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Door of 10 Downing Street, London, showing a transom separating the door from the window above. In architecture, a transom is a transverse horizontal structural beam or bar, or a crosspiece separating a door from a window above it. This contrasts with a mullion, a vertical structural member. [1] Transom or transom window is also the customary U ...
A Lev door or convection door is an internal floor-to-ceiling (full height) door, consisting of a standard door leaf and an upper leaf in place of the usual header wall. The leaves may or may not be separated by a transom. The doors enable effective convection of warm air.
A transom window is a window above a door. In an exterior door the transom window is often fixed, in an interior door, it can open either by hinges at top or bottom, or rotate on hinges. It provided ventilation before forced air heating and cooling. A fan-shaped transom is known as a fanlight, especially in the British Isles.
In modern construction, the shoji often do not form the exterior surface of the building; they sit inside a sliding glass door or window. [ 5 ] Shoji are valued for not setting a sharp barrier between the interior and the exterior; outside influences such as the swaying silhouettes of trees, or the chorus of frogs , can be appreciated from ...
It is also often used as a division between double doors. When dividing adjacent window units its primary purpose is a rigid support to the glazing of the window. Its secondary purpose is to provide structural support to an arch or lintel above the window opening. Horizontal elements separating the head of a door from a window above are called ...
It's not exactly part of a tour, but System of a Down will hold stadium concerts in 2025 with Deftones, Korn, and Avenged Sevenfold. The shows will take place in East Rutherford, Chicago, and Toronto.
The debt ceiling returned on January 2, but Congress has several months to address it before the nation could default on its obligations. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
Alabama athletics director Greg Byrne makes a case for the Crimson Tide to make the College Football Playoff despite not winning a conference championship and having three losses.