Sentence examples for brick piers from inspiring English sources

Many of the newer homes are gated, their fences anchored by chunky brick piers.

Massive, forbidding brick piers anchoring the exterior signaled a break with classical historical styles.

He passed a half-finished side porch propped up on brick piers; men in hard hats were pacing the blond floorboards.

A taut structure of wiry rigging, of the kind usually used to hold up curtain wall glazing, it has a high-tech yachty feel, at odds with the sober 1930s language of brick piers.

Once arrangements were made to lease the building, the architect and his workers started scraping away the layers of paint and found that the walls were made up of brick piers that supported to roof timbers with concrete block between the piers.

The similarly giant Jay Street project in Brooklyn -- it will have 74 courtrooms and 10 hearing rooms -- departs so much from the courthouse norm that it could easily be mistaken for an office building, although the brick piers that will rise up its facade should, in at least a modest way, echo the notion of courthouse columns.

In application, an appropriate material proportion (20% gypsum) was sintered into bricks, and the brick pier was used for compression test.

The entrance hall, below the equatorial room, octagonal in shape, is centered around a brick pier.

Each of the rooms had a mounted transit telescope on a brick pier; the piers are still visible in the basement below the transit rooms.

Built by the firm of Warner and Swasey, Cleveland, Ohio, the scope is stabilized on a brick pier which extends down into the bedrock and is not attached to the building in any way.

Other parts have red brickwork with inset flints, and the main entrance has red-brick piers with knapped flintwork.