Sentence examples for vertical piers from inspiring English sources

But on the early Rockefeller Center buildings, the spandrel panels were chosen with obvious horizontal bedding, an ingenious contrast with the otherwise plain vertical piers.

This greatly reduced the weight (and thus the outward thrust) of the ceiling vault, and since the vault's weight was now carried at discrete points (the ribs) rather than along a continuous wall edge, separate widely spaced vertical piers to support the ribs could replace the continuous thick walls.

Unreinforced masonry (URM) walls comprise vertical piers and horizontal spandrels, which together form the lateral load resisting system.

For the analysis of the walls, which consist of vertical piers connected by horizontal masonry spandrels, an equivalent frame model is adopted.

In a sense it even achieved it, by creating a "vertical pier".

The i360 will be a brilliant attraction and entirely in the spirit of the West Pier – a vertical pier.

The architects, David Marks and Julia Barfield, prefer to describe it as a "modern day vertical pier, which invites visitors to 'walk on air' and gain a new perspective on the city, just as the West Pier invited Victorian society to 'walk on water'".

Rather than add to its history of failed attempts at rebuilding, the i360 offers something new, a "vertical pier" in which you can "walk on air" rather than water.

But today, in its place, the West Pier Trust is building a vertical pier, a 162m spike of a tower with a glass-enclosed sky bar – evidence that changing tastes are as much a factor in the loss of our heritage as greed or stupidity.

When waves break against seawalls, vertical breakwaters, piers or jetties, they abruptly transfer their momentum into the structure.

Alongside Kapoor, he invited two other artists to submit ideas, including Antony Gormley, who proposed a gigantic model of himself through which visitors could clamber, and the architects Caruso St John, who came up with a vertical seaside pier.