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The Longxing Temple — built in 1052 and located at present-day Zhengding, Hebei Province, China — has a hip-and-gable xieshan-style roof with double eaves. [1]The East Asian hip-and-gable roof (Xiēshān (歇山) in Chinese, Paljakjibung (팔작지붕) in Korean and Irimoya (入母屋) in Japanese) also known as 'resting hill roof', consists of a hip roof that slopes down on all four sides ...
Milwaukee Harbor entry N. pier, SE. corner of H.W. Maier Festival Park: 42-foot lighthouse built in 1906 on the end of a pier in Milwaukee's harbor. [185] 124: Milwaukee Protestant Home for the Aged: Milwaukee Protestant Home for the Aged: May 10, 2023
3-story office building with hip roof designed by Robert A. Messmer and built in 1898. In its day, the complex included a boys' dorm and a girls' dorm in a park-like setting. Milwaukee County's facility handled cases that the state school at Sparta would not. [53] [54] 44: Milwaukee County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy Historic ...
Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory (Mitchell Park Domes or The Domes) is a conservatory located at Mitchell Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It is owned and operated by the Milwaukee County Park System, and replaced the original Milwaukee Conservatory which stood from 1898 to 1955. The three domes display a large variety of ...
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A qingshui ridge [] on the end of a roof. Traditional Chinese roofs are also distinguished by a number of distinct roofing elements, such as ridges. In addition to the main ridges (Chinese: 大脊; pinyin: dà jí), certain traditional Chinese roofs have additional ornamental ridges, such as qingshui ridges [] (Chinese: 清水脊; pinyin: qīngshuǐ jí) and juanpeng ridges (Chinese: 卷棚脊 ...
Imperial roof decoration of a minor building at the Forbidden City Multiple gables with decorations. Along the ridges (unions between the roof panels), near the corner, a row of small figures is placed. These are often made of glazed ceramic and form an outward marching procession. Here we see the imperial yellow glaze reserved for the emperor.
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