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Folly

Also called follies

A building in a garden or park made chiefly for effect, often useless or deliberately odd: a sham ruin, a tower, a hermitage.

See also: Eye-catcher

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Flemish bond · Flute · Flying buttress · Foil · Form-finding · Four-centred arch · Four-iwan plan · Free façade