Creasing - þ-shaped mark on a wall, marking the pitch of a former roof.
Crenel - The low segment of the alternating high and low segments of a battlement.
Crenelation - Battlements at the top of a tower or wall.
Creasing Projecting course of tiles to a wall or chimney to prevent rain from running down the face of the brickwork.
Cruck Beams Pairs of curved timbers in period buildings which run from ground level and meet at the ridge.
The trend to increasing gasification and electrification continued at the turn of the 20th century. In industry, it was the phase of rationalisation, where work processes were attempted to be streamlined.
Now that I have begun to deal with this problem, as so often happens, the charges are becoming more widespread and increasing in variety. An anonymous pamplet has been circulated which contains the names of a number of accused persons.
The arches are made of lengths of palm wood set into the wall and projecting at increasing angles until they are horizontal at the apex of the arch where they are joined to a similar construction projecting from the opposite wall.
In the evolution of Gothic architecture, the progressive enlargement of the windows was not intended to shed more light into the interiors, but rather to provide an ever-increasing area for the stained glass.
Concentric castle: The castle introduced into Europe in the late 12th century which consisted of two or more complete rings of bastioned curtain wall within one another, each increasing in height towards the keep in the centre.
Wright's concept for Usonia came about due to his increasing focus on community, planning, and serving human needs.
Booster - A pump for increasing the pressure in a water supply pipe or fire riser and/or; A heating element in an electric storage water heater which is switched on during the day if the draw-off temperature drops too low ...
" He also maintained that Octagons were superior to square houses in "increasing sunlight and ventilation" and in "eliminating dark and useless corners.
The booming citrus and petroleum industries brought increasing wealth and business to the city and led to a housing boom and period of rapid growth. The city's first real developers, such as Harry Cooke and E. S.
step-up, increase - the act of increasing something; "he gave me an increase in salary"
ego trip, self-aggrandisement, self-aggrandizement - an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance ...
Trade practice recognizes the following gloss levels, in increasing order of gloss flat (or matte)-- practically free from sheen, even when viewed from oblique angles (usually less than 15 on 60-degree meter); ...
The Congress for the New Urbanism views disinvestment in central cities, the spread of placeless sprawl, increasing separation by race and income, environmental deterioration, loss of agricultural lands and wilderness, ...
in masonry, a projection or one of a series of projections, each stepped progressively farther forward with increasing height; anchored in a wall, story, column, or chimney. 2.
Bauhaus - The architecture, design, craft, and fine art school established by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919, transferred to Dessau in 1925, and finally moved to BERLIN IN 1932. It closed in 1933 under increasing political interference.
a pyramid constructed of mastaba forms of successively decreasing size.
Stereobate
a substructure or foundation of masonry visible above ground level.
This grand residence of the 1860s was the residence of the local doctor ********** *******. He built a relatively humble building, still standing next door, and then with his increasing affluence, ...
Due to vandalism, and the increasing number of artifacts that were buried with wealthy kings, the pit became a rectangular hole lined with mud bricks or timber.
After 1845, the Victorians were able to make great advances in glass manufacture which saw an increasing use in architecture (Crystal Palace 1851).
While in Italy the tendency was to give scale by increasing the number of panels, in France the contrary seems to have been the rule; and one of the great doors at Fontainebleau, which is in two leaves, ...
fitting anything from a small interior hallway to a large exterior portico or outside stoop. Columns add not only magnificence but also architectural and stylistic strength to a home or building, which help it to last longer and usually increasing ...
In the later part of the nineteenth century, Portland cement was added with increasing frequency in an attempt to improve its durability.
This roof became common as a means of increasing the roof span and making use of the attic space as livable space.
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