louvres

While remarkable for its "structural pyrotechnics", the judges noted the building was actually organised into five main areas, all lit naturally through a system of controllable skylights, louvres and beams that "create uplifting spaces".

Hadid's design edges out Ashmolean to win the Stirling prize Vanessa Thorpe 2010

Wooden louvres favoured by colonial architects hung still from the windows.

Where I find inspiration … 2011

Views from the top, through glass louvres, are of four counties and every local site associated with Shakespeare himself.

Royal Shakespeare Theatre: All's well ? Jonathan Glancey 2010

The flow rate is controlled by louvres on the leeward side, which also incorporates solar panels to provide heat for the evaporators.

Teatro del Agua 2007

The flow rate is controlled by louvres on the leeward side, which also incorporates solar panels to provide heat for the evaporators.

Archive 2007-06-01 2007

He said some of the most common mistakes are dirty fans, louvres and intakes.

AgWired 2009

Operable windows will allow staff members to actively manage their environment, and carbon dioxide sensors attached to exterior wall louvres will help to regulate air quality.

Weber + Thompson’s New Headquarters is the First Modern Office Building Without Air Conditioning 2008

Like a set of louvres, the tilted rotors pull in fresh wind from above, deflecting their wakes downward to insure fresh wind for succeeding rotors and, like a stack of kites, to add overall lift which helps support the driveshaft against gravity and downwind thrust forces.

SELSAM SUPERTURBINES: Flying wind-turbines for max power | Inhabitat 2008

They hung behind the shutter louvres like gargoyle pelts, could enter the house through the smallest crack.

Creatures: A Memoir Terence Cannon 2008

They hung behind the shutter louvres like gargoyle pelts, could enter the house through the smallest crack.

Creatures: A Memoir 2008