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  • Thumbnail for Spandrel
    A spandrel is a roughly triangular space, usually found in pairs, between the top of an arch and a rectangular frame, between the tops of two adjacent...
    5 KB (602 words) - 21:22, 23 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arch bridge
    two outer walls, known as the spandrels, which are then infilled with appropriate loose material and rubble. The road is paved and parapet walls protectively...
    27 KB (2,975 words) - 11:59, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Curtain wall (architecture)
    used in areas to hide a column or spandrel beam or shear wall behind the curtain wall. Another method of hiding spandrel areas is through shadow box construction...
    32 KB (4,319 words) - 00:42, 19 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for 40 Wall Street
    brick facade and contain numerous setbacks. The facade also includes spandrels between the windows on each story, which are recessed behind the vertical...
    167 KB (16,378 words) - 15:45, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seventh Street Improvement Arches
    wing walls were built with a variety of gray limestone locally quarried in St. Paul, while the voussoirs, ring stones, coping and spandrel walls were...
    7 KB (707 words) - 17:58, 24 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Conestoga Creek Viaduct
    constructed, leaving an unfinished spandrel wall on the southern face. Tie rods were added in 1930 to brace the spandrel walls. List of bridges documented by...
    4 KB (244 words) - 17:47, 5 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Plunketts Creek Bridge No. 3
    the spandrel walls and wing walls could be added. Then the road bed was built, with fill (loose stones or dirt) added to support it as needed. Wall and...
    33 KB (3,647 words) - 22:18, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Promontory Apartments
    about alterations to the ground floor as well as through-wall air conditioners for the spandrel walls. Mies offered his input on these changes, which were...
    9 KB (999 words) - 00:24, 25 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bidford Bridge
    parapet, resulting in "significant damage to the... stone parapet, spandrel wall and central pier" and the bridge's closure to all but cyclists and pedestrians...
    4 KB (322 words) - 21:15, 22 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for Construction of Arlington Memorial Bridge
    wall was also added to the end of each span, which supported not only the roadway superstructure but also the walls of each spandrel. Each spandrel wall...
    88 KB (12,687 words) - 01:05, 19 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sistine Chapel ceiling
    triangular pendentive filling the space between the walls and the arch of the vault and forming a doubled spandrel above the windows nearest the corners. On these...
    115 KB (13,635 words) - 01:49, 25 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Courthouse
    directing attention towards them, decorated spandrels (wall section connecting arches) and the inclusion of gabled walls (pointed sections). Old City Hall has...
    15 KB (1,698 words) - 13:35, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Choate Bridge
    with lime and mortar, while the newer is dry laid. The older western spandrel wall is fashioned out of heavily chinked rubble, while that on the eastern...
    5 KB (492 words) - 16:45, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Viaduct
    the water level to the base of the rail. The width at the top of the spandrel wall copings is 26 feet 4 inches (8 m). The bridge is constructed using a...
    20 KB (1,877 words) - 21:59, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Union Arch Bridge
    long and rises 57 feet 3 inches (17.45 m). The bridge has an internal spandrel wall structure that contains nine additional smaller arches, which are concealed...
    14 KB (1,605 words) - 20:19, 26 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for 185 Montague Street
    asymmetrical openings. The upper stories contain brick piers and ornamental brick spandrel panels, with setbacks above the 12th story to comply with the 1916 Zoning...
    54 KB (5,036 words) - 04:21, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cromford Canal
    the Derwent Aqueduct which required considerable modification. The spandrel walls had parted due to the horizontal forces imposed by the canal, and a...
    20 KB (2,538 words) - 08:43, 13 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Starrucca Viaduct
    random ashlar bluestone, except for three brick interior longitudinal spandrel walls and the concrete bases of the piers. This may have been the first structural...
    8 KB (681 words) - 02:31, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Valley Railroad Bridge
    the vault, the spandrel walls rise up to the rail bed, where a top course of limestone blocks, projecting slightly beyond the spandrel's vertical plane...
    5 KB (559 words) - 06:24, 27 September 2022
  • modernistic style. The spandrels between each row of windows are ornamented aluminum panels. The combination of piers, spandrels, and windows create a...
    93 KB (9,461 words) - 06:02, 2 July 2024
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