Sentence examples for a diagonal grid from inspiring English sources
Walls are of glass, supported by a diagonal grid of light blue metal that covers almost the entire surface.
The flower motif turns linear and — enmeshed in a diagonal grid — forms offhandedly Persian patterns that are tellingly modulated by different color contrasts.
The tower's most prominent feature is the brash geometric pattern of its glass and steel, which the architect calls a "diagrid": a diagonal grid of supporting trusses, covering the façade with a series of four-story-high triangles.
Foster's proposal featured curtain walls of glass and stainless steel hung in a diagonal grid that met at each corner of the structure in a dramatic chamfer, a zigzag bevelled edge formed of four concave diamond shapes, each sixteen feet deep and eight stories high, known as "bird's mouths" by the architects.
The building is patterned on a diagonal grid with concrete, which provides both its structure and aesthetics.
When multiplied like a mere decorative motif across a diagonal grid it hints at the callous disregard for a huge number of black bodies beaten and bloodied.
They took the famous Versailles parquet floor pattern, a basket weave inset within a larger diagonal grid, and reinterpreted wood in bronze.
With its bold introduction of a quiltwork diagonal grid, or diagrid, into the relentlessly right-angled cityscape, the future headquarters of the Hearst Corporation gives some sense of what New York might have experienced in Lord Foster's proposal for the trade center site.
The vertical and angled studs create a pleasing geometric pattern that the architect refers to as a diagrid, for diagonal grid.
The metre has proved useful for this purpose; Frank Lloyd Wright used a 4-foot (1.3-metre) rectilinear or diagonal grid; and Le Corbusier developed and widely published an additive proportioning system named by him the Modulor.
The diagonal grid ceiling of the second floor alone took seven builders, seven days a week for nine weeks to complete.
