(1) These vertical volumes and the several prismatic cuts into the building's outer envelope suggest a reading of the dormitory less as a single parallelepiped and more as an array of conjoined towers.(2) A noncollecting institution devoted to art of the last 40 years, the Contemporary Arts Museum occupies a dramatic stainless-steel warehouse-type building, shaped like a parallelepiped .(3) Embedded in a low, almost geological podium of slate shards, glass and grey aluminium, the canted parallelepipeds are constructed almost entirely of contiguous glass elements held in place by a skeletal steel frame.(4) The crystal systems are all parallelepipeds whose shapes are completely defined by the lengths of the three sides and by the three angles characterizing the parallelepiped.(5) The residential towers, which sit on vertical projections of the podium, are parallelepipeds , rotated 30u00b0 in relation to the podium, which is oriented toward the Manhattan street grid.
