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  2. Back painted glass - Wikipedia

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    Back painted glass is any form of clear glass that is painted from the back side and viewed from the front side, or "first surface" side. Back painted glass is widely used for architectural spandrel glass, colored glass walls for interior glazing, colored glass back splashes, glass markerboards and dry erase boards, colored glass counter tops, shower walls, artistic glass, auto glass, marine ...

  3. Spandrel - Wikipedia

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    Spandrels of a Tudor arch Spandrels of a circle within a square Spandrel figures of winged victories, Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, Paris Spandrel panels. A spandrel [1] is a roughly triangular space, usually found in pairs, between the top of an arch and a rectangular frame, between the tops of two adjacent arches, [2] or one of the four spaces between a circle within a square.

  4. Gallery of the Sistine Chapel ceiling - Wikipedia

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    Detail of the figure of God, which was painted by Michelangelo in a single day and may represent Michelangelo himself, painting the ceiling To the left, God creates the Earth and, to the right, God creates the Sun to light the day and the Moon to light the night.

  5. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    Spandrel 1. In a building facade, the space between the top of the window in one story and the sill of the window in the story above. 2. The space between two arches or between an arch and a rectangular enclosure. Spere The fixed structure between the great hall and the screens passage in an English medieval timber house. Spire

  6. File:Spandrel-large scale pattern.svg - Wikipedia

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  7. Saint Gobnait (Clarke) - Wikipedia

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    Detail of the Gobnait window, 1916 The Saint Gobnait stained glass window was designed in 1915 [ 1 ] and installed in 1916 in the Honan Chapel , Cork by the Irish artist Harry Clarke . It is one of eleven windows he designed for the chapel at the beginning of his career.

  8. Insulated glazing - Wikipedia

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    A typical installation of insulated glass windows with uPVC frames. Possibly the earliest use of double glazing was in Siberia, where it was observed by Henry Seebohm in 1877 as an established necessity in the Yeniseysk area where the bitterly cold winter temperatures regularly fall below -50 °C, indicating how the concept may have started: [2]

  9. Category : Open-spandrel deck arch bridges in the United States

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    Pages in category "Open-spandrel deck arch bridges in the United States" The following 166 pages are in this category, out of 166 total.