church tower

church towers (plural)
churchtower (alternative)


hanging rail

(architecture) a rail of a door or casement to which hinges are attached


hanging stile

Hook joints must be worked on the side of one of the front sash stiles, and on the shutting stile of the side sash, the airtight bead being formed on the hanging stile.

2013, Paul N. Hasluck, Building Model Boats - Including Sailing and Steam Vessels:

(architecture) That stile of a door to which hinges are secured.

(architecture) The upright of a window frame to which casements are hinged, or in which the pulleys for sash windows are fastened.


court of honor

courts of honor (plural)
Court of Honor (alternative)
court of honour (alternative)
COH (alternative)


earthscraper

/ˈɝθˌskɹeɪp.ɚ/

By Vox! We went down all right. Spacious rooms were here piled one upon another connected by wide staircases. This subterranean temple was rather like an inverted skyscraper, an earthscraper, perhaps.

2008, Alan Burt Akers, Gangs of Antares: Dray Prescot 45:

So then I dreamed up a subterranean skyscraper (or,if you will, an earthscraper) with various floors, each of them constituting a different infernal abode;

2014, Leopoldo Marechal, Adam Buenosayres: A Novel:

The earthscraper burst from the tunnel into daylight, sparks trailing. Elara turned hard against the wheel, corrected itstrajectory and spun one hundred and eighty degrees into a brigade of sentinels their weapons drawn.

(science fiction, architecture) A building that is built underground; a subterranean skyscraper.


seascraper

"I'm going to build a seascraper. Those don't exist yet." Paul looked at me, totally amazed that I had uttered such a long sentence.

2013, Antonia Michaelis, The Secret Room:

Niki gestured for her AI to once again allow communications to come through from the outside world, something she'd turned off for the duration of her visits with the occupants of the seascraper.

2014, Colin Wright, Real Powers: Trilogy:

Soon the printer head is going to move so fast all you'll see is a blur. As that capability expands, we can create more ambitious projects, whether it's the FLIP or the seascraper." What does Chris mean by "seascraper"?

2017, Joe Quirk, Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians:

(science fiction, architecture) A tall building that is built underwater; an underwater skyscraper.


antefixum

(architecture) Alternative form of antefix


matroneum

matronea (plural)
matronaeum (alternative)

(architecture) A gallery on the interior of a building, originally intended to accommodate women.


Wrenaissance

Blend of Wren + Renaissance, in reference to Christopher Wren, known for his work in the English Baroque style.

Truth to tell, most of the buildings that make up the Edwardian Wrenaissance have little to do with Wren.

2001, Adrian Tinniswood, His Invention So Fertile : A Life of Christopher Wren, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 375:

The reason for all this quarrying is not the discovery of a coal-rich seam beneath the Wrenaissance streets, but the local enthusiasm for subterranean development.

2012 November 9, Oliver Wainwright, “Billionaires' basements: the luxury bunkers making holes in London streets”, in The Guardian:

(architecture) A style of Baroque revival architecture popular in England from the turn of the 20th century.

Christopher Wren
English Baroque architecture


orthostyle

(architecture) A straight line of columns.


hoodmould

hoodmoulds (plural)
hood-mould (alternative)
hoodmold (alternative)

It is of four lights, with the superior mouldings continuing through the central mullion, and it has a drop arch over it with moulded hood and jambs; two corbel heads remain under the hoodmould but much mutilated.

1846, John Henry Parker, A Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford, pages 306–307:

At the east end of the aisle is a recess with a segmented arch decorated with chevron and enclosed with a hoodmould.

1998, David Rollason, Margaret Harvey, Michael Prestwich, Anglo-Norman Durham 1093–1193, →ISBN, page 216:

It was decided to restore the full architectural form of the hoodmould so that it might once again perform its intended function.

2013, Michael Forsyth, editor, Materials and Skills for Historic Building Conservation, →ISBN:

(architecture) The outermost moulding which protrudes out of a wall over an archway (over the hood of a door, window or other opening), for decoration or the cover transitions between surfaces, and to discharge rain; a dripstone.


dentilled

en-adj

dentilled (comparative more dentilled, superlative most dentilled)

more dentilled (comparative)
most dentilled (superlative)

The same too may be said of the dentilled ornament in the archivolt of the top.

1882, Moritz Thausing, Albert Dürer: His Life and Work, volume 2, page 28:

A series of simple architrave mouldings framed the fireplace opening, and above was a carved frieze and a dentilled cornice on carved consoles.

1963, Survey of London: The Parish of St. James Westminster, volumes 29-30, page 530:

The southern side has a cornice at second floor level and both have a top cornice which is dentilled at the left and on the near central tower.

2016, Steve Ellwood, Newcastle in 50 Buildings, →ISBN:


stilted arch

(architecture) An arch that does not spring directly from the impost, but from horizontal courses of masonry resting on it.


supercanopy

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-supercanopy.wav

(architecture) An upper arch or gable above a lesser or lower one.


exposed services

(architecture) A building's functional ductwork, pipes, etc. when left visible and readily accessible rather than e.g. concealed above a suspended ceiling.


Isabelline

Borrowed from Spanish isabelino. Equivalent to Isabella + -ine.

A little later the focus shifted to Valladolid and became increasingly florid—the Isabelline style—reaching its most extreme in the facades of San Pablo and the Colegio San Gregorio.

2004, Simon Baskett, The Rough Guide to Spain, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 1051:

The salient characteristics of Isabelline architecture include the use of extravagant formal elements such as helicoidal columns and mixtilinear arches with complete disregard of their tectonic or constructive function in the building, and profuse display of high-relief ornamentation in stone, especially heraldic symbols.

2005, Alejandro Lapunzina, Architecture of Spain, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page xlviii:

(architecture) Of a style of Spanish Gothic architecture that flourished under Isabella I of Castile.


relieving arch

en-noun

relieving arch (plural relieving arches)

(architecture) An arch in a wall to relieve the part below it from a superincumbent weight.


ditriglyph

(architecture) A space for two triglyphs in the entablature between columns.


ditriglyphic

How intercolumniation is regulated in the Doric Order has been already explained at page 20: in that, the distances between the columns is governed entirely by the triglyphs of the frieze, so that there can be no medium between monotriglyphic and ditriglyphic intercolumniation, accordingly as there is either one or two triglyphs over each intercolumn.

1852, William Henry Leeds, Rudimentary Architecture. The orders and their æsthetic principles:


lantern tower

(architecture) A tower built over the junction of the nave and transept of a cruciform church.


dancette

Apparently from a scribal error for French or Middle French denché, from Old French denché, dansié, from Latin dens (“tooth”).

(architecture) The chevron or zigzag moulding common in Romanesque architecture.


rudented

(architecture, rare) Adorned with rudenture.


scuncheon

scuncheons (plural)
sconchion (alternative)
scoinson (alternative)
scontion (alternative)
scuntion (alternative)
esconson (alternative)

(architecture) The portion of a wall exposed by an opening in a wall such as a window or door frame, when the window frame does not conceal the entire width of the wall.


alfiz

Borrowed from Spanish alfiz, from Andalusian Arabic [Term?], from Arabic حَيِّز (ḥayyiz).

(architecture) In Mozarabic architecture, moulding which encloses the outward side of an arch.


tholobate

(architecture) The substructure on which a dome or cupola rests.


neo-Gothic

neogothic (alternative)
Neogothic (alternative)

Of the known styles that signal boxes referred to, neo-Gothic was a favourite - especially in the points of locking room windows, and particularly on the Great Northern Railway.

2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 54:

(architecture, literature) Of or relating to a more recent iteration of a Gothic style.

neogòtic

of or relating to iteration of Gothic style


gable window

(architecture) A window in the gable end of a building.

(architecture) A window with its upper part shaped like a gable.


interfenestration

(architecture) The space between windows.


ajimez

(architecture) A bifora, in Spanish Moorish architecture.


extradosed

an extradosed bridge


gabling

gabling (countable and uncountable, plural gablings)


Vitruvian scroll

Vitruvian scroll (plural Vitruvian scrolls)

(architecture) A scroll pattern used in borders and architectural mouldings, resembling waves in water or a series of parchment scrolls viewed on end.


Early English

(architecture, historical) Of a style of Gothic architecture that lasted from the late 12th century until midway through the 13th century, superseding the Romanesque or Norman style and developing into the Decorated Gothic style.


headmold

Arches above the windows outlined with double courses of raised scrollwork headmolds, edged in gold. Walls plastered smoothly and painted a light shade of buff. Intricately stenciled frescoes in muted shades of brown and rust to encircle the ...

1993, Retta Lou Weber, Gayle Weber Strange, Lively stones: a history of the people who built First Presbyterian Church, Galveston, Texas, 1840-1990:


overhanger

(architecture) One of the bricks forming an overhang.


office floor plate

office floor plate (plural office floor plates)

(architecture) The space available for use by commercial tenants within an office building.


pavilion roof

(architecture) A roof sloping equally on all sides.


hanok

(architecture) A type of traditional Korean house first designed and built in the 14th century during the Joseon Dynasty.


cul-de-four

From French cul-de-four, literally "bottom of the oven".

(architecture) A sort of low spherical vault, oven-like.


Tudor flower

(architecture) A trefoil ornament commonly used in Tudor architecture.


surbasement

(architecture) The trait of any arch or vault that describes a portion of an ellipse.


parabema

(architecture) In Byzantine ecclesiastical architecture, the chapel of the prothesis or the diaconicon, or sacristy, where divided by walls from the bema or sanctuary.


dragon gate

From dragon + gate.
From Cantonese 龍門 /龙门 (lung⁴ mun⁴).

(Hong Kong, architecture) An architectural design feature to allow for concordance with the philosophy of feng shui, a portal that allows dragons to flow through structures, by leaving an empty hole through a building.


cage home

From cage + home.
From Cantonese 籠屋 /笼屋 (lung⁴ uk¹), from being a home set in a cage.

(Hong Kong, architecture) A subdivision of an apartment/tenement/flat's rooms into separate living spaces of stacked cages, big enough to fit a bed and hold one's belongings.


dipteros

(architecture) A building with double peristyle or colonnade.


springline

(architecture) Alternative form of spring line


Romano-Byzantine

(architecture) Of or relating to an early medieval style of architecture in which Byzantine and Western elements are combined.


tabernacle work

(architecture) Ornamental work over niches, stalls, etc. with canopies and pinnacles, or any work having these as a characteristic feature.


vernacular architecture

vernacular architecture (countable and uncountable, plural vernacular architectures)

Vernacular architecture scholars have increasingly studied the products of automobile tourism, although often with a wink of the eye or with tongue planted in cheek.

2000, Michael Ann Williams, Larry Morrisey, “Chapter 9: Constructions of Tradition: Vernacular Architecture, Country Music, and Auto-Ethnography”, in Sally Ann McMurry, Annmarie Adams, editors, People, Power, Places, University of Tennessee Press, page 161:

To be bathed in, however, the sea also had to be entered, and Western countries developed a range of alternative vernacular architectures designed to provide access to the ocean.

2006, Fred Gray, Designing the Seaside: Architecture, Society and Nature, Reaktion Books, page 147:

The first challenge to encounter, when addressing a comprehensive understanding of the vernacular architecture problematic, is to try to understand the etymological sense and the epistemological mean of the term. This paper intends to approach the evolution of the ‘vernacular architecture’ designation, and to reflect about its current conceptual application, considering its most substantial ideological divergences over time.

2015, G. D. Carlos, M. R. Correia, S. Rocha, P. Frey, “Vernacular architecture?”, in Mariana R. Correia, Paulo B. Lourenço, Humberto Varum, editors, Seismic Retrofitting: Learning from Vernacular Architecture, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 11:

(architecture) A class of architectural styles which meet local needs, use local construction materials and reflect local traditions.


clithral

(architecture) Alternative form of cleithral


trachelium

trachelia (plural)
trachelion (alternative)


trachelion

(architecture) Alternative form of trachelium


aquatectural

en-adj

aquatectural (comparative more aquatectural, superlative most aquatectural)

more aquatectural (comparative)
most aquatectural (superlative)

From aquatecture + -al, equivalent to a blend of aqua + architectural.

Cross Roads in the Sea examined the potential for floating 'aquatectural' structures to the advantage, of the nearness of the great majority of large urban centres to large bodies of water, in a world where transportation faces dilemmas of space ...

(architecture, rare) Pertaining to aquatecture, architecture designed to work with water (and e.g. rising sea levels).


safety arch

(architecture) An arch built in the body of a wall to relieve the pressure, as over a door or window.


rood beam

(architecture) A beam across the chancel of a church for supporting the rood.


apsed

(architecture) Having an apse or apses (semicircular projection(s) from a building).


spandrelled

spandrelled (comparative more spandrelled, superlative most spandrelled)

more spandrelled (comparative)
most spandrelled (superlative)

(architecture) Having one or more spandrels.


fan tracery

en-noun

fan tracery (countable and uncountable, plural fan traceries)

(architecture) Tracery rising from a capital or a corbel, and diverging like the folds of a fan over the surface of a vault.


embowment

(architecture) A bent or curved section.


Carpenter Gothic

(architecture) A North American architectural style where Gothic-revival detailing and picturesque massing are applied to wooden structures built by house-carpenters.


Rural Gothic

Carpenter Gothic
Carpenter Gothic#English

(architecture) Synonym of Carpenter Gothic


peripter

From peri- + Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).

(rare) In classical architecture, a building surrounded by a single row of columns.


brutalistic

en-adj

brutalistic (comparative more brutalistic, superlative most brutalistic)

more brutalistic (comparative)
most brutalistic (superlative)

(architecture) Exhibiting or relating to brutalism.


kinetic architecture

(architecture) A form of architecture where buildings are designed to allow parts of the structure to move, without reducing their overall integrity.


mycotecture

Researchers at NASA have taken an interest in 'mycotecture' and its potential role in growing structures on the Moon.

2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 215:

(architecture) experimental architectural structures grown out of mushrooms


no-sky line

(architecture) An imaginary line in a room, behind which no direct daylight penetrates and it is not possible to see the sky through a window.


macroarchitectural

(architecture) Relating to macroarchitecture


bouleuterion

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βουλευτήριον (bouleutḗrion).

lbor

βουλευτήριον

[…]we print here an updated and revised list of bouleuteria, some attested only in written sources, some physically preserved.⁶³ In most cases, however, the identification of a building as a bouleuterion is uncertain.

1994, Mogens Herman Hansen, From Political Architecture to Stephanus Byzantius: Sources for the Ancient Greek Polis, Franz Steiner Verlag, →ISBN, page 38:

The "Old Bouleuterion", whether it was built before or after the Persian sack of Athens,³ certainly antedates the New Bouleuterion.

1995, Michel Troper, Mikael M. Karlsson, Law, Justice and the State: Proceedings of the 16. World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy: Reykjavík, 26 May - 2 June, 1993, page 135:

The history of the bouleuterion as a distinct architectural form seems to begin in late Archaic Athens, where the first Bouleuterion was perhaps built soon after the constitutional reforms of Kleisthenes.

2006, Frederick E. Winter, Studies in Hellenistic Architecture, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 142:

(architecture, historical) A building in Ancient Greece, housing the boule (council of citizens), where public affairs were discussed.


fractable

(architecture) A decorative coping on a gable wall that rises up to obscure the roof line.


lioz

(architecture) A kind of ivory coloured limestone from the Lisbon, Portugal area.


Moresco

(art, architecture, archaic) Moorish; Moresque


shelfwork

en-noun

shelfwork (countable and uncountable, plural shelfworks)

There are various kinds of shelfwork in Japanese architecture and the tsuridana, suspended shelf, is the form most commonly seen in tea architecture and is generally suspended at the front part of the mat where the host prepares tea in order that it may be used to set utensils on.

Adjacent shelfwork is considered an extension of the obstruction.

1983, Robert M. Hodnett, Automatic Sprinkler Systems Handbook, page 184:

The front of the piece is open shelfwork.

1990, Eugene Clute, Kenneth Reid, Russell Fenimore Whitehead, Progressive Architecture - Volume 71:

(architecture) A built-in shelf or set of shelves.


monopitch

Monopitch roofs are often found over single-storey ancillary rooms and spaces such as utility rooms at the side or back of the main building on traditional houses.

2013, Julian Owen, Complete Loft Conversion Book, →ISBN:

(architecture) Sloping in one direction only.


facadism

The Construction of new buildings behind historic facades, better know as facade retention or ‘facadism’, is a unique phase in the history of architecture.

1991, David Highfield, “Preface”, in The Construction of New Buildings Behind Historic Facades, →ISBN, page ix:

In Chapter 10 the author goes on to explore the ways in which new development can be inserted in cityscapes through various means. In particular he examines the increased use of facadism...

1998, Sir Patrick Abercrombie, editor, The Town Planning Review, volume 69, page 355:

Local officers are happy with façadism because it means the townscape stays intact — and nobody should ask what happens behind the facing walls

2003, International Council on Monuments and Sites, edited by Dinu Bumbaru, Heritage at Risk: ICOMOS World Report 2002/2003 on Monuments and Sites in Danger, →ISBN, page 105:

Façadism, with its emphasis on show and its disregard for authenticity, is very much a postmodern approach.

2008, John Pendlebury, Conservation in the Age of Consensus, →ISBN, page 177:

(architecture) the practice of retaining only the facade of an old building when redeveloping a site.

(architecture, construction) a method where the facade is designed and/or constructed independently of the remainder of the rest of the building.


lotiform

(architecture) Having the form of, or decorated with, lotus flowers


frontoon

(architecture) Alternative form of fronton (“a pediment”)


frillwork

1877, E. C. Hussey, Home Building, New York: Leader & Van Hoesen, Plate No. 14,
Its exterior form and ornamentation is of the Swiss style, although the stories are higher than are generally used in Swiss buildings. The almost excessive frill work gives it a very pretty, although a rather tawdry appearance.

The massive surrounding walls, built so as to take advantage of natural rock formations, now towered above us, and the spiky frillwork along the top suggested that at one time it had been a Turkish fortress […]

1972, Joan Aiken, chapter 3, in A Cluster of Separate Sparks, Boston: G.K. Hall, published 1992:

(architecture) Ornamentation on a building or other structure resembling a row of frills.


lunetted

en-adj

lunetted (comparative more lunetted, superlative most lunetted)

more lunetted (comparative)
most lunetted (superlative)

(architecture) Having a lunette or lunettes.


solepiece

(architecture, nautical) Synonym of sole


conversation pit

en-noun

conversation pit (plural conversation pits)

(architecture) A depressed section of flooring within a larger room, having built-in seating and sometimes a central table.


tebam

(Judaism, architecture) A dais or rostrum for the reader in a synagogue.


westwork

Calque of German Westwerk, from German West (“west”) + Werk (“work”); equivalent to English west + -work.

Facing the raised sanctuary over the vast crypt they also often erected at the west end of the nave a towerlike structure with vaulted stories, that we call the "westwork."

1987, Malcolm Quantrill, The Environmental Memory: Man and Architecture in the Landscape of Ideas, page 134:

(architecture) The vaulted monumental structure at the western end of a church constructed in some medieval styles, flanked by two towers and containing the entrance.


Norm.

(architecture) Clipping of Norman, a style of English architecture


stylophore

(architecture) A caryatid at the base of a column


wreckovation

wreckovation (countable and uncountable, plural wreckovations)

(architecture, derogatory) The style of renovations which historic Catholic cathedrals, churches, and oratories have undergone since Vatican II and which some Catholics oppose.


mutular

(architecture) Having or relating to mutules.


chantlate

(architecture) A piece of wood fastened near the ends of the rafters, and projecting beyond the wall, to support two or three rows of tiles, so placed to prevent rainwater from trickling down the sides of the wall.


ecoarchitect

(architecture) A person who specializes in ecoarchitecture.


all'antica

From Italian all'antica (“in the style of antiquity”).

In adapting Joshua Reynolds's concept of the ‘historicizing portrait’, taking up Van Dyck or Oriental fashions and elevating all'antica garb to fashion, her portraits were considered particularly ‘fashionable’.

2020, Bettina Baumgärtel, Angelica Kauffman, Munich: Hirmer, page 12:

(art, architecture) In a classical style; based on classical models.


baldresca

(architecture) A shelf that supports a loggia.


housepost

(architecture) A vertical pillar supporting the roof of a house, especially among Native American peoples where these posts may be decorated with carvings.


gavit

(architecture) An Armenien style of narthex.


slick-tech

(architecture) A style of high-tech architecture with sleek, polished surfaces.


double coding

double coding (countable and uncountable, plural double codings)

(art, architecture) A mixture of postmodern techniques with traditional styles.


belt course

(architecture) A continuous row or layer of stones or brick set in a wall.


vanity height

Coined and defined by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).

(architecture) The difference between the height of the last usable floor and the total height of a building, especially for tall skyscrapers.


hipped roof

hipped roof (plural hipped roofs or hipped rooves)

hipped roofs (plural)
hipped rooves (plural)

Charlbury, between Oxford and Worcester, is one of the few surviving Italianate stations designed by Brunel. Built in 1853, it is characterised by the broad overhanging hipped roof, providing shelter at front and rear.

2020 December 2, Anthony Lambert, “Reimagining Railway Stations”, in Rail, page 42, photo caption:


flushwork

(architecture) A decorative combination of flint and ashlar on a wall, typically of a church.


proudwork

(architecture) A variant of flushwork in which the stone stands proud of, rather than flush with, the wall.


dead spot

(architecture) The flaw of building that cannot be seen when collapsing because poor structure, built not according specified standards, or not earthquake-proof.


cilery

(architecture) The ornament carved at the capital of a column


cimborio

(architecture) A lantern (typically octagonal) built over the crossing of a Gothic cathedral


caissoned

(architecture) Having a caisson; coffered.


summertree

summertrees (plural)
summer-tree (alternative)

(architecture) A horizontal beam brought even with the face (breast) of a wall, to support a wall above a gap or opening; a beam bearing a load above.


summer-stone

(architecture, obsolete) a stone on which a supporting beam rests, forming part of a wall.

(architecture, obsolete) the large triangular stone at the head of a gable.


summer-piece

(architecture, obsolete) a horizontal load-bearing beam in a building or other structure; (in later use) spec. the main beam supporting the girders or joists of a floor (or occasionally the rafters of a roof).


quatrefoiled

(architecture) decorated with quatrefoils


pseudodipteron

(architecture) A pseudodipteral structure


interglyph

(architecture) The space between glyphs.


intertriglyph

(architecture) The space between triglyphs.


building envelope

building envelope (plural building envelopes)

(architecture) The physical separator between the conditioned and unconditioned environment of a building.


Juliet balcony

Juliet balcony (plural Juliet balconies)

In reference to a scene in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.


people's detailing

(architecture, derogatory) A form of sentimental modernist suburban architecture of the mid-20th century.


capitaled

a capitaled column


Eastlake

Eastlakes (plural)
East Lake (alternative)
EastLake (alternative)
East-Lake (alternative)
East-lake (alternative)

Eastlake movement; Eastlake style; Eastlake architecture

(architecture, chiefly attributive) A 19th-century movement for reform in architecture, furniture, and decor, founded by British architect and writer Charles Eastlake (1836–1906). It promoted attractive designs made by people who took pride in their work.


polykatoikia

der

πολυκατοικία

Although architects and historians have voiced a profound sense of failure with regard to the polykatoikia, I want to argue for its positive aspects.

2005, Ioanna Theocharopoulou, in Heynen & Baydar, Negotiating Domesticity, Routledge 2005, p. 68

This was the era of the polykatoikia, the apartment block built of unadorned concrete and typically five or six storeys high.

2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Country, Penguin, published 2020, page 307:

(architecture) A type of concrete urban housing block in postwar Greece.


arc boutant

arcs boutant (plural)
arc-boutant (alternative)

(architecture) Synonym of flying buttress


vedika

(architecture) A low wall around a Buddhist stupa, in which the torans or gateways are set.


lantern roof

The present station buildings date back to 1886, when they were rebuilt with their distinctive canopy and lantern roof.

2021 September 22, “National Rail Awards 2021: Eastbourne - Southern”, in RAIL, number 940, page 45:

(architecture) A roof that allows natural light through.


glass-faced

Anybody who has recently been to Glasgow Queen Street will have seen at first-hand how the station has been transformed by a £120 million refurbishment programme that has included the construction of an impressive new glass-faced south façade.

2021 September 22, “National Rail Awards 2021: Margaret (Maggie) Hoey”, in RAIL, number 940, page 59:

(architecture) Having a facade or frontage principally of glass.


diaulos

From Ancient Greek δίαυλος (díaulos) (equivalent to di- + aulos).

(architecture, historical) A peristyle round the great court of the palaestra.


butterfly roof

(architecture) A roof in the shape of a shallow V, with two slopes meeting at a lowest point in the centre.


candlebeam

(architecture, UK, regional, archaic) A rood beam.


boot room

* (mudroom): Originally, a foyer for storing boots, between the interior and the outdoors.

(UK, architecture) British standard form of mudroom


Flamboyant

en-adj

Flamboyant (comparative more Flamboyant, superlative most Flamboyant)

more Flamboyant (comparative)
most Flamboyant (superlative)

(architecture) Alternative letter-case form of flamboyant


Collegiate Gothic

From being a style found on colleges and universities similar to gothic.

(US, architecture) A style of Gothic Revival architecture inspired by Gothic, which includes Camford/Oxbridge style quadrangle campuses, and American Gothic style buildings. Used on North American university and college campuses, and other schools of high prestige (prep schools, private schools, etc).


megatall

(architecture, construction) A building approximately between 600 meters and 900 meters tall, (between 2000 feet and 3000 feet tall). A building taller than a supertall.


plain tall

(architecture) A building over 40 storeys tall, but less than 300m or 1000ft tall. A tall building shorter than a supertall.


meanwhile use

Established legal routes you can pursue to acquire land and buildings include: meanwhile use, community asset transfer, exercising your right to bid or right to reclaim land, working with your local authority to pursue compulsory purchase on the community's behalf – and, of course, straightforward purchase.

2013 March 19, Rosie Niven, “Top tips for communities taking care of their assets”, in The Guardian:

2016 July 13, morwenj, "Supporting regeneration and creative start-ups … what can we learn from Hackney?" The Knowledge Exchange
One solution is ‘meanwhile use’ – the temporary use of vacant buildings or sites, especially for community projects.

We can safely say that most meanwhile uses in London are not quirky or public facing: they simply enable Londoners to live and work in parts of the city.

2018 October, Nicolas Bosetti and Tom Colthorpe, "Meanwhile, in London: Making Use of London’s Empty Spaces" (Centre for London) p.26

A meanwhile use in a location for a month, a year, 5-years, may draw people to consume in a new neighborhood spending money at the meanwhile use but also extending those funds into the surrounding neighborhood.

2019 January 14, Jonathan Berk, "“Meanwhile” Use in London and The Lessons for America’s Vacant Spaces" medium.com

(urban studies, architecture) short-term use of a vacant site; a place subject to such a use


gemelled

(architecture) Alternative form of gemeled (“divided into two”)


raglet

(architecture) Any of the grooves or chases cut into stone walls to receive the upper edges of the lead flashings.


flutework

(architecture) Fluted ornamentation; groovework.


dogtoothing

(architecture) The use of dogtooth ornaments.


Lombardesque

Lombardesque (comparative more Lombardesque, superlative most Lombardesque)

more Lombardesque (comparative)
most Lombardesque (superlative)

(architecture) Reminiscent of Lombard architecture.


ranch-style

(architecture) Of a domestic architectural style that originated in the United States, involving houses with a long, close-to-the-ground profile and wide open layout, fusing modernist ideas with notions of the Wild West.


pailoo

(architecture, archaic) An arch or gateway in Chinese architecture, serving as a monument to the deceased.


groyned

(architecture) Alternative form of groined (“built with groins/groynes”)


counterarch

(architecture) An arch built adjacent to another arch to oppose its forces or help to stabilize it.


counterapse

(architecture) An apse opposite another apse.


Corinthianesque

Corinthianesque (comparative more Corinthianesque, superlative most Corinthianesque)

more Corinthianesque (comparative)
most Corinthianesque (superlative)

(architecture) Reminiscent of the Corinthian Greek order of architecture.


flanning

(architecture) The internal flare of a window jamb, or of a fireplace; an embrasure; coving.


hemitriglyph

(architecture) A portion of a triglyph, made incomplete by the sudden breaking off of the frieze.


sawnwork

(architecture) Design made by cutting with a jigsaw, often elaborately.


meshrabiyeh

Borrowed from Arabic مَشْرَبِيَّة (mašrabiyya).

bor+

مَشْرَبِيَّة

(architecture) The latticed projecting windows of private houses, in Islamic architecture.


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.


window stool

(architecture) A horizontal board, usually made of wood, on a windowsill, fitted against the bottom rail of the lower sash.


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

Coordinate term: isodomon

(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.


rybat

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


apse chapel

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


toplighting

Coordinate term: sidelighting

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


sidelighting

Coordinate term: toplighting

(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


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)

Coordinate term: Neo-Baroque

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.


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


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

Coordinate term: closed-concept

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


closed-concept

Coordinate term: open-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).


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.


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

en-adj

bellcast (comparative more bellcast, superlative most bellcast)

more bellcast (comparative)
most bellcast (superlative)

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

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) A dipteral structure; a structure that has a double row of columns on each of the flanks, as well as in front and rear.


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

(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

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)