| In the execution of this simple box, the architect has worked its magic. The four outer walls consist of piles of rocks quarried from nearby American Canyon. The stones are held in place with gabions, steel-mesh screens usually used to prevent stones from falling onto cars following excavation of hillsides during highway construction. The size of the mesh and the stone it retains become larger further up the building's walls. Thus the monolith appears to stand solidly on the ground, while dissolving at its top. |
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