Each building did one job, and the shape is the job. Here are fifteen.
1. A Very Tall Pair of Doors Means Loaded Carts
Enormous doors in the middle of…
The cheapest components on the building, protecting the most expensive ones. Here are eleven.
1. They Stop the Roof Edge Being Fed Into the Wall
A roof with no gutter…
The lift is the piece of machinery most people use most often without ever seeing any of it. What is visible is a box and two doors. What makes it…
A hole in a wall that has to behave like a wall. Here are fifteen compromises.
1. It Is a Deliberate Weak Point
A wall is there to keep weather,…