, concrete etc.
HOGGIN - Hardcore used as infilling material beneath solid floors etc.
HONEYCOMB WALL - Bricks laid with gaps between to allow ventilation (sleeper wall).
Hardcore Broken brick rubble or stone which, consolidated, are used as a foundation in extreme cases.
Haunching See 'Benching'. Also term used to describe the support to a drain underground.
Header The end face of a standard brick.
Hardcore Broken bricks or stone which, consolidated, are used as a base under floors and patios.
Header A brick laid end on.
Aggregate - broken stone, gravel or sand used with cement to form concrete. Aggregates may be coarse or fine and are often used in the construction of "soakaways".
grotto an underground passage, often decorated with crystals, bits of broken shells, and broken pieces of mirror, and involving running water in rills and pools; all of this is calculated to create a mysterious effect.
However, they can be broken to allow escape and unlike glass do not splinter into sharp pieces.
Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene - A tough co-polymer, used to make plastic pipes for cold water supply or soil and waste drains.
The most common building stones are sedimentary rocks which basicaly, can be broken down into sandstones and limestones.
The divisions between physical and spiritual reality have been broken down. Christ as the Man of Sorrows surrounded by the instruments of His Passion appears powerfully alive.
broken pediment on windows
window: large pane surrounded by smaller panes or blank lower pane with patterned pane above
dominant decorative chimney
classical one story columns or turned spindles porch supports ...
The result was delightfully broken colour, but inevitable confusion; for iron and masonry do not effectively separate glass pictures. There was no longer in late glass any pretence of preserving the plane of the window.
Art nouveau (or Jugendstil in Germany) had broken the preoccupation with revivalist historical styles that had characterised the 19th century.
particularly above certain church doors and on large standing wall monuments, a wide but low triangular structure to decorate the top ‘Gable' Where the top section of the triangular gable is missing this is called a broken Pediment.
A broken pediment has its apex omitted. An open pediment has the centre of the base omitted. A broken pediment with double-curved sides is called a swan-neck pediment.
"While all else was unstable and changeful, she, with her unbroken tradition and her uninterrupted services vindicated the principle of order and the moral continuity of the race . . . . . .
Brokenhearted, George Boldt stopped the construction and never returned to the island. Boldt died in 1916 and the castle was purchased by Edward John Noble, who owned the Beechnut Fruit Company.
rowhouse One of a group of an unbroken line of attached houses that share common side walls, known as party walls.
rubble stone Irregularly shaped, rough-textured stone laid in an irregular manner.
BARREL
a semicircular vault unbroken by ribs
UNDERPITCH
a barrel vault with small perpendicular vaults underneath
GROIN
formed from intersection of two vaults ...
Stained Glass- Brightly colored glass broken and welded together to form window pictures. (Bourges)
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Tracery- Stone trace-like supports found on stained glass windows ...
SNECKED Of masonry, with courses broken by smaller stones (snecks).
SOFFIT The exposed undersurface of any overhead component of a building such as an arch, balcony, beam, cornice, lintel or vault.
Will easily fall out if the wall is broken open for any reason. Foam: Urea formaldehyde form, mixed on site, and pumped into the cavities where it sets. Can lead to problems of dampness and make replacement of wall-ties more difficult.
pediment: the triangular or curved gable above a portico, door or window. A ‘broken’ pediment lacks an apex, which is replaced, for example, by ogee curves ending in scrolls and enclosing another decorative element.
Gambrel Roof - A gable roof each slope of which is broken into a lower steeper slope and an upper flatter one.
1712, good example of broken pediment above doorway.
17. Savannah, GA. c.1789. The Pink House, known as such for the light pink shade of stucco used on its exterior. Also a HABS building (documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey).
There were doctors on the site, but little helped for sprained or broken body parts. Eventually, the whole pyramid was built, and all of the sweat and toil payed off. To learn more about the Ancient Egyptian pyramids, seeThe Evolution of the Pyramid ...
PEDIMENT A gable finished with a horizontal moulding between the two lower corners, ultimately derived from Greek temples. A broken pediment has this horizontal moulding partially left open.
a low-pitched gable used in Classical and Renaissance architecture above a portico, at the end of a building, or above doorways, windows, niches, etc.; sometimes the gable angle is omitted, forming a broken pediment, ...
Laminated Glass - Two or more layers of glass with a transparent plastic interlayer between each pair, to which the glass adheres if broken. Used for safety glazing and sound reduction.
Brisure: (1) A rampart or parapet or part of either that does not follow the general direction of a work, of which it is a part. (2) Where the line of the curtain wall is broken to allow an expansion of the space for the guns in the flank of a ...
A low-pitched gable across a portico, door or window; any similar triangular decorative piece over a doorway, fireplace or other feature. A pediment that is open on top is called a broken pediment.
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pediment - A triangular section framed by a horizontal molding at the base (frieze) with two raking (sloping) moldings. Used as a crown over doors, windows. May also be discontinuous or broken at the apex.
the first century BCE the country was taken over by nomadic groups from Chinese Central Asia, the most significant of which were the Kushans who established a major empire with Buddhism as the official religion. The great Kushan Empire had broken up ...
Later Christian art, however, became replete with iconographic symbols. In particular, many of the saints became associated with specific objects-Saint Peter with two keys, for instance, or Saint Catherine with a broken wheel.
Symmetrically placed windows, often in adjacent pairs or triple windows treated as a single unit
Entries with sidelights and crowned by rectangular transoms or fanlight and broken pediments
Sunrooms or porches with columns ...
The bitter controversy surrounding its foundation is symptomatic of the crumbling authority of the Presidents-General in this era. By 1850, the missions had been broken up into private property and there were no more Presidents-General.
Broken-back roof A roof that changes from a steep straight pitch to a lower pitch without any step. Bullnose A convex or curve over, which becomes sharper towards the edge, e.g.
is the study (shoin) style (zukuri) style of laying out a Japanese garden stabilis�eStabilis�e, pronounced 'stabil-ezay', the word is used to describe a type of pavement, used in French parks and gardens, formed by ramming gravel or broken ...
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