The main redesign was to the roof of the main buildings, changing them from a flat roof to a split pitch roof.
Sitting in Woody's Family Restaurant on the town's main drag, roof truss salesman Kevin Moore explains that he worried the proposed windmills could hurt property values, stunt the town's growth and flick dangerous ice balls. (Navitas says it's not a problem.) He went to county board meetings with 200 angry citizens, who helped stall Navitas for a year.
During their tour, the visitors were also able to note that work still continues on the roof, in the main hall crowned by a dome, whose paintings are still being restored, and that the roof tiles on the southeast wing of the building are being replaced.
He created an "upside down" three-story house with a garden on the roof, the main living space on the top floor and bedrooms and a studio for Mr. Turner's practice below.
At length, the train begins to pass clusters of houses, building up gradually into the centre of Bergen, where it comes to rest under the vast cylindrical glass roof of the main railway station.
From the upper floors, a programmer could see, in the distance, the pagoda roof of the main hall of Tofuku-ji, an eight-hundred-year-old Zen temple, rising over the trees at the edge of town.
So too are various transport and construction projects: embarrassingly, the elaborate glass and metal roof for the main athletics stadium, designed by Santiago Calatrava, a renowned Spanish architect, may not be ready in time.
Taking the waters in the main hall, under a galleried glass roof, has been likened to swimming in a cathedral.
The fire, which ignited in Pratt's historic Main Building and destroyed much of the roof, was an accident caused by electrical wiring in a cubicle, according to the New York Fire Department.
To that end, the roof of the house slants upward over the main living and dining area, giving the top of the house the same trajectory as a piano lid.
Crews were called on Monday afternoon after the fire broke out in roof panelling above high-voltage electrical switchgear in the main turbine hall.
The 10, 000-pound sculpture will stand in front of the arena's main entrance under the so-called oculus, a circular opening in a roof that juts over the plaza.
There is as much steel hidden in the roof of the aquatics center as there is proudly displayed in the main stadium, but when it finally sheds its wings, Ms. Hadid's design will have undeniable visual power.
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Suzuki, ranked 110th in the world, ousted the 43rd-ranked Gambill 6-4 3-6 6-3 under the closed roof - due to a typhoon - of the Ariake Colosseum's main court.
Meanwhile, the curved ceiling of the main house captures the interplay of light refracted from the L-shaped pool, and the roof's louvered panels float above a wall of windows, perching on delicate wood columns as they shelter an outdoor patio.
New transport systems to take spectators to the stadiums are delayed and embarrassingly, the elaborate glass and metal roof designed by Santiago Calatrava, a Spanish architect, may not be ready for the main athletics stadium in time.
"We're coming to the endgame, " says Sally Thompson, executive director of The Border Consortium, the main agency providing aid to a string of Thailand camps, where you can find four generations living under one roof.
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