Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Conical roof
KON i cle
A roof in the shape of an inverted cone atop a cylindrical tower ...
conical roof - cone-shaped roof
console - "S" shaped bracket used to support a door or window hood or a cornice
coping - the uppermost course of a wall or parapet ...
Conical A furnace cap, resembling or shaped like a cone.
Coping A flat cover of stone or brick that protects the top of a wall.
Corbelling Stone or wood projecting from a wall or chimney for support or decoration.
Conical - A furnace cap, resembling or shaped like a cone.
Conservation - Thye 20th century has seen the constructin of more new architecture than the total produced by all preceding centuries put together.
CONICAL ROOF
Cone-shaped structure over a round tower or turret.
CONSOLE
Piece of furniture that stands against a wall with the decorative features on the front and sides. Ex: sideboards, buffet servers, breakfronts, etc.
A conical leg turned with a flared end and shaped like a trumpet.
Tudor ...
truncated conical weight (22)
tubular lug (4)
tumulus (3) -- an earth mount over a tomb, whether a tholos or a circular communal precinct (Vermeule, 387) ...
PINNACLE A conical ornament surmounting a gable or buttress in medieval architecture.
PORTE-COCHÈRE A porch or portico designed to admit a carriage.
PORTICO A porch with columns and usually a pediment.
Tall pyramidal or conical feature crowning a tower or turret. Broach: starting from a square base, then carried into an octagonal section by means of triangular faces.
glans penis - the conical mass of erectile tissue that forms the head of the penis
vena bulbi penis - vein of the head of the penis; tributary of the internal pudendal vein that drains the perineum ...
French castle towers also had conical roofs, but this was never common in England where they usually had flat tops.
Chemise wall - formed by a series of interlinked or overlapping semicircular bastions.
Chevron - zig-zag moulding.
Some writers have stated that there were no pinnacles in the Romanesque styles, but conical caps to circular buttresses, with finial terminations, are not uncommon in France at very early periods.
Characteristic features of Manding architecture are the use of mud brick, conical towers with projecting toron, and elaborate decorated entrance facades.
to the edge of a gable roof, often decorated by fretwork or similar artistry Bay A projection from the outside wall, forming a bow window if curved, a faceted window or bay if angled, an oriel window if suspended above ground level, or a conical ...
Each has a steeply pointed roof, either conical or octagonal.
The various sections of the building are massive, clearly-defined units, neatly assembled into a harmonious whole as if built from a child's set of building blocks.
Two types predominated, the beehive, circular with conical roof, and the lecturn or lean to, rectangular in plan, and usually with a mono-pitched roof.
steeply pitched roofs with plenty of dormers, turrets, gables, conical towers, lunettes, and iron cresting. Ornamentation is lavish with intricate string courses, corbel tables, finials and crockets.
Motte - A mound of earth on which a tower was built; artificial conical earth mound (sometimes an old barrow) for the keep
Motte-&-bailey - Earth mound with wood or stone keep, surrounded by ditched and palisaded enclosure (or courtyard).
a surface decorated by pressing pieces (usually colored and of conical shape) of stone or baked clay into damp plaster.
Content
the themes or ideas in a work of art, as distinct from its form.
IDENTIFYING FEATURES: Round arches over windows and/or entryways; thick, cavernous entryways and window openings; thick masonry walls, rounded towers with conical roof; facades are asymmetrical; variable stone and brick façade.
Romanesque - masonry buildings in the architectural style of Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886) that are largely based on the Romanesque style of southeast France; typical elements include asymmetrical massing, round towers with conical roofs, ...
Kemp & Sheehan ventilators ventilation system using an updraft, through vertical metal cylinders, on the upper roof, terminating in conical metal caps. From 1899-1923, fitted to most schools and other public buildings in Victoria.
Another identifying feature includes one or two rounded, squared or polygonal shaped towers with conical roofs.
Turbe
A Turkish term for a mausoleum, generally consisting of a cylindrical or polygonal drum surmounted by a conical dome. A turbe always contains a funerary chamber and often has an integral or attached prayer hall. Also see: kumbet.
to a groin vault but the vault surface (or webbing) is supported by diagonal ribs at the intersections of the compartments. Tierceron and lierne vaults are rib vaults with added decorative ribs. A fan vault was constructed of intersecting conical ...
eaves line of a Japanese roof SPANDREL: the triangular space between the side of an arch, the horizontal above its apex, and the vertical of it's springing; the surface between two arches in an arcade SPIRE: a tall, pyramidal, polygonal, or conical ...
 See also: Architecture, House, Brick, Tower, Decorated
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