parabolic arch

Through a series of parabolic arches we reached a balcony.

Similarly, the structures of parabolic arches are purely in compression.

Some natives believe their world is a flat surface surmounted by a narrow parabolic arch.

It is a saddle-back bridge with a parabolic arch.

The bellchamber is of concrete, formed of eight parabolic arches.

All these parabolic arches from city to city to city to city.

That choice of design allowed the use of a parabolic arch, and thus a very slim form of construction.

The majestic parabolic arch's unique structure has become a symbol of the Brno exhibition center.

The dagger-shaped trefoils in the parabolic arches above were uniformly of blood hue.

The bridge resembles a Roman aqueduct, with a single parabolic arch that spans half its length.

Of any arch type, the parabolic arch produces the most thrust at the base, but can span the largest areas.

As U.N workers see it, a crisis isn't time for cutesy theories, or lovely parabolic arches.

The use of elaborate parabolic arches on the ground floor is a clear Modernista touch, as are the wrought-iron balconies.

In the attic, where you can appreciate Gaudí's gracious parabolic arches, is a modest museum dedicated to his work.

Another public hall, closer to the middle of the blocklong building, would get a soaring skylight in the form of a parabolic arch.

The catenary and parabolic arches carry all horizontal thrust to the foundation and so do not need additional elements.

The pedestrian and cycle pathway is an almost-horizontal curve, suspended above the river from a just-beyond-the-vertical parabolic arch.

It is designed as a parabolic arch by the architectural firm of De Sina & Pellegrino.

An interesting feature of the church is that it has no distinct walls or ceilings inside, the interior consisting entirely of a parabolic arch.

He saw an altar of wood, and a model of silvery metal whose shape was a flat rectangle surmounted by a parabolic arch.

The parabolic arch encircling the globe denotes command and control of space forces operating weapons systems traversing through space.

The roof is defined by its unusual parabolic arch, formed by a series of 60 rounded bows joined to the rafters.

With its chevrons, parabolic arches and glistening white mosaics, it looks like the skeleton of a dainty prehistoric monster.

The team leader turned his video pickup around to capture what he was seeing: a vast lake of liquid metal, crowned with two intersecting parabolic arches.

Since 1948 Niemeyer had departed from the parabolic arches he had designed in Pampulha and went on to further explore his standard material, the concrete.