Tilt-up construction is a method of casting reinforced concrete wall panels on site in a horizontal position, then tilting them up into their final position.
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Amorphous is an irregularly shaped building that has no easily definable form.
MAD // Ordos Art & City Museum, Gobi desert.
The public broadcasting centre Villa VPRO was the first project of MVRDV, realised in 1997. The building successfully revolutionised work spaces through a series of interconnected office floors. An essential design tool was a long list of staff’s wishes and demands for the perfect working environment, such as a building without air-conditioning, and the Villa VPRO grows chives on the roof, handy when the staff has lunch up there. — MVRDV
A further line of defence in front of a castle’s gatehouse, often designed to enclose attackers who could then be bombarded from above with missiles.
Barbican also refers to the fortified outposts lying outside the main defences of a city’s walls.
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