Guastavino tile vaulting in the City Hall station of the New York City SubwayGuastavino ceiling tiles on the south arcade of the Manhattan Municipal Building
The Guastavino tile arch system is a version of Catalan vault introduced to the United States in 1885 by Spanish architect and builder Rafael Guastavino (1842–1908).[1] It was patented in the United States by Guastavino in 1892.[2]
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^R. Guastavino, "Construction of Buildings", US 468296, February 2, 1892
Guastavinotile arch system is a version of Catalan vault introduced to the United States in 1885 by Spanish architect and builder Rafael Guastavino (1842–1908)...
based in New York City. Based on the Catalan vault, he created the Guastavinotile, a "Tile Arch System", patented in the United States in 1885, which was...
Uruguayan football player Guastavinotile, patented by Rafael Guastavino in 1885 This page lists people with the surname Guastavino. If an internal link intending...
layers of tiles in fast-setting cement set flat against the surface of the curve, rather than perpendicular to it. The father, Rafael Guastavino, innovated...
architect and builder Rafael Guastavino introduced the technique to the United States in the 1880s, where it is called Guastavinotile. It is used in many major...
swimming pool in the U.S., an indoor tennis court with vaulting of Guastavinotile, two squash courts, and guest bedrooms. On the lower level, there was...
grill room known as the Della Robbia Room, decorated ornately with Guastavinotile; part of the room survives and is designated as a New York City interior...
facades with green tile roofs. Each building has a central courtyard connected to the street by vaulted passages lined with Guastavinotile. The complex was...
style steel frame and masonry building with abundant terra cotta and Guastavinotile embellishments. The building has setbacks beginning at the seventh...
to Benjamin Horace Weese, Bandel personally saved the deteriorating Guastavinotile dome at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine by New York City in 1972...
the new subway. The platform and mezzanine feature Guastavinotile, skylights, colored glass tile work and brass chandeliers. Passenger service was discontinued...
ceilings of the vaults underneath the triforium galleries are faced with Guastavinotile and contain lighting. Above the clerestory, the nave's ceiling is eight...
on rough limestone foundation walls resting on concrete footings. Guastavinotile vaulting forms the ceilings on both the ground and first floor. The...
argued such a design would not be "a real dome". McKim then proposed a Guastavinotile dome, to which Ware agreed. The Norcross Brothers then proposed an...
vault – from Guastavinotile. U.S.-patented (1885) system using interlocking terracotta tiles and layers of mortar in a thin skin, with the tiles following...
original vaulted ceiling, with large light-colored Guastavinotile in a herringbone pattern. These tiles are the same used at the Boston Public Library,...
terracotta detailing, while its interior vaulted ceilings employ a Guastavinotile system. Structurally, it preceded the use of steel skeletons for skyscrapers...
The walls and vaults of the nave and transepts are constructed from Guastavinotile and were sealed in 1976 to increase sound reverberation and enhance...
as an additional layer to the structural tile of the Tile Arch System ceilings built by the Rafael Guastavino Company of New Jersey. The most prevalent...
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