Scale - Carving resembling overlapping fish scales.
Scallop - Carved in a series of semi-circles.
Scappled - Cut to a smooth face.
fish scale
Shingles A shingle having straight sides and rounded bottoms.
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Fish-Scale Shingles
Overlapping wooden tiles used to clad exterior walls; may take various shapes such as fish-scales, diamonds or squares.
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scale leaf, scale - a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
fig leaf - a leaf from a fig tree
simple leaf - a leaf that is not divided into parts ...
Fish Scale Shingles
On Victorian and Queen Anne buildings, fish scale shingles were used extensively as a finishing element. These are generally wood and are most frequently found on the gable or upper section of the buildings.
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Large scale , bold details
Interpenetration of oval spaces
Sweeping, curved surfaces
Conspicuous use of decoration, sculpture, and color
C and S scrolls,
Shell motifs (including door hoods and niche hoods)
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The small-scale statuette of an Equestrian Statue of a Carolingian king is clearly based on Roman Imperial models: ...
(a) a full-scale preparatory drawing for a painting; (b) in more modern usage, a comical or satirical drawing.
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Elevation - A scale drawing of the upright parts of a structure.
Equity - Broadly, any interest which will receive recognition in a court of equity, whether or not such interest rests on legal ownership; specifically, the interest, ...
Scalloped, fish scale, or circle siding - siding shaped like the round overlapping scales of a fish. The siding may be rounded or segmentally-shaped.
Baroque A style that flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, characterized by exuberant decoration, curvaceous forms, and a grand scale generating a sense of movement; later developments show greater restraint.
Cylindrical and spherical spaces became elements of design, well suited to the grandiose rooms appropriate to the imperial scale of Roman architecture.
European architecture of the 17th century, referred to as Baroque, is characterized by magnificence, grandeur and richness in invention, design and, usually, in scale.
Brick is used on a much greater scale in early Ottoman buildings than those of the later period possibly in imitation of contemporary Byzantine practice which used bricks until the beginning of the fourteenth century when they were no longer ...
Simplicity of silhouette was absolutely essential to the readableness of pictures on the small scale allowed by the medallion.
Its dictator aimed to establish architectural order; gridiron town plans, axial symmetry, hierarchical placement of state structure within urban space on a scale intended to reinforce the social and political order desired by the Nazi state, ...
It was about planning, nature, and simple design on a human scale. Wright's concept for Usonia came about due to his increasing focus on community, planning, and serving human needs.
The International style lent itself to urban planning and any large-scale building that involved standardized units of construction. It was also very popular as corporate architecture where the building provided an image for a company.
They share the dominate front gable and massive chimney but is scaled back in intracate detailing and with a lower roof pitch. This was a dominate house plan style in the 1940's and early 1950's.
Identify the style by its entry, full-height, or full-building width porches, entryway columns sized in scale to the porch type, and a front door surrounded by narrow rectangular windows. Roofs are generally gabled or hipped.
An agreed timescale for start and completion
An adjudication system acceptable to all parties ...
The earliest works of the 15th century were on a much smaller scale than those produced in Italy.
Scale Europe's legendary Mont Blanc and you can find relief in toilets made by Ecosphère Technologies, a French company that specializes in dry toilets for extreme conditions.
The style of the early French Renaissance (Francis I, king 1515-47), marked especially by an all-over use of small-scale classical ornament.
Taper relief - A sliding-scale allowance for capital gains tax available from April 1998 based on the principle that the longer a property is owned the less tax is payable.
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modello A composition made on a reduced scale in preparation for a larger work; term commonly used in the fashion industry to describe a sample for a knitted garment. Italian for model. See also maquette ...
Chisel, Diamond, Fishscale, Octagon, Sawtooth, Square Butt
Stairs
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elevation - one of the external faces of a building; an architectural drawing (to scale) of a building facade
ell - an addition or wing to a house that shapes it like an "L" or a "T" ...
object - as defined for eligibility in the National Register of Historic Places; the term is used to distinguish from buildings and structures those constructions that are primarily artistic in nature or are relatively small in scale and simply ...
the style referred to small-scale, one-story, Queen Anne-style cottages which were built in great profusion during the 1880s and 1890s. Gradually the style spread eastward, which is the reverse direction for most house style diffusion.
Unlike a sketch, a measured drawing is a closely observed drawing with a scale attempting to accurately represent the features of a building.
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Tall, square stone monumental shaft with pyramidal top used in ancient Egypt. The form, on a small scale in alabaster, is used as a decorative ornament in Directoire, Empire, and contemporary interiors.
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1100-40, the builders struggled to master the rib vault in its simpler problems: they learned to construct it on square and on oblong plans and even over the awkward curves of ambulatory aisles, but their experiments were always on a small scale.
ELEVATION One of the external faces of a building; also, an architect's drawing of a facade, set out to scale.
EMBRASURE A splayed opening in a wall that frames an opening.
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They often have a consistency in their colour scheme and scale. If a story is depicted then they follow the conventions of reading: the frescoes run clockwise around the interior of a church and, if in columns, they run top to bottom.
Axonometric - A drawing technique devised to represent three dimensional objects on flat paper. Verticals are drawn to scale, but diagonal dimensions are distorted.
Decorated
The style of Gothic architecture popular in England c.1260-c.1360. Characterised by all-over use of decoration, especially small-scale architectural motifs like arches and gables.
Spire: A tapering, often elegant, structure set atop a tower. In certain instances, the tower itself has been designed as a spire. On churches, smaller scale spires are often referred to as Steeples.
Otherwise, an upscale Georgian row house with huge firewall and twin chimneys.
12. Alexandria, VA. Excellent example of Federal entryway, probably around 1810. Fluted pilasters support a broken pediment.
The structures enabled the defenders to shoot arrows as well as throw stones at attackers attempting to scale the walls. The aperture could be closed for protection if necessary by a panel of thick wood which was strengthened by iron bars. (J.
The timber was usually tongue and grooved and fixed to the inside of the frame. It is also referred to as an ãexposed-stud-frameä. These houses may be cute, but they are a bit low on the insulation scale.
The idea was further developed by Palladio who, with the aid of Venetian musical theorists, evolved a far more complex scale of proportions based on the major and minor third - 5:6 and 4:5 - and so on.
 See also: Architecture, House, Floor, Arches, Roman
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