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  2. Batter (walls) - Wikipedia

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    Architectural styles that often include battered walls as a stylistic feature include Indo-Islamic architecture, where it was used in many tombs and some mosques, as well as many forts in India. Tughlaqabad Fort in Delhi is a good example, built by Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq , whose tomb opposite the fort (illustrated above) also has a strong batter.

  3. List of architectural styles - Wikipedia

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    Styles often spread to other places, so that the style at its source continues to develop in new ways while other countries follow with their own twist. A style may also spread through colonialism, either by foreign colonies learning from their home country, or by settlers moving to a new land. After a style has gone out of fashion, there are ...

  4. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    Area or basement area In Georgian architecture, the small paved yard giving entry, via "area steps", to the basement floor at the front of a terraced house. Arris A sharp edge created when two surfaces converge; this includes the raised edge between two flutes on a column or pilaster, if that edge is sharp. Arris Rail

  5. Split-level home - Wikipedia

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    Split-Level House. A split-level home (sometimes called a tri-level home) is a style of house in which the floor levels are staggered.There are typically two short sets of stairs, one running upward to a bedroom level, and one going downward toward a basement area.

  6. Drywall - Wikipedia

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    Various sized cuts of 1 ⁄ 2 in (13 mm) drywall with tools for maintenance and installation . Drywall (also called plasterboard, dry lining, [1] wallboard, sheet rock, gib board, gypsum board, buster board, turtles board, slap board, custard board, gypsum panel and gyprock) is a panel made of calcium sulfate dihydrate (), with or without additives, typically extruded between thick sheets of ...

  7. Rustication (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Two different styles of rustication in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence; smooth-faced above and rough-faced below Extreme Mannerist "cyclopian" rustication at the Palace of Fontainebleau Rustication is a range of masonry techniques used in classical architecture giving visible surfaces a finish texture that contrasts with smooth, squared ...

  8. Gingerbread (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Gingerbread is an architectural style that consists of elaborately detailed embellishment known as gingerbread trim. [1] It is more specifically used to describe the detailed decorative work of American designers in the late 1860s and 1870s, [ 2 ] which was associated mostly to the Carpenter Gothic style. [ 3 ]

  9. Knockdown texture - Wikipedia

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    Knockdown texture is a drywall finishing style. It is a mottled texture, it has more changes in textures than a simple flat finish, but less changes than orange peel, or popcorn, texture. Heavy knockdown applied with a spray hopper. Knockdown texture is created by watering down joint compound to a soupy consistency.