With the city's map of the park in hand 40, 000 square feet, in a sort of trapezoid Mr. Payne's employees began sketching out ideas with three-dimensional software.

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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.

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

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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.

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