Facing - The finishing applied to the outer surface of a building.
facing
A covering applied to the outer surface of a building.
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Thin surfacing
Used in road surfacing to reduce noise, and also spray and skidding in wet weather.
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Tile facing on fireplace
Glass-fronted bookcases flank the fireplace
Pair of small windows flanking the fireplace; windows sometimes have art-glass panels, colored and leaded ...
MANTLES
The facing of stone, marble, wood, etc. around a fireplace including a projection type shelf or slab above it.
cloisonné facing: wall ornamentation in patterns of stone and brick.
cloister: four-sided enclosure with covered walk along each side
coffering: sunken square or polygonal panels in ceilings, vaults and in the soffits of arches.
Interior node facing north with mihrab to the right
Shah Na'met Allah Vali (Iran)
Building: Shah Na'met Allah Vali Complex
Architect: Unknown
Date: 1436; Additions throughout Safavid period
View of interior courtyard of Complex Tarim (Yemen) ...
Veneer - A thin facing of finishing material
Veneer Wall - The covering of one wall construction by a second material to enhance wall beauty. (Brick or stone over frame, brick or stone over concrete bloc.
Veneer A thin facing of finishing material.
Vinyl A synthetic type of siding used for its economic value and durability.W
Wainscot A paneling applied to the lower portion of a wall.TOP of the page.
a plain or moulded facing board.
Fenestration
the arrangement of windows in a building.
Wainscot - The facing material applied to the lower part of an interior wall contrasting with that of the upper part.
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It is placed in the most prominent place in the church, usually at the east end, in the choir or sanctuary, facing the main entrance to the church.
cella The inner, holiest chamber of a Classical temple or a Roman shop facing the street. chancel The eastern or front end of a church, containing the choir and altar and usually reserved for use by the clergy and choir.
front the architectural facing of a building, more decorative than structural. glade open, grassy area surrounded by woods.
Campshedding - facing of piles of boarding along a bank.
Cap-house - small chamber at the top of a spiral staircase in a tower or turret, leading to the open wall-walk on the roof .
Capital - distinctly treated upper end of a column.
to the highest point of the building to the adjacent to the street, wall, and in the case of pitched roofs, upto the point where the external surface of the outer wall intersects the finished surface of the sloping roof and in case of gables facing ...
Facing brick - a brick whose colour and durability is suitable for the exposed face of a wall.
Firing - the process of changing dried mud into an approximation of stone by heating to extreme temperatures in a kiln.
East Wall The wall behind the altar, as viewed from the nave, is the 'east wall,' no matter what direction you are actually facing. In the past, all church buildings faced east, and it is still the case for eastern Orthodox churches today.
The town of Lamu probably contains the best examples of eighteenth-century domestic architecture on the coast: the typical Swahili house of the period consists of a stone enclosure wall with no outward-facing windows.
The main entrance to the house was facing the street, and consisting of a double-door. On passing through the door you would walk through a short passageway and enter into the atrium. The atrium is the most important part in the house.
Alternating tread stairs allow for safe forward-facing descent of very steep stairs. The treads are designed such that they alternate between treads for each foot: one step is wide on the left side; the next step is wide on the right side.
Accordingly, they were often built with a gable end facing the street (a 90-degree rotation from earlier practice), and feature a front facade that includes, below the low-slope gabled roof, ...
Thunderbird Lodge, north side, facing Canyon.
27. Kamloops, BC. Downtown.
28. Savannah, GA. Note the contrast between the modern building (left) and the 19th century Italianate house (right).
29. Savannah, GA.
30. Chicago, IL. Equitable Building, c.
However, if an altar is present in an apse then a more precise definition would be "altar apse", or "east facing apse", or "sanctuary".
The Dutch Colonial variety featured a steeply pitched front-facing gambrel roof with nearly a full second story. A gambrel roof creates a profile that resembles a portion of a bell, being one or both of the lower roof slopes flare at the eaves.
Stack bondNon-structural brick facing, using bricks laid long side outwards and in vertical (i.e. non-overlapping) tiers.StallFixed seat in the choir or chancel of a church for the clergy or choir.
St Erhard with his outstretched hands looks to his right past the liturgical objects on the altar to the facing page of Christ on the Cross. It is significant that Erhard's eyes pass through the liturgical objects to the Crucifixion.
For privacy, the windows admitting light facing the driveway are clerestory; light enters the building but no one can see in. The central fireplace cuts the design in two.
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The style was identified with low-pitched gable roofs, usually facing the street, with wide, unenclosed eave overhangs, exposed roof rafters, decorative beams and braces commonly added under gables, ...
barb - a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove
javelin - a spear thrown as a weapon or in competitive field events ...
PEDIMENT A triangular space created by a front facing gable roof, often seen in Classical Revivial style buildings.
PENDANT An ornamental piece of wood or metal hanging down from a porch, cornice or bracket.
Convex - An outward facing curve - A series of projections, each stepped progressively farther forward with height. A common device on the brickwork of chimneys.
S-shaped chair meant to seat two people facing in opposite directions. Used in the 18th and 19th centuries. Also referred to as a t?te-?-t?te, a French term meaning "head-to-head."
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veneer A very thin layer used as a facing.
vitruvian wave A series of scrolls connected by a wave-like band; also called a wave scroll, or a Greek wave; common motif in classical ornament.
Contravallatio: A series of field work consisting of earthen ramparts and ditches excavated parallel to the circumvallatio but facing outwards, which were used to protect the Roman encampments against the attack of a relieving army; ...
Queen Anne victorian style architecture is identified by several features that include the following: Steep pitched roofs usually irregular in shape and with a dominate front-facing gable, pattern shingles, ...
The exterior face of a building, particularly one of its main elevations facing the public right-of-way, almost always containing an entrance and characterized by an elaboration of stylistic details.
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another popular design is front gable plan. With this design, the house is placed on short-side facing street and the door is off centre because of narrow width of plan. Popular for narrow street frontages favoured by developing towns and cities.
ASHLAR: smooth square stones laid in a horizontal fashion; used for foundations or facing of masonry walls. (IMAGE)
BELLCAST: a curved shape resulting in a lower pitch at the bottom of a roof slope. (IMAGE) ...
Choir stalls The benches in the chancel where the choristers are seated. Here, instead of facing east as the pews do in the nave, the choir stalls face north or south so that the choristers look across to each other.
Only prestigious buildings such as Felley Priory in Ashfield are constructed of brick, and then mostly just the facing of the walls with rubble behind.
Exterior walls, especially those facing the street, embellished with ornament
Intricate ornament placed at door surrounds and other easily viewed locations
Ornamentation based on images from nature, rejecting classical references ...
The most elaborate Greek Revival style buildings resemble temples with their roof gables facing forward with monumental columned porticos across the front. Churches and courthouses have ornamented belfries or cupolas.
altar In the Roman Church, a table at which the celebration of the Eucharist takes place. It is placed in a prominent place in the church, usually in the choir facing the main entrance to the church. See also retable, chapel, choir ...
Space limited by two adjacent weight-bearing structures (columns, pilasters etc.). In churches the bay is also an area of the nave defined by four adjacent columns or pilasters in facing pairs. Here, the bay generally has a cross vault ( * vault).
Speaking of orientation, churches are nearly always oriented so that the main altar is at the east end of the church, facing Jerusalem and, not coincidentally, the rising sun.
At the centre of the kiblah, the wall facing the direction of Mecca, was the mihrab, a niche. The minbar, a pulpit, stood near by. Structural elements were the arch and the dome; roofs were either flat or vaulted, and windows were small.
Due to its expense, you will often find buildings made of rough stone or rubble with quoins of Ashlar at the corners of the building, often laid alternately with their long-side and short side facing out; ...
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