face-work

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | 182 words | Copyright

face-work or facing. Better type of material and finish masking an inferior one. It is generally applied in a thin layer, such as ashlar (known as bastard ashlar) to brickwork, etc.

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