Crossword-Solution: PILOTIS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PILOTIS | anagram | SPOILIT |
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| posts raising a building up from the ground | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything
flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour
water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the
waters; to pour out sand or dust.
Hint 2 anagram
PORU
Hint 3 another clue
Stream
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Sentences with PILOTIS (5)
One of the most significant new themes in the design of this skyscraper, whose premonitory character can only be fully appreciated in relation to the use of _pilotis_ in later modern architecture (see Chapter 22), is already to be found in a project of Sullivan’s of the previous year for the St Louis Trust & Savings Bank.
Like Sullivan’s piers at the base of the Guaranty Building of 1894-5 (Plate #119:pl119) the effect of these _pilotis_, allowing circumambient space to pass under the enclosed building above, was to enhance very strongly the look of volume as opposed to mass.
The house that he built for Hélène de Mandrot at Le Pradet in Provence in 193O-1 is raised on no _pilotis_ but sits firmly on a terrace; and its walls, where solid, are of rough, uncoursed rubble.
The _pilotis_ he used in the twenties were thin and round, rather like Perret’s columns, though without their facets and capitals; but here a double row of heavy piers of a complex moulded section carries a dormitory block that is boldly cantilevered out from them both front and back.
Their ‘plaza’ is unconfined; Bunshaft’s open space is defined by a mezzanine on _pilotis_ carried round an unroofed court.