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landfill
(redirected from Rubbish tip)

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landfill
a. disposal of waste material by burying it under layers of earth
b. (as modifier): landfill sites

landfill [′lan‚fil]
(civil engineering)
Disposal of solid waste by burying in layers of earth in low ground.


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The joke is the cerulean blue sky illuminating the rubbish tip, the palm trees and purple flowers beaming in the November sun--natural non-sequiturs, like the box of fresh chocolates offered to the journalists filming the woman's wounded son as she yells out her frustrations and horror at the Americans and the Israelis who are killing her family.
It was won by Rudy Ricciotti whose imagination -- austere, dramatic, and at times, ironic and surreal -- we have seen exercised on design of structures as varied as a slender footbridge across the Han River, from Seoul to Sunyudo Island, an equally tautly designed sailing school at Bandol (AR July 1998), and the great anthracite monolith of the Vitrolles Stadium (AR February 1996), built in what was once a municipal rubbish tip.
Prior to its redevelopment, the riverbed had been used as a rubbish tip generating an irregular, undulating topography with changes in level of up to 30m.
 
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