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    A triforium is an interior gallery, opening onto the tall central space of a building at an upper level. In a church, it opens onto the nave from above...
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    third level was inserted between them, a gallery called the "triforium". The triforium generally opens into space beneath the sloping roof of the aisle...
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  • Triforium is a 60-foot high, concrete public art sculpture mounted with 1,494 Venetian glass prisms, light bulbs, and an internal 79-bell carillon located...
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    (arcade, tribune, triforium, clerestory) was transformed in the choir of Beauvais Cathedral to very tall arcades, a thin triforium, and soaring windows...
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    thinner, made extensive use of pinnacles and moldings. They combined the triforium gallery and the clerestory into single space and filled it with stained...
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    with blocky porticoed pinnacles, surrounding a tall nave, a clerestory, a wide triforium, and two side aisles. Arrows show structural forces (details)....
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    Low Countries, Germany, Spain, northern Italy and Sicily. The glazed triforium (center level) and upper clerestory, where windows fill almost the entire...
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    Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries were opened. Located in the medieval triforium, high up around the sanctuary, they are areas for displaying the abbey's...
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    vaulting (1608, restored 1860s) over the nave at Bath Abbey, Bath, England. Suppression of the triforium offers a greater expanse of clerestory windows....
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    Structural elements of a gothic basilica. Variations: Where the roofs have a low slope, the triforium gallery may have own windows or may be missing....
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