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A "face brick" is a higher-quality brick, designed for use in visible external surfaces in face-work, as opposed to a "filler brick" for internal parts of the wall, or where the surface is to be covered with stucco or a similar coating, or where the filler bricks will be concealed by other bricks (in structures more than two bricks thick).
Rustication is a range of masonry techniques used in classical architecture giving visible surfaces a finish texture that contrasts with smooth, squared-block masonry called ashlar. The visible face of each individual block is cut back around the edges to make its size and placing very clear.
A brickworks, also known as a brick factory, is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks, from clay or shale. Usually a brickworks is located on a clay bedrock (the most common material from which bricks are made), often with a quarry for clay on site.
It features column bases of Shanghai plaster and a real spiral staircase and its balconies feature "fair-faced" brickwork. A customised wallpaper "depicting Singapore's multifaceted history and daily life" has been installed in the hotel. [1] The first floor of the building is occupied by eight hostel rooms.
The church was primarily constructed as fair faced brick work (Flemish bond), the first brick Gothic building in the region but using also stone (for arches, quoins, dripstones, embrasures, dripstones, water tables, plinths gargoyles) from the local area – Stránská skála quarry – crinoid limestone.
It is a loanword from the French façade (pronounced), which means "frontage" or "face". In architecture , the façade of a building is often the most important aspect from a design standpoint, as it sets the tone for the rest of the building.
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Shiner: A brick laid on the long narrow side with the broad face of the brick exposed; Sleeper wall: A low wall whose function is to provide support, typically to floor joists. Slip: A thin cut of brick, [2] sometimes referred to as a tile- used on internal spaces or in cladding systems. Snapped header: A half-bat laid to appear as a header ...