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  2. Polychrome brickwork - Wikipedia

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    Polychrome brickwork also became popular in Europe in the later 19th century as part of the various medieval and Romanesque revivals. In France, the Menier Chocolate Factory in Noisiel, designed by Jules Saulnier and completed in 1872, is an early and very elaborate example, which is also noted for its early use of iron structure.

  3. Masonry - Wikipedia

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    A mason laying a brick on top of the mortar Bridge over the Isábena river in the Monastery of Santa María de Obarra, masonry construction with stones. Masonry is the craft of building a structure with brick, stone, or similar material, including mortar plastering which are often laid in, bound, and pasted together by mortar.

  4. Moroccan architecture - Wikipedia

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    In addition to rammed earth, brick and (especially in desert regions) mudbrick were also common types of materials for the construction of houses, civic architecture, and mosques. [2] [105] [106] Many medieval minarets, for example, are made in brick, in many cases covered with other materials for decoration.

  5. List of architectural styles - Wikipedia

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    Frederick C. Robie House, an example of Prairie School architecture. An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable and historically identifiable. A style may include such elements as form, method of construction, building materials, and regional character.

  6. Viga (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    These were then sorted and laid out in different patterns from the vigas and painted in a different colors. [12] The 1846 American immigration brought notions of New England architecture. New technologies substituted the use of vigas for machine-sawn beams, among other construction techniques that followed to the 20th century.

  7. Architecture of Madagascar - Wikipedia

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    The types of plants available in a given locality determine the building material and style of construction. The vast majority of homes made of plant material are rectangular, low (one-story) houses with a peaked roof and are often built on low stilts. [5] These architectural features are nearly identical to those found in parts of Indonesia. [1]

  8. Architecture of Mesopotamia - Wikipedia

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    The materials used to build a Mesopotamian house were similar but not exact as those used today: reeds, stone, wood, ashlar, mud brick, mud plaster and wooden doors, which were all naturally available around the city, [7] although wood was not common in some cities of Sumer. Although most houses were made of mudbrick, mudplaster, and poplar ...

  9. Ancient Egyptian architecture - Wikipedia

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    The second hall is similar to the first, first its ceiling seems to have been decorated with similar if not identical patterns and images as the first. Second, in the same way the ceiling is supported by columns, four to be precise, ordered in two rows on the same axis as those of the first hall, with a 3 m wide space between them.