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  2. Corbel arch - Wikipedia

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    A corbel arch is constructed by offsetting successive horizontal courses of stone (or brick) beginning at the springline of the walls (the point at which the walls break off from verticality to form an arc toward the apex at the archway's center) so that they project towards the archway's center from each supporting side, until the courses meet ...

  3. Stepped gable - Wikipedia

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    The far edge of the trough is raised over a triangular fillet. Slates are then laid resting on that trough edge and overlapping into the trough, which is open and runs directly down to gutters (roans). Rather than forming a raggle, lead flashings may be placed into the joints between bricks as they are laid.

  4. Ablaq - Wikipedia

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    The horseshoe arch has ablaq masonry, harkening to Mamluk architecture in Egypt. [12] Khan As'ad Pasha in Damascus, Syria (18th century) Construction with alternating layers of brick and stone was often used in early Ottoman architecture in Anatolia and the Balkans, but it fell out of fashion in later Ottoman imperial architecture.

  5. Imbrex and tegula - Wikipedia

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    In formal architecture the canalis had a plain or ornamented frontal piece set atop the entablature, immediately above the cornice. The semicircular opening at the front of the lowermost imbrex was often capped with an ornamental fronton , and the spouts which drained the gutters were frequently decorated with lions ' heads ( capita leonina ...

  6. History of Roman and Byzantine domes - Wikipedia

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    The Mausoleum of Diocletian uses small arched squinches of brick built up from a circular base in an overlapping scales pattern, called a "stepped squinches dome". The scales pattern was a popular Hellenistic motif adopted by the Parthians and Sasanians, and such domes are likely related to Persian "squinch vaults". [81]

  7. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    A chamber or stage in a tower where bells are hung. The term is also used to describe the manner in which bricks are laid in a wall so that they interlock. Bench table A stone seat which runs round the walls of large churches, and sometimes round the piers; it very generally is placed in the porches. Bond Brickwork with overlapping bricks.

  8. Hawaiian architecture - Wikipedia

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    Hawaiian architecture is a ... They were simple homes with high-pitched roofs and overlapping ... Coral seemed plentiful and were comparable to bricks used for ...

  9. The Gatehouse Mausoleum - Wikipedia

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    It is the fourth mausoleum built by Harmer Architecture, built to extend the Melbourne General Cemetery, the first modern burial site in Melbourne with over 500,000 interments since its inception in the 1850s. The Gatehouse Mausoleum adds an addition 618 burial spaces and was designed with Melbourne Italian community in mind.