clockhouse

(architecture) A house or dwelling featuring a large visible clock on its exterior.

(architecture) A part of a building featuring such a clock; the section of a clock tower in which the clock is housed.


quadrifrontal

(architecture) In the form of a quadrifrons.


mezzanined

(architecture) Of a building: having a mezzanine or intermediate level.


Vancouver Special

en-noun

Vancouver Special (plural Vancouver Specials)

The 'Vancouver Specials' are unique in that they quickly achieved widespread unpopularity for their boring flat fronts, boxy shapes, and low roofs.

1993, Harold Kalman, Ron Phillips, Robin Ward, Exploring Vancouver: The Essential Architectural Guide, page 202:

There were campaigns waged by neighbourhood groups against boxy “Vancouver Specials” in the 1980s and highly eclectic “monster houses” in the 1990s.

2014, John Punter, The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design, page 116:

Our design proposal is a mash-up of the Vancouver Special with Brooklyn brownstones and Chinese courtyard houses, resulting in a typology we call 'Extra Special.'

2019, Alex Bozikovic, Cheryll Case, John Lorinc, House Divided: How the Missing Middle Will Solve Toronto's Housing Crisis, unnumbered page:

(British Columbia, architecture) A style of detached two-storey residential house widely constructed in Vancouver, British Columbia from the 1960s to 1980s, characterized by its large and boxy shape (often occupying most of the width of a lot), low-pitched gabled roof, and a front balcony spanning the entire second floor.


pre-Romanesque

From pre- + Romanesque, ultimately pre- + Roman + -esque.

Early Middle Ages
Early Middle Ages#English

Migration Period
Migration Period#English

(architecture, art) Pertaining to or characteristic of the art and architecture of the Early Middle Ages in around the 6th to 11th centuries, after the Migration Period and before the Romanesque era.


Diocletian window

Diocletian window (plural Diocletian windows)

(architecture) A large semicircular window, characteristic of the enormous public baths (thermae) of Ancient Rome.


cross springer

(architecture) A cross-rib in a groined vault.


pseudisodomon

(architecture) An early style of masonry used by the Greeks, in which the courses have differing height, length, or thickness of stones, though the stones in any one course are alike.


high modernism

It is not just that the borders between high and low have begun to blur significantly after high modernism in the West, bringing some critics to misread the Latin American boom novel as a kind of postmodernism avant la lettre […]

2005, Peter Brooker, Andrew Thacker, editors, Geographies of Modernism: Literatures, Cultures, Spaces, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 11:

The idea that silence suits serious art goes back to the age of high modernism in the 1950s. It is hard to imagine Mark Rothko calling an exhibition "Daddy, I Want to Be a Jewish Artist" or indeed calling it anything at all. His paintings have plain titles such as Red on Maroon.

2013 September 25, Jonathan Jones, “Dissecting the Exploding Whale: why do modern art shows have odd names?”, in The Guardian:

A form of modernity prevalent during the 1950s and 1960s, characterized by an unfaltering confidence in science and technology as means to reorder the social and natural world.


rybat

(architecture) A vertical dressed stone beside a door or window.


apse chapel

(architecture) A small chapel, radiating from the apse.


Camden bench

The Camden Bench is not an anomaly: more and more, our cities are being designed to keep those deemed as ‘undesirables’ out. By its very nature this is ‘hostile architecture’—urban design with a focus on exclusion, design that inhibits community and tells us who is welcome and who is not.

2020, Noreena Hertz, The Lonely Century, →ISBN:

A type of street furniture designed to restrict certain uses and behaviours and be usable only as a bench.


toplighting

(film, theater, architecture) The lighting of a scene or location from above.


sidelighting

(film, theater, architecture) The lighting of a scene or location from the side.


Gothicist

(architecture, literature) One who works in the style of Gothicism.


subarch

(architecture) A secondary or subsidiary arch.


subshaft

(architecture) A secondary or subsidiary shaft.


yakhchal

Borrowed from Persian یخچال (literally “ice pit”).

Furthermore, constructions such as the Yakhchal and Abanbar, which were built exclusively to stock water, had to have direct access to water courses.

2014, Somaiyeh Falahat, Re-imaging the City, Springer, page 155:

Jawaad takes us first to the Kerman Library, a stately old building with beautiful arches that, oddly enough, began life as a textile factory, and then to the parks around the yakhchal or icehouse. Yakhchals are a staggering feat of ancient engineering.

2016, Zeeshan Khan, Right to Passage, SAGE Publishing, Yoda Press, page 217:

Owners of ice pits (yakhchal) were required to guarantee the purity and hygiene of the water and pits that they used in making ice.

2019, Amir A. Afkhami, A Modern Contagion, JHU Press, page 151:

(architecture) An type of icehouse, built mainly in Persia (present-day Iran), that functions as an evaporative cooler, having a domed shape above ground and a subterranean storage space.


casing bead

casing bead (countable and uncountable, plural casing beads)

(architecture) A decorative trim or moulding used to help in forming the edges and corners of stucco and plasterwork.


sail vault

(architecture) A dome-shaped vault constrained to the square inscribed in the base circle.


voissoir

(architecture) Alternative form of voussoir.


tekoteko

Carved figure as a finial on the gable of a Maori house


Renaissance Revival

en-proper noun

Renaissance Revival or the Renaissance Revival

Renaissance Revival (canonical)
the Renaissance Revival (canonical)

A style based on the architecture of sixteenth-century Italy and France (which, in turn, was based on the styles of ancient Rome and Greece), the Renaissance Revival in the United States influenced architecture and the decorative arts from the mid-nineteenth century through the first decade of the twentieth century.

2008, Helen Sheumaker, Shirley Teresa Wajda, editors, Material Culture in America, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 390:

Two styles of the late 19th century, Renaissance Revival and Richardsonian Romanesque, remained influential through World War I.

2017, Eyewitness Travel Guide Boston, Dorling Kindersley Ltd, →ISBN, page 34:

(architecture) Synonym of Neo-Renaissance.


Neo-Renaissance

Neo-Renaissance (canonical)
the Neo-Renaissance (canonical)
neo-Renaissance (alternative)

Neo-Renaissance is at least heralded in Ledoux and others of his generation, i.e. round arches on detached columns and round-arched windows, and complete in Klenze’s Leuchtenberg Palace at Munich in 1816 and Barry’s Travellers’ Club in 1829.

1963, Nikolaus Pevsner, “Victorian Prolegomena”, in Peter Ferriday, editor, Victorian Architecture, London: Jonathan Cape, page 24:

Neo-Baroque developed especially in France and Flanders from the eighteen-seventies and beyond, and in this part it enjoyed a position corresponding to that of the neo-Renaissance in Germany.

2013, Stephan Tschudi Madsen, The Art Nouveau Style, Courier Corporation, →ISBN:

With its pilastered alcoves and richly decorated plafond, its baldachins, tapestries, brocade upholstery, and massive palm fronds, Makart's studio epitomized the neo-Renaissance style, also known as Renaissance Revival or German Renaissance, which defined the look of countless bourgeois parlours in the Second Empire.

2015, Martin A. Ruehl, The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 28:

To be added, as a characteristic curiosity, K. Scheffler, Der Geist der Gotik, Leipzig 1925, which on strength of “by their fruits shall ye know them”, makes St. Peter's and, in the last analysis, the Pantheon, responsible for the Neo-Renaissance of the Victorian, Edwardian and Wilhelminian eras (without, however, blaming the results of the contemporary Gothic and Romanesque revivals on the Cathedrals of Speyer or Reims).

2018 [1960], Erwin Panofsky, Renaissance And Renascences In Western Art, Routledge, →ISBN:

(architecture) A group of 19th century architectural revival styles which drew inspiration from a wide range of 16th century classicizing Italian modes.


telesterion

From Ancient Greek τελεστήριον (telestḗrion, “initiation hall”), from τελείω (teleíō, “to initiate”).

bor

Central among them is what, to avoid controversy, it is convenient to call the telesterion: a building designed to accommodate the faithful inside, and thus unique among the forms of Greek sacred architecture.

2005, Robert Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 351:

With each successive telesterion, the structure grew in size and capacity, an expansion that indicates the growing and continued popularity of the cult […]

2016, Margaret M. Miles, A Companion to Greek Architecture, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 183:

A building used to celebrate sacred rites in Ancient Greece.


resimercial

en-adj

resimercial (comparative more resimercial, superlative most resimercial)

more resimercial (comparative)
most resimercial (superlative)

(architecture, neologism) Of an office space: resembling an at-home working space.


tetrastylic

(architecture) Having four columns, like a tetrastyle.


perp.

(architecture) Clipping of perpendicular, a style of English Gothic architecture.


antepagment

(architecture) Synonym of antepagmentum.


triglyphed

(architecture) Having the form of a triglyph.


disambulatory

Another bomb came through the disambulatory roof and vaulting and made a direct hit on one of the four stone pillars carrying the tower crossing and the iron spire

1961, Stanley Richard Baron, The Road to Barcelona, and the Costa Brava:

(architecture) An extension of the ambulatory that allows one to walk along the sides of a cathedral.


Hathor column

(architecture) A column consisting of a round shaft surmounted by heads of the goddess Hathor, in turn surmounted by a kind of small shrine.


open-concept

(architecture) Where rooms share a large, connected space.


closed-concept

(architecture) Where rooms are segregated by walls.


mock-Tudor

mock-Tudor (comparative more mock-Tudor, superlative most mock-Tudor)

more mock-Tudor (comparative)
most mock-Tudor (superlative)

[neighborhoods] like Gants Hill, with mock-Tudor houses and gardens and garages, taking with them their skills, cash and aspirations.

1843, “A dynamic mayor’s plans for his borough may be good for Newham, less so for London”, in The Economist, volume 404, page 52:

ANGELA:[…] I like those old Tudor houses round here.
LAURENCE: No, Angela: Mock-Tudor.
ANGELA: Are they?
LAURENCE: Oh, yes. There are some real Tudor properties in Hadley Village itself. But the ones you’re thinking of are Mock-Tudor.

1982, Mike Leigh, Abigail’s Party, page 72:

When one walks around mock-Tudor or Neo-Georgian housing estates, the natural tendency is to think not of Elizabeth and George, but of the outlook and aspirations of the people who have chosen to live there.

1990, Paul Greenhalgh, “Introduction”, in Modernism in Design, page 20:

(architecture) Tudor revival; in the style of Tudor architecture (of buildings after the Tudor period, especially those built in the 19th or 20th century).


mock Tudor

Some of the more common characteristics of a mock Tudor, or Tudor revival house are: Decorative half-timbering, or exposed wood framing usually dark in color.

2012 April 3, Meg Fairfax Fielding, “Mock Tudors”, in Pigtown Design:

Tudor Revival Homes, also known as Mock Tudors, were popular in both the United States and the United Kingdom in the late 19th century.

2016 December 12, False Lucidity, “Tudor Revival House”, in Skymods:

The homes that you may recognize are known as Tudor revivals or mock Tudors, the majority of which were built in the suburbs of the Northeast and Midwest United States from the late 1890s to the early 1940s.

2022 September 1, “Tudor Style Houses”, in Rocket Homes:

An example of Tudor revival architecture; a house or other building featuring styles associated with medieval English vernacular architecture.


pseudo-Tudo

pseudo-Tudo (not generally comparable, comparative more pseudo-Tudo, superlative most pseudo-Tudo)

more pseudo-Tudo (comparative)
most pseudo-Tudo (superlative)
pseudo-tudo (alternative)
Pseudo-Tudo (alternative)
pseudo tudo (alternative)
pseudy tudy (alternative)
pseudie tudie (alternative)

From pseudo + Tudor, with the latter element reduced, resulting in internal rhyme. Compare variant pseudy tudy. Attested from the mid 20th century (see quotations below).

Then I went to the Grafton Cinema to have supper in the pseudy tudy interior.

1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, France, page 175:

The game we play, it’s got its risks, but it’s a heady, intoxicating game, better than nine-to-fiving it and sex, cocktails and rows in a pseudo-Tudo cottage near Sevenoaks.

1964, Robin Cook, The Crust on its Uppers:

also pseudo-tudo
describing an architectural style popular in the UK Home Counties, featuring fake beams and the other appurtenances of (Hollywood-style) Elizabethan and Tudor England.

[2023 March 28, Jonathon Green, “pseudie tudie”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang:

(architecture, derogatory, uncommon) In a style similar to Tudor or mock-Tudor architecture; faux Tudor.


pseudo-Tudo

pseudo-tudo (alternative)
Pseudo-Tudo (alternative)
pseudo tudo (alternative)
pseudy tudy (alternative)
pseudie tudie (alternative)

[…] dormers and leaded panes abounded, and so did angles, bright tiles and horizontal windows, the gnomes having combined Pseudo-Tudo with Lutyens-Functional.

1946, Stella Gibbons, Westwood: Or, the Gentle Powers, page 239:

When the public has been so educated that nobody will want to borrow money for Repro-Jacco or Pseudo-Tudo, the building societies will be only too eager to lend

1960, “New Towns and the Metropolitan Problem”, in Town & Country Planning, page 117:

I react (badly) to early-20th-century commercial versions of the period styles by name calling: Pseudo-Tudo, Frizzie-Lizzie, Phooey-Louis, and Phony-Colonie.

1987, John Crosby Freeman, “Post-Victorian interiors”, in Old-House Journal, page 58:

(architecture, derogatory, uncommon) An architectural style using elements of Tudor or Tudor revival architecture, or a building employing such style, especially one judged to be inauthentic or of lower quality.


Neo-Mudéjar

Borrowed from Spanish neomudéjar or neo- + Mudéjar.

Neo-Mudejar (alternative)
neo-Mudéjar (alternative)

The popularity of the style has since spread throughout the country and in many cases is still being utilized in what is known today as the Neo-Mudéjar style. Most of Teruel's Mudéjar monuments miraculously survived one of the longest and bloodiest battle of the Spanish Civil War.

2005, Kelly Lipscombe, Spain, Hunter, →ISBN, page 448:

(architecture) A type of Moorish Revival architecture popular in the Iberian Peninsula in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.


Chinese Chippendale

(architecture) A kind of railing, balustrade or latticework inspired by this furniture, having the infill between the top and bottom rails and the vertical supports as a series of interlocking diagonals, or sometimes a rectilinear design.


avant-corps

(architecture) A part of a building, such as a porch or pavilion, that juts out from the corps de logis, often taller than other parts of the building.


horseshoe arch

en-noun

horseshoe arch (plural horseshoe arches)

(architecture) An arch having the circular curve continued below the horizontal line of its diameter, so that the opening at the bottom of the arch is narrower than the arch's full span. It is emblematic of Islamic, especially Moorish, architecture.


Dutch gable

(architecture) A gable whose sides have a shape made up of one or more curves and which has a pediment at the top.


egg and dart

There were various armchairs […] beneath a high ceiling with plaster egg and dart cornices, brocaded curtains and a blazing fire of sycamore logs.

2019, Niall Williams, This is Happiness, Bloomsbury (2020), page 203:

(architecture) An ornamental device adorning the fundamental quarter-round, convex ovolo profile of moulding, consisting of alternating details on the face of the ovolo: typically an egg-shaped object alternating with a V-shaped element such as an arrow, anchor, or dart.


pishtaq

(architecture) An ornamental portal projecting from the facade of a building, often as the formal gateway to an iwan.


upfloor

From Middle English upflor, from Old English upflōr, equivalent to up- + floor.

At Westminster, a part of the shafts set about the columns support the arches and groinings of the ailes, while others in the cluster ascend the upfloors and sustain the munions of the vaulting of the nave.

1819, Charles Clarke, Architectura Ecclesiastica, page 8:

[…] and, as the upfloor was used for the transaction of business, attended by many witnesses, we may suppose that it was a large, wide, lofty upper story, such as is found in many early Norman minsters.

1878, Edward Hungerford Goddard, The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine:

(architecture) An upper storey, especially a gallery or arcade above the arches of the nave, choir, and transepts of a church.


honeycomb work

(architecture) A form of ceiling ornamentation (especially of an arch or dome) made up of small vaulted arches, especially in Moorish architecture.

stalaktiittiholvi

form of ceiling ornamentation made up of small vaulted arches

(architecture) Any type of natural structure or decoration consisting of a honeycomb pattern, or designed to resemble a honeycomb.


antechurch

(architecture) The west front portion of certain churches.


Tudor arch

(architecture) A kind of flattened four-centred arch found in English architecture.


Persian arch

(architecture) A kind of four-centred arch found in Islamic architecture.


keel arch

(architecture) A kind of four-centred arch with partially straight rather than curved sides, developed in Fatimid architecture.


quarter-round

(architecture) A form of ovolo consisting of a convex molding whose cross section is a quarter circle.


ante-cabinet

(architecture, obsolete, rare) A large saloon placed before the chamber in which the council of a prince or state hold private consultations.


tas-de-charge

(architecture) The lower courses of ribs of a Gothic vault, laid horizontally and bonded into the wall, forming a solid mass.


gingerbread house

gingerbread house (plural gingerbread houses)

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(architecture) A house in gingerbread style.


hostile architecture

The Camden Bench is not an anomaly: more and more, our cities are being designed to keep those deemed as ‘undesirables’ out. By its very nature this is ‘hostile architecture’—urban design with a focus on exclusion, design that inhibits community and tells us who is welcome and who is not.

2020, Noreena Hertz, The Lonely Century, →ISBN:

On a human level, the new facility [Moynihan Train Hall] is a disaster. Like so many other places defined by the principles of hostile architecture, there's almost nowhere to sit, lest a homeless person might find a place to take a nap.

2025 April 19, Jacob Silverman, “Welcome to Slop World”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 16:

A type of architecture and design strategy for buildings, roads, park benches, etc, which aims to discourage homeless people, skateboarders, or others from sitting, sleeping, skateboarding or otherwise using a space, for example by covering it with spikes.


neofuturistic

en-adj

neofuturistic (comparative more neofuturistic, superlative most neofuturistic)

more neofuturistic (comparative)
most neofuturistic (superlative)
neo-futuristic (alternative)

Saudi Arabia is erecting the world's tallest building, trying to steal that title from Dubai's neofuturistic Burj Khalifa.

2016, Ruchir Sharma, The Rise and Fall of Nations: Ten Rules of Change in the Post-Crisis World, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

The neofuturistic design and computer animated illuminations at night make this tower stand out from all the rest.

2018, Matthew Baxter, “Skytree”, in Super Cheap Tokyo: The Ultimate Budget Travel Guide to Tokyo and the Kanto Region, page 51:

(chiefly architecture) Synonym of neofuturist.


rib vault

(architecture) An architectural feature for covering a wide space, such as a church nave, composed of a framework of crossed or diagonal arched ribs.


International Style

(architecture) Synonym of internationalism.


cartouse

(architecture) Archaic form of cartouche.


audit house

(dated, obsolete, architecture) A room attached to a cathedral, designed for the transaction of business.


archstone

(architecture) A stone forming part of an arch.


shrub up

en-verb

shrub up (third-person singular simple present shrubs up, present participle shrubbing up, simple past and past participle shrubbed up)

shrubs up (present singular third-person)
shrubbing up (participle present)
shrubbed up (participle past)
shrubbed up (past)

(architecture) To enhance a building's attractiveness using landscaping; to hide a building's flaws using landscaping; to beautify a structure or design.


bellcast

Lower extensions on each end also display hip bellcast rooflines while separate eaves extend over the platform.

2016, Ron Brown, Dundurn Railroad 6-Book Bundle: Rails Over the Mountains:

(architecture) Shaped like an inverted bell.


cornerboard

A ⁵⁄₄-inch cornerboard furred out ¼ inch gives a matching shadowline to a 1½-inch original cornerboard

2010, Aaron Lubeck, Green Restorations: Sustainable Building and Historic Homes:

(architecture) A length of trim or molding used in construction to cover the external corners of a building.


corniceline

(architecture) The (invisible) horizontal line corresponding to the level of the cornices of a building, or numerous buildings.


watershot

en-adj

watershot (comparative more watershot, superlative most watershot)

more watershot (comparative)
most watershot (superlative)

(architecture) External wall building technique intended to increase resistance to water penetration.


dipteron

It is also a Pseudodipteron, that is, a false Dipteron; for at first they us'd to build a Dipteron, that is, a double Wing, or Row of Pillars about; but Hermogenes afterwards brought up the Custom of taking away the inner Row of Pillars, so to make the Walking-Place more open, which sort of Wings is call'd Psuedodipteron, because they imitated the Form of the Dipteron.

1725, Bernard de Montfaucon, John Henley, The Antiquities of Italy, page 114:

The first dipteron on Samos is dated by Buschor 560-550 B.C. or earlier (see below, pp. 199 f.).

1958, The Antiquaries Journal - Volumes 38-39, page 176:

It seems to have been the original Samian dipteron, laid down perhaps shortly before 560 B.C., that set the pace; and this great building not only excited the rivalry of the Ephesians but set the pattern for architectural forms on Chios also.

1982, John Boardman, N. G. L. Hammond, The Cambridge Ancient History - Part 3, page 204:

(architecture) Alternative form of dipteros.


valley piece

(architecture, construction) A tile or shingle used in roofing to create a closed valley on a roof.


valley rafter

(architecture, construction) A diagonal support that runs from the wall plate to the ridge of a roof, providing structural stability where the two roof slopes meet.


gutter member

(architecture) A member made by treating the outside face of a gutter in a decorative fashion, or by crowning it with regularly spaced ornaments.


amortisement

It is easy to see, however, that the straight arch was constructed first, and that its keystone had an amortisement to which the second diagonal was to be attached. But the unskillful builders placed this amortisement not quite true, not precisely in the direction of the springing of the second diagonal.

1911, Arthur Kingsley Porter, The Construction of Lombard and Gothic Vaults, page 13:

On top, as amortisement, a fleuron or a cross is formed.

1925, The Jewelers' Circular - Volume 90, page 57:

The roof forms an eight-sided pyramid composed of 24 trapezoidal marble slabs, their surfaces cut in relief to give the impression of tiles, and surmounted by a circular amortisement which serves as keystone.

1962, Robert Boulanger, Athènes, Corinthe, Mycènes, Delphes, page 146:

(architecture) A decorative element that appears at the top of a roof, gable, arch, buttress, or other structure that comes to a peak.


estipite

(architecture) In Churrigueresque baroque architecture, an elaborate pilaster with a tapered base.


Syrian arch

(architecture) An archway that rises from the ground, without a supporting pedestal.


chresmographion

From Ancient Greek χρησμογράφιον (khrēsmográphion), from χρησμός (khrēsmós, “oracle”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”).

bor

χρησμογράφιον

(architecture, historical) A chamber between the pronaos and the cella in a Greek temple, where oracles were delivered.


katsuogi

(architecture) A short log used as decoration in Japanese and Shinto architecture, placed at right angles to the ridgeline of a roof.


chigi

(architecture) In Japanese architecture, a V-shaped finial used mainly on Shinto shrine roofs.


chandrashala

(architecture) A circular or horseshoe arch decorating many Indian temples and shrines.


zaguan

(architecture) A passageway of a central passage plan house, or the complex as a whole, in Territorial or Territorial Revival architecture in the American Southwest.


chalcidicum

(architecture, historical) In ancient Roman architecture, the vestibule or portico of a public building opening on to the forum.


piended

en-adj

piended (comparative more piended, superlative most piended)

more piended (comparative)
most piended (superlative)

The wall head is finished with a stone cornice, over which is a dado course, having a carved design wrought on face where over staircase wings, and cut stone finials are placed at each piended angle of the staircases.

1876 August 13, “ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING LOCAL PUBLIC WORKS 1876.”, in THE BRITISH ARCHITECT AND Northern Engineer a Record of the Constructive Arts and Organ of the Building and Mining Communities, volume VI, page 173:

There are other kinds of hewing also adopted in dressing of stone, such as scabbled, striped, grooved, fluted and piended.

1917, Frederick Thomas Hodgson, Builders' Reliable Estimator and Contractors' Guide: A Complete Guide for Pricing All Builders' Work, Chicago, Ill: Sears, Roebuck & Company, page 151:

Another distinctive late eighteenth-century development, based on the availability of imported timber and of cheaper slates, was the use of piended (hipped) roofs.

2019, John R Hume, Scotland's Best Churches, Edinburgh University Press, page 8:

(architecture) Describes something that has one or more piends.


gingerbread work

(architecture, by extension) The elaborate details on a building.


wallstone

en-noun

wallstone (countable and uncountable, plural wallstones)

wallstones (plural)
wall-stone (alternative)
wall stone (alternative)

From Middle English walle ston, from Old English weallstān (“stone for building”), equivalent to wall + stone.

inh

In the upper stories the walls are built hollow, the utilised internal linings of brick, and the outer walling built of coursed rubble wallstones from the old demolished building, […]

The remainder is used for wallstone or is finely ground for use as filter or as a feed supplement.

1979, Raymond R. Burchett, The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) Systems in the United States—Nebraska:

(architecture) Stone used for building, especially in the construction of walls.


pendill

The cove ceiling had carved trusses with decorative detailing and pendills.

2000, Anthony Mitchell Sammarco, Paul Buchanan, Milton Architecture, page 12:


Pueblo Revival

The couple’s stucco, Pueblo-revival style home sits on a hill in a gated community at the southern tip of the Rocky Mountains.

2025 March 7, “Authorities will reveal new findings in mysterious deaths of Gene Hackman and wife”, in The Guardian, sourced from Associated Press, →ISSN:

(architecture) An architectural style of the Southwestern United States, based on Santa Fe's traditional Pueblo architecture, the Spanish missions, and Territorial style, popular in the 1920s and 1930s.


planchier

planchiers (plural)
planceer (alternative)

(architecture) The soffit of the corona in a cornice.


planceer

(architecture) Alternative form of planchier.


crosswing

crosswings (plural)
cross-wing (alternative)

(architecture) A wing attached to a main or original house block, its axis at right angles to the original block, and often gabled.


flying rib

(architecture) An exposed structural beam over the uppermost part of a building which is not otherwise connected to the building at its highest point.


colarino

colarinos (plural)
colarin (alternative)
collarino (alternative)


matchbox house

(housing, architecture) A type of small, simple, and often standardized housing design, typically characterized by a compact and boxy shape.


hammer beam truss

en-noun

hammer beam truss (plural hammer beam trusses)

hammer beam trusses (plural)
hammer-beam truss (alternative)
hammerbeam truss (alternative)

(architecture) A kind of roof truss, so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.


hammer beam roof

hammer beam roof (plural hammer beam roofs)

hammer beam roofs (plural)
hammer-beam roof (alternative)
hammerbeam roof (alternative)

(architecture) A roof supported by a kind of roof truss, so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.


Welsh chimney

(US, architecture, historical) A type of chimney built from wooden slats woven together into a tall box sealed with clay.


Mediterranean Revival

(architecture) A style introduced in the United States, Canada, and certain other countries in the 19th century, incorporating references to Spanish Renaissance, Spanish Colonial, Italian Renaissance, French Colonial, Beaux-Arts, Moorish architecture, and Venetian Gothic architecture.


ice door

ice delivery door
ice delivery door#English

(architecture) Ellipsis of ice delivery door.


ice delivery door

ice delivery door (plural ice delivery doors)

(architecture, historical) A small exterior door to a house that opens to a built-in icebox (“cold food storage unit cooled by ice”) ice container compartment, so that the ice delivery man can place fresh ice directly into the ice container in an ice box. As iceboxes were replaced by refrigerators, these doors fell out of use and were no longer built.


milk door

milk delivery door
milk delivery door#English

(architecture) Ellipsis of milk delivery door.


milk delivery door

milk delivery door (plural milk delivery doors)

(architecture, historical) A small compartment in an exterior wall of houses, with an exterior door and an interior door, where the milkman can leave dairy products. As milk delivery has fallen out of use, these compartments are no longer built into housing.


borrowed light

(architecture) A pane allowing light into a room from another room.