Louvres

Wooden louvres favoured by colonial architects hung still from the windows. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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". ❋ Vanessa Thorpe (2010)

Views from the top, through glass louvres, are of four counties and every local site associated with Shakespeare himself. ❋ Jonathan Glancey (2010)

He said some of the most common mistakes are dirty fans, louvres and intakes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The flow rate is controlled by louvres on the leeward side, which also incorporates solar panels to provide heat for the evaporators. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They hung behind the shutter louvres like gargoyle pelts, could enter the house through the smallest crack. ❋ Terence Cannon (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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The wind is up tonight, tearing at the louvres, sweeping along the concrete contours of our condominium and clutching at the corners with distraught whistles and moans. ❋ Bruce Schauble (2007)

Though, even at that, the louvres are parallel to the incoming asphalt radiation, not perpendicular, right? ❋ Unknown (2007)

So, to the extent that radiation energy is important, the louvres heavily block downward radiation, but much less so upward. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The wind is up tonight, tearing at the louvres, sweeping along the outside walls of our condo and clutching at the corners with distraught whistles and moans. ❋ Bruce Schauble (2007)

All buildings are standing – condos, houses, villas, etc – though many have lost palapa roofs, and quite a few lost windows or louvres. ❋ Unknown (2005)

S/he continued to look at me before walking along the length of the skylight and exiting noiselessly through the louvres at the other end. ❋ Kirsty (2007)

Paint removers, window louvres, masking tape and plastic gutters ❋ Andrew (2006)

You want that [Van Gogh]? Fine, we'll get it from the Louvre. I [Lourve] you and [your wallet]. ❋ Andrew Fisher (2006)

Last week Joe and I did [the Eiffel Tower] with [Monica] and last night she returned the [favor]. She brought her friend over and we did the Louvre. ❋ RealCraigles (2022)

Person #1: Hey, you went to the Louvre! Did you see [the Mona Lisa]? Person #2: Yeah... Person #1: You sound [disappointed]. Person #2: Well, it's really small, and behind 4 feet of [bullet-proof] glass! You could hardly see it. Excuse me, sir, but we've been lost here for 4 days and nights without food or water. Please show us the way to the exits. ❋ Lancelot323 (2009)

I was enjoying [the Mona Lisa] when I was hit with a bad case of [fartosis of the Louvre] and had to run for the [exit]. ❋ Onehandcrabbing (2012)

That skinny [dime] over there with the [vagina louvre] really needs to wear [yoga pants] more often. That vagina louvre gave me a boner ❋ McNugget1654 (2012)

"The Beyoncefication and Jay-Zification of Louvre: Make Black Beautiful Again" (by Zekeh Gbotokuma) "The Beyoncefication and Jay-Zification of Louvre is, to some extent, a "[Mea Culpa]" confession. Through it, France (and the western world in general) is correcting and overcoming [Eurocentrism] and obsolete pseudo-scientific theories that have [ostracized] Africa and reduced Africans to second-class humans and cosmocitizens. The Beyoncefication and Jay-Zification of Louvre is one of the best possible ways of practicing the French republican ideals of LIBERTE, EGALITE & FRATERNITE" (Z. Gbotokuma). ❋ Cosmocitizen (2018)