The house is topped with a two-tier roof.
Before doing so, they burned the mosque, a high structure with a five-tier roof.
The sanctum sanctorum, where the large Mahamuni image is deified, is a small chamber and has a roof covering made up of seven pyatthat meaning tiered roofs (derivative of the Sanskrit word prasada).
One decorated roof tier runs on top of the wall of a closed mantapa above the heavy eaves of an open mantapa and above the porches.
A HUNDRED metres from the tiered, gold-tipped roof of the official border crossing between China and Myanmar in Ruili, an unofficial international trade zone thrives across a 7-metre (23-foot) high metal fence that divides the two countries.
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Each stand has two tiers, a cantilevered roof and a capacity of nearly 4,000.
The ubosot is built of grey stone and has a two-tier green title roof.
There are no street performers or tacky stalls, just motorbikes parked outside apartment buildings with staggered roofs, and tier after tier of balconies overlooking quiet streets.
The angles between pillar and architrave and the edges of roof gables, tiers, and terraces are filled with flamboyant cartouches (scroll-shaped ornaments) of pierced work, often lacquered and gilt; thus, the whole building may be smothered in repetitive ornamental curlicues.
Just one example: pointing to a concrete box atop a staircase to the sky, the guide on my tour indicated the entrance to a two-tier elevator with neither roof nor walls, which the miners rode 606 meters (1,988 feet) below ground to work (America's tallest building, the Willis Tower in Chicago, is 1,729 feet, or 527 meters, tall).
