When you enter the building you go through a concrete trapezoid, as if it's a pure rectangle which has been pulled apart by the tensions going on inside.

BBC: Imperial War Museum North

Which of these objects is three-dimensional: rhombus, cylinder, or trapezoid?

CNN: Newsquiz: Week of December 31

One can only admire Vinoly's ingenuous solution to the puzzle set by a rather difficult location -- a kind of trapezoid of space comprising about two city blocks, hemmed in on one side by the Japan National Railway lines and on the other by the financial district.

CNN: AFTER THE BANG