When you’re looking for drama, few architectural features pack more punch than a vaulted ceiling. But one variation on the ...

ARCHITECTURE HOme in a Barrel VaultNew museums of late have tended to verge on the grandiose: the columned temple form of the Los Angeles County Museum, the mighty, circular Hirshhorn Museum planned ...

Mariano Azuela 194's barrel vault rooftop makes it stand out in its Mexico City neighbourhood, Santa Maria la Ribera. The design, a housing scheme by studio Bloqe Arquitetura, was conceived to offer ...

The second time’s a charm for Practice for Architecture and Urbanism, whose proposal to radically reimagine the protected Domino Sugar Refinery along the Williamsburg waterfront was approved by the ...

The sequence of barrel vaults cleverly exploits the triangular shape of the square. © Aga Khan Trust for Culture / Deed Studio With a total length of 250 km, Tehran ...

The oldest record of barrel vaults is estimated to date back to 4000 BC. These provided the spans in the Sumerian ziggurat at Nippur in Babylonia, built from fired bricks amalgamated with clay mortar.

Ceilings are reaching new heights. These days, "10 feet is the new 9 feet," said architect John Cetra of New York-based CetraRuddy Architecture, noting that home buyers love high ceilings because they ...