levantes negros de pizarra

English translation: black slate roof-tops [extensions]

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Spanish term or phrase:levantes negros de pizarra
English translation:black slate roof-tops [extensions]
Entered by: liz askew

15:07 Apr 21, 2024
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Architecture
Spanish term or phrase: levantes negros de pizarra
This describes an image of Paris:

Vemos París con sus levantes negros de pizarra sobre los edificios nobles, algunos coches antiguos y dos calles que se entrecruzan. Una de ellas es la Rue de Téhéran,

black slate---what?? Clearly a reference to an aspect of the building-
Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
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black slate roof-tops [extensions]
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liz askew
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I went with this because the technical detail was not important. Thanks
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4 +2black slate garrets
philgoddard
3 +2black slate gables
patinba
3black slate roof-tops [extensions]
liz askew
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black slate roof-tops [extensions]


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liz askew
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I went with this because the technical detail was not important. Thanks
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
black slate garrets


Explanation:
We've had this before, but I don't think 'overbuildings' works here.
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish-to-english/law-general/348...

A garret is a habitable attic, a living space at the top of a house or larger residential building, traditionally small with sloping ceilings. In the days before elevators this was the least prestigious position in a building, at the very top of the stairs.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garret


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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  neilmac: I like "garrets" as (for me, anyway) it evokes Parisian artistic history....
11 hrs

agree  Andrew Bramhall: Yes, would-be artists yet to make the grade starving in them!
18 hrs

neutral  Adrian MM.: an architectural improbability - a black slate (shingle) garret would describe the interior, rather than the exterior.
1 day 2 hrs
  -> Of course it's not the interior.
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black slate gables


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Traveller's guide: The Dordogne and the Lot
The Independent
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May 29, 2010 — ... slate gables and turrets and formal French gardens (00 33 5 53 50 51 ... By rail, the main approach is on the "classic" line from Paris Austerlitz ...

The Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe, ...

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On the Left Bank, the horizon was wide open as far as the blue slate gables of the hôtel de ville; on the right bank you could see as far as the lead ...
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The levantes are evidently exterior features of the buildings, not a room or a garret.

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Note added at 1 día 3 horas (2024-04-22 18:15:31 GMT)
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(DOC) A Paris in To the Lighthouse | andre gerard

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Read against the chimneys and gables of Paris, Woolf's eschewal of the overt and the specific calls attention to the indirection and subtle deftness of her ...

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The background of this pastoral scene are the walls and gables of Paris itself; in fact, the same buildings whose roofs were represented in the month of May ...

patinba
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Adrian MM.: but agree that overbuilding is ambiguous as an action or structure https://stock.adobe.com/at/images/black-slate-shingle-gable-...
1 day 1 hr
  -> Thank you!

agree  liz askew
1 day 16 hrs
  -> Thank you Liz!
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techos......

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oh,here

https://urbenarquitectos.com/es/portfolio-item/levante-con-c...

looks like extra roof space/roof level/extension

Levante con cubierta curva en edificio de viviendas de San Sebastián
Ambicioso proyecto de levante en edificio de viviendas del área romántica de San Sebastián. Reforma que plantea muchos retos, el principal, la cubierta curva, que se apoya en vigas de una sola pieza y logra un espectacular y luminoso espacio interior.

En la última manzana del Área Romántica, sobre un edificio entre medianeras de seis plantas altas, se realiza la reforma total y segregación de la última planta y levante sobre ésta de una nueva planta con una vivienda en dúplex aprovechando el espacio bajocubierta.

liz askew
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