Architectural Terms

Anchor types for GFRC include dowels, weld plates, straps, dovetails, threaded inserts, screws and Z clips.

From the Greek word ‘acroterion’, the ‘summit or extremity’. Acroterion may be a palmate, statue or a pedestal.

Refers to the small pedestal or plinth placed either side of the pediment (the triangular gable).

Acoustics is the science concerned with the production, control, transmission, reception, and the effect of sound.

An ornamental treatment of the archivolt or hood molding of an arch or of the moldings of an apparent arch or of a farm resembling an arch, at in late gothic work.

Two ogee curves meeting in the middle to form a decorative treatment, used over an arch, door, or window.

Acanthus leaves are the stylised leaves of the acanthus plant, used in decoration on column capitals of the corinthian and composite orders.

To touch, or join at its end; as in a beam where the end is planted against another member of a structure, but without trim around it.

It is a flat and grainy surface texture.

The abacus is the top part of a column capital. Abacus may be a square slab or a molded shape. 

THE SQUARE HEAD OF A COLUMN