While battling a blaze in south Philadelphia on Saturday evening, Captain Michael Goodwin fell from a third-story roof onto another structure that was engulfed in flames, fire officials said.
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Inside it works well, with the steep walls of seating adding to the drama provided by the sinuously undulating roof of the core structure.
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But they perform together on a makeshift stage inside a brick structure with a roof made out of discarded U.N. bags.
This relates to the weight gain disadvantage, as the engineers must attempt to compensate for the loss of structure (the roof) by reinforcing the lower parts of the body.
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We circled a lake, near a structure with a domed roof the Pavilion of Cameroon and Togo, erected for the Colonial Exhibition of 1931.
Greenwich Hospital Estates, which has owned the market since 1849, plans to build a 104-room hotel, provide office space and replace the market's canopy with a glass roof, but keep the original structure.
Four cranes lifted the roof into place on top of the structure's frame.
The Grade I listed concert and conference venue will see its whole structure given a facelift, from its roof to windows and electrical wiring.
Architects Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti have created a thoroughly modern structure with a golden-toned, undulating glass and metal roof that resembles a veil being lifted by the wind.
The modernist structure is built of concrete and glass, with an undulating copper roof that rises to an open semi-circle at its center.
Unibody construction, in which a vehicle's roof, door frames and floor pan are part of a unified, rigid structure, has made vehicles lighter and stiffer.
The external structure of the Olympic Stadium has been built, the dynamic curving roof of the Aquatics Center is more than halfway complete, and work is "progressing well" on the Olympic Village, the Velodrome indoor cycling venue, and the main press center, officials say.
Round and round the structure we turn, a big line of us, emerging eventually on the roof.
Basements provide good protection if equipped with a suitable door and a concrete roof, but basements of pier-beam houses would leave their occupants exposed and vulnerable if the structure above them were blown away, said Ernst Kiesling, a former professor of civil engineering at Texas Tech.
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