We don't do a lot of very standard 20-story rectilinear buildings.
His studio is one of two elegant rectilinear buildings — the other is his house — in a large, walled, lushly gardened compound.
But the flamboyant form is unmistakably Gehry, with an almost comical, cartoon-like façade peeping over the rectilinear buildings beside it, mocking their square-ness in the process.
A student of the Bechers, Frank Breuer, uses the tight-cropping techniques of his teachers to frame street-sign logos — photographed, like the Bechers' images, against a plain white sky — and rectilinear buildings that look like minimalist sculptures branded with corporate logos.
Then there are huge rectilinear buildings, low to the ground, windowless.
Along with "the typical 12- to 25-story rectilinear apartment buildings," the avenue is home to four great towered buildings -- the Century, the Majestic, the San Remo and the El Dorado -- and the Beresford with its smaller towers, all of which create a "wonderful rhythm and silhouette," Mr. Dolkart said.
Etruscan, Celtic, Greek, and Roman place names are jammed together on the map; off-kilter medieval houses stand incongruously next to brash, rectilinear postwar buildings; stones quarried a millennium ago are repurposed for modern construction.
Here, a rectilinear masonry "host" building gets a makeover with glass curves.
The long, rectilinear, two-storey building, had a double cantilevered frame supported on a single row of concrete columns.
