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Footing - A foundation unit constructed in brickwork, masonry or concrete under the base of a wall or column for the purpose of distributing the load over a large area.
Form - Shape mode of arrangement.
Footing - The spreading course or courses at the base or bottom of a foundation wall, pier, or columns.
Foyer - An entrance hallway within a living unit or building.
Footing A type of stone edging on a masonry wall.
Foundation The base of a house providing stability.
Frame Of wood construction.
Footings - Bottom part of wall.
Forebuilding - An extension to the keep, guarding it's entrance.
Fosse - Ditch.
Footings Older, usually shallow, form or foundation of brick or stone.
Foundations Normally concrete, laid underground as a structural base to a wall. In older buildings these may be brick or stone.
Footing
The supporting base or groundwork of a structure, as for a monument or wall. Also called footer.
Footings: Bottom part of wall. Fosse: Ditch. Freestone: High quality sand- or lime-stone. Fresco: Painting on wet plaster wall.
G Gable: Wall covering end of roof ridge. Gallery: An upper story over the aisle which opens onto the nave or choir.
The French Gothic revival was set on sounder intellectual footings by a pioneer, Arcisse de Caumont, who founded the Societé des Antiquaires de Normandy at a time when antiquaire still meant a connoisseur of antiquities, ...
Isolated footings supported a skeleton of wrought and cast iron encased in masonry, with fireproof floors, numerous fast elevators, and gas light.
Buildings are cantilevered over basement footings. Artificial symmetry and decorations are avoided: balance and regularity is stressed.
To dig out a volume of earth for a basement, footings or foundation.
exedrae
A portico or open room with seats in ancient Greece. Renaissance architect, Brunelleschi added this to cathedral architecture.
Foundations Also called 'footings', normally concrete, laid underground as a structural base to a wall; in older buildings these may be brick or stone.
PIER
Load-bearing element that rises from a footing.
PLASTER
A pasty mixture of lime, sand, and water which hardens upon drying that can be carved.
The 7,500 Gates by Christo and Jeanne-Claude were constructed with steel supports encased in bright orange vinyl. Shimmering nylon panels were suspended from the top of each gate. Heavy steel footings anchored the gates.
Found on the Temple of Mars Ultar, this style of architectual column was adapted in the middle of the fourth century BC. Unspecific to any other column, the Corinthian order is accented by a more ornate footing called an Attic base.
In order to avoid the problems of water erosion mud-brick buildings are often built on stone footings or have overhanging roofs with water run-off directed into special channels.
and standing to a greater extent than the projection of the footings on lands of different owners.
 See also: Ground, Floor, Brick, Architecture, Masonry
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