Sentence examples for apartment architecture from inspiring English sources

One of the city's early garden communities that became the prototype for apartment architecture following World War II.

High-gloss modernism, preferably attached to the signature of a famous architect and dropped into an old industrial streetscape, became the hottest thing in Manhattan apartment architecture since Emery Roth invented the foyer.

And in a 1919 review of apartment house architecture in general and 907 Fifth Avenue in particular, the magazine Architectural Forum was of the opinion that "the well-being of the entire household is directly dependent upon that of its servants".

Judging by recent photographs of the apartment, the architecture of the principal rooms is little different; just the fireplace and some panel moldings have been lost.

Third Avenue, well away from the Upper East Side's landmark areas, is a good place to see contemporary apartment building architecture in its natural state, and Mr. Bien makes a fascinating tour guide.

He transformed the apartment's architecture from what he called "sweetly traditional" to "30's or 40's glam" by replacing the old moldings with something a bit more severe, laying down a dark mahogany floor to contrast with the pale walls and enlarging the doorway into the living room to exaggerate the room's scale.

The year 1940 brought the stripped-down, modernist 240 Central Park South, built by the Mayer family, who are responsible for some of New York's most thoughtful apartment-house architecture.

It should be a multicolored portal in the Alhambra, but instead it is a snowfield of glazed clay, a hypnotic end to a half mile of apartment-house architecture.

The foundation opens the apartment for visiting architecture and cultural groups by appointment, free of charge.

Indeed, timber features throughout the apartment soften the industrial architecture.

The apartment's lack of "architecture," she says, "made it apparent what I had to do".