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[squirmelia]

On my way to work, I stared up at the rooftops, trying to spot a Mansard roof, after ixamxfe_y mentioned them. The sun hurt my eyes, bright and glaring, at that time. I don't think I saw any Mansard roofs, but I did notice the mish-mash of architecture I pass every day, and the angles of roof tops and how odd some of the buildings look.

The building in the photo is not one I see every day, but it is near my office.

Comments

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

OK, that looks cool but also rather impractical with those acute angles.

[complexicon.livejournal.com]

...and is the pic a Mansard roof?

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Does it even have a roof?

[complexicon.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can see a building/s with roof/s.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't think it's a mansard roof.

[complexicon.livejournal.com]

No, thanks to wiki I now know what a Mansard roof is.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I think I understood what it meant on Wikipedia, but I'm just not sure. Would I really recognise one? I've been looking for windows in roofs and steeper than normal roofs.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Is this one, do you think?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=subway,+headington,+oxford&sll=51.759328,-1.21382&sspn=0.001341,0.003449&ie=UTF8&hq=subway,&hnear=Headington,+Oxford,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.759478,-1.213558&spn=0.010625,0.027595&z=15&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=51.759583,-1.213595&panoid=2zOCPz9bPZSG_l_lhyi7Mw&cbp=12,270.11,,0,-8.94

[complexicon.livejournal.com]

I think it is but missing the top gentler slope perhaps?

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

It may be close enough that I can stop looking now. :)

[(Anonymous)]

do you work in the hospital?

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I don't. Do you?

[mansunite.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's a Mansard roof indeed! The more 'stereotypical' types have an inwards bow, but straight (albeit, still angled) "roof-walls" make it such.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Thanks for confirming! Next I'll probably suddenly realise that where I live has one too.