Italianate Quoins Architectural Style

Quoins are the corner stones that anchor the edge of the building wall. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 1144 KB)Victorian Italianate house exhibiting the Quoins exteriod corner architectural style from San Francisco. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 1144 KB)Victorian Italianate house exhibiting the Quoins exteriod corner architectural style from San Francisco. ...

Quoins may be structural, or may be decorative. Architects and builders use quoins to give the impression of strength and firmness to the outline of a building. Rough-finished or rusticated masonry is also frequently used for foundation layers of buildings to give the same impression. Quoinage can be carried out in stone on a stone building, with stone on a predominantly brick building, or by laying brick masonry to give the appearance of blocks at the corner. If structural, quoins are usually part of load bearing walls; if decorative, they may be made of a variety of materials including brick, stone and wood. The most common form of decorative use for a quoins uses an alternative pattern of rectangles that wrap around the wall, mimicking the pattern of stone blocks or brick as they would wrap around a corner and thus join the two walls. In Georgian architecture, wooden quoins were most often part of an overall theme to imply stone, and thus permanence. Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... A foundation is a structure that transmits loads from a building or road to the underlying ground. ... A weathered brick wall. ... A brick wall built using the Flemish Bond Masonry is the building of structures from individual units laid in and bound together by mortar. ... In architecture and building technique, a load bearing wall is one in which a wall of a structure bears the weight and force resting upon it, as opposed to a curtain wall which uses the strength of a sub wall and superstructure to carry the weight. ... A weathered brick wall. ... Sedimentary, volcanic, plutonic, metamorphic rock types of North America. ... A tree trunk as found at the Veluwe, The Netherlands Wood derives from woody plants, notably trees but also shrubs. ... A Georgian house in Salisbury Georgian architecture at Royal Crescent, Bath, seen from a hot air balloon. ...