Sentence examples for concrete mass from inspiring English sources
When you're in that world, homogenised estates can just feel like you're living in this concrete mass jungle.
"We wanted something festive, which would contrast with the brutalist concrete mass of Denys Lasdun's building," says architect Paddy Dillon.
It was among the first curtain-wall buildings in New York, a triumph of glass volume over concrete mass, pure balance over specious symmetry.
The processes of heat penetration into a concrete mass are extremely important.
As distinctive as the Shed's exterior is — its red planks just a few yards from the brutalist concrete mass of Denys Lasdun's National complex — its interior is the sort of black-box space that is common at many colleges.
The vibration isolation of such test benches, designed to operate under arbitrary load histories in the frequency range 0 200 Hz, has been obtained with a fibre-reinforced concrete mass equipped with a dual suspension system.
Most New Brutalist buildings, however, owed more to Le Corbusier's late work for example, the gray concrete masses of Denys Lasdun's University of East Anglia, Norfolk (1962 68)—while Sir James Stirling's History Faculty, Cambridge (1964 67), brought a neo-Constructivist element to the Brutalist tradition.
In what follows, both concrete and quasi-concrete mass expressions will be referred to as 'concrete mass expressions,' except when the distinction is needed.
Due to the almost exclusive emphasis on concrete and quasi-concrete mass nouns in the metaphysics literature, this article will follow suit.
While an analysis of concrete and quasi-concrete mass expressions could possibly be carried over to generate a general metaphysical theory of masses, the prospects for this are dim.
Moreover, we should also be skeptical of the possibility of a metaphysical analysis of concrete and quasi-concrete mass expressions to straightforwardly deliver a linguistic or metaphysical interpretation of mass expressions and their referents in general.
