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  2. Façade - Wikipedia

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    The façade can at times be required to have a fire-resistance rating, for instance, if two buildings are very close together, to lower the likelihood of fire spreading from one building to another. In general, the façade systems that are suspended or attached to the precast concrete slabs will be made from aluminum (powder coated or anodized ...

  3. Facade pattern - Wikipedia

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    The facade pattern (also spelled façade) is a software design pattern commonly used in object-oriented programming. Analogous to a façade in architecture, it is an object that serves as a front-facing interface masking more complex underlying or structural code.

  4. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    A gable or facade with a decorative shape characteristic of traditional Dutch architecture. The top of the gable is shaped like a church bell. Coffer A sunken panel in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon that serves as a decorative device, usually in a ceiling or vault. Also called caissons, or lacunar. [15] Colarin or Hypotrachelium

  5. Façade engineering - Wikipedia

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    Façade engineering is the art and science of resolving aesthetic, environmental and structural issues to achieve the effective enclosure of buildings. Specialist companies are dedicated to this niche sector of the building industry and engineers operate within technical divisions of façade manufacturing companies.

  6. Facadism - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1920s, the Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank tore down its head office, the Sweerts-Sporck Palace [] in Prague, and had it rebuilt behind the preserved façade on a design by architect Josef Gočár, visible in the background Preservation of a 19th-century facade, Noordereiland, Rotterdam Reverse façadism: New construction with an old-looking façade hung in front of a cast concrete wall ...

  7. Potemkin village - Wikipedia

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    Because of a newly painted façade, the whole building looks as if it has been reconstructed, although the rest is still in decay (castle brewery in Kolín, Czech Republic). In politics and economics , a Potemkin village [ a ] ( /pɐˈtʲɵmkʲɪn/ ) is a construction (literal or figurative) whose purpose is to provide an external façade to a ...

  8. Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture - Wikipedia

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    The horizontal ribboned windows are supported by toothpick pilotis, surrounding all sides of the façade, and their intentional positioning directs the viewer's gaze to the horizon, limiting visibility of the top and bottom of the landscape; [9] while also referencing an abstract form that obscures the diverse functionality and interior behind ...

  9. Cast-iron architecture - Wikipedia

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    A street in SoHo in New York City famous for its cast-iron facades. Spa Colonnade in Mariánské Lázně, 1889.Nearly every element is cast iron. Cast-iron architecture is the use of cast iron in buildings and objects, ranging from bridges and markets to warehouses, balconies and fences.