• Musique concrète (French pronunciation: [myzik kɔ̃kʁɛt]; lit. 'concrete music') is a type of music composition that utilizes recorded sounds as raw material...
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    reinforced concrete structure, a four-story house at 72 rue Charles Michels in the suburbs of Paris. Coignet's descriptions of reinforcing concrete suggests...
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  • Concrete Cowboy is a 2020 American drama film directed by Ricky Staub from a screenplay by Staub and Dan Walser. The movie is based on the novel Ghetto...
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  • Concrete ships are built primarily with ferrocement (reinforced concrete) hulls, reinforced with steel bars. This contrasts against more traditional materials...
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  • Concrete Genie is an action-adventure video game developed by Pixelopus and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. The game...
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    Concrete poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance...
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  • Concrete art was an art movement with a strong emphasis on geometrical abstraction. The term was first formulated by Theo van Doesburg and was then used...
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    Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (IATA: CDG, ICAO: LFPG) — also known as Roissy Airport or simply Paris CDG — is the main international airport serving...
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    cathedrals of the early Middle Ages. The first church in Paris to be constructed of reinforced concrete was Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre, at 19 rue des Abbesses...
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    Eugène Freyssinet (category Concrete pioneers)
    prestressed concrete. Freyssinet was born in at Objat, Corrèze, France. He worked in the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, France where...
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  • 1950–1951 3 EXPÉRIENCE CONCRÈTE, 1952 4 ESQUISSE D'UN SOLFÈGE CONCRET Schaeffer, Pierre. À la recherche d'une musique concrète. Paris, Éditions du Seuil,...
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    development process of children: sensorimotor stage, pre-operational stage, concrete operational stage, and formal operational stage. Each stage describes a...
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    (London), Berghain/Panorama Bar (Berlin), Macarena Club (Barcelona), Concrete (Paris), Electric Pickle (Miami), Jaeger (Oslo), De School (Amsterdam), Le...
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    That's why when we listen to "Resident of Amnesia Ibiza" or "Resident of Concrete Paris" completely different sounds come to mind. Some residences become so...
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    Viaduct (redirect from Concrete viaduct)
    roads.[citation needed] Other uses have been found for some viaducts. In Paris, France, a repurposed rail viaduct provides a garden promenade on top and...
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    Gabriel Marcel (category Writers from Paris)
    title Essai de philosophie concrète, Paris, NRF/Gallimard, 1967) Homo viator. Prolégomènes à une métaphysique de l'espérance. Paris, Aubier, 1945 La Métaphysique...
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    Auguste Perret (category Concrete pioneers)
    architectural use of reinforced concrete. His major works include the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the first Art Deco building in Paris; the Church of Notre-Dame...
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    and unconflicting routes and schedules. The first concrete proposal for an urban rail system in Paris was put forward by civil engineer Florence de Kérizouet...
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  • Concrete Love is the fourth studio album by British rock band Courteeners, released on 18 August 2014 via Cooperative Music label. It features the band...
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    pioneer of reinforced concrete architecture in Paris, but now wanted to use it in new ways. "Reinforced concrete provided me with incredible resources," he...
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    added to concrete to form reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures to strengthen and aid the concrete under tension. Concrete is strong...
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    Paris Orly Airport (French: Aéroport de Paris-Orly) (IATA: ORY, ICAO: LFPO) is one of two international airports serving Paris, France, the other one being...
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  • April 2024. Schaeffer, Pierre (1952), A la recherche d'une musique concrète, Paris: Éditions du Seuil Schaeffer, Pierre (1957). Schaeffer, Pierre (ed...
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    Champs-Élysées, Paris (1912) Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, by Auguste Perret, 15 avenue Montaigne, Paris, (1910–13). Reinforced concrete gave architects...
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    backdrop of concrete Detail of a fresco depicting the 3 faculties of the soul: intelligence, will and sensitivity List of historic churches in Paris Citations...
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    Joseph Monier (category Concrete pioneers)
    Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, France – 13 March 1906, Paris) was a French gardener and one of the principal inventors of reinforced concrete. As a gardener, Monier was not satisfied...
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    advanced techniques and materials, such as hydraulic mortar and Roman concrete, which allowed for larger structures. They introduced reservoir dams, arch-gravity...
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    Paris is a city and county seat of Lamar County, Texas, United States. Located in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods, the population...
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  • musicologist, acoustician and founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC). His innovative work in both the sciences—particularly communications...
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    parking garage on 51 rue de Ponthieu in Paris; here the concrete was left bare, and the space between the concrete was filled with glass windows. Henri Sauvage...
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