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piloti (pl.pilotis)

One of a number of isolated columns, posts, or piles that support a building, raising it above ground level; the ground floor is open to the exterior.

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No references found			At the other end of the book, Remi Papillault's paper, "Le Corbusier and the Plasticity of Raw Concrete: From the Pilotis of the Swiss Pavilion to the Capitol of Chandigarh", provides an interesting account of Le Corbusier's journey from the abstraction of the white wall to the complete investment in the materiality of "raw", exposed concrete. Corbusier's Concrete: Challenges of Conserving Modern Heritage by Burte, Himanshu / Marg, A Magazine of the Arts Its softly curving form is supported on abstractly-shaped chamfered pilotis," a city council leaflet explains. Office block hits heritage high spot by Hassall, Carol / Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) The Pavilion Suisse (1931-33) is a student dormitory raised above the ground on pilotis but it is also an urban manifesto like a slice of the collective housing from Le Corbusier's ideal city, the ' Ville Radieuse'. Le Corbusier the life of forms: 'the time of history ... a sea ... by Rubier, George / The Architectural Review			pilot reaming bit pilot relaying pilot report pilot rules pilot station pilot streamer pilot system pilot test pilot tone pilot tunnel pilot valve pilot vessel pilot waters pilot whale pilot wire regulator pilot-balloon observation Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Ussr pilot-scale chemical reaction Pilotage pilotage waters pilotaxitic piloted ignition pilothouse piloti Piloting pilotis pilotless aircraft Pilotovich, Stanislav Pilotovich, Stanislav Antonovich Piloty, Karl Theodor Von Piloty, Karl von Pilsen Pilsudski, Joseph Pilsudski, Jozef Pilsudski, Józef Piltanlor Piltdown Piltdown hoax Piltdown man Piltene pilus Pilva Pim PIM chip Pima pima cotton Pima County pimaricin Pimelic Acid Pimen Pimen Emelianovich Panchenko			Pilotage Risk Management Methodology pilotage waters pilotages pilotages pilotages pilotages pilotaxitic Pilote Automatique piloted piloted piloted piloted piloted piloted ignition Piloten zonder Grenzen Pilotes Amateurs de Véhicules d'Epoque pilotfish Pilotfish (fish) Pilotfish (fish) Pilotfishes pilothouse pilothouse Piloti piloting piloting piloting piloting piloting Piloting A Researcher's Directory Service in Europe Piloting of the Office Document Architecture pilotis Pilotism pilotless pilotless pilotless pilotless pilotless aircraft pilotless aircraft Pilotless Aircraft Unit Pilotless drone Pilotless Target Aircraft Pilotovich, Stanislav Pilotovich, Stanislav Antonovich pilots pilots pilots pilots pilots pilots Pilots Association of Canada Pilots Defending the Profession Pilots Development Officer Pilots Display Control Panel Pilots for Christ International, Inc. Pilots Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge Pilots Night Vision Sensor Pilots' Electronic Eye-level Presentation Piloty, Karl Theodor Von Piloty, Karl von Piloty-Robinson pyrrole synthesis Piloty-Robinson pyrrole synthesis

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