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Remains of the top floors of an insula near the Capitolium and the Aracoeli in Rome.
housing, living accommodations, lodging - structures collectively in which people are housed ...
Tract housing is a type of residential development in which many identical or nearly identical dwellings are built adjacent to one another.
Victory housing was designed to be permanent and comfortable, large enough for a single family. Most of this housing was prefabricated - walls and roofs constructed at a central factory then shipped to the final location for assembly.
This style of housing was loosely conceived from the likes of the tudor house plan style architecture. They share the dominate front gable and massive chimney but is scaled back in intracate detailing and with a lower roof pitch.
Hinge housing The area chiselled to make a hinge sit flush with the timber Hipped-roof A roof which is pitched on all 4 sides from the ridge to the eaves Hipped-gable (also called Half-hipped, Kentish gable) A gabled-roof with ...
Rotunda - Round building, sometimes enclosed in a colonnade ;also a round room
Roughcast - Covered in a rough material such as pebble dash.
Row Housing - A row of houses with only front, rear and interior open spaces.
FHA - Federal Housing Administration.
FHA Title 1 - A system of insurance of modernization loans for alteration, repair or improvement of existing structures.
F. Schwerdtfeger, 'Housing in Zaria', Shelter in Africa, New York 1971.
M. G. Smith, The beginnings of Hausa society, AD 1000- 1500', in 'The Historian in Tropical Africa, ed. J. Vanisa et al., London 1964.
Bell Cote
- a small housing for a bell or bells, usually of masonry when at a gable but sometimes in timber when constructed on the roof-ridge.
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The new architecture demonstrated its virtues in new Siedlungen (low-cost housing) in Berlin and Frankfurt. An exhibition of housing types, the Weissenhof Siedlung (1927) in Stuttgart, brought together works by Mies, Gropius, J. J. P.
Between the wars, European modernism focused on social goals (such as worker housing), and was characterized by a hard-edged, machine-made aesthetic utilizing smooth, precise materials, most characteristically stucco, metal, and glass.
The Classical style of Robert Smirke’s British Museum in London, begun in 1824, might have been recognizable to the citizens of Periclean Athens, yet the very idea to construct an immense structure housing an encyclopedic collection of ...
Le Corbusier's name for an ideal housing type, the multistory block including social facilities, shops, and play space contained within a single building, around what he called streets in the sky.
Besides the lower purchase price of trailers than almost any other type of house, trailer dwellers lowered their housing costs because in some communities, especially in the 1950s-1960s, "moveable" structures were not levied property taxes.
A vertical structure, usually housing a window that projects from a sloping roof and is covered by a separate roof structure. It is called a gable dormer if it has its own gable or shed dormer if a flat roof. Most often found in upstairs bedrooms.
Accumulator towerA tower housing a hydraulic accumulator which accommodates fluctuations in the flow through hydraulic mains.AchievementIn heraldry, a complete display of armorial bearings.Acroterion (plural: acroteria) ...
cella: principal interior of a temple, housing the cult image chamfered a corner truncated at an angle of about 45 degrees.
centralised plan: a plan in which length and width are equal.
a religious establishment housing a community of people living in accordance with religious vows.
Monochromatic
having a color scheme based on shades of black and white, or on values of a single hue.
Crypt
A vaulted space beneath the pavement of a church, often housing relics or tombs.
Diaphragm Arch
A transverse arch across the nave of a church partitioning the roof into sections. Image courtesy of Gretchen Ranger ...
aedicule an architectural elevation in miniature; a decorative niche, often housing an altar.
aerugo A sheen or patina either naturally occurring or simulated, which gives the appearance of age.
CHANCEL Traditionally found in the church's east end, an area reserved for the clergy and housing the altar.
CHIMNEY-PIECE A mantelpiece, usually of wood or marble, that surrounds the sides and top of a fireplace opening.
A block of dwellings usually built to provide high density housing at low cost; generally refers to buildings of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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dormer - an upright window projecting from the sloping roof of a building; also the roofed structure housing such a window
eave - the projecting overhang at the lower edge of a sloping roof ...
State Bank house - House financed, designed and built by the State Savings Bank of Victoria under the Housing and Reclamation Act 1920, for its customers. G. Burridge Leith was the bank's Chief Architect. They were not built after 1939.
Ogee A specific shape where a concave arc flows into a convex arc. An ogee gutter has particular profile, is usually formed in cast iron, and is still very common in Victorian housing.
Oriel A projecting structure, normally a window.
This was the symbol linking the living with the dead, and there was a carved image of the tomb owner. The halls were flanked by several smaller rooms housing the deceased's provisions such as furniture, offerings, sacred text, victuals, etc.
means that construction or substantial renovation of a complex is at a stage where you can reasonably inhabit the premises. Minor repairs, adjustments, or outstanding upgrades are not considered to impair the use and enjoyment of the housing unit as ...
In 1941 the United States Navy considered options for housing men and operations in far-flung stations. The George A. Fuller construction company, at its facility near Quonset Point, Rhode Island, produced the Quonset for the navy.
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