To give the room an octagonal shape, squinches were given around the roof corners.

The rafters supporting each roof corner spread from a single point, in a fan-like pattern.

On the upturned roof corners of the shimmering golden shrine stand bronze birds.

Meanwhile, newer temples that are based more on native Japanese styles will have smoother, flatter roof corners.

Morgan moved h.is mount into a dry, partially roofed corner and began pushing at random beams above his head, testing their stability, as he continued.

To see a person dressed in mourning sitting on a roof corner, foretells there will be unexpected and dismal failures in your business.

A short walk away, a sprawling complex of whitewashed buildings, their roof corners flipped up in a traditional Chinese manner, is nearing completion.

It features three round arched stained glass windows on the front facade and a square, pyramidal roofed corner tower.

"I climbed cautiously until I found a place where I could hide behind an ornament on the roof corner and watch them.

The move of just 75 feet within the same plot away from the corner was to alleviate the nearly monthly truck strikes to the southeast roof corner.

Each corner of the building (at the projecting wings) begins with square corners and then exhibits gradual chamfering to the roof corner of the wing.

It is a two storey rusticated limestone and tile roofed corner building, and has a diverse facade with arches, turrets and recessed colonnades.

Featuring a typical two-tiered roof and carved wooden portico, the bòt design is simple yet striking - note the carved naga heads at the roof corners.

San Joaquin Light and Power Corporation Building, Fresno, California (1924): multi-colored floodlighting defining different building levels, roof corner lights, lighted rooftop sign, steam jets.

Unable to meet Prince Gwythinn's bright, demanding stare, Is- grimnur let his eyes slide back up to the roof corner, where the brown spider was industriously wrapping something in clinging silk.

The building's architect, Robert M. Scarano, has revised the plan for the building at 614 Seventh Avenue, at the corner of 23d Street, to make the Statue of Liberty visible in a notch over the southern roof corner.

In those tangled streets, tile-roofed inns and slate-roofed stables, the roof corners slanted sharply, stood alongside palaces with squared white domes and tall, balcony-ringed towers that often came to points, the heights of domes and towers gleaming in the early-morning sun.

On Carolina, a few enterprising souls had faced their homes with fieldstone or cedar shingle, and some had opted for an Oriental effect-trellises of plywood with geometric cutouts that were meant to look Chinese, the roof corners tilted up for that gala 1950s pagoda look.

The general massing and arrangement of the building, with steeply roofed corner pavilions and a high central portion, crowned by a turret between two further pavilions, although taller, owed much to Godde and Lesueur's extension to the Paris Hôtel de Ville of 1837-49.

It's not really obvious, but ..." A certain sense of power flows from Klerris toward the tiny blue flower . . . and slowly, at the deliberate pace of drops falling from a roof corner to a rain barrel long after the storm, the petals firm, the stem strengthens, and the color brightens.