These townhouses were characterised by their abandoning the modernist rules, the modification of the structural grid, the introduction of barrel vaults and historical references.
The building was designed on a structural grid and non load bearing walls were used so that the internal layout of the building could easily be changed when necessary.
The Vesnin brothers easily won the contest with a Brutalist, simple design emphasizing the structural grid of reinforced concrete and wraparound glazing.
Wally Henry, the sewerman, might stumble over Young America's below-decks structural grid.
The open living room is planned around a rectilinear structural grid whose dimensions are adjusted to suit the disposition of rooms above.
Here, the structural grid supports an experiment to show that form can depart from regularity yet deepen its obligation to function.
The structure is founded on 1,500 piles on a 10m structural grid.
The planning grid was 12x12 inches, and a structural grid of 36x36 inches.
In the main exhibition space, however, they simply run above the supporting trusses without regard to the structural or spatial grid below.
Its structural grid, which is clad in white Georgian marble, is projected out in front of the actual building.