The pilaster is an architectural element in classical architecture used to give the appearance of a supporting column and to articulate an extent of wall, with only an ornamental function. It consists of a flat surface raised from the main wall surface, usually treated as though it were a column, with a capital at the top, plinth (base) at the bottom, and the various other elements. In contrast to a pilaster, an engaged column or buttress can support the structure of a wall and roof above.
In discussing Leon Battista Alberti's use of pilasters, which Alberti reintroduced into wall-architecture, Rudolf Wittkower wrote, "The pilaster is the logical transformation of the column for the decoration of a wall. It may be defined as a flattened column which has lost its three-dimensional and tactile value."
A pilaster appears with a capital and entablature, also in "low-relief" or flattened against the wall.
Pilasters often appear on the sides of a door frame or window opening on the facade of a building, and are sometimes paired with columns or pillars set directly in front of them at some distance away from the wall, which support a roof structure above, such as a portico. These vertical elements can also be used to support a recessed archivolt around a doorway. The pilaster can be replaced by ornamental brackets supporting the entablature or a balcony over a doorway.
Pilasater (foaled 1944 in Maryland) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was inducted into the Maryland-Bred Hall of Fame in 1967. He was bred and raced by Henry L. Straus and trained by Frank Bonsal.
Pilaster was sired by Pilate, a son of the 1916 American Horse of the Year and Belmont Stakes winner Friar Rock. His dam was Air Cooled, whose sire (Jacopo) was the 1930 Champion Two-Year-Old Colt in England.
Pilaster enjoyed considerable racing success from age four through eight. On February 16, 1952, the 8-year-old gelding won the Miami Beach Handicap at Hialeah Park Race Track in Florida. He was retired at the end of the year, after winning 29 career races and earnings totalling US$259,800.
[Chorus]
Day by day
Just take it slow down
Day by day
Just hanging till now
Maybe I will have one day
To find myself in this world
Maybe I would like to stay
Awake until the morning comes
A million ways to spend time
Is this like on tv
A million ways to be wild
To set yourself free
Chorus:
Day by day, just take it day by day now
Just take it slow down
Day by day, just take it day by day now
Just hanging till now
To proceed
It's time to close now
I think I'll have to go
Just trying to find a way back home
But there's always someone else to go
I wonder if it matters
when you see me grown
if is it with the world
forever
Chorus: x2
Day by day, just take it day by day now
Just take it slow down
Day by day, just take it day by day now
Just hanging till now
Day by day, just take it day by day now
Day by day, if you losse a round
You can still win in the end
Just take it day by day now
Day bye day, just take it day by day now
Just take it slow down
Day by day, just take it day by day now