An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1881 - 1395 Seiten |
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... bricks , the public edifices only being built with burnt bricks ; the roofs , mostly flat , have terraces , whereon the inhabitants sleep during several months of the year . According to Chardin , there were in his time within the walls ...
... bricks , the public edifices only being built with burnt bricks ; the roofs , mostly flat , have terraces , whereon the inhabitants sleep during several months of the year . According to Chardin , there were in his time within the walls ...
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... brick was the material in most common use . 72. Bricks dried in the sun were employed even on large monuments ; but ... bricks , some of which are 13 in . long , 6 in . wide , and 4 in . thick ; others 15 in . long , 7 in . wide , and 4 ...
... brick was the material in most common use . 72. Bricks dried in the sun were employed even on large monuments ; but ... bricks , some of which are 13 in . long , 6 in . wide , and 4 in . thick ; others 15 in . long , 7 in . wide , and 4 ...
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... brick and masonry , with a terraced plat- form and a parapet of bricks . Its height is 20 ft . including a parapet of 5 ft . The thickness at the base is 25 ft . , and it diminishes to 15 ft . at the platform . Towers , at intervals of ...
... brick and masonry , with a terraced plat- form and a parapet of bricks . Its height is 20 ft . including a parapet of 5 ft . The thickness at the base is 25 ft . , and it diminishes to 15 ft . at the platform . Towers , at intervals of ...
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... bricks to a height twice that of the Louvre . The height of it is 177 ft . , and the length of a side of the base 1423 ft .. There is a flight of 120 steps to the platform . Subjoined is a comparative statement of the Egyptian and ...
... bricks to a height twice that of the Louvre . The height of it is 177 ft . , and the length of a side of the base 1423 ft .. There is a flight of 120 steps to the platform . Subjoined is a comparative statement of the Egyptian and ...
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... bricks of two colours highly glazed were used for variegating the surface , and were formed into lozenges . The chimney shafts seem to have exhausted invention in the twisted and diapered patterns into which they were wrought , and ...
... bricks of two colours highly glazed were used for variegating the surface , and were formed into lozenges . The chimney shafts seem to have exhausted invention in the twisted and diapered patterns into which they were wrought , and ...
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