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Curtain wallA non-load-bearing external wall applied to a framed structure, in architecture of the 20th century onwards. Also a connecting wall between the towers of a castle.Curvilinear tracery ...
Curtain Wall - A connecting wall hung between two towers surrounding the bailey.
Cushion - Capital cut from a block by rounding off the lower corners.
Cusp - Curves meeting in a point.
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Curtain wall - In medieval architecture, the outer wall of a castle, surrounding it and usually punctured by towers or bastion.
Cusp - Projecting points formed at the meeting of the foils in Gothic Tracery, etc.
Curtain Wall
In castles or other fortifications, the surrounding fortified walls. Also any large stretch of wall that is not load bearing.
Cushion, Block, or Cubic Capital
A simple cube-like capital with the bottom corners tapered.
curtain wall - a protective wall around a castle. A star-shaped curtain wall has six angles projections or alients where the soldiers fight enemies. One example is Braemar Castle in Scotland.
CURTAIN: The connecting wall joining towers of a castle.
CURTAIN WALL: An exterior wall or a section of that wall between two gates or towers. Some castle had two sets of curtain walls.
DONJON: A great tower in a castle; a keep.
Curtain
- the main defensive wall of a fortification, usually split into sections, which are then also called curtains, by turrets or bastions.
Curtain wall: a castle wall enclosing a courtyard
Cut: assault tower
Corbel: stone bracket projecting from a wall or corner to support a beam ...
CURTAIN WALLING - Non load bearing thin outer panel wall.
CURTILAGE - Enclosed area of land belonging to dwelling.
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Curtain wall
the perimeter wall of a fortification, or any wall within a castle that does not support a roof and is used to link towers i.e. a wall 'hung' between towers
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Curtain tower: A tower which was a part of a curtain wall, from which defenders could provide flanking fire to the curtain wall since they usually projected further into the field. See bastion, mural tower, wall tower.
Air curtain - A strong flow of warm air directed towards a doorway from the outside, to stop cold air entering in winter when the door is left open.
Outer Curtain - the wall the encloses the outer ward. The outermost curtain wall within the shell wall; otherwise, the shell wall itself.
Outer Ward - The area around the outside of and adjacent to the inner curtain.
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Bastion: A small tower at the end of a curtain wall or in the middle of the outside wall; solid masonry projection; structural rather than inhabitable. Batter: A sloping part of a curtain wall.
Building is 52 stories and sports a curtain wall of dark aluminum and bronze-tinted glass, similar to the Sears Tower. The construction site in front of it belongs to Donald Trump, a project led by one of his new "Apprentices".
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for the besieger to attack the walls, and improvements in methods of siegecraft ultimately compelled the defender to develop the enceinte from its medieval form of a ring wall with flanking towers to the 17th century form of bastions, curtains, ...
The common use of curtain walls or door panels to delineate rooms or enclose a building, with the general deemphasis of load-bearing walls in most higher class construction ...
Brutalism was a response to the glass curtain wall that was overtaking institutional and commercial architecture in the 1960s.
European introductions were the central keep, curtain walls which follow the contours of a site and massive masonry.
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Interior designers worked as a a team with upholsterers and designed heavy curtains and hangings loaded with braids and trimmings which graced ladies' boudoirs and bedrooms.
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Bands of decorative fabric to hold back curtains or draperies to each side of a window. Also ornamental bands or knobs of metal, wood, glass, or plastic used for the same purpose.
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Cabana - A temporary or permanent free standing shade structure with traversing curtains, decorative drapes and/or solid walls.
(Pronunciation: "SHEEN-den") An early style of Japanese palace architecture, which lacked a system of dividing interior space—with the exception of portable curtains or folding screens.
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In military architecture, an angular and pointed projection, often diamond-shaped and usually located at a corner, that enabled gunners to defend the ramparts and curtains of a fortification.
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Roughly triangular spaces between and arch and its containing rectangle, or between adjacent arches. Also non-structural panels under the windows in a curtain-walled building.
The outstanding rococo painters were François Boucher, best known for his boudoir scenes with plump, pink nudes, and Jean Honoré Fragonard, renowned for his scenes of coy assignations in leafy glades and curtained alcoves.
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