Coachella Valley Savings and Loan (now Washington Mutual) in Palm Springs, California. 1960. E. Stewart Williams, architect ...
valley jacks Rafters that run from the ridge rafter to the valley rafter. valley rafter ...
Valley of the Temples, Agrigento, Sicily - Doric order Temple at Segesta, Sicily - Doric order Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens, Greece - Ionic order ...
Valley - The sloping line at the junction of two roof surfaces where an angle less than 180* is formed. Vestibule - A minor enclosed space at the entrance of a building; an entry. W ...
Valley A low region on a roof between gables. Veneer A thin facing of finishing material.
Valley Gutter: Horizontal or sloping gutter, usually lead-or-tile-lined, at the internal intersection between two roof slopes.
Valley Rafter - The rafter under the valley proper. Veneer - A thin facing of finishing material ...
Valley The area formed between the ridges of two adjoined roofs. Valley Horizontal Valley ...
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Swept Valley - one formed by curved slating, tiling or stone rather than by a lead or zinc flashing.
1 Indus Valley civilization 2 Rise of Buddhist and Jain architectures 3 Hindu architecture 4 Buddhist and Jain architecture 5 Indian Baroque architecture 6 Rajput architecture 7 South Indian architecture ...
Wadi - a valley with a dry riverbed. Nabatean Sites and the Location of Dhat Ras Dhat Ras Temple Temple Deity Architectural Terminology Glossary ...
In the Nile valley houses are traditionally built around two or three sides of a large central courtyard or compound.
The hidden central valley gutters are often a source of nuisance. Buttress - a wall, usually triangular in shape, built to restrain bulging.
As for the path that leads up to the pyramid, there was first the Valley Temple. When the king died, his body was first rowed across the Nile to the Valley Temple to be mummified. Next, there was the causeway.
This region, the greater part of modern Iraq, comprises the lower valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Châteaux of the Loire Valley Renaissance years in France saw the solidification of the French aristocratic system. Francois I and Henry II of France, and their wives, did much to bring 'civilization' to the French court.
A simple (without hip or valley) shed roof is pitched with one plane. A simple gable roof is pitched with two equal opposed-slope planes.
Mosan goldsmiths: A 12th century workshop located in the Meuse valley of Belgium and northern France that produced high quality gold, silver, and enameled objects, with naturalistic human figures.
Pueblo Revival is a 20 th century adaptation of a building type developed in the late-18th and early-19th centuries in New Mexico 's Rio Grande Valley. It was, and still is, a popular architecture.
Built mostly in New York (particularly the Hudson Valley), Massachusetts, and the U.S. Midwest, the design was considered rare, but at least a thousand or so were originally built. Only a few Octagon structures still exist. Westchester County ...
Eventually supplanted that of the Flamboyant Gothic the style was popular until end of the 16th century and is characterized by the architecture for the châteaux of the Loire Valley.
Some date as far back as the Bronze Age and later the Indus Valley Civilization.
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