The original roof spreads around them like a flaring skirt.
Sage tries to camouflage its shoe boxes under a spectacular shell roof spreading across the banks of the Tyne.
These are discreet ceiling portholes that channel light from the roof, spreading diffuse daylight throughout the room.
There were priorities: sweeping the building to look for infiltrators or booby traps, posting their snipers up on the roof, spreading concertina wire and sandbags, raising the American flag.
It rained through the winter, and the water seeped through the roof and spread mold flowers on the ceiling of the bedroom.
We crammed together in a scarlet chamber listening to the disembodied voices of centenarians lilting down from the roof, and spread out again for the creepy installations of the Korean artist Sung Hwan Kim.
Located on the grounds of a nineteenth-century wine estate, the Turrell Museum will exhibit two new site-specific commissions (among other pieces): "Unseen Blue," a fifteen-foot-wide aperture in the roof, and "Spread," a four-thousand-square-foot walk-in environment of blue light.
During a news conference on Tuesday, Luo Yuan, a spokesman for the Beijing Municipal Fire Brigade, said strong winds, toxic fumes and a lack of working sprinklers hampered efforts to extinguish the fire, which began on the building's roof and spread to the lower floors.
The fire is thought to have started in the roof and spread throughout the building as flames were fanned by high winds.
However, contemporary accounts explain that burning flakes from wooden roof shingles spread the fire.
