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Eaves
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Overhanging part underneath a sloping roof. |
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Echo
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The repetition of sound caused by a sound wave coming against some opposing surface, being reflected imitation. |
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Edifice
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A large building or house. |
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Elevation
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Drawing of one aspect of a planned building in the vertical plane. |
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Embassy
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An ambassadors official residence. |
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Enclosed
Staircase
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A staircase separated by fire resistant walls from the rest of the buildings. |
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Entablature
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Decorative moulding above the top of a Classical column, comprising architrave, frieze and cornice. |
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Entices
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Convex curve in a column to correct for the optically concave effect of a column built straight. |
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Environment
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A surrounding ; conditions influencing development or growth. |
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Epitaph
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A tombstone inscription. |
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Estate
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Total possession, property especially landed property. |
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Existing
Building or Use
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A Building structure or its use as sanctioned/ approved/ regularised by competent authority, existing before the commencement of byelaws. |
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Exit
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A passage, channel or means of egress from any building, storey or floor area to the street or other open space of safety. |
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Expressionism
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Incentive Germanic art and architecture movement emphasising the notion of expressing an inner vision, results were sometimes fantastical. |
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Exterior
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Outer, outward, external. |
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External
Wall
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An outer wall of a building not being party wall even through adjoining to a wall of another building and also means a wall abutting on an interior open space of any building. |