Sentence examples for dome construction from inspiring English sources

Renaissance builders adapted the Gothic rib system to dome construction and found new means to reduce loads and thrust (concentric chains, etc).

Dome construction did not proceed rapidly after Meigs suspended operations, but it did proceed, and it was vital in establishing the earnest intentions of Walter and the contractors.

Like many other admirers of the inventor Buckminster Fuller's design, the Nelkins are enthusiastic in their support of dome construction, and tout the structures' strength and energy efficiency.

In 1976, the Bay Area architect William Nicholson built the 2,700-square-foot 2,700-square-foot 2,700-square-footwn as monolithomedome construsingn, according to Atlas Obuildinga publicatechnique highlights curious places.

The brick domes of this building are interesting, as they are probably the earliest examples in India of the use of radiating courses instead of horizontal layers in dome construction.

Fittingly, members served under an unfinished Capitol dome – construction on the cast-iron edifice began in 1855 and would not be completed until 1863 – at once a symbol of republican government striving to rise up just as fierce fighting mere miles south on the battlefields of Virginia, and elsewhere, sought to tear it down.

A notable feature of the city is the "million-dollar" Macoupin County Courthouse (completed 1870), a limestone structure with an imposing 191-foot (58-metre) dome; the construction of the courthouse once one of the country's largest was attended by fraud and scandal.

From inside the stadium, they can see both the Capitol dome and construction cranes jutting into the sky.

This was Mr. Lagerfeld in love — with the imaginative set, where green trellis work reflected the glass dome's construction at the Grand Palais; with modern materials that glinted in a space-age sheen; and with fashion itself in all its variety, modernity and diversity.

While initially septic tanks were used, this type was soon replaced by the typical dome-shaped constructions.

The saxaul sparrow's nests are untidy dome-shaped constructions, with an entrance in the side or top.