Stacked Vertical Block
5 or more stories
The Stacked vertical block embodies the characteristically Victorian taste for picturesqueness and variety. The immediate ancestor of this style is probably tall versions of two-part commercial blocks.
Stacked windows: Combined grouping of awning, casement, or non-operative windows to form a large glazed unit.
Stile: Vertical member of a window sash or door panel.
STACK A flue or chimney, or group of chimnies.
STAINED GLASS Glass coloured by mixing pigments inherently in the glass, by fusing colored metallic oxides onto the glass, or by painting and baking transparent colors on the glass surface.
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A metal, plastic or composite pipe (usually 4 inch in diameter) leading from the sewage network out through the roof to prevent pressures during sewage flow.
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CHIMNEY-STACK An upright structure in stone or brick, containing flues and rising above the roof.
CLERESTOREY The upper part of the church's nave above the aisle roofs, with windows.
Chimney Stack The part of the chimney above roof level.
Chipboard Often referred to as 'particle board'. Chips of wood compressed and glued into sheet form.
the stacked ridges the horizontally segment a northern-style Hindu temple's shikhara.
Bhūmisparsha
see mudrā.
SOIL STACK (Soil & Vent Pipe) - Main vertical drain pipe for WC and other waste water, generally foul.
SOLDIER ARCH - Bricks laid vertically on end above window or door opening.
Chimney stacks on a building in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Chimney pots in London, England, seen from the tower of Westminster Roman Catholic cathedral
The term chimney may also be applied to natural features, particularly in rock formations.
chimney stack (conduit de cheminée)
chimney pot : Tudor or Medieval Revival style buildings often have wide, very tall chimneys with round or octagonal "pots" on top of each flue.
Every chimney stack or other prominence should have an air terminal. Conductors should run in the most direct manner from air to earth, and be kept away from the walls by holdfasts (fig. r), in the manner shown 'by A (fig. 2); ...
Often fitted to chimney stacks and tile hanging. Also a section of wall below a window.
When masonry materials are stacked vertically, as in a wall, they are very stable since every part is undergoing even compression.
Branch Pipe, discharge pipe - A branch to carry soil water or waste water to the stack
Branch Vent - A pipe which admits air to the downstream side of the water seal in a trap the start of a drain.
StackA chimneystack.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.
The concept of the stone mastaba was transformed into a four level tomb consisting of stacked mastabas that decreased in size as they reached the peak.
Ionic A form of Classical architecture characterized by slender fluted columns, large bases like stacked rings and capitals decorated with scroll shapes. jamb A vertical post supporting a window frame or doorway.
- a stone projection at the base of a chimney stack. Usually assumed to act as a protection for the edge of thatch, now, the reduced depth of slate or tile leaves them standing proud.
Back Gutter The lining and flashing arrangement at the back of a chimney stack (on the upslope side) to divert rainwater away from the stack.
Bargeboard Timber, sometimes decorative, placed along the verge of a roof at a gable end.
the floor was supported on stacks of tiles (pilae) and hot air was circalated under the floor from a farnace stoked outside the building. Hot air and smoke escaped through flues of box tiles set in the wall and plastered over.
The building has the usual gables, chimney stacks, and corner tower. This one has a round, brick, decorative hoodmold with corbelled label stops. There is also a lovely dichromatic brick pattern over the window.
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staddle - a base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked
support - any device that bears the weight of another thing; "there was no place to attach supports for a shelf"
trivet - a stand with short feet used under a hot dish on a table ...
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STORIES The number of stories a building reflects its height by counting the stacked floors. If a building has dormer windows inset into the roof, that top section of the building is called a 1/2 story.
Brick or masonry courses built out beyond one another like a series of corbels to support a chimney stack or window etc.
Crypt.
Underground or half underground room usually below the east end of a church.
The buttress was introduced when the weight of the ceilings would tend to buckle the walls outward and large piles of stone would be stacked along the wall in intervals to buttress (or support) the walls from pushing outward - these piles of stones ...
Soaker: Sheet metal (usually lead, copper or zinc) at the junction of a roof with a vertical surface of a chimneystack, adjoining wall etc. Associated with flashings that should overlay soakers.
Stacks of bricks on the floor testify to the unfinished nature of the building, although it is possible that some of the structure was originally built out of mud brick.
baluster forms are familiar in the legs of chairs and tables represented in Roman bas-reliefs, where the original legs or the models for cast bronze ones were shaped on the lathe, or in Antique marble candelabra, formed as a series of stacked ...
Transom: A smaller window above a door or another window. A transom joint is also the horizontal joining area between two window units which are stacked one on top of the other.
Characteristics of tudor house plans includes: Steeply pitched gables and roof (slate or thatch covered), bays of windows (usually casement) having diamond-paned leaded glass, clustered chimney stacks of fascinating design (usually topped with ...
Another well-known Chinese structure is the Buddhist temple, which looks like a stacked tower. They were built in the shape of a tetragon from wood, and later built into the shape of an octagon.
rampart; the rampart was reinforced by filling the spaces between the upright logs with horizontal ones, and the gaps were faced with dry stone wall, adding to the ramparts strength. Turf rampart: was a rampart made of uniform bricks of turf stacked ...
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