barrel vault
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In his work, for example, he was as intrigued by the barrel vault — a form common to Roman architecture — as he was by Japanese concepts of in-between space, known as ma.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2022
Johnson’s heavy-handed barrel vault has been replaced by a delicate glass V-shaped butterfly roof.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2022
And “the barrel vault over the library distinctly recalls Stourhead,” an 18th-century Palladian house in the English county of Wiltshire, he noted.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2022
Their proposal: a barrel vault higher than Grand Central Terminal, adorned with a 10-story clock said to be the world’s biggest.
From Slate • Sep. 21, 2018
In the foreground, the wooden barrel vault of the nave was rebuilt in 1926 and 1927.
From Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album by Lebert, Marie
