Sentence examples for architectural failures from inspiring English sources
But after Ronan Point in West Ham blew up in 1968, and the riots at Broadwater Farm in 1985, tower blocks were painted as social and architectural failures – making it easier to knock them down or flog them for profit.
It wasn't so much an architectural failure — it might have been quite beautiful — as a conceptual and political failure.
The Coliseum sat, unused, a deteriorating 20th-century architectural landmark that New Haven's economic development administrator, Henry Fernandez, characterized in a New Haven Advocate interview as "a landmark to architectural failure".
A viable account of architectural failure accommodates such features or else devolves failure to the level of some single dimension of architectural objects, such as their putative nature as art objects (failed or otherwise).
This study uses a combination of finite-element and experimental methods to investigate the effect of material and architectural failure on the compressive strength of nanocrystalline Ni-reinforced aluminum microtrusses.
Normal and 3-parameter Weibull distributions appear to be usable for reliability analyses of architectural glass failure pressures, but they are not as consistent in producing reasonable lower bounds of glass failure pressures as is the 2-parameter Weibull distribution.
The Dome was not just an architectural and commercial failure, it was a failure of politics and a classic example of the vanity of modern-day politicians.
This formal specification can be used to show that several requirements of a software system are satisfied at the architectural level despite failures.
As a modest dissent, Graham (1989) proposes that such a structure is an architectural work but a failure at such.
MARGARET: What I mean to say is that even though the Modern Movement produced some very important buildings, and continues to fulfill a need, it was also responsible for some of the worst failures in architectural history, which continue to plague our inner cities today.
