Sentence examples for concrete plane from inspiring English sources

Their work culminated in an 18-pound concrete plane with a wingspan of 40 inches that had to fly without smashing.

This made it "the second known concrete plane to fly and the only one to stay intact upon landing," the school said.

Hadid wants her building to embrace the city, not to defy it, and to that end she designed the sidewalk as a concrete plane that continues into the building as the lobby floor, then curves upward and becomes the back wall.

Open image in new window Fig. 2 A typical reinforced concrete plane stress element.

The elements developed for the nonlinear finite element analyses of reinforced concrete bridge columns are a reinforced concrete plane stress element and an interface element (Kim et al. 2007, 2008).

This study is accomplished by: (1) nonlinear time history analyses (NLTHA) of reinforced concrete plane moment resisting frames with different span-to-depth and longitudinal reinforcement steel ratios subjected to several scaled seismic ground motions; (2) nonlinear time history analyses of three 3D reinforced concrete frames.

A bold inverted ziggurat of floating concrete planes, enclosing a world of open-plan floors linked by zigzagging escalators, it was greeted with rapture by the architectural press.

A long frieze of buttery limestone fins marches along the first floor, defining this upper level of laboratory spaces, held taut between two crisp concrete planes.

It is a showcase of the excesses, both good and bad, of contemporary architecture, ranging from the astonishing soaring concrete planes of one company HQ to a bizarre building known, for good reason, as the washing machine which, in turn, houses another.

As for the quality of the new buildings, "Wading through Piano's pointless concrete planes", says Curtis, "is like listening to enforced muzak before rising to the sublimity of Bach or Mozart".

Over the years, Anderson has used plenty of personal stuff: the humiliating dreams, the scrapes with death (a fall down an open manhole, a childhood backflip on to concrete, a plane crash).