barrel vault

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There is no grand lobby with barrel vault ceiling; instead, the viewer is greeted by the sloping walls and gentle asymmetries of a rough-hewn cave, our most archaic form of shelter.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2023

Johnson’s heavy-handed barrel vault has been replaced by a delicate glass V-shaped butterfly roof.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2022

And “the barrel vault over the library distinctly recalls Stourhead,” an 18th-century Palladian house in the English county of Wiltshire, he noted.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2022

Their proposal: a barrel vault higher than Grand Central Terminal, adorned with a 10-story clock said to be the world’s biggest.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2018

Here, as 400 in Santa Maria de Naranco, the church is covered with a barrel vault with similar constructive and decorative features.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various