Architecture
- Vault (architecture), an arched form above an enclosed space
- Bank vault, a reinforced room or compartment where valuables are stored
- Burial vault (enclosure), a protective coffin enclosure
- Burial vault (tomb), an underground tomb
- Utility vault, an underground storage area accessed by a maintenance hole
- Film vault, in film preservation, a climate-controlled storage facility for films
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Famous quotes containing the word architecture:
“It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“Polarized light showed the secret architecture of bodies; and when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency, as if a more interior ray had been emitted, disclosing its deep holdings in the frame of things.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)