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- noun Plural form of
louvre .
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Examples
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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
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Wooden louvres favoured by colonial architects hung still from the windows.
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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
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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
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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
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He said some of the most common mistakes are dirty fans, louvres and intakes.
AgWired 2009
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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
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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
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They hung behind the shutter louvres like gargoyle pelts, could enter the house through the smallest crack.
Creatures: A Memoir Terence Cannon 2008
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They hung behind the shutter louvres like gargoyle pelts, could enter the house through the smallest crack.
Creatures: A Memoir 2008
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