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Block by Block is based on an earlier initiative started in October 2011, Mina Kvarter (My Block), which gave young people in Swedish communities a tool to visualize how they wanted to change their part of town. According to Manneh, the project was a helpful way to visualize urban planning ideas without necessarily having a training in ...
Crinkle crankle wall in Bramfield, Suffolk. A crinkle crankle wall, also known as a crinkum crankum, sinusoidal, serpentine, ribbon or wavy wall, is an unusual type of structural or garden wall built in a serpentine shape with alternating curves, originally used in Ancient Egypt, but also typically found in Suffolk in England.
A fire barrier wall, or a fire partition, is a fire-rated wall assembly that are not structurally self-sufficient. [ 2 ] Fire barrier walls are typically continuous from an exterior wall to an exterior wall, or from a floor below to a floor or roof above, or from one fire barrier wall to another fire barrier wall, having a fire resistance ...
Southwyck House, also known locally as the Barrier Block, [1] is a large housing building on the Somerleyton Estate in Brixton, south London. [2] It was commissioned by Lambeth Council and approved by a planning committee which included future prime minister John Major .
Comparison of a ha-ha (top) and a regular wall (bottom). Both walls prevent access, but one does not block the view looking outward. A ha-ha (French: hâ-hâ [a a] ⓘ or saut de loup [so dÉ™ lu] ⓘ), also known as a sunk fence, blind fence, ditch and fence, deer wall, or foss, is a recessed landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier (particularly on one side) while preserving ...
An invisible wall (or alpha wall) is a boundary in a video game that limits where a player character can go in a certain area, but does not appear as a physical obstacle. [1] The term can also refer to an obstacle that in reality could easily be bypassed, such as a mid-sized rock or short fence, which does not allow the character to jump over ...
The Czech hedgehog is an antitank defense that, for Americans and Russians alike, evokes images of World War II. Moscow has a monument of Czech hedgehogs to mark the farthest that Nazi soldiers ...
A wave-dissipating concrete block is a naturally or manually interlocking concrete structure designed and employed to minimize the effects of wave action upon shores and shoreline structures, such as quays and jetties. One of the earliest designs is the Tetrapod, invented in 1950.