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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 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 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 wall: (1) A fortified wall which enclosed a bailey or ward. (2) The fortified wall which ran between two towers. (3) The rampart which ran between two bastions. See chemise, rampart.
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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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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Large areas of floor-to-ceiling glass or curtain walls of glass
Metal window frames set flush with the exterior walls, often in horizontal bands
Casement windows; sliding windows
Doorway treatments conspicuously plain, lacking decorative detailing ...
 See also: Curtain, Architecture, House, Tower, Brick
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