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  2. Construction of Gothic cathedrals - Wikipedia

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    The stone columns of the triforium of the apse of Chartres Cathedral have a maximum variation of plus or minus 19 mm (0.75 in). [17] Excess materials and stone chips were not wasted. Instead of building walls of solid stone, walls were often built with two smooth stone faces filled in the interior with stone rubble. [16]

  3. Stonemasonry - Wikipedia

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    A 15-storey apartment building in La Tourette (Marseille), designed by Fernand Pouillon.Constructed using the massive precut stone method. Gobekli Tepe, early monumental Neolithic stonemasonry using flint-carved limestone columns (~9500 BCE). 12th-century stonemasonry at Angkor Wat Diamond-wire saw in use for quarrying marble.

  4. List of largest monoliths - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of monoliths organized according to the size of the largest block of stone on the site. A monolith is a large stone which has been used to build a structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones. In this list at least one colossal stone over ten tons has been moved to create the structure or monument.

  5. Column - Wikipedia

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    The term column applies especially to a large round support (the shaft of the column) with a capital and a base or pedestal, [1] which is made of stone, or appearing to be so. A small wooden or metal support is typically called a post.

  6. Fluting (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    However, it is possible that in some buildings fluting in stucco, "so much used and so rarely preserved" according to J. B. Ward-Perkins, was applied to stone columns. [28] Roman Doric columns "nearly always" have a base, although Vitruvius does not insist on one. [29] Fluted Corinthian columns perhaps became associated with imperial grandeur.

  7. Monolithic column - Wikipedia

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    A monolithic column or single-piece column is a large column of which the shaft is made from a single piece of stone instead of in vertical sections. Smaller columns are very often made from single pieces of stone, but are less often described as monolithic, as the term is normally reserved for less common, larger columns made in this way.

  8. Ancient Egyptian architecture - Wikipedia

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    Only small fragments of the column bases have survived, though they suggest the diameter of these columns to have been about 2.25 m. [37] The columns are placed 2.5 m away from the walls and in each row the columns are approximately 1.4 m away from the next, while the space between the two rows is 3 m. [37]

  9. Tensioned stone - Wikipedia

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    The stone units can be plant-fabricated in much larger units to span column to column in the building… A few structural applications have been built using beams for such building features as porticoes, where the live loads have been limited to roof loads and wind loads.". [33]

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