This theory is given added weight by the fact that at around the same time the timber beams used to support ceilings were replaced with steel beams to strengthen the building.
Family and friends tend to gather in an open-air room covered by a trellis that will eventually support a living ceiling of vines.
On Jan . 17 Mr. Li was knocked unconscious when a poorly supported ceiling in the mine collapsed on him.
Cedar beams supported ceilings, monumental doorways built in cypress-wood and other odoriferous timber, brought from four quarters of the far-flung empire, led from one chamber to the next.
The architect structured the turbulent roofscape with a thin steel truss system inside; the trusses support a ceiling whose complex faceting follows the roof topography.
Fish flitter around the bases of the 336 columns that support the ceiling.
When the wall panels are in place they will support the ceiling.
Large wooden busts of the four men help support the ceiling in the dance hall of Mr. Ford's mansion in Dearborn, Mich.
He was an engineer, not an architect, interested less in the aesthetics of line than in the practical problems of physics: could a wall of a particular thickness support a ceiling of a given mass, and so forth.
These elegant arches are decorative and support the ceiling and the floor above.
The closed mantapa, well decorated inside and out, is larger than the vestibule connecting the shrine and the mantapa and has four lathe-turned pillars to support the ceiling, which may be deeply domed.
