At the entrance side of the shelter, each roof beam is rested on the inside 4 inches of the block wall.

The wooden bracing between the roof beams is placed flush with the inside of the wall.

The roof shown here ( fig. 9 ) is a 6-inch slab of reinforced concrete, covered with at least 20 inches of pit-run gravel.

Taking the streetcar back to Kaiser's Fountain, I walked ahead, then left down the street opposite St. Sophia and just beyond the corner came to a small, one-story building with a red-tile roof, which is the entrance to the Sunken Palace.

But now many of these same builders are finding they can cut their costs more by teaming up with a dealer who has volume enough to afford the most efficient specialized equipment to deliver everything just where it is needed -- drywall inside the house, siding along the sides, trusses on the walls, roofing on the roof, etc..

The congressman who, in Paris, may have stuffed his wallet with enough franc notes to paper the roof of Notre-Dame will systematically scream that a $200 increase in entertainment allowance for a second secretary is tantamount to debauchery of the Treasury.

Once the beams are laid across the building, it is then time to begin the placing of adobe bricks to create the roof.

An adobe roof is often laid with bricks slightly larger in width to ensure a larger expanse is covered when placing the bricks onto the beams.

The roof is arched and was likened to the back of a dragon or dinosaur.

The top of the building is a crown, like a huge gable, which is at the same level as the roof and helps to conceal the room where there used to be water tanks.

The building is made open to the public by the CatalunyaCaixa Foundation, which manages the various exhibitions and activities and visits to the interior and roof.

There is a charge for entrance to the apartment on the second floor and the roof.

The dominant exterior finish, is red brick and it showcases a green metal roof system with large overhangs.

In many areas, it is difficult to keep a roof clean enough for drinking.

When Miles Gloriosus arrives to claim his courtesan-bride, Pseudolus hides Philia on the roof of Senex's house ; told that she has " escaped ," Lycus is terrified to face the Captain's wrath.

After the sun rises, the fake town is a perfect replica, right down to the orange roof on Howard Johnson's outhouse.

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.

Above the gate there is a tower that rises three stories higher and has a turret-style roof.

It is constructed of a wooden frame with gabled thatch roof and walls of woven bamboo.

The Egyptians, Persians and other civilizations mostly used columns for the practical purpose of holding up the roof inside a building, preferring outside walls to be decorated with reliefs or painting, but the Ancient Greeks, followed by the Romans, loved to use them on the outside as well, and the extensive use of columns on the interior and exterior of buildings is one of the most characteristic features of classical architecture, in buildings like the Parthenon.

* With the alveolar clicks, written with an exclamation mark,, the tip of the tongue is pulled down abruptly and forcefully from the roof of the mouth, sometimes using a lot of jaw motion, and making a hollow pop!

Cowboys Stadium is a new domed stadium with a retractable roof in Arlington, Texas, for the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys.

This had a glass roof and three glass walls constructed after the model of large studios for still photography, and it was fitted with thin cotton cloths that could be stretched below the roof to diffuse the direct ray of the sun on sunny days.

He described the glass cylinder addition as a " beacon ", and topped it with a glass roof to allow plentiful sunlight inside.

He created a concise spaceframe wrapped into French limestone and covered with a glass roof.

Considered one of the most perfect statements of his architectural approach, the upper pavilion is a precise composition of monumental steel columns and a cantilevered ( overhanging ) roof plane with a glass enclosure.

In January 1968, Porsche also made available a Targa ' Version II ' option (' hard window Targa ') with fixed glass rear window, transforming the Targa into a coupe with removable roof.

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 material of a roof may range from banana leaves, wheaten straw or seagrass to lamininated glass, copper ( see: copper roofing ), aluminium sheeting and precast concrete.

File: Grand Palaais 501590 fh000033. jpg | The glass roof of the Grand Palais, Paris.

The glass roof extends down to the ground which give the conservatory a distinctive appearance and helps to maximise the use of the sun's energy.

Forester L comes with a high level of standard equipment, including ABS, air conditioning, power windows, power locks, cruise control, digital temp gauge, multi-reflector halogen headlights, fog lights, roof rack, rear window defogger, trailer harness connector, reclining front bucket seats with adjustable lumbar support, tilt steering, tinted glass, AM / FM / cassette stereo with its antenna laminated in the left-rear quarter window, 24-hour roadside assistance.

The galleria is covered by an arching glass and cast iron roof, a popular design for 19th-century arcades, such as the Burlington Arcade in London, which was the prototype for larger glazed shopping arcades, beginning with the Saint-Hubert Gallery in Brussels and the Passazh in St Petersburg.

It has been described as an original architectural concept with three separate towers sitting under a single glass roof.

A roof lantern is a multi-paned glass structure, resembling a small building, built on a roof for day or moon light.

The 1959 models also offered several roof treatments, such as the pillared sedan with a fastback rear window and the Holiday SportSedan, which was a flat-roofed pillarless hardtop with wraparound front and rear glass.

Notable achievements included the introduction of the first turbocharged engine in 1962 ( the Turbo Jetfire ), the first modern front-wheel drive car produced in the United States ( the 1966 Toronado ), the Vista Cruiser station wagon ( noted for its roof glass ), and the upscale 442 muscle car.

This car featured an elevated roof over the rear seat and cargo area and glass skylights over the rear seating area, which consisted of a transverse skylight over the second seat ( two-piece from 1964 to 1967, one-piece from 1968 to 1972 ) and small longitudinal skylights directly over the rear cargo-area windows, and also featured standard second-row sunvisors.

In the final stage of the ride, guests enter one of two glass elevators, where they join Willy Wonka as they travel the factory, eventually shooting up and out through the glass roof.

High, so it would only bounce harmlessly but loudly off the car's steel roof.

Rusted corrugated steel roof

After architects Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti had won an international competition to create its new galleries for Islamic art, the new 3, 000 sq m pavilion eventually opened in 2012, consisting of ground-and lower-ground-level interior spaces topped by a golden, undulating roof ( fashioned from almost 9, 000 steel tubes that form an interior web ) that seems to float within the neo-Classical Visconti Courtyard in the middle of the Louvre ’ s south wing.

The supporting structure of a roof usually comprises beams that are long and of strong, fairly rigid material such as timber, and since the mid-19th century, cast iron or steel.

The pitch of the roof is in part determined by the roofing material available, a pitch of 3 / 12 or greater slope generally being covered with asphalt shingles, wood shake, corrugated steel, slate or tile.

The Trabant was a steel monocoque design with roof, bootlid / trunklid, bonnet / hood, bumpers / fenders and doors in Duroplast, a hard plastic similar to bakelite made of recycled materials: cotton waste from the Soviet Union and phenol resins from the East German dye industry, making the Trabant the first car with a body made of recycled material.

In the new stadium, the facade was replicated in its original position along the roof of the upper deck, although now constructed of steel painted white.

Cadillac introduced technological advances, including full electrical systems, the clashless manual transmission and the steel roof.

In the UK the Cossack model featured large body decals, roof rails, running boards, 15 " alloy wheels, and on some versions a sunroof, steel bullbars, spotlights, a rear-mounted spare tyre and semi-bucket seats.

The steel structure of the roof, engineered by Arup, has been described as being " like some kind of reverse waterfall, a white steel grid that swoops up from the ground and cascades over your head ".

It is entirely fireproof in all parts of its construction, all floors, partitions and roof being built of steel and cement.

One steel cylinder crashed through the roof of the general store of H. A. and E. A.

South from here the subway was built with a steel roof to Aldwych tramway station and, because it was not initially planned to run a public service south of here, the tracks leading towards the Strand were used as a depot with appropriate equipment and inspection pits.

Work started on 11 September of that year, resulting in the replacement of the cast iron tubes by a new steel girder-supported roof and the diversion of the sewer.

The roof, which takes 20 minutes to open, was made out of steel trusses covered by corrugated steel cladding, which in turn is covered by a single-ply PVC membrane.

It has a steel floor and steel-framed walls and roof paneled with thick, bulletproof polycarbonate plastic.

The basic construction concept from the prototypes was retained, except that the roof was made of ABS plastic, and the lower frame chassis elements were made of steel.

Not only do they have to deal with the height, as well as the winds that interfere with their ropes, but they also need to inspect the steel roof.

Contemporary convertible design may include such features as electrically heated glass rear window ( for improved visibility ), seat belt pre-tensioners, boron steel reinforced A-pillars, front and side airbags, safety cage construction – a horseshoe like structure around the passenger compartment – and roll over protection structures or ( ROPS ) with pyrotechnically charged roll hoops hidden behind the rear seats that deploy under roll-over conditions whether the roof is retracted or not.

The 2010 Infiniti G37 Convertible tries to solve this problem with a folding steel roof, however this adds considerable mass to the vehicle.