roof lantern

Today roof lanterns are built of both wood and aluminum.

Traditional architectural styles characterize most roof lanterns in the UK.

Once the Trust took ownership, scaffolding was placed into the hallway to repair the roof lantern.

The building was topped off by an octagonal roof lantern which became known locally as 'the lighthouse'.

A roof lantern is a daylighting cupola architectural element.

A roof lantern is a multi-paned glass structure, resembling a small building, built on a roof for day or moon light.

Roof lanterns of masonry and glass were used in Renaissance architecture, such as in principal cathedrals.

Post-Renaissance roof lanterns were made of timber and glass and were often prone to leaking.

All the court rooms displayed Soane's typically complex lighting arrangements, being top lit by roof lanterns often concealed from direct view.

The round half-timbered customs tower with a curved roof and the distinctive roof lantern dates from 1741.

Roof lantern, an architectural term to describe a structure above a dome, or other roof, with openings to admit light or air.

In the U.S., where the term 'custom' skylight is often used, modern styles of roof lanterns are also common in the building vernacular.

Moneo, who likes to use natural lighting, came up with another solution: roof lanterns, which would draw in sunlight, tamed and evenly dispersed throughout the building.

Cupola, a (usually dome-shaped) structure located on top of a larger roof or dome (for a roof lantern, belfry, etc.)

This established the gallery as a series of interconnected rooms with largely uninterrupted wall spaces for hanging pictures and indirect lighting from skylights or roof lanterns.

A leaded-glass, lead domed roof lantern surmounted by a golden ball is positioned on the rear of the roof at the centre of the frontage.

The design and construction also featured a central landmark clock tower with a battlemented parapet, a tapering roof lantern and dormer windows.

The building is decorated in Neoclassical style; its exterior is rather plainly finished in white stucco, while the dome and roof lantern cupola are tiled.

The Great Kitchen, with its newly exposed 14th-century roof lantern sitting alongside Wyattville's fireplaces, chimneys and Gothic tables, is also a product of the reconstruction after the fire.

The current dome was designed in the 17th century by the son of El Greco, Jorge Manuel Theotocopoulus; it displays eight sections and a large roof lantern cupola.

The five main galleries are lit by elongated roof lanterns, thus freeing the walls from reflections and maximising the wall area for paintings and it has influenced the design of art galleries ever since.

This rectangular, five-storey clock tower - the fifth storey had been added in 1613 - towered over the castle's four wings and was topped with a dome with dormer windows and a roof lantern.

The chapel is crowned by a dome with a roof lantern cupola, the work of Jorge Manuel Theotocópuli, while the interior of the dome itself was decorated by the painters Francisco Ricci and Juan Carreño.

Financed by the issue of shares to speculative investors, a very substantial and luxurious hotel was built on the hillside above the river, with a bathing establishment below consisting of a large space lit from roof lanterns with individual bathrooms leading off it.

The façade is in Renaissance style; the gate, sometimes attributed to Jean Bullant, consists of a tympanum leading to columns grooved in Corinthian capitals, the whole surrounded by a very decorated classic entablature, surmounted in the extremities by two roof lanterns.