Examples of pier

• Crossing the threshold brings you into a lofty hall articulated by tall brick and blockwork piers.

• Brickwork in particular was meticulously planned, with courses of headers and stretchers differentiated, and corbelled piers or rubbing-strips developed in both elevation and section.

• The benches encircled two of the piers and stretched between two others.

• In addition to this water penetration, condensation occurred at windows, brick piers and perimeter concrete upstand beams owing to cold bridging.

• Between 1880 and 1914, officials in seaside destinations vied with one another in building ever larger piers to support the increasing number of holiday-makers.

• A large wind-chime hammock sculpture was suspended from a woven canoe-like roof structure lashed to the pier's end.

• The entrance is marked by a rotation of the piers in plan through 90 degrees and by a bridge over a basement void.

• The original floor of the main room was supported on 22 brick piers rising from the basement.