In an industry that has hundreds of luxury brands vying for attention, only a handful have established identities that arouse passionate support, reflecting their combination of heritage, independence, innovation and craftsmanship — the four foundation pillars of a lasting luxury brand.
Folding cores are like the foundation pillars of a building, which needs to be present before the rest of the building can come together.
Around the hot springs, Roman foundations, pillar bases, and baths can still be seen, however all the stonework above the level of the baths is from more recent periods.
A large basin was excavated at the north end of the Jinming Lake capable of containing the dragon ships, and in it heavy crosswise beams were laid down upon a foundation of pillars.
Local government has been eroded for decades and when you erode the foundations, the pillars start to shake.
Smart substation acts as an important foundation and pillar of strong smart grid, which has characteristics of information digitization, networking communication platform and information sharing standardization [1, 2], and completes some functions of system monitoring, controlling and protection, etc.
To explore the instability mechanism of room and pillar gob, we established a mechanical model of elastic plate on elastic foundation in which pillars and hard roofs were considered as continuous Winkler foundations and elastic plates, respectively.
Built in 1912, the bridge is made entirely of wood, apart from a foundation of stone pillars, and is cleverly dovetailed together without using nails or rivets.
Kültepe (Kayseri) became an important trade and cultural center between Anatolia, Northern Syria and Mesopotamia starting with the end of the third millennium B.C. Kültepe structures, consisting of mud-brick walls on stone foundations and wood pillars to carry the roof, formed the basis of the typical Hittite architecture.
Some are in the Arts and Crafts style, with front porches and attractive stonework on pillars, foundations and around front doors.
Everything that wasn't firmly planted in the ground was washed away; what was left – foundations, walls, wooden pillars – was smothered in three metres of thick ooze and debris.
