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stylobate
stylobate
1. Strictly, the single top course of the three steps of the crepidoma upon which the
Stylobate 

in ancient Greek temples, the upper surface of a stereobate on which a colonnade stands. Sometimes the entire upper step of a stereobate is called the stylobate.
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The location near CDH, the famous museum of modern art with the biggest collection of Russian avant-garde paintings, inspired the idea of five towers with common stylobates as interpretations of canvases by prominent masters of the 1920s--Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, Alexandra Ekster and Liubov Popova.
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