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2. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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   Arched roof, bow roof, [11] Gothic, Gothic arch, and ship's bottom roof. Historically also called a compass roof. [12] [13] Circular Bell roof (bell-shaped, ogee, Philibert de l'Orme roof): A bell-shaped roof. Compare with bell-cast eaves. Domed; Onion dome or rather an imperial roof; Bochka roof; Conical roof or cone roof; Hyperbolic Saddle

3. Brooklyn, Enfield - Wikipedia

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   Nikolaus Pevsner highlighted the house's flat roof and horizontal windows in his 1960 book, Pioneers of Modern Design. Pevsner describes Brooklyn as the "only European parallel" to the White House, E. W. Godwin's 1878 house for James McNeill Whistler in Tite Street, Chelsea. [4] The Twentieth Century Society has described Brooklyn as "proto ...

4. Domestic roof construction - Wikipedia

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   Ctrs. means centers, a typical line to which carpenters layout framing. Domestic roof construction is the framing and roof covering which is found on most detached houses in cold and temperate climates. [1] Such roofs are built with mostly timber, take a number of different shapes, and are covered with a variety of materials.

5. List of house types - Wikipedia

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   A hut is a dwelling of relatively simple construction, [11] usually one room and one story in height. The design and materials of huts vary widely around the world. Roundhouse: a house built with a circular plan. Broch: a Scottish roundhouse. Trullo: a traditional Apulian stone dwelling with a conical roof. Igloo.

6. Flat roof - Wikipedia

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   Flat roof in Los Angeles. Flat roof in Warszawa Centralna railway station in Poland (1975) A flat roof is a roof which is almost level in contrast to the many types of sloped roofs. The slope of a roof is properly known as its pitch and flat roofs have up to approximately 10°. [1] Flat roofs are an ancient form mostly used in arid climates and ...

7. Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture - Wikipedia

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   Developed in the 1920s, Le Corbusier's 'Five Points of Modern Architecture' (French: Cinq points de l'architecture moderne) are a set of architectural ideologies and classifications that are rationalized across five core components: [3] Pilotis – a grid of slim reinforced concrete pylons that assume the structural weight of a building.

8. Why Are Vaulted Ceilings So Controversial? Experts Weigh In - AOL

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   “Cathedral ceilings normally mirror the roof structure and have sides that slope and meet at a ridge in the center,” says Maggie Cruz of Miami-based Maggie Cruz Design + Home. “Today most ...

9. List of house styles - Wikipedia

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   13 Modern and Post-modern. ... This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of ...