barrel vault
Example Sentences
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There is no grand lobby with barrel vault ceiling; instead, the viewer is greeted by the sloping walls and gentle asymmetries of a rough-hewn cave, our most archaic form of shelter.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2023
Johnson’s heavy-handed barrel vault has been replaced by a delicate glass V-shaped butterfly roof.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
The maestro is still fighting in the dark with unequal thrusts, sides and arches of different widths, and a desire to meet them all with something higher and lighter than the old continuous barrel vault.
From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.
