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NYC - Buildings terms Category: Architecture and Buildings > Buildings Date & country: 25/09/2013, USA Words: 222

Storefront Bay
The area of the storefront defined by and spanning the two piers.

Storefront Infill
The framing, glazing, and cladding contained within a storefront opening in the facade.

Storefront Opening
The area of the facade framed by the piers and lintel, which contains storefront infill

Story
A habitable floor level, including a basement but not including a cellar.

Stretcher
A masonry unit or brick laid horizontally with its length parallel to the wall.

Stringcourse
A narrow horizontal band of masonry, extending across the façade, which can be flush or projecting, and flat surfaced, molded, or richly carved.

Stucco
A coating for exterior walls made from Portland cement, lime, sand, and water.

Subframe
A secondary frame set within a masonry opening.

Sugaring
A term describing the deterioration of stone caused by the breaking up or dissolving of the stone surface.

Surround
The ornamental frame of a door or window.

Swag
A carved ornament in the form of a draped cloth or a festoon of fruit or flowers.

Terra cotta
Hard fired clay, either glazed or unglazed, molded into ornamental elements, wall cladding, and roof tiles.

Tie rod
A metal tension rod connecting two structural members, such as gable walls or beams, acting as a brace or reinforcement; often anchored by means of a metal plate in such forms as an `S” or a star.

Tracery
An ornamental configuration of curved mullions in a Gothic sash.

Transom
1. A horizontal bar of wood or stone across a window. 2. The cross-bar separating a door from the window, panel, or fanlight above it. 3. The window above the transom bar of a door. 4. The glazed area above a display window or door separated from the main window area or door by a transom bar.

Transom bar
A horizontal element that subdivides an opening, usually between a door and window.

Trefoil
A three-lobed decorative form used in Gothic architecture

Tuck-Pointing
See pointing.

Turret
A small tower, usually supported by corbels.

Volute
A carved spiral form in classical architecture; often used in pairs as in the capitals of Ionic columns.

Voussoir
A wedge-shaped component of an arch.

Wrought Iron
Iron that is worked by being forged or hammered.