: a basket or cage filled with earth or rocks and used especially in building a support or abutment
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No surprise that there are broken chunks of brick everywhere, from those that fill gabions as part of the landscaping and building design to those sticking out from the unmanicured natural terrain outside of your back terrace.
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John Oseid, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
Landscape designers often point to gabion as the most affordable retaining wall to build.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 18 Apr. 2025
The development will also embrace a design theme that highlights the site’s industrial and commercial character, incorporating materials such as board-form concrete, stone veneer and gabion structures.
—Jessica Alvarado Gamez, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2025
Opt for sustainable materials like gabions (cages filled with rocks) or interlocking permeable blocks to hold back soil while allowing water to seep through.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
Johanna Blake, a U.S. Geological Survey researcher at the New Mexico Water Science Center, sent The Washington Post photos of the rocky barriers — gabions — that now stretch along the river bed.
—Aaron Steckelberg, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
The Coast Guard placed riprap and dozens of gabions along the ledges to absorb the force of the breakers, but, as ocean levels have risen and nor’easters intensified, a fault line between the tower’s foot and the foghorn’s generator house has widened.
—Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
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John Oseid, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
Landscape designers often point to gabion as the most affordable retaining wall to build.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 18 Apr. 2025
The development will also embrace a design theme that highlights the site’s industrial and commercial character, incorporating materials such as board-form concrete, stone veneer and gabion structures.
—Jessica Alvarado Gamez, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2025
Opt for sustainable materials like gabions (cages filled with rocks) or interlocking permeable blocks to hold back soil while allowing water to seep through.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
Johanna Blake, a U.S. Geological Survey researcher at the New Mexico Water Science Center, sent The Washington Post photos of the rocky barriers — gabions — that now stretch along the river bed.
—Aaron Steckelberg, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
The Coast Guard placed riprap and dozens of gabions along the ledges to absorb the force of the breakers, but, as ocean levels have risen and nor’easters intensified, a fault line between the tower’s foot and the foghorn’s generator house has widened.
—Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
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“Gabion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gabion. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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