French term
la percée
Does anyone know what 'la percée' means in this piece about the architecture of a new biotech building? The glass part they talk about is the front of the building. Does it just mean 'marks the entrance' onto the street, rather like a sign marks the entrance?
...un volume en proue, tout de verre, marque la percée dans l’axe de l’avenue (name of the avenue).
Thanks.
| 3 | (an all-glass prow space,) a kind of promontory (that pierces its way out of the structure towards.. |
Conor McAuley
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Sep 30, 2021 15:22: Yana Dovgopol changed "Term Context" from "Hi, Does anyone know what \'la percée\' means in this piece about the architecture of a new biotech building? The glass part they talk about is the front of the building. Does it just mean \'marks the entrance\' onto the street, rather like a sign marks the entrance? ...un volume en proue, tout de verre, marque la percée dans l’axe de l’avenue marque la percée dans l’axe de l’avenue (name of the avenue). Thanks." to "Hi, Does anyone know what \'la percée\' means in this piece about the architecture of a new biotech building? The glass part they talk about is the front of the building. Does it just mean \'marks the entrance\' onto the street, rather like a sign marks the entrance? ...un volume en proue, tout de verre, marque la percée dans l’axe de l’avenue (name of the avenue). Thanks."
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(an all-glass prow space,) a kind of promontory (that pierces its way out of the structure towards..
Hopefully this is sufficiently high-concept for what I imagine to be a cool building!
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Note added at 12 hrs (2021-09-30 21:58:32 GMT)
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Maybe prow in inverted commas, since it's an unconventional use of the word.
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Note added at 4 days (2021-10-04 20:45:19 GMT)
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Reply to Note to answerer: It's a bit of a flight of fancy alright, Robert.
An old colleague of mine who has managed to find a picture of the building (the wonders of Google) suggests:
"a prow-like mass of glass jutting out along the centre-line of Avenue xyz"
Personally I don't like "prow" now because the so-called prow is more like half a prow...but you're always going to get a certain amount of hyperbole in these things.
Obviously how fancy or unfancy you would prefer to make it sound is completely your call.
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(Several pictures of the building, in fact, various angles, elevations and plans.)
| Thanks, Conor. Not sure about this. Thanks for your help though. |
Discussion
Phil: thanks for your encouragement.
The building runs parallel to the main road (a dual carriageway). It comes up to the pavement edge. There's a car parking area, or what looks like a car park (it could be a side street that's being used as a car park) next to the entrance, where the glass volume is, but it doesn't link up with the road. The pavement separates what looks like the car park from the main road.