Sentence examples for decorative masonry from inspiring English sources

The building, designed by Costas Kondylis of Manhattan, will be clad in beige brick and will feature decorative masonry detailing at its base.

They were great architectural patrons and constructed numerous mosques, madrasahs (Islāmic religious schools), hospitals, orphanages, baths, caravansaries, bridges, and türbes notable for their decorative masonry, elaborately ornamented portals, and use of Kūfic script as an architectural decorative device.

Rustication, in architecture, type of decorative masonry achieved by cutting back the edges of stones to a plane surface while leaving the central portion of the face either rough or projecting markedly.

The Arbor Terrace features the shady retreat of a magnificent wisteria-clad teak pergola alongside an open terrace framed by decorative masonry and ironwork and surrounded by tall pear trees.

The decorative green patterned exterior and ornamental masonry stand out from its neighbours.

Rebuilt in decorative pale masonry to convey a "city of light" after the 1906 earthquake and fire, the Uptown Tenderloin — between the Civic Center and touristy Union Square — now boasts 409 buildings on the National Registry of Historic Places.

The exterior of the block is decorated with a horizontal decorative strip of masonry known as a string course.

Ignimbrites are used extensively in masonry and decorative cladding not only in historical structures, but also in residential houses recently as well as monuments around Ahlat (Bitlis-Turkey) region because of their light weight, softness and insulating properties.

The walls were at first built using tapia, a lime-based mortar made with the local sand and faced with decorative brickwork to simulate masonry.

Most applied lime in history was wet slaked air lime, which was used as binder for masonry mortar or decorative plasters optimized with aggregates, fiber and natural organic resin (for example Tungoil).

The arches were composed of several rings of brickwork, with masonry used for decorative keystones.