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clerestory
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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clerestory the upper part of the nave, choir, and transepts of a large church, containing a series of windows. It is clear of the roofs of the aisles and admits light to the central parts of the building.
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Adding high light; set high in the wall, clerestory windows bring daylight deep into a house ... without losing privacy.
Magazine article from: Sunset; 1/1/1991; 700+ words
; ...consider the clerestory. Set high in the wall, clerestory windows enhance...transfer through clerestories, but the ones...Architects used clerestories and a new skylight...allowing for clerestory windows and creating...
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Clerestory Window.(in country home)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Builder; 6/15/2001; 570 words
; An arch-top entry and a clerestory window add European spirit to this stunning country home. Inside, the two-story family room enjoys an extended-hearth fireplace...
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Clerestory.(Poem)
Magazine article from: The Literary Review; 6/22/2005; ; 573 words
; Clerestory 5th Ave's fierce intermingling, jostle & surge of selfhood, each of us a fraction of rush hour's 1,000-footed god...
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Banners Hanging From A Church Clerestory. (Poetry).(Poem)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 6/20/2003; ; 396 words
; Banners Hanging From A Church Clerestory Yes, they are the simplest of fabrics, The sheerest we could find. They baffle the light so that is does not "Flame out, like...
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Vast Clerestory Window.(house plans)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Builder; 8/15/2001; 553 words
; This charming facade has an equally endowed interior. To the right of the foyer, the dining room links to a spacious kitchen with a work island and breakfast nook. The two-story great room includes a warming fireplace. Upstairs, the lavish master bedroom features a walk-in closet and bath with
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Heart of oak. (the new Student Center in Darwin College, Cambridge, UK)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 10/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...out gently to bear on the clerestory over the street wall, creating...becomes too hot, a layer of clerestory windowsis automatically opened...the south side (the north clerestories are permanently sealed against...topped by the oak and glass clerestory that supports a roof covered...
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Texas twister: a shopping mall employs roof structure to tie to local high-tech theme, bring in light. (skylights/space frames)(Cover Story).
Magazine article from: Building Design & Construction; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...sections, orients with the clerestory to the north. The two end sections and the clerestory orient to the south...of the skylights and clerestories affects heating, ventilating...principal in charge. Sloped clerestory creates challenge The...
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Windows of Worship: New stained glass is a thing to behold.
Newspaper article from: Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA); 5/12/2007; 700+ words
; ...windows. Since 1929, only two of the 12 clerestory windows that illuminate the nave have...money aside for the cathedral, four new clerestory windows will be added to the nave in...were designated specifically for the clerestory windows by two parishioners: the late...
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A 'people facility': Denver's light rail vehicle maintenance facility could have been just another service barn, not the exemplary workplace and community asset it became.(BUILDING TEAM PROJECT AWARDS: ELATI LIGHT RAIL MAINTENANCE FACILITY)
Magazine article from: Building Design & Construction; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...brick and stone masonry, metal panels, clerestory windows, and a graceful, arcing roof...over the main entry. Ironically, the clerestory windows that flank the sides and center...The metal panel system enabled the clerestory to be sculpted into a dual curve, creating...
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Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
Magazine article from: Design Cost Data; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...at the Worship Space with it's high clerestory flooded with natural light. The Worship...Laminated wood trusses define the clerestory space and bear on four steel columns...lighting, a 10-foot high continuous clerestory was created on all four sides of the...
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clerestory
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
clerestory or clearstory , a part of a building whose walls rise higher than the roofs of adjoining parts of the structure. Pierced by windows...
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triforium
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...height—arcade, triforium, and clerestory. The triforium was thus located beneath the clerestory windows and above the side-aisle vaults...triforium between the higher main arcades and clerestory and sometimes omitted it entirely.
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Charles Willard Moore
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Inside, the building features a polygonal vestibule and a high main gallery with an exaggerated overhead bridge truss and clerestory windows. Other buildings from this period include Whitman Village in Huntington, New York, and the Jones Laboratory and...
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clearstory
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
clearstory see clerestory .
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Egyptian architecture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...hypostyle hall with immense columns arranged in a central nave and side aisles. The shorter columns of the latter permitted a clerestory for the admission of light. Behind the hypostyle hall were small sanctuaries, where only the king and priests might enter...
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