pilotis

The building illustrates the close dialogue between Russian and European Modernists: Taking up Le Corbusier's principles, it was elevated on pilotis, had banded fenestration and a roof garden.

Ideology Through Geometry Cammy Brothers 2011

I saw a SNCF-TGV flying on pilotis across farm fields as I approached Grenoble along the freeway—pas de problem.

Olympic Line (short) closure notice « Stephen Rees's blog 2010

The holes are the negative space of the pilotis, meeting the ground, from beneath rather than from above.

Burying the Villa Savoye 2007

The holes are the negative space of the pilotis, meeting the ground, from beneath rather than from above.

Archive 2007-09-01 2007

That decade apparently also informed the Polshek Partnership's dreadful Standard Hotel of 2006 – 2008, an angular concrete-and-glass slab raised atop gigantic pilotis.

Up in the Park Filler, Martin 2009

The slab tower rests on poured-in-place-concrete pilotis, which hold it, heroically, 56 feet off the ground and 30 feet above the track bed of the High Line.

New York's Standard Hotel Tyrnauer, Matt 2009

Flat roofs, smooth plaster and pilotis (stilts) reveal the connection to the International Style.

Architects in Palestine: 1920-1948. 2009

The slab tower rests on poured-in-place-concrete pilotis, which hold it, heroically, 56 feet off the ground and 30 feet above the track bed of the High Line.

New York's Standard Hotel Tyrnauer, Matt 2009

The main part was connected to a caboose-like guest house by a bridge elevated on slender pilotis.

The 10 Best Houses in the Hamptons 2001

Rather than being constructed on the tree, the project wraps itself around the mature pine tree and is supported on three pilotis above an S-shaped bench that skirts around the columns, tree trunk and slide pole.

TreeHugger 2010