To put the full weight of Europe's cultural identity crisis on a slender spire of traditional architecture meant risking a dangerous debate, which has now erupted, and not only in Switzerland.
Indeed, as Plato and Aristotle have little to say on the topic, the pre-Baumgarten catalogue of philosophical accounts of architecture is even more slender.
Here, among other highlights, are two suspended staircases that rise on slender steel rods, proof that 50's architecture at G.M. was often more elegant than the company's big-finned products.
In the design of slender concrete columns, such as civil or architecture constructions, biaxial compression loads with unequal eccentricities and skew angles at both ends is a common situation.
On a highly superficial level, it is possible to discuss the implications of using brushed aluminum and long, slender lines to illustrate a sense of futurism and references to technology in architecture.
The response in plant architecture of wheat to high planting density is characterized by a longer and slender stem with low-density tissue, resulting in poor lodging resistance (Zheng et al., 2013).
However, over the last decade, more fanciful architecture and financial pressure to reduce costs have resulted in new buildings with fewer and more slender shear walls.
The palette of the architecture is disciplined, grey on grey, with the same concrete blocks inside and out, slate floors, slender aluminium window frames, and timber doors cut to fit the angles of the blocks.
Ottoman architecture, derived from Islamic and Byzantine traditions, is exemplified by the Selimiye Mosque (1575) at Edirne, Tur., with its great central dome and slender minarets.
