Fiber cement siding can resemble stucco, wood clapboards, or cedar shingles, depending on how the panels are textured. Fiber cement siding is more durable than wood or stucco, and is also fire resistant.
Cement Blocks - Mass produced building blocks made from pouring concrete into a mold..
Cement Plaster - A mixture of sand and cement that is applied to the exterior foundation wall beneath ground level to aid in watering proofing.
Cement
A compound of burnt lime, clays and shale, ground to a powder, which when mixed with water hardens fast. It is used as a binding agent in concrete and in mortar.
Chippings ...
Cement Blocks Mass produced building blocks made from pouring concrete into a mold.
Chevron A decorative V-shaped line.
Chimney A passage or structure extending above the roof, through which smoke escapes.
cement plaster
A mixture of sand and cement that is applied to the exterior foundation wall beneath ground level to aid in watering proofing.
centering ...
Cement Fillet A weatherproofing joint between roof slopes and abutting brickwork such as walls or chimneys.
CEMENT: a powder made from alumina, silica, lime, iron oxide, and magnesia burned together in a kiln and finely pulverized--which when mixed with water to form a plastic mass hardens by chemical combination and by gelation and crystallization, ...
Fillet (Cement) Mortar joint used in period property to weather a joint. Prone to splits and cracks resulting in leakage. Requires regular replacement. Ideally replace in Code 4 lead flashing.
Cement
- a material used for binding aggregate to form a mortar or a concrete. Ideally cement should be strong, durable and reliable.
placement, arrangement - the spatial property of the way in which something is placed; "the arrangement of the furniture"; "the placement of the chairs" ...
Replacement Double-Hung Window
A fully assembled double-hung that slides easily into the existing sash pocket of your old double-hung with no damage to wallpaper, paint, or plaster. For use in replacement applications only.
The placement of the building and the surrounding urban countryside are an important part of 18th and 19th century British design. The setting is Romantic.
ASBESTOS CEMENT - Cement with 10-15% asbestos fibre as reinforcement. Fragile, will not bear heavy weights. Hazardous fibres may be released if cut or drilled.
Portland cement - a high-strength material (commercially dating to 1824) used as a component of concrete and modern hard mortars.
quoins - rectangles of stone or wood used to accentuate and decorate the corner of a building ...
The fine cement or plaster used on the surface of walls, moldings and other architectural ornaments. Generally used as an exterior building material in Coastal homes.
Terracotta ...
Portland cement - A hydraulic cement binder for concrete made of clay and limestone
pyramidal hipped roof - A pyramid-shaped roof with four, sloping sides that meet at a point ...
plaster or cement used for coating wall surfaces or moulding into architectural decoration.
Studs
the common posts or uprights in timber-framed walls.
Plaster or cement used as a coating for walls.
Student lamp
Desk lamp of metal, usually brass, having a tubular shaft and either one or two arms. Shades are of opaque glass usually in dark green or white.
Asbestos cement ('fibro-cement') - Sheet cladding material, consisting of a composition of asbestos fibres, set in Portland Cement. It was manufactured locally from 1917, now discredited and glass fibres substituted for asbestos.
(a) a type of cement used to coat the walls of a building; (b) a fine plaster used for moldings and other architectural decorations.
Stupa ...
Wood-cement particle board - A building board made of wood chips bonded with portland cement instead of resin based adhesives in normal wood chipboard. This helps it achieve a higher fire resistance rating.
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".
The more elaborate the gate defences the greater was the inducement for the besieger to attack the walls, ...
Its dictator aimed to establish architectural order; gridiron town plans, axial symmetry, hierarchical placement of state structure within urban space on a scale intended to reinforce the social and political order desired by the Nazi state, ...
The Romans found a natural cement that, combined with inert substances, produced concrete. They usually faced this with materials that would give a better finish.
The subject and placement of the icons is significant. An illiterate person could learn the whole gospel just by looking around.
19: Now it is not we alone who have been made better men by the self-effacement and humble submissiveness of all these famous personages, but generations of our predecessors as well, ...
ConcreteComposition of cement (calcined lime and clay), aggregate (small stones and rock chippings), sand and water.
Although this mosque has not survived, its replacement built on the same site in 1883 is thought to have essentially the same design.
stucco : A mixture of cement, sand, lime and water spread over metal screening or chicken wire or wooden lath on wooden walls to form the exterior covering of and exterior wall. Traditional stucco is a cement mixture used for siding.
Dating back even further than cast stone, are some of the materials that we see hundreds of times a day, concrete and cement. Concrete dates back over four-thousand years ago to the ancient Egyptians.
From the line of circumvallation attacks against the besieged position could be launched and further advancement of the earthworks could be constructed.
Other features that the Romanesque style made use of were the replacement of wooden roofs with stone (reducing chance of fire) and solid stone buttressing, the entrance and sculptural importance of the West facade, multiple sectioned vaulting, ...
Las Palmas Drive (2002), the first residence in Orange County to be built with the Perform Wall Panel System, a cement and polystyrene material that resists mold, mildew, termites, fire, wind, and earthquakes.
FENESTRATION The design and placement of windows in a building.
FINIAL A sculptured ornament, often in the shape of a leaf or flower, at the top of a gable, pinnacle, or similar structure.
In the Forum of Caesar, it was Caesar who decided to construct a new Forum beside the old, in order to extend the political cement of Rome. In this section of Rome, you can see that in the past, there were great temples with columns of all sorts.
shingle A unit composed of wood, cement, asphalt compound, slate, tile or the like, employed in an overlapping series to cover roofs and walls.
shouldered arch An arch composed of a square-headed lintel supported at each end by a concave corbel.
Stucco - A coating for exterior walls made from Portland cement, lime, sand, and water.
Surround - The ornamental frame of a door or window.
Swag - A carved ornament in the form of a draped cloth or a festoon of fruit or flowers.
Hypocaust tiles which were cemented together to form small columns called pilae. The pilae raised the floor so that hot air could pass underneath.
PISCINA ...
BUTTRESS a vertical structure of heavy masonry or wood applied as reinforcement to the wall of a building. Can serve a structural or decorative purpose
CAPITALthe decorative head of a vertical support such as a column or pilaster ...
MORTAR A mixture of sand, water, lime and cement used to lay bricks, stone, tile or concrete block.
MULLIONS The wooden divisions between panes of glass on windows.
terrazzo A sturdy flooring finish of marble chips mixed with cement mortar. After drying, the surface is ground and polished.
terreplein In military architecture, the flat roof of a fortification, on which ordnance was mounted.
Sill course (soldier course): The row of brick, cement blocks or stones laid across the bottom of a masonry opening which lay under the outside edge of the window sill.
CONCRETE
A building material made of sand and gravel, bonded together with cement into a hard compact substance.
CONICAL ROOF
Cone-shaped structure over a round tower or turret.
stucco - An exterior wall covering consisting of a mixture of cement, sand, lime, and water or of cement, sand, and hair.
Mosaic - Images created by setting small pieces of glass and stone in cement or plaster on a wall.
Mullion - A vertical post that divides a window into two or more parts.
Shingles - Wooden tiles for covering roofs, walls and spires, They were sometimes of other materials (e.g. asbestos, cement) but were always cut to standard shapes and sizes.
Roof shingles ...
Windows are of equal size and placement. Most Octagons have a verandah or porch encircling the house. About half have an octagonal cupola, belvedere, or roof deck. Cupolas were built to provide all rooms with light and ventilation.
Advantages include: allows warmer air near the ceiling to escape, brings in fresh replacement air at the sides, helps to minimize drafts at sill levels, and provides easy cleaning access to interior and exterior surfaces.
Traditional material used for MORTAR or RENDER: soft, flexible and porous, traditional lime based materials should not be replaced with modern cement based alternatives, which are hard, rigid and impervious, and can be harmful to historic buildings.
conglomerate (19) -- a composite rock consisting of rounded and waterworm fragments of pre-existing rocks cemented together (Oxford Dict.) ...
Joints - The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies, as bricks, joined and held together, as by means of cement mortar, etc.
This structure is entirely load-bearing granite and limestone, with no steel reinforcement.
21-23. St. Louis Union Station, c.1894.
24-25. Durango, CO.
26. Silverton, CO.
27-30. Boston, MA. Trinity Church, c. 1872-1877. H. H. Richardson, architect.
 See also: House, Architecture, Floor, Brick, Ground
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