Assertion: buttress | /r/HasProperty | designed
Facets:
value: nowadays
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: A buttress can be designed so that the bottom course is roughly a bale long, the second course is 3/4 bale long, the third a 1/2 bale and so on.
text: There was a time when buttresses were considered a necessity in engineering, but nowadays, they are a design element.