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Her services to the School for many years were of a very high character, and I have often thought that one of the buildings should be named for her ''.

Adobe had been in use by indigenous peoples of the Americas in the Southwestern United States, Mesoamerica, and the Andean region of South America for several thousand years, although often substantial amounts of stone are used in the walls of Pueblo buildings.

These art pieces often served a liturgical function, whether as chalices or even as church buildings themselves.

An increasing number of commercial buildings use a combined cycle with cogeneration to provide heating, often water heating, from the output of a natural gas reciprocating engine, gas turbine or stirling electric generator.

Annualized geo solar buildings often have buried, sloped water-tight skirts of insulation that extend from the foundations, to prevent heat leakage between the earth used as thermal mass, and the surface.

Cupolas often appear as small buildings in their own right.

Traditional church buildings are often in the shape of a cross and frequently have a tower or dome.

Old and disused church buildings can be seen as an interesting proposition for developers as the architecture and location often provide for attractive homes or city centre entertainment venues On the other hand, many newer Churches have decided to host meetings in public buildings such as schools, universities, cinemas < ref >

In fields outside art, technical drawings or plans of buildings, machinery, circuitry and other things are often called " drawings " even when they have been transferred to another medium by printing.

This type of door is also often seen as a mark of prestige and glamour for a building and it not unusual for neighbouring buildings to install their own revolving doors when a rival building gets one.

Residential doors are often 6 '- 8 ' high, as are many small stores, offices, and other light commercial buildings.

Larger commercial, public buildings and grand homes often use doors of greater height.

Older buildings often have smaller doors.

Special purpose fire doors are often employed in buildings to reduce the overall risk of fire, particularly by preventing the spread of fire and smoke.

Panic bars are often used in buildings so that a door locked from the exterior can quickly and easily be opened from the inside in the event of a fire or other emergency.

He made a few mistakes ; he may well have made others that we cannot detect because he is our sole authority ; when he tried to describe buildings his command of language was usually inadequate ; he is often confused and obscure, though this may be as much his printer's fault as his own ; his prose is frequently difficult to read and painful to translate ; but he seems to us to be free from the dishonesty of the traveller who tries to exaggerate his own knowledge, importance, or courage.

English Gothic writers often associated medieval buildings with what they saw as a dark and terrifying period, characterized by harsh laws enforced by torture, and with mysterious, fantastic, and superstitious rituals.

This naming was followed up with many Gothic novels often set in Gothic buildings, with the action taking place in castles, abbeys, convents and monasteries, many of them in ruins, evoking “ feelings of fear, surprise, confinement ”.

It is a cavity nester, preferring holes in cliffs, trees or buildings ; in built-up areas, Common Kestrels will often nest on buildings, and generally they often reuse the old nests of corvids if are available.

The portions of the cities that remained intact were small and modest and contained a cathedral or major church ( often sumptuously decorated ) and a few public buildings and townhomes of the aristocracy.

The university does not own all the buildings on the " campus " which also include private houses, shops and businesses ( although many of these rely heavily on custom from the university community ) and it is best thought of as a district of the city dominated by the university.

The other solution was to rely on heavy howitzers ( 152 mm and 203 mm ) firing over open sights to blast defended buildings and to use anti-aircraft guns against defenders posted on the higher floors.

For residential buildings, which mostly rely on infiltration for meeting their ventilation needs, the common ventilation rate measure is the number of times the whole interior volume of air is replaced per hour, and is called air changes per hour ( I or ACH ; units of 1 / h ).

The foundation of the barn and other buildings, including an un-reinforced arched stone bridge, rely on Italian masonry techniques dating back to Roman times.

A proposal to restore the agricultural college, with accreditation from the University of Buckingham, was advanced in 2010, but would rely on Imperial releasing freehold buildings that it may still be trying to develop.

In Master of Orion II, a ship can travel to any star which is within its travel range and the running costs of large fleets can be ruinous, so turtlers rely more on the wide variety of planet-based and orbital defensive buildings, plus a small mobile force to eliminate blockaders.

Competing with retailers are offices, which also rely upon good transport systems and, traditionally, proximity to other commercial buildings ( this concept does not have the same relevance in centrally planned economies ).

The buildings flanking the entrance, though very original and remarkable with fantastically shaped roofs with unusual pinnacles, fit in well with the use of the park as pleasure gardens and seem relatively inconspicuous in the landscape when one considers the flamboyance of other buildings designed by Gaudí.

Some models have very high thermal insulation performance suitable for zero-energy buildings.

The northern section, although still under very large construction, consists entirely of large, 20 – 45-story buildings which are all various shades of orange brick.

Waves of the electromagnetic spectrum vary in size, from very long radio waves the size of buildings to very short gamma rays smaller than atom nuclei.

Zone One is the Historic Center, ( Centro Histórico ), lying in the very heart of the city, the location of many important historic buildings including the Palacio Nacional de la Cultura ( National Palace of Culture ), the Metropolitan Cathedral, the National Congress, the Casa Presidencial ( Presidential House ), the National Library and Plaza de la Constitución ( Constitution Plaza, old Central Park ).

Older IKEA stores are usually very large blue buildings with yellow accents ( also Sweden's national colours ) and few windows.

On the island of Malta, a variety of limestone called Globigerina limestone was, for a long time, the only building material available, and is still very frequently used on all types of buildings and sculptures.

However, it is a very heavy material, making it impractical for tall buildings, and relatively expensive as a building material.

Over a hundred university buildings scatter around town, most of them in an area covering more than 1 km², stretching towards the north-east from Lundagård park in the very centre of town.

Yet his buildings are executed as objects of beauty and craftsmanship, and seem very direct and simple when viewed in person.

Unfortunately not a whole lot of very old buildings are left in town: first the Americans carpet-bombed it in February 1944, later the Germans shelled it for about five months after the liberation in September 1944, and finally there were a lot of very rigorous city planners in the 1950s, 60's and 70's who finished what the Americans and Germans started.

However, unlike CANDU they are very unstable and large, making containment buildings for them expensive.

They are all very beautiful buildings.

While the original campus was large for its time, KTH very soon outgrew it and the campus was expanded with new buildings.

He stayed for 12 days and described the valley ( initially called Chapel Valley ) where Jamestown is situated as “ a marvellous fair and pleasant valley, wherein divers handsome buildings and houses were set up, and especially one which was a church, which was tiled, and whitened on the outside very fair, and made with a porch, and within the church at the upper end was set an alter ....

The campus is well known for its colourful fall foliage, Georgian style red-brick buildings, and a very steep hill.

Uranium dioxide ( UO < sub > 2 </ sub >) concentrate from mining is not very radioactive-only a thousand or so times as radioactive as the granite used in buildings.

Fire protection systems are largely used in commercial and residential buildings, and they may be a very simple system or an integrated solution that, beyond fire sensors and fire extinguishers methods based on spraying or sprinkling adequate fluids, they include the use of materials that have high fire-resistance coefficients to delay fire propagation.

Here are the remains of a Roman town, belonging to the 1st and 2nd centuries, extending over an area of some 600 by 500 meters (( 2, 000 by 1, 600 ft ), and consisting of fine buildings along the lagoons, including a large open piscina or basin, surrounded by a double portico, while farther inland are several very large and well-preserved water-reservoirs, supplied by an aqueduct of which traces may still be seen.

In India and tropical countries where the Indian diaspora has reached, it is very common to see neem trees used for shade lining the streets, around temples, schools & other such public buildings or in most people's back yards.