5-centimeter to 10-centimeter wood boards {baseboard} can be on walls beside floors.
Arched roof vaults can have outside wood or stone supports {buttress}|.
Walls can go up to windowed walls {clerestory}| above one roof level.
Buildings can have steel skeletons and glass sides {curtain wall}.
front wall {facade, building}.
Materials {facing} can be on building outside surfaces.
insulated wall {firewall}.
Gothic cathedrals had outside arch supports {flying buttress}|, from ground to clerestory.
wall-frame horizontal board {furring strip}.
Horizontal wood board or bricks {mantle, fireplace} can be over fireplace tops.
Temples can have concave wall recesses {niche, wall}, to hold sculptures.
Walls or banks {rampart} can guard soldiers against attack.
wall or embankment ledge {scarcement}.
baseboard horizontal molding {shoe molding}.
Aluminum or wood boards or panels {siding, wall} can attach to frames to make walls.
wall-frame bottom board {sole plate}.
wall-frame vertical board {stud, wall}.
wall-frame top board {top plate}.
wall wood panel or wall lower half {wainscot} {wainscoting}.
Later Medieval chapels had tall monumental entrance {westwork} with two towers.
picket {pale, picket} {paling}.
Fence sticks {picket, post} can have point pounded into ground.
Ditches {sunk fence} can be beside walls at land borders.
Mosque qibla has a center niche {mihrab}, to cause illusion of limitless horizontal distance.
A Mosque side {qibla} faces Mecca.
Hindu temples can have bell-shaped reliquary niches {stupa}|.
2-Art-Architecture-Building Parts
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