buttress
Isaac Kremer/ January 14, 2018/ / 0 comments
A vertical structure of heavy masonry or wood applied as reinforcement to the wall of a building. Can serve a structural or decorative purpose. Photo from Buffalo, New York, 2023. (Kremer, 2023)
Photo from East Lyne, Connecticut, 2011.
botress, botras, botrasse, boterasse
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- buttresses
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- half arch
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- triangular prism buttress
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- Effect of buttress form on transverse seismic resistance of high masonry walls (2021)
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- boteras
- church elements
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- Buildings of Michigan (1993)
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- pinnacle
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- shoring
- straining arch
- buttress tower
- Architecture Dictionary
- Architecture / Building / Tower
- Architecture Sources Cited (Chronological)
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- amortissement
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- boterasse
- botrasse
- botress
- erisma
- pinnacles
- Scotch crown
- semi-arch
- analemma
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- Downtown - Maysville, Kentucky
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- arch-buttress
- perpend wall
- Architecture / Skin / Masonry
- Architecture / Building / Hyphen