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  2. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower - Wikipedia

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    These three sections include usable space inside and are collectively 660 feet (200 m) tall. The tower is topped by a 40-foot-tall (12 m) pyramidal roof, which is slightly set back and contains a cupola and lantern. [8] [15] The tower was originally sheathed in Tuckahoe marble, provided by the main contractor, the Hedden Construction Company.

  3. Rhenish helm - Wikipedia

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    It is a pyramidal roof on towers of square plan. Each of the four sides of the roof is rhomboid in form, with the long diagonal running from the apex of roof to one of the corners of the supporting tower. Each side of the tower is topped with an even triangular gable from the peak of which runs a ridge to the apex of the roof. Thus, the corners ...

  4. Ingush towers - Wikipedia

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    The pyramidal-stepped roof of the tower, usually, consisted of thirteen slate slabs and was crowned with a large cone-shaped stone. [39] Professor Evgeny Krupnov considered towers with pyramidal roofs as "an expression of the purely individual characteristics of Ingush culture."

  5. Woolworth Building - Wikipedia

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    The tower has a square plan below the 50th-story setback and an octagonal plan above. [35] Though the structure is physically 60 stories tall, the 53rd floor is the top floor that can be occupied. [24] [b] Above the 53rd floor, the tower tapers into a pyramidal roof. [32] [30]

  6. Spire - Wikipedia

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    Rhenish helm: This is a four-sided tower topped with a pyramidal roof. each of the four sides of the roof is rhomboid in form, with the long diagonal running from the apex of roof to one of the corners of the supporting tower; each side of the tower is thus topped with a gable from whose peak a ridge runs to the apex of the roof.

  7. Roof comb - Wikipedia

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    Maya pyramid at Tikal with prominent roof comb. The roof comb (or roof-comb) is the structure that tops a pyramid in monumental Mesoamerican architecture.Typically, the roof combs crowned the summit of pyramids and other structures; they consisted of two pierced framework walls which leaned on one another.

  8. New York Life Building - Wikipedia

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    In August 1926, a new plan was released for a 34-story limestone structure with setbacks, a pyramidal roof, and a Gothic design inspired by French and Dutch architecture. The foundation excavation was completed that month. [56] [9] By then, Gilbert had lost interest in the construction process, and his office was "simply approving or ...

  9. Imperial Crown Style - Wikipedia

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    The Imperial Crown Style (帝冠様式, teikan yōshiki) of Japanese architecture developed during the Japanese Empire in the early twentieth century. The style is identified by Japanese-style roofing on top of Neoclassical styled buildings; [1] and can have a centrally elevated structure with a pyramidal hip roof.