The plentiful gray Indiana limestone piers, dark windows, and spandrels so recessed they practically disappear work together to give the building a striking vertical emphasis.
Within the library itself, a forest of steelwork is securing the external structure before two massive stone window piers are removed for assessment.
From the muscular stone-clad ground-floor piers and Gothically detailed windows to the simple brick and stone masonry that clads its facade, Sherrill Hall is as much a landmark-quality structure as its more celebrated 19th- and 20th-century companions.
The administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has injected more than $30 million into upgrading the yard, and it is planning to invest an additional $180 million in the next three years to install roofs and windows; rebuild piers; and modernize roads and the electrical, water and sewage systems.
A man sitting with his date at a table near the window pointed out piers along the Hudson".See the first one?
Romanesque churches characteristically incorporated semicircular arches for windows, doors, and arcades; barrel or groin vaults to support the roof of the nave; massive piers and walls, with few windows, to contain the outward thrust of the vaults; side aisles with galleries above them; a large tower over the crossing of nave and transept; and smaller towers at the church's western end.
They had thicker, heavier walls that were not much changed from Romanesque proportions; accentuated, repeated moldings on the edges of interior arches; a sparing use of tall, slender, pointed lancet windows; and nave piers consisting of a central column of light-coloured stone surrounded by a number of slimmer attached columns made of black Purbeck marble.
It has a solid horizontal base and then it has the soaring verticals with window bays between vertical piers just as on Saarinen's design.
The unmoulded arch rested on wide piers, each broken by a narrow window, above which ran a simple cornice.
Piers Morgan tragically jumped from the window of the CNN studio in New York midway through reading the statement aloud during the live broadcast of his show.
The Amerigo Vespucci would dock a bit further down the pier than originally intended, leaving a window of clear space for the revelers.
