Word: parapet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stories high-a huge filing cabinet in which 337 apartments could be placed like drawers. Part of the way up was an "internal street" of shops, and on the roof was a garden made up, not of plants and trees, but of sculptured shapes surrounded by a parapet that shut out all but the sky and the mountaintops. Corbu called the building a "Radiant City," its garden "a landscape worthy of Homer...
...roof of the monastery is a terrace, seeded with grass and surrounded by a high parapet so that those on the terrace cannot see the ground below but must look out toward the horizon. At first Corbusier planned to make this the cloister, where the monks walk and meditate, but abandoned the idea because "it would be so beautiful that the monks would use it for an escape, which might prove perilous to their religious life." But he urged the Dominicans to "go up there from time to time. Let them allow you to go up as a reward...