A pier, in architecture, is an upright support for a structure or superstructure such as an arch or bridge. Sections of structural walls between openings...

recreation. Bridges, buildings, and walkways may all be supported by architectural piers. Their open structure allows tides and currents to flow relatively...

Piers may refer to: Pier, a raised structure over a body of water Pier (architecture), an architectural support Piers (name), a given name and surname...

The Brighton Palace Pier, commonly known as Brighton Pier or the Palace Pier, is a Grade II* listed pleasure pier in Brighton, England, located in the...

The West Pier is a ruined pier in Brighton, England. Designed by Eugenius Birch and opening in 1866, it was the first pier to be Grade I listed in England...

Stirling Prize for architecture. The charity went into administration in 2017 and the pier was sold to a private buyer in 2018. The pier re-opened on 1 April...

Compound pier or cluster pier is the architectural term given to a clustered column or pier which consists of a centre mass or newel, to which engaged...

additionally include friezes, large pier glasses, and marble mantels. Greek revival components apparent in antebellum architecture include doorways, often recessed...

composed of a ramping arch that extends from the upper portion of a wall to a pier of great mass, in order to convey to the ground the lateral forces that push...

Navy Pier is a 3,300-foot-long (1,010 m) pier on the shoreline of Lake Michigan, located in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side community...

and steel lintels are also used in different types of construction. Pier (architecture) – loadbearing structure similar to a column, but more massive. Truss...

with pilings or bricks or blocks of stone, surrounding the supports (or piers) of a bridge or similar construction. Starlings may be shaped to ease the...

Pier Luigi Nervi (21 June 1891 – 9 January 1979) was an Italian engineer and architect. He studied at the University of Bologna graduating in 1913. Nervi...

England Pier (architecture), an upright support used in buildings Pier (bridge structure) an upright support between two spans of a bridge The Pier, a 2011...

Chicago. It handles convention sales for McCormick Place and Navy Pier. Architecture of Chicago Beaches in Chicago List of Chicago Landmarks List of museums...

The St. Petersburg Pier, officially known as the St. Pete Pier, is a landmark pleasure pier extending into Tampa Bay from downtown St. Petersburg, Florida...

in common with Byzantine architecture, relies upon its walls, or sections of walls called piers. Romanesque architecture is often divided into two periods...

Zhanqiao Pier is located at the southern shore of Qingdao, China, off Zhongshan Road. This now 440-meter-long (1,443.6 ft) pier, constructed in 1891, was...

the contemporary Anglo-Saxon and Norman architecture of Europe. Already, pointed arches and clustered piers, whose appearance together is considered...

pleasure pier in the world. The bill to build the new pier, to replace a previous timber jetty, received royal assent as the Southend Pier Act 1829 (10...

Chelsea Piers is a series of piers in Chelsea, on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Located to the west of the West Side Highway (Eleventh Avenue)...

Victorian pier at Clevedon, Somerset, England The pier of Blankenberge, Belgium Huntington Beach Pier, California A typical Finnish pier with a table...

which was milled on site. Piers Taylor held a teaching position at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA), setting up and being the...

North Pier is the most northerly of the three coastal piers in Blackpool, England. Built in the 1860s, it is also the oldest and longest of the three...

Prannok Pier, also known as the Siriraj Pier or Wang Lang Pier (Thai: ท่าพรานนก, ท่าศิริราช, ท่าวังหลัง) with designated pier number N10, is a pier on the...

which, though composed of many distinct parts, could be stretched from pier to pier, or from pillar to pillar [...]. [...] There have been, in some stone...

Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war...

Ōsanbashi Pier (大さん橋, ōsanbashi, pronounced [oːsambaɕi]) is the main international passenger pier at the Port of Yokohama, located in Naka Ward, Yokohama...

Clifford Pier was a former pier located beside Collyer Quay at Marina Bay within the Downtown Core of the Central Area, Singapore. The pier, which opened...

and located on Pier 4/5 of the former Sydney port facility in Walsh Bay at Dawes Point. In 1829, the first jetty in the area of Pier 4/5 was constructed...