He writes that "a dumb glass box is preferable to a dumb masonry box".
But now it's becoming more evident that a dumb glass box is preferable to a dumb masonry box, or a dumb collage box, and that, in any case, technology has greatly expanded the expressive potential of glass.
In masonry buildings without a box-type behaviour and subjected to seismic loadings, in-plane and out-of-plane failure mechanisms can take place where frictional resistances might play a predominant role.
The gifts are the company's foundation, the perfectly wrapped boxes the metaphorical masonry.
He even broke open a collection box with a masonry hammer.
At that time slaughterhouses stank where the United Nations now stands; els clattered past brownstones on Second, Third and Sixth Avenues; and walls of stolid masonry lined Park Avenue where glass office boxes now rise.
Box-buildings are structural masonry buildings named as such because of their shape.
Talk story about opening a sealed copper box, which was walled up in the masonry of the Pulitzer Bldg., 63 Park Row, in 1889, when the cornerstone was laid.
In study models for his project, Mr. Portzamparc also played with various combinations of drum and box forms, with contrasts in glass and masonry cladding.
By John Brooks The New Yorker, February 25 , 1956 P. 26Talk story about opening a sealed copper box, which was walled up in the masonry of the Pulitzer Bldg., 63 Park Row, in 1889, when the cornerstone was laid.
