Foundations are designed to convey the weight of a structure to the ground underneath and around it.
Subsequently, the department determined that the ground underneath was unstable, filled with debris from houses demolished in the 1930's.
"So instead of an apple tree with open ground underneath and veg somewhere else, it's all integrated".
The delicate layering of semitransparent hanging, folding walkways and volumes allows filtered shadows to soak the ground underneath and carves a textured roofscape for visitors below.
To his eye, it indicated that the ground underneath had been disturbed in a way that might be consistent with a grave site.
The reeds were two to six feet tall, and the soft ground underneath was covered with one to three feet of water.
To engineers, uneven movement of a dam means that the ground underneath may be falling away; the uneven pressure could ultimately cause a breach.
It's all very complicated, as are most things in railroads in the 21st century, especially those involving Brooklyn, Jersey City, the ground underneath and the water in between.
Under English law, the freehold of a property covers only the surface of the land it is built on and not the ground underneath, which belongs to the Crown or other rights holders.
But Dr. Koeberl said something hitting an ice sheet would still generate a hole in the ground underneath, and he questioned whether smaller impacts or air explosions would produce the shock waves needed to make diamonds.
It's a dangerous job, especially in a city like New York, where buildings reach high into the sky, and the ground underneath is a beehive of subways, gas lines and miles of steam pipes.
