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A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
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pier. 1. A detached mass of construction, generally acting as a support, such as the solid part of a wall between two openings, or a massive element from which arches spring, as in a bridge.
2. Support, such as a pier in a repetitive medieval
nave-
arcade varying from sturdy, oversized
Romanesque examples to the lighter, taller, more slender, multimoulded
Perpendicular types. Piers are therefore very much more massive than columns.
3. Vertical formation in brickwork on the face of a
flint or
rag-stone wall, serving to strengthen it.
4. Stone, concrete, metal-work, or timber construction jutting out into the sea or other water as a break-water, landing-stage, or promenade.
5. Jetty or wharf.
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Pier Review // Will Summer's Big Hit Maintain Its Pace?
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/8/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...has taken its short summer walk on a long pier. Now it's time to llik ahead at the long haul. Navy Pier, newly dressed up and modernized, will...itself to be a big hit this summer, the pier will try to keep the momentum going when...
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PIERS TI New Release Enables Customized Searches of Import-Export Trade Database.
Newspaper article from: Science Letter; 9/22/2009; 700+ words
; PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions, a UBM Global Trade company, today unveiled...generation of its industry-leading online trade intelligence product, PIERS TI (see also PIERS; Ubm Global Trade). PIERS TI 3.0 provides a single, integrated...
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PIERS Now Offers Argentine Import-Export Trade Data.
PR Newswire Europe; 5/28/2008; 700+ words
; NEWARK, New Jersey, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions, a Commonwealth Business...Mexico, explains Wael Jarous, vice president of PIERS Commercial Sales. At PIERS, we always intend to enlarge our commercial intelligence...
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Pier pressures.
Magazine article from: Geographical; 4/1/2000; 700+ words
; ...seaward end of Bognor Pier was swept away. Piers are symbols of British...seasick". Although piers are quintessentially English, the original West Pier was prefabricated in...visitors. A tale of two piers The West Pier opened in 1866 and the...
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PIERS Data Show Recession Slowing U.S. Imports and Exports.
Newspaper article from: China Weekly News; 1/27/2009; 700+ words
; PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions(R), a division...may be buying less from overseas -- but PIERS predicts that more of what it does buy will...by 2010. These projections are based on PIERS trade data through third-quarter 2008...
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Pier through the window of time // Classic favorites, new attractions mingle at the Pier
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/9/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...will come back in style. Chicago's Navy Pier is a classic example of this. It is doubtful that anyone present during the Pier's tatty, neglected past would have contemplated...class international art exposition, and Pier Walk '97, an outdoor sculpture exhibit...
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PIERS(R) Expands Trade Data Coverage of Asian Subcontinent.
PR Newswire; 10/9/2008; 700+ words
; NEWARK, N.J., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions, a Commonwealth Business...Richard E. Hanft, Director, Asia/Pacific Region, for PIERS. "PIERS has been providing authoritative, current, detailed...
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PIERS(R) Trade Horizons Reports: U.S. Exports Forecast to Reverse Growth Trends as Recession Slows Global Commerce
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 3/17/2009; 700+ words
; ...Director of Marketing Communications of PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions, +1-973-848-7151, or badams@piers.com NEWARK, N.J., March 17 /PRNewswire...containerized import-export statistics from PIERS Trade Horizons.The just-released numbers...
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PIERS Data Shows Recession's Impact on Furniture Import-Export Trade
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 7/28/2009; 700+ words
; ...Beth Adams, Director of Marketing Communications of PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions, +1-973-848-7151, badams@piers.com NEWARK, N.J.,July 28 /PRNewswire/ --PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions, a division of UBM Global...
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PIERS Data Shows Recession's Impact on Furniture Import-Export Trade.
Newspaper article from: China Weekly News; 8/11/2009; 700+ words
; PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions, a division...ago. Based on first-quarter results, PIERS is forecasting a 16.52% decline in furniture...trade data through first-quarter 2009 from PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions, the primary...
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Chelsea Piers Management Inc.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
Chelsea Piers Management Inc. Pier 62, Suite 300 New York...rented space at Chelsea Piers, but with the introduction...required large, open-pier space, the facilities...companies by 1967. Chelsea Piers had lost much of its ornamental...
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Pier 1 Imports, Inc.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
Pier 1 Imports, Inc. 301 Commerce St. Fort Worth, Texas 76102...Furnishings Stores; 5947 Gift, Novelty & Souvenir Shops Pier 1 Imports, Inc. is the parent company of Pier 1 Imports, a leading specialty retailer of decorative home...
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Piers Plowman
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Piers Plowman, the greatest poem of the Middle...Deadly Sins); Pilgrimage (to Truth, led by Piers the Plowman who first appears as the just...Salvation); and Pardon (a paper pardon sent to Piers by Truth, but torn up by him when its validity...
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Pier Luigi Nervi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Pier Luigi Nervi The Italian architect, engineer, and builder Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979...continuous curving systems. Pier Luigi Nervi was a leader in...wide room to fan-shaped piers at the sides. It took just...
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pier
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
pier in engineering, term applied...structure, such as a bridge. When piers are built on ground of poor...firm base. Construction of piers built in riverbeds is facilitated...vessels, are also known as piers. They are used in many harbors...
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