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  2. Fake building - Wikipedia

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    A fake building (also known as a fake house, false-front house, fake façade, or transformer house in specific situations) is a government building, structure, or public utility housing that uses urban and/or suburban camouflage to disguise equipment and city infrastructure facilities that people may consider aesthetically unpleasing in non-industrial neighborhoods.

  3. Vernacular architecture - Wikipedia

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    Vernacular architecture is non-high style building, it is those structures not designed by professionals; it is not monumental; it is un-sophisticated; it is mere building; it is, according to the distinguished historian Nikolaus Pevsner, not architecture. Those who take a more positive approach rely on adjectives like ordinary, everyday, and ...

  4. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    Often found at the centerline of the house to support one end of a joist, and to bear the weight of the structure above. [83] Spandrel 1. In a building facade, the space between the top of the window in one story and the sill of the window in the story above. 2. The space between two arches or between an arch and a rectangular enclosure. Spere

  5. The cheapest ways to build a house, and the most ... - AOL

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    According to HomeAdvisor data from 2023, the average cost to build a house in the U.S. is $318,634. By contrast, the median home price in the U.S. was $416,700 as of August 2024, according to the ...

  6. Unfinished building - Wikipedia

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    An unfinished building is a building (or other architectural structure, as a bridge, a road or a tower) where construction work was abandoned or on hold at some stage or only exists as a design. It may also refer to buildings that are currently being built, particularly those that have been delayed or at which construction work progresses ...

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  8. Stick-built construction - Wikipedia

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    A stick-built home is a wooden house constructed entirely or largely on-site; that is, built on the site which it is intended to occupy upon its completion rather than in a factory or similar facility. [1]

  9. Housebuilding set to surge by 60% as Rayner faces backlash ...

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    Kevin Hollinrake, the shadow housing secretary, said the move to build 370,000 new homes a year would “bulldoze through the concerns of local communities” and was a “war on rural England”.