Who built that podium at such short notice?
The money raised by the host committees goes to build the podium, buy the balloons, build the skyboxes and the news media centers, rent the arena, and make all the internal changes to the structures where the conventions will be held.
On the practice field, a manager drove him around in a golf cart, and the college built a special podium for him to coach from.
The House chaplain, the Rev. Daniel P. Coughlin, used the Bible on which President Washington took his oath of office in his invocation, and a historian said that a piece of the railing from the balcony where Washington was inaugurated was incorporated in the podium built for the meeting.
Surrounding the tower is a five level basement with a low-level commercial podium built above it.
Sceneway Garden is built on the podium above Lam Tin Station.
After an extended recovery, he has begun to walk again, although at Carnegie he remained in a wheelchair; the Met supplied a custom-built podium that allows him to enter at ground level and then elevates him several feet, so he can survey the whole orchestra.
The backdrops for the podium was built using ice and snow, with the podium itself being made from ice from the glacier Jostedalsbreen.
- Podiums built by biased, liberal bastard carpenters at half an inch below stipulated height specifications, causing vertigo, headaches, nose bleeds, rambling and incoherent answers.
The best-known effort is Masdar in Abu Dhabi, a city that will eventually become home to 40,000 people and is built on a huge podium.
In its interior was a small temple with a cella built on a shallow podium.
