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French to English Architecture Translation Glossary

French term		English translation
tour en encorbellement		oriel tower

tours en paliers		stepped or staggered tower blocks	Philippa Smith
Entered by: Philippa Smith
tracé construit		plotting/drawing	Yvonne Gallagher
Entered by: Yvonne Gallagher
tracé en baïonnette		staggering/staggered

tranchée		lateral sections

travail de différents médiums		work in different media

travaillée au corps		fine-tuned

travée		bay

travée		Bay

travées voûtées en arrête d’ogives		two rib-vaulted bays

traversant		interconnected

traverse de distribution		distributing crossbeam

tribunes		[everyday language] gallery [formal technical term: tribune]	Tony M
Entered by: Tony M
tuile à côte		ribbed tile	Cyril Tollari
Entered by: Cyril Tollari
tympans sculptés		sculpted/carved tympana	Hermien Desaivre
Entered by: Hermien Desaivre
un développé		the façade extending to cover a surface area of...

un patrimoine à valoriser		its own heritage(legacy) showed to its best advantage	Lara Barnett
Entered by: Lara Barnett
un rendu de studio		a crit	Sasha Barral-Robinson
Entered by: Sasha Barral-Robinson
un rien particulière		something special	Yvonne Gallagher
Entered by: Yvonne Gallagher
un simple tore entre deux gorges		simple torus between two gorges

une charpente		timber roof framing; timber rafters	Carol Gullidge
Entered by: Carol Gullidge
une prospective architectonique		architectural futurism

une riche décoration sculptée		richly-carved ornamentation

unité de vie		living quarters

UP		unité(s) de passage (Fr) (the number of people that can pass through a door at the same time)

usine-château		usine-château / factory-fortress / factory-palace

vantail de porte		door leaf

vaste corps de logis d’un étage avec deux ailes de communs		huge one-storey central building with two wings of outbuildings	Yolanda Broad
Entered by: Yolanda Broad
vecteur de situation		situation vector

velux		Velux; Velux-type windows/skylights

ventouse a mortaiser		mortise/mortice door holder

villes, TERRITOIRES, paysages		town, district and landscape

visa des plans		obtaining approval for plans	Caroline Schena
Entered by: Caroline Schena
vitrages opacifiants installés		opacifying panes installed	Michael Meskers
Entered by: Michael Meskers
voûtain		floor arch / jack arch	Didier Fourcot
Entered by: Didier Fourcot
voûte à bottes		barrel vault

voûte en cul de four		quarter-sphere vault (cul-de-four)

voûtes d'ogives à doubleaux		rib vaults with transverse arches [and wall arches]

voeu national		national act of atonement

voie de ruinification		falling into ruin

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