Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used...
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STUCCO Housing Co-operative is a student housing co-operative in Sydney, Australia. Officially opened on 21 February 1992, it was the first of its kind...
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Dingbat (building) (redirect from Stucco box)
States in the 1950s and 1960s, a vernacular variation of shoebox style "stucco boxes". Dingbats are boxy, two or three-story apartment houses with overhangs...
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The Seljuk stucco figures are stucco (plaster) figures found in the region of the Seljuk Empire, from its "golden age" between the 11th and 13th centuries...
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Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture refers to carved or molded stucco and plaster. The terms "stucco" and "plaster" are used almost interchangeably...
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Polished plaster (redirect from Stucco Veneziano)
although seemingly constructed from stone, were in fact composed of brick and stucco. The plastering process involved the initial application of a coarse layer...
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Oecobius navus (redirect from Stucco spider)
Algeria. Common names for these spiders are wall spider, baseboard spider and stucco spider.[citation needed] "Oecobius navus Blackwall, 1859". gbif.org. Archived...
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Seborrheic keratosis (redirect from Stucco keratosis)
ISBN 9783319749037. Retrieved 22 September 2018. Dermatosis Papulosa Nigra at eMedicine Stucco Keratosis at eMedicine Rapini, Ronald P.; Bolognia, Jean L.; Jorizzo, Joseph...
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Ancient Maya art (section Stucco modeling)
part of life-size stucco figures adorning temple crests. In the same way, one finds stucco glyphs that were once a part of stuccoed texts. Balamku, part...
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buildings, while "render" commonly refers to external applications. The term stucco refers to plasterwork that is worked in some way to produce relief decoration...
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Swetman House (redirect from Stucco Johnson House)
Swetman House, also known as Swetmann House and Gerhard "Stucco" Johnson House, is a historic residence at 325 5th Avenue in Seward, Alaska. The house...
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Myanmar architecture (section Stucco and wood carving)
India's Pala Empire and its monuments. Stucco was widely used in Bagan, especially by the Mon people. Stucco features of Bagan structures include garlands...
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La Pitchoune is a small stucco house that Julia Child and her husband, Paul, built in the Provençal village of Plascassier in France in the early 1960s...
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PulteGroup (section Stucco defects in Florida homes)
repairs to houses it sold in Florida that had cracks in stucco applied to a wood frame, stucco delamination, and improper installation of weep screed....
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Giovanni da Udine (section Stucco discovery)
in Rome, and he was a specialist in fresco and stucco grotesque decorations. These included the stucco work in the Loggia di Raffaello (Vatican, 1517–1519)...
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The Wessobrunner School is the name for a group of Baroque stucco-workers that, beginning at the end of the 17th century, developed in the Benedictine...
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particularly in stone. In other materials such as metal, clay, plaster stucco, ceramics or papier-mâché the form can be simply added to or raised up from...
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mihrab (niche symbolizing the direction of prayer) featuring especially rich stucco decoration. As in classic Marinid madrasas constructed during the century...
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and weapons, baskets of fruit or flowers, and others, made in marquetry, stucco, or carved. The English word baroque comes directly from the French. Some...
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semi-previous stones. The decorative elements were created by applying paint, stucco, stone inlays or carvings. In line with the Islamic prohibition against...
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The Bull-Leaping Fresco is the most completely restored of several stucco panels originally sited on the upper-story portion of the east wall of the Minoan...
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the wall cavity to evacuate. EIFS is not stucco despite often called "synthetic stucco". Traditional stucco is a centuries-old, hard, dense, thick, non-insulating...
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hidden by marble facing on the interior and possibly by stone revetment or stucco on the exterior. The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior...
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1680, Gaispoint — 2 March 1758, Munich) was a German painter and a prime stucco plasterer during the Baroque. Zimmermann was born in Gaispoint, Wessobrunn...
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the Sasanian Empire, utilizing mud bricks and baked bricks with carved stucco. Other architectural innovations and styles were few, such as the four-centered...
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with stucco and moulded into the finished form; human body forms were first modelled in stucco, with their costumes added afterwards. The final stucco sculpture...
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flowers and Chinese people). The style often integrated painting, moulded stucco, and wood carving, and quadratura, or illusionist ceiling paintings, which...
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such as Canterbury spar, sharp-dash, sharpstone dash, thrown dash, pebble stucco, Derbyshire Spar, yellow spar, golden gravel, black and white, and also...
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and was executed primarily with tile mosaics on lower walls and carved stucco on the upper walls. Geometric patterns, vegetal motifs, and Arabic inscriptions...
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semi-fluid materials used in construction including slurry, mortar, plaster, stucco, and concrete. Mud, cob, adobe, clay, and many other names are historically...
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