The oldest record of barrel vaults is estimated to date back to 4000 BC. These provided the spans in the Sumerian ziggurat at Nippur in Babylonia, built from fired bricks amalgamated with clay mortar.

ARCHITECTURE HOme in a Barrel VaultNew museums of late have tended to verge on the grandiose: the columned temple form of the Los Angeles County Museum, the mighty, circular Hirshhorn Museum planned ...

Architecture studio MAPAA has created a barrel-vaulted concrete office for a family-run wine business based in Pirque, Chile. MAPAA used pigmented concrete to create a trio of arching vaults over the ...

Ceilings are reaching new heights. These days, "10 feet is the new 9 feet," said architect John Cetra of New York-based CetraRuddy Architecture, noting that home buyers love high ceilings because they ...

The house architect Beverley Spears designed for herself and her husband, Phillip Crump, has not won any formal accolades yet, because it’s brand new. But there’s no doubt it will be an award-winner.