A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 566
the pyramidoid inverted and setopposite to each other. The bases are octag-onal. The halves may meet at points, Fig.36, leaving a star-shaped ridge space uncovered;or by sides. Fig. 37, leaving a square. If thenon-cardinal sides of the pyramidoid be con-tinued on to the centre, as in the… … Fig. m (Pl.w). Fig. 67 (Plan). 1. For covering a square space. The halfconoids have tlieir bases tangent to each otheron the ridge levels, and leave a large part ofthe space uncovered. They must, therefore, besupplemented by a flat, or slightly domical,ceiling connecting them (Fig. 38). 2. For…
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