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Facades
Exterior faces of a building that are substantially in one plane and seem to have been designed with special regard to their conspicuousness or association with entrance.
Fermes ornée
The French term for ornamental farm used by the English after Stephen Switzer appropriated it in The Nobleman, Gentleman, and Gardener's Recreation (1715) to promote the arrangement of agricultural estates as aesthetically pleasing compositions in which, typically, the hedgerows separating fields were enhanced with shrubs, vines, and flowers, an occasional monument was placed in a manner calculated to provoke poetic association, and a circuit drive laid out to enable movement through the landscape.
Forecourts
Courts forming an entrance plaza for a single building or several buildings in a group.
Fountains
Structures with apertures designed to allow water to spout or flow periodically or continuously, as for amenity or public access.
Fresco painting
Mural painting technique in which permanent limeproof pigments, dispersed in water, are painted on freshly laid lime plaster.
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