concrete wall

Poured stone barrier

A concrete wall is a wall made of concrete—a mixture of cement, aggregate, and water that hardens into stone-like material.

Concrete walls appear in construction for their strength and durability: foundation walls, retaining walls, highway barriers.

Figuratively, a concrete wall is an unyielding obstacle: Every proposal ran into a concrete wall of bureaucratic resistance.

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cold · hard · graffiti · street art · cinder block · construction · foundation · urban · prison · prison yard · brutalist · texture · slab · rebar · surface · industrial · solid · imposing

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material composition

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Transparent vertical divider

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Boundary structure between properties

chain-link fence · lattice · trellis · screen · curtain

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Fabric hung for privacy

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G