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It began with a gradual rise up a short broad Wady, separating the southernmost counterforts of the Shárr from the north end of the Jebel el-Ghuráb.

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Two galleries, one under the windows, the other below the clochetoons of the counterforts, lead from the towers to the cross-aisle.

Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg Anonymous

Concrete retaining walls may for construction purposes be divided into two classes: Plain concrete walls of gravity section and reinforced concrete walls consisting of a thin slab taking the thrust of the earth as a cantilever anchored to a base slab or as a flat beam between counterforts.

Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette

Reinforced concrete abutments are usually of L-section with counterforts bracing the upright slab and bridge seat to the base slab.

Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette

Walls and abutments were of L section with triangular or trapezoidal counterforts at the back between base slab and coping.

Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette

It has large ogive windows adorned with _rosaces_; at the place where the buttresses, equally carved with _rosaces_, join the counterforts or pillars, they have at their tops fine clochetoons; a great many statues and grotesque figures of heads complete the ornaments of this part of the church.

Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg Anonymous

First, let the walls be given a thickness proportionate to the amount of filling; secondly, build counterforts or buttresses at the same time as the wall, on the outer side, at distances from each other equivalent to what is to be the height of the substructure and with the thickness of the substructure.

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

The whole of the façade is formed of the two fore-parts of the northern and southern towers and of the large central porch; these three distinct portions are separated by counterforts or pillars which divide, as it were, the frontispiece into three broad vertical bands, each of which has its portico.

Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg Anonymous

The whole arrangement and disposition of an arched building is affected by the necessity of providing counterforts to resist the thrust of arches.

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Where the second tier begins, at the bottom of the rose-window, are four equestrian statues, placed in niches in the counterforts, three of which, those of Clovis, Dagobert and

Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg Anonymous