Some of the coverings are clearly improvised and one neighbor has covered her roof with a Bud Light billboard.
With the end of an active year just days away, Icahn more than doubled his position in Chesapeake Energy, sending the stock through the roof in a very light session Monday.
Structured like a tree, the new centre will have a huge canopy letting in light through the roof.
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Some business leaders, state officials and MPs are allowed to drive with a blue light on the roof, giving them the right to cut through traffic.
That sliding roof is tinted a very light gray-green via new process that blocks almost all damaging sunlight rays and, also, is said to be 10 times harder to bust than tempered glass.
You can get a special roof that will glow with ambient light or become completely transparent at the touch of a button.
Many Russians, despite the financial chaos, are rich enough to pay a few thousand dollars for an officially sanctioned flashing blue light on their car roof, allowing them to carve through the traffic like a marauding Cossack.
First presented on 11 March, 2002, and shown annually on 11 September ever since, the tribute consists of 88 7, 000-watt xenon light bulbs placed on a roof near the WTC site in two 48-foot squares that echo the shape and orientation of the twin towers.
Design-wise, the most spectacular aspect of Terminal 2 is its lattice roof, which is studded with special, light-sensitive lenses that look like peacock feathers overhead.
It had to be preserved, and Foster's scheme for so doing entailed sweeping away the clutter of now obsolete bookstack buildings from around it and covering the court with a light glass-and-steel roof, creating Europe's largest enclosed space, which will function as the access core of the museum.
The glass and white-painted steel roof floats elegantly above the building, letting in natural light so that how the works look changes with the day.
The upper flashing lights are integrated into the roof panel, eliminating the need for a bolted-on light bar that causes aerodynamic drag -- reducing fuel economy -- and can lead to rust.
The sloped ceiling of the living roof has a gold leaf inset that is designed to reflect natural light.
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The floor of the home was mud, the roof had holes, there was no refrigerator for food and no light to study by.
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Further light clusters are housed in the rear cross member between the roof rails.
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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.
The new Centre Court roof will open in less than 10 minutes and will be see-through to allow natural light to reach the grass.
Our attention was then drawn to the roof of the palace, where 80s British band Madness sang "Our House" as a light projection transformed the imposing royal residence into a row of typical British terraced houses.
The Riverside Museum is an enormous shed of zinc and glass in the shape of a giant stylized S. The roof is bunched in folds, and at each end are glass walls that bring in plenty of light.
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