The northernmost stand of the ground is the David Longhurst Stand, which is a covered terrace for home supporters and has a row of supporting pillars across its front.
In the calm of the falling snow, Rudi could make out images of the supporting pillars of his life.
Perched on ten-metre-high (33 feet) curved supporting pillars, rather like a grounded spaceship, it is set back from the road in a landscaped garden.
Ironically, the nativist lunacy sweeping through the GOP underscores the conceptual connection between free trade and immigration, as mutually supporting pillars of economic freedom.
One architect, she said, wants to build a room in which supporting pillars are wrapped in flexible white pholed sheets, making them into cylinders of light.
But the wide lower hall, which is roofed with undulating steel ribs, is a beguiling space, with sight lines unobscured by anything so mundane as supporting pillars.
Underscoring their seriousness, the guerrillas have wired the theater's supporting pillars, seats and even themselves with plastic explosives, according to hostages released from the theater and others speaking from inside on cellphones.
Zaman reported that a seven-storey block in Ercis collapsed because supporting pillars had been removed from its ground floor so the space could be used as a car showroom, run by the contractor who built the building.
These include high extraction retreat, where the roof supporting pillars are systematically removed, and longwall mining, which employs a machine that mines a continuous strip of coal, thus leaving no roof supports.
Views of the pitch from this stand were somewhat restricted by supporting pillars.
