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.

The roof is a glass and steel construction, built by an Austrian steelwork company, with 1, 656 uniquely shaped panes of glass.

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.

Eliminating the turret also allowed the vehicle to carry thicker armor than would otherwise be the case, although sometimes there was no roof ( or merely a strip of canvas ) to keep the overall weight down to the limit that the chassis could bear.

:* One use of the word semivowel, sometimes called a glide, is a type of approximant, pronounced like a vowel but with the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth, so that there is slight turbulence.

Forms of insulation are felt or plastic sheeting, sometimes with a reflective surface, installed directly below the tiles or other material ; synthetic foam batting laid above the ceiling and recycled paper products and other such materials that can be inserted or sprayed into roof cavities.

* Tie rods known as sag rods are sometimes used in connection with purlins to take the component of the loads which is parallel to the roof.

Herod's building, with 6-foot-thick stone walls made from stones that were at least 3 feet tall and sometimes reach a length of 24 feet, did not have a roof.

In the middle of the twentieth century the large broad roof of barns were sometimes painted with slogans in the United States.

Legend has it that a headless ghost can sometimes be seen sitting atop the roof of Frankeberger Tavern, looking out over the roofs of town, searching for the man who stole his gold.

Pilasters often appear on the sides of a door frame or window opening on the facade of a building, and are sometimes paired with columns or pillars set directly in front of them at some distance away from the wall, which support a roof structure above, such as a portico.

The building is sometimes called the " Seven Dwarfs Building "; it has a stunning fascia of the seven dwarfs holding up the roof of the building, an homage to the animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which provided Walt Disney with the revenue to purchase the Burbank lot.

The term mohair is sometimes used to describe a type of material used for the folding roof on convertible cars.

The term arena is sometimes used as a synonym for a very large venue such as Pasadena's Rose Bowl, but such a facility is typically called a stadium, especially if it does not have a roof.

* BT-7M ( 1938, prototypes designated A-8 ; sometimes referred to as BT-8 ): new V-2 diesel engine replacing earlier gasoline engines, three DT machine guns: coaxial, in P-40 AA mount on roof and in a ball-mount on turret rear.

; Sports coupé or berlinetta: A body with a sloping roof, sometimes sloping downward gradually in the rear in the manner known as fastback.

Later examples were built as two stories, with a roof supporting the inner colonnades where shops or sometimes offices were located.

The mansard roof crest was often topped with an iron trim, sometimes referred to as " cresting ".

* Elephants transfer chemosensory stimuli to the vomeronasal opening in the roof of their mouths using the prehensile structure, sometimes called a " finger ", at the tips of their trunks.

The game is sometimes known as kadiddle, and is sometimes associated with punching another passenger in the car, rather than hitting the roof.

A small pagoda is also sometimes built on the roof of a house, with a pottery jar that contained five varieties of grain is placed within the pagoda.

Two distinct traits of the mansard roof – steep sides and a double pitch – sometimes lead to it being confused with other roof types.

Safeco Field ( originally rendered SAFECO Field and sometimes referred to as Safeco ) is a retractable roof baseball stadium located in Seattle, Washington.

One hacker lived in his car parked outside the SAIL building, whereas others would sometimes sleep in the crawl space between the roof and the artificial ceiling.