European segmental arch bridges date back to at least the Alconétar Bridge ( approximately 2nd century AD ), while the enormous Roman era Trajan's Bridge ( 105 AD ) featured open-spandrel segmental arches in wooden construction.

The three arches are elliptic, and though very light and elegant, have resisted the fury of the river, which has swept away several other bridges at different times.

It is to be observed, that there are two of these arches, that is one at either end of the alley.

The Senate nonetheless rejoiced at the death of Domitian, and immediately following Nerva's accession as Emperor, passed damnatio memoriae on his memory: his coins and statues were melted, his arches were torn down and his name was erased from all public records.

Sauvestre added the decorative arches to the base, a glass pavilion to the first level and the cupola at the top.

Arches were raised to him throughout the Roman Empire ; in particular, arches recorded his deeds and death at Rome, Rhine River and Nur Mountains.

This has the effect of flattening the arch and the solution is to lay the bricks forming the arch at an angle to the abutments ( the piers on which the arches rest ).

By analogy, stone arches are irreducibly complex — if you remove any stone the arch will collapse — yet we build them easily enough, one stone at a time, by building over centering that is removed afterward.

Close by is a Renaissance structure with six round arches, called La Loggia, which was started at the very end of the 14th century and finished in the early 15th, but which has undergone much restoration work over the subsequent centuries.

But these embryonic pharyngeal arches, grooves, pouches, and slits in human embryos could not at any stage carry out the same function as the gills of an adult fish.

The left and right upper-corners of the shield are formed by two italic lines, whereas the bottom sides are rounded arches that end with a peak in the middle at the bottom.

Cycloidal arches at the Kimbell Art Museum

The chief monuments, of which the ruins are still extant within the circuit of the walls, are: the theatre, of which the remains are in imperfect condition, but sufficient to show that it was not of large size, and apparently of Roman construction, or at least, like that of Tauromenium, rebuilt in Roman times upon the Greek foundations ; a large edifice with two handsome stone arches, commonly called a Gymnasium, but the real purpose of which is very difficult to determine ; several other edifices of Roman times, but of wholly uncertain character, a mosaic pavement, and some Roman tombs.

File: DirkvdM havana casa bolivar. jpg | Several arches at the Casa Simón Bolívar in Havana, Cuba

In 1853, at the height of British rule, a certain Col. Thompson of the Royal Engineers designed and erected a new gate consisting of two central arches with two smaller ones.

The plan consists of a central hexagon with, at each vertex, columns taken from the temple of Isis ; these are connected by arches which support the cupola.

In its essential form it followed the pattern of crown associated with a sovereign in European heraldry and had four arches which intersected at the top of the crown, while the circlet was made of openwork and set with precious stones and from the circlet between the arches were triangular leaf-like ornaments which also were set with precious stones ( pearls ?).

The River Torridge is spanned at Bideford by the 13th century Long Bridge, which has 24 arches all of different sizes.

The nave at Chartres features alternating round and octagonal solid cored piers, each of which has four attached half-columns at the cardinal points, two of these ( on the east-west axis ) support the arches of the arcade, one acts as the springing for the aisle vault and one supports the cluster of shafts that rise through the triforium and clerestory to support the high-vault ribs.

The ceiling of the chapel is a flattened barrel vault springing from a course that encircles the walls at the level of the springing of the window arches.

" The Cappella Palatina, at Palermo, the most wonderful of Roger's churches, with Norman architecture | Norman doors, Islamic architecture | Saracenic arches, Byzantine architecture | Byzantine dome, and roof adorned with Arabic alphabet | Arabic scripts, is perhaps the most striking product of the brilliant and mixed civilization over which the grandson of the Norman Trancred ruled " ( from EB1911 | 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica ).

Built in Istria stone, the bridge consists of five arches that rest on massive pillars with breakwater spurs set at an oblique angle with respect to the bridge ’ s axis in order to follow the current.

The arcade arches were fitted with iron grilles: three of them were gates which were closed at night, and which gave access to the library by a grand staircase.

light DTM cars corner incredibly quickly and wear spectacular bodykits incorporating huge wheel arches and diffusers.

The two farthest end points and the central point of the figure-8 are double arches ( one after the other ) while the four side ( or corner ) points have single arches.

* After scoring the center arches, the player scores the side ( or corner ) arches by passing the ball from the corner of the court through the arch heading towards the center of the court, opposite from lawn croquet.

* In roque, the side ( or corner ) arches ( identified as points 3, 5, 11, and 13 ) can only be scored by a roquet or continuation shot.

There is a fine early fourteenth century bridge with five pointed arches, and nearby the remains of the Stannary Court, with its Coinage Hall-this was the centre of royal authority over tin-mining, and ' coinage ' meant the knocking off of the corner of each block of tin for the benefit of the Duchy of Cornwall.

At each corner of this square stands a gigantic pier, connected with immense arches each with 15 large windows and four circular ones, flooding the interior with light.

Other works in Breslau ( Wrocław ) include the market hall ( a huge concrete structure of elliptical arches, but appearing more traditional externally ) and a large office building on the SW corner of the main town square.

It is decorated with over 25 arches and two small towers ( each with four corner turrets ) rising above the road surface.

Also, the semi-spherical corner caps mirror the shape of the half-circular windows of neighbouring Marriott Château Champlain hotel, which were themselves inspired by the arches of the adjoining Windsor Station.

In Hand Book to the Parliamentary and Departmental Buildings, Canada ( 1867 ), Joseph Bureau wrotes, " The corner stone was laid with great ceremony by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in September, 1860, on which occasion the rejoicings partook of the nature of the place, the lumber arches and men being a novelty to most of its visitors, bullocks and sheep were roasted whole upon the government ground and all comers were feasted.

What is left from its classical period are mostly foundations, floors, a small back corner wall with a few arches that are part of both the original building and later Imperial reconstructions and a single column from its first building phase.

The circular base of the dome is not carried, in the conventional way, by pendentives formed above the arches of the square, but on a circle formed by eight arches that spring from eight of the twelve columns, cutting across each corner in the manner of the Byzantine squinch.

Squinches may be formed by masonry built out from the angle in corbelled courses, by filling the corner with a vise placed diagonally, or by building an arch or a number of corbelled arches diagonally across the corner.

The interior is square and rather small with the dome above supported on squat arches over each corner.

The arches as well as the bastions at the corner are ornamental.

Pre-Mughal features included the curved cornices and battlements, corner octagonal turrets, and arches on the south, north and eastern sides.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

Columns are frequently used to support beams or arches on which the upper parts of walls or ceilings rest.

The ruins of rammed-earth walls that once surrounded the capitals Chang ' an and Luoyang still stand, along with their drainage systems of brick arches, ditches, and ceramic water pipes.

The outside of the Arab-Norman cathedral is plain, except the aisle walls and three eastern apses, which are decorated with intersecting pointed arches and other ornaments inlaid in marble.

With the exception of a high dado, made of marble slabs with bands of mosaic between them, the whole interior surface of the walls, including soffits and jambs of all the arches, is covered with minute mosaic-pictures in bright colors on a gold ground.

* The Palazzo della Ragione, with its great hall on the upper floor, is reputed to have the largest roof unsupported by columns in Europe ; the hall is nearly rectangular, its length, its breadth, and its height ; the walls are covered with allegorical frescoes ; the building stands upon arches, and the upper storey is surrounded by an open loggia, not unlike that which surrounds the basilica of Vicenza.

Combining features of Roman and Byzantine buildings and other local traditions, Romanesque architecture is known by its massive quality, thick walls, round arches, sturdy piers, groin vaults, large towers and decorative arcading.

These characteristics include the materiality in terms of large stone construction, the repetitive rhythmic use of windows containing various sized arches and barrel vaults directing attention towards them, decorated spandrels ( wall section connecting arches ) and the inclusion of gabled walls ( pointed sections ).

For a large part of the length of the cathedral, the walls have arches in relief with a second layer in front to give the illusion of a passageway along the wall.

The walls on two sides consist primarily of stained-glass panes set in magnificent arches, and overhead is an enormous skylight of stained glass designed by Antoni Rigalt whose centerpiece is an inverted dome in shades of gold surrounded by blue that suggests the sun and the sky.

At the latter, Kent elaborated on Bridgeman's 1720s design for the property, adding walls and arches to catch the viewer's eye.

The main interior is the central Saloon, a roofed courtyard of two storeys, of three by five bays of arches on each floor, the walls are lined with scagliola, the coved ceiling is glazed and the centre has three glazed saucer domes.

The entrance hall to the south range has a groin vaulted passage with three arches and piers and its walls are decorated with grisaille paintings.

The radial walls of the surrounding rooms buttress the dome, allowing the octagonal walls directly beneath it to contain large openings under flat arches and for the room itself to be unusually well-lit.

Such arches had been used by the Romans for retaining walls in Gaul, so this technique was not new, but its application to locks was revolutionary and was imitated in early American canals.

It consists of a single nave with pilasters on its walls and pointed arches.

wonderful features — carved walls, royal arches, glens, alcove gulches, mounds and monuments.

The series of arches of the central terrace, the battlements, and the thick walls are the most representative aspects of the original construction.

Sights include a citadel dating from the Moorish occupation in the 9th century, a bridge of seventeen arches, and many remains of old walls.

The thrust from the end arches is taken into the earth by footings at the canyon walls, or by large inclined planes forming ramps to the bridge, which may also be formed of arches.