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2. Burdock piling - Wikipedia

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   The ishigaki of Ōzu Castle. Burdock piling (牛蒡積み, gobouzumi) is an advanced Japanese technique for building stone walls, named after the resemblance of the rough stones used to the ovate shapes of the blossoms of Japanese burdock plants.

3. Rustication (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Rustication therefore often reverses the patterns of medieval and later vernacular architecture, where roughly dressed wall surfaces often contrast with ashlar quoins and frames to openings. Regular smooth-faced rustication (left) turns to horizontal banded rustication at the corner of Castle Howard in North Yorkshire, England.

4. Polygonal masonry - Wikipedia

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   Polygonal masonry is a technique of stone wall construction. True polygonal masonry is a technique wherein the visible surfaces of the stones are dressed with straight sides or joints, giving the block the appearance of a polygon.

5. Opus spicatum - Wikipedia

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   The herringbone method was used by Filippo Brunelleschi in constructing the dome of the Cathedral of Florence (Santa Maria del Fiore). [2]Examples in France exist in the churches at Querqueville in Normandy and St Christophe at Suèvres, both dating from the 10th century, and in England herring-bone masonry is found in the walls of castles, such as at Guildford, Colchester and Tamworth, [1] as ...

6. Marbleizing - Wikipedia

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   It is typically used in buildings where the cost or weight of genuine marble would be prohibitive. Faux marbling is a special case of faux painting used to create the distinctive and varied patterns of marble - the most imitated stone by far. Faux painting by Andre' Martinez in the Colorado State Capitol 2005 Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel.

7. Château de Challain-la-Potherie - Wikipedia

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   [CC 1] In line with the typical layout of 19th-century estates, [GLG 29] it deviates from the castle's neo-Gothic style and instead features a Louis XIII's style with faux brick and stone facades. [CC 5] [GLG 29] Across the road is the estate's farm, known as the Lower Courtyard, which mirrors the style of the large outbuilding.