"I was constantly looking at this house up on the mountain, the highest-elevation home in Rancho Mirage," says Smith, who notes a kinship between Sunnylands and Ichpa Mayapan in their "clean lines, broad roofs, and green lawns--a great refinement and opulence in the middle of this harsh wilderness".
Large dome tents, or "workhorse" tents, have broad roofs and rounded frames, making them very spacious.
The broad pitched roof suspended over the main building creates a clerestory for light and air.
The barn was a beauty, with a broad, sheltering roof atop a facade decorated with a cheerful patchwork quilt design.
It was a massive structure for its time – the largest temple in the Italo-Etruscan world – standing on a stone plinth measuring 53 by 63 metres, and with a broad red roof supported on 24 columns.
And it has been altered and added to over the years, but its broad mansard roof is still crested with lacy ironwork and punctuated by chimneys and dormer windows.
The Rogers group was executed with broad, sloping roofs of tile and crow-stepped gables, suggesting both medieval and Flemish influences.
QMF 53956 is smaller than V. prisca with less defined crests and a broader central roof.
The shed was a long, broad room with a peaked roof and windows; an alcove held log slicks, axes, hammers, saws, and adzes, some of them very old, with intricately carved handles.
