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German to English Architecture Translation Glossary

German term English translation
Gebäudekunde Building Science
Gebäudelehre building design
Gebäudespitze tip of the building
Gebäudevorsprung avant-corps
Entered by: Sarah Bessioud
Gebrauchsoberflächen user spaces
Entered by: ibz
gefast beveled/chamfered
gefächert compartmented
gegliedertes Punkt-Wohnhaus multi-unit dwelling
Gehölzflächen mit Geländemodulation landscaped areas with bushes
gekrümmter Wandverlauf curvilinear wall
Geländeversprung difference in levels of the terrain
geneigt/gerade (Tür) inclined/upright
Entered by: Sebastian Witte
generalplaner general contractor
genius loci spirit of the place
geohrte Fensterrahmung(en) window-frame(s) with split pediment(s)
geschlepptes Flachdach elongated flat roof
geschossübergreifend spanning several floors
geschossübergreifend multi-storey
Gesims ledge
Entered by: Fabio Descalzi
gesprengte Giebel broken pediment
Gestaltung/gestaltet design/designed
Gestaltungslehre Design (Studies)
Geste (mark, 2 or 3 dimens'l, in a structure, plan, compos'n, picture. Here: in the built urban plan) (the generous / ample) gesture (in the urban landscape, of...). Also (njbeckett): urbanistic gesture
gestrickte Holzkonstruktion complex joinery
Gewände jambs
gewirtelte Säulen annulated columns
Giebelfeld tympanum
Gitterschale lattice shell
GK-Abhangdecke suspended plasterboard ceiling
GK-Bürotrennwände plasterboard office partitions
Glasriegel glass [glazed] section
Glasschotten glazed partitions
Glattlauf (Lauf des Flusses Glatt) course of the River Glatt
gläserne Sky Bar glass sky bar; glazed sky bar
Grabendach Roof with inversed slopes
Grabkapelle funerary chapel (note partial overlap with 'subspecies' mausoleum, etc. (Thesaur.!) & esp. refs & distinctions from Helen et al.
Gründach green roof
Gründerzeitbauten Gründerzeit buildings
Großraumgefängnis large communal prison cell
Grundlagen der Orts-, Regional- und Landesplanung principles of urban and regional planning
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