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    A triforium is an interior gallery, opening onto the tall central space of a building at an upper level. In a church, it opens onto the nave from above...
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    third level was inserted between them, a gallery called the "triforium". The triforium generally opens into space beneath the sloping roof of the aisle...
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  • Triforium is a 60-foot high, concrete public art sculpture mounted with 1,494 Venetian glass prisms, light bulbs, and an internal 79-bell carillon located...
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    (arcade, tribune, triforium, clerestory) was transformed in the choir of Beauvais Cathedral to very tall arcades, a thin triforium, and soaring windows...
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    vaulting (1608, restored 1860s) over the nave at Bath Abbey, Bath, England. Suppression of the triforium offers a greater expanse of clerestory windows....
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    interior, in the lowest part of the wall of the nave, supporting the triforium and the clerestory in a cathedral, or on the exterior, in which they are...
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    thinner, made extensive use of pinnacles and moldings. They combined the triforium gallery and the clerestory into single space and filled it with stained...
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    Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries were opened. Located in the medieval triforium, high up around the sanctuary, they are areas for displaying the abbey's...
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    with blocky porticoed pinnacles, surrounding a tall nave, a clerestory, a wide triforium, and two side aisles. Arrows show structural forces (details)....
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    now displayed in the new Queen's Diamond Jubilee Gallery in the abbey triforium. Her tomb originally boasted an alabaster memorial, which was deliberately...
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    Cathedral, flying buttresses have been employed, but are hidden inside the triforium gallery. Walls and buttresses The monastery of San Vittore alle Chiuse...
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    Notre-Dame in May 2012. From top to bottom, nave walls are pierced by clerestory windows, arches to triforium, and arches to side aisles....
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    nave into two tiers, by extending the arcade upwards into what was the triforium and extending the clerestory downwards to meet it. The wooden ceiling...
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    Low Countries, Germany, Spain, northern Italy and Sicily. The glazed triforium (center level) and upper clerestory, where windows fill almost the entire...
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    to their knees". It has a high stone groined roof, twin aisles and a triforium gallery, although the tower lacks a spire. Other listed churches include...
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    elevation has three levels, like the nave; the arcades, triforium and the clerestory at the top. The triforium and the clerestory are entirely walled with stained...
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  • mosaic panels on the exterior of the UCLA Math Sciences Building, and the Triforium (Los Angeles). in Fletcher Bowron Square on the Los Angeles Mall at the...
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    Structural elements of a gothic basilica. Variations: Where the roofs have a low slope, the triforium gallery may have own windows or may be missing....
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    windows is the triforium, which is 56 feet (17 m) above the nave floor. Four arches on either side of the nave support the triforium, which is 16 feet...
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    is on three levels; large arcades communicating with the ambulatory, triforium and high windows. Left of the choir is the Flamboyant Gothic Chapel of...
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    presents a French style arrangement of very tall arcade, a delicate narrow triforium gallery lit by windows and with detailed tracery merging with that of...
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    levels of the nave interior from four to three by merging the Gothic triforium and clerestory. This allowed much larger stained glass windows, which...
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    and floor stones dedicated to various nobles. Above the stalls, at the triforium level, are many sculptures. Interspersed between the sculptures are the...
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    to the two levels below. New more massive columns were added, and the triforium between the arcades and high windows was enlarged and strengthened to...
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    showing rib vaulting; in walls are clerestory windows (top), arches to triforium (middle), and arches to side aisles (bottom). Underside of rib vaulting...
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    Latin cross church with a transept, a nave higher than its two aisles, a triforium (arched gallery over the central aisle) and an apse with three chapels...
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    unlikely in a contemporary church, including the placing of a round arched triforium above a pointed colonnade in the Berlin work. The Marian works are heavily...
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    elevation of the nave, showing the gallery on the ground level; the narrow triforium; and, on top, the windows of the clerestory Flying buttress supporting...
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    symbols of the Four Evangelists. The nave is surmounted by a gallery (triforium). Over the aisles is a groin vault, the first of this type built in Normandy...
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    stages: arcade, triforium gallery and clerestory. The nave is 67 feet (20 m) in height. It has a horizontal emphasis, caused by the triforium having a series...
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