Ceiling

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Ceiling

A ceiling is an overhead interior surface that bounds the upper limit of a room. It is generally not a structural element, but a finished surface concealing the underside of the floor or roof structure above.

A cathedral

Cathedral

A cathedral is a Christian church that contains the seat of a bishop. It is a Religion building for worship, specifically of a denomination with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Roman Catholic Church, Anglicanism, Orthodox Christian and some Lutheranism churches, which serves as a bishop's seat, and thus as the central church of a dioc...
ceiling is any tall ceiling area similar to those in a church.

A dropped ceiling

Dropped ceiling

File:3000K LED T-Bar Ceiling Light.JPGA dropped ceiling is a secondary ceiling, hung below the main ceiling. They may also be referred to as a drop ceiling, false ceiling, or suspended ceiling, and are a staple of modern construction and architecture....
is one in which the finished surface is constructed anywhere from a few inches to several feet below the structure above it.

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Cathedral

Dropped ceiling

HVAC

HVAC is an initialism or acronym that stands for "heating, Ventilation , and air conditioning". HVAC is sometimes referred to as climate control and is particularly important in the design of medium to large industrial and office buildings such as skyscrapers and in marine environments such as aquariums, where humidity and tem...
or piping

Piping

Within industry, piping is a system of pipe used to convey fluids from one location to another. The engineering discipline of piping design studies the efficient transport of fluid....
. An inverse of this would be a raised floor

Raised floor

A raised floor is a type of floor used in office buildings with a high requirement for servicing to carry cables, wiring, electrical supply, and sometimes air conditioning or chiller water pipes....
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A concave

Concave

The word concave means curving in or hollowed inward. The term is most commonly used to refer to:* Lens #Types of simple lenses, a lens with inward-curving surfaces....
or barrel shaped ceiling is curved or rounded, usually for visual or acoustical value, while a coffer

Coffer

A coffer in architecture, is a sunken panel in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or Vault . A series of these sunken panels were used as decoration for a ceiling or a vault, also called caissons , or lacunaria , so that a coffered ceiling can be called a lacunar ceiling....
ed ceiling is divided into a grid of recessed square or octagonal panels, also called a lacunar ceiling. A cove ceiling uses a curved plaster transition between wall and ceiling; it is named for cove molding, a molding with a concave curve.

Ceilings have frequently been decorated with fresco

Fresco

Fresco is any of several related painting types, done on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco , which has Latin origins....
painting, mosaic

Mosaic

Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other material. It may be a technique of Decorative arts, an aspect of interior decoration or of cultural and spiritual significance as in a cathedral....
tiles and other surface treatments. While hard to execute (at least in situ) a decorated ceiling has the advantage that it is largely protected from damage by fingers and dust. In the past, however, this was more than compensated for by the damage from smoke from candles or a fireplace. Many historic buildings have celebrated ceilings, perhaps the most famous is the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Sistine Chapel ceiling

The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is one of the most renowned artworks of the Renaissance painting. The ceiling is that of the large Sistine Chapel built within the Vatican City by Pope Sixtus IV, begun in 1477 and finished by 1480....
by Michelangelo

Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance Painting, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer....
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