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Piloti

For other uses, see Piloti (disambiguation).
Modern architecture: apartment building Narkomfin in Moscow, Moisei Ginzburg (1930).
The Engel House in the White City of Tel Aviv. Architect: Zeev Rechter, 1933. A residential building that has become one of the symbols of Modernist architecture. The first building in Tel Aviv to be built on pilotis.
Erasmus building at Queens' College, Cambridge (1959). Designed by Basil Spence and directly inspired by Le Corbusier.
University of Florida (1979). There is space for lush vegetation under the building. Visible concrete pilotis.
Paul Rudolph's The Concourse (1994) in Singapore is supported on large pilotis.

Pilotis, or piers, are supports such as columns, pillars, or stilts that lift a building above ground or water. They are traditionally found in stilt and pole dwellings such as fishermen's huts in Asia and Scandinavia[1] using wood, and in elevated houses such as Old Queenslanders in Australia's tropical Northern state, where they are called "stumps". Pilotis are a fixture of modern architecture, and were recommended by the modern architect Le Corbusier in his manifesto, the Five Points of Architecture.

  1. ^ Sweden: a single photograph of such houses, whose caption calls the supports pilotis.

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