Round 11: Tossup 14

One of these structures at Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral is decorated with a mosaic memorializing (15[1])the House of Habsburg. Garrets are found inside buildings with the “mansard,” or French, type of these structures, a subtype of their gambrel variety. Renzo Piano’s California Academy of Sciences has one of these structures resembling a meadow, an example of their (*) “green” variety. White paint is a simple solution for creating more reflective “cool” types of these structures. These structures might have triangular gables or overhanging eaves. For 10 points, shingles are used to cover what structures that enclose the top of a building? ■END■

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