The government plans to deploy 1,000 police officers to seal off the Senate, which is in a concrete monolith on the Manila waterfront.

Some time in the 1920s the current concrete monolith was added.

Grim concrete monoliths, eyeing the new spaces in Upper Street where they hoped to spawn their horrid progeny.

Outside, their building looked exactly like the other twenty gray concrete monoliths in the complex.

In a city whose skyline has long been dominated by concrete Soviet monoliths, some unlikely new neighbors have been appearing.

To prevent the concrete monolith from sliding forward, it was decided to install seven cable anchors deep into the bedrock.

In June 2012, a hundred-foot-tall reinforced concrete monolith was completed, the first of 46 such monoliths that will line the new Pacific-side lock walls.

It was a fifteen-story white concrete monolith with bronze windows.

The concrete monolith, with virtually no windows, was built by Aum members so construction workers would know nothing of its interior.

By June 2012, a 30 m reinforced concrete monolith had been completed, the first of 46 such monoliths which will line the new Pacific-side lock walls.