Though there was much argument in the past, it is now generally accepted that brochs were roofed, probably with a conical timber framed roof covered with a locally sourced thatch.

This new Sony Centre, designed by Helmut Jahn, is an eye-catching monolith of glass and steel featuring an enormous tent-like conical roof, its shape reportedly inspired by Mount Fuji in Japan, covering an elliptical central public space up to 102 metres across, and thus differing substantially from Hilmer & Sattler's original plan for the site.

The conical roof was rebuilt in 1876 using the original stones.

The belfry with its conical cap and four small windows rises from the west end of the stone roof in the form of a miniature round tower.

The cap ( roof ), is of stone, usually conical in shape, although some of the towers are now crowned by a later circle of battlements.

Nuraghi are truncated conical towers of dry-laid stone, about 40 feet in diameter, sloping up to a circular roof some 50 feet above the ground.

Wooden domes may also have been used in ancient Greece, over buildings such as the Tholos of Epidaurus, which is typically depicted with a conical roof.

This is located about 3 km east of Belford, and is an 18th century tapering cylindrical stone tower with a conical roof of Welsh slate.

The conical roof was crowned with a gilt copper ball and cross, containing holy relics, by Verrocchio in 1469.

The conical thatched roof that covers the main building is a reproduction of the kind of roof it probably had in antiquity, but the shed-like porch is less faithful to the original.

Early illustrations show that it was originally covered by a conical roof, like similar towers in the Yedikule Fortress and Rumelihisarı fortress in Istanbul.

Other features included totemism, preferential marriage of maternal cousins, and an architectural style characterised by a round hut with a conical thatch roof supported by wooden pillars on the outside.

This building was replaced in 1810, and was extended in 1888 ( a separate, octagonal school room with a conical roof having been built on the grounds in 1875 ).

At Trinity College, Cady's 1878 St. Anthony Hall ( Delta Psi ) is massively rusticated Richardsonian Romanesque in style, with narrow " arrow-slit " windows and even a tall cylindrical tower with a steep conical roof.

Kiln sizes generally ranged from to diameter, with a conical roof.

The building was covered with a conical stone roof decorated in imitation of tiling and looking like fish scales.

It features a sculptured Romanesque cornice of heads and ornament under the conical stone roof.

The conical slate roof has a central smoke louvre ( now glazed ) and is supported by 24 cast-iron Doric columns ( arranged around the original locomotive spaces ) and a framework of curved ribs.

A trullo ( plural, trulli ) is a traditional Apulian dry stone hut with a conical roof.

The vast majority of trulli have one room under each conical roof, with additional living spaces in arched alcoves.

The alphorn or alpenhorn or alpine horn is a labrophone, consisting of a wooden natural horn of conical bore, having a wooden cup-shaped mouthpiece, used by mountain dwellers in Switzerland and elsewhere.

Its highest rise is the conical Mount Oros ( 531 m ) in the south, and the Panhellenian ridge stretches northward with narrow fertile valleys on either side.

A shuttlecock ( often abbreviated to shuttle ; also called a birdie ) is a high-drag projectile, with an open conical shape: the cone is formed from sixteen overlapping feathers embedded into a rounded cork base.

* Teclu burner – The lower part of its tube is conical, with a round screw nut below its base.

It is cylindrical or conical in shape and protrudes through the upper anterior vaginal wall.

* Chamber: The cylindrical, conical, or spherical recess at the nearest end of the bottom of the bore into which the gunpowder is packed.

The cornet is a brass instrument very similar to the trumpet, distinguished by its conical bore, compact shape, and mellower tone quality.

The conical bore of the cornet is primarily responsible for its characteristic warm, mellow tone, which can be distinguished from the more penetrating sound of the trumpet.

The conical bore of the cornet also makes it more agile than the trumpet when playing fast passages, but correct pitching is often less assured.

It is a conical spire made of stainless steel and is located on O ' Connell Street.

It is also the result of conical ( perspective ) projection of any of those geometric objects from a point O onto a plane P, provided that the plane Q that goes through O and is parallel to P does not cut the object.

The flugelhorn (— also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn — from German, wing horn, ) is a brass instrument that resembles a trumpet but has a wider, conical bore.

It is usually played with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than either trumpets or cornets ( though not as conical as a horn mouthpiece ).

The Liberty cap, also known as the Phrygian cap, or pileus, is a brimless, felt cap that is conical in shape with the tip pulled forward.

The main part of the building is a distinctive conical shape with a spiral walkway and large atrium inside, similar to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

The Cockpit Country is pockmarked with steep-sided hollows, as much as deep in places, which are separated by conical hills and ridges.

Next to these is a curved, suberect canine, followed after an interval by an isolated minute and often deciduous simple conical premolar ; then a contiguous series of one premolar and three molars, which differ from those of Camelus in having a small accessory column at the anterior outer edge.

The oboe () is a soprano-ranged, double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family made from a wooden tube roughly 60 cm long, with metal keys, a conical bore and flared bell.

The timbre of the oboe is derived from the oboe's conical bore ( as opposed to the generally cylindrical bore of flutes and clarinets ).

alt = A row of several conical canvas dwellings, each decorated in traditional native themes, including animals and bright colours.

Pope Pius XI's 1922 crown, in contrast was much less decorated and much more conical in shape.

Not all rhyta were so valuable ; many were simply decorated conical cups in ceramic.

Recently, as part of international one day cricket matches in Australia, the conical hat has been a fashion phenomenon amongst spectators, with many decorated in Australian green and gold livery.

Each neighbourhood group builds tall, ( three to six metres ), conical shaped mounds that are decorated sparsely with balloons and tinsel.

One of the most perfect in France is that at Cellefrouin ( Charente ), which consists of a series of eight attached semicircular shafts, raised on a pedestal, and is crowned with a conical roof decorated with fir cones ; it has only one aperture, towards the main road.

The monument terminates in a low conical roof crowned by a richly decorated marble finial.