Sentence examples for building act from inspiring English sources
The 1894 London Building Act confined structures in the centre of the city to 80 feet, and it was passed in response to the erection of Queen Anne's Mansions, a Victorian proto-high-rise apartment block of 14 storeys, that the reigning Queen herself objected to on the grounds that it blocked her view of the Houses of Parliament.
The 1894 London Building Act, with its 80ft height limit, was a direct result of this genteel disapprobation; an ordinance that remained in place until it was waived in 1963 – essentially by prime ministerial fiat – so as to allow Conrad Hilton to raise his Park Lane hotel to 28 storeys.
It is a tactic he was forced to use, retrospectively, for his own house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, to persuade the judiciary that his new projecting stone facade did not contravene the Building Act, as was claimed by the officious district surveyor.
The central directive for all construction in Norway is the Plan and Building Act.
Plans that define risk are demonstrating best practice aFor example, the Civil Defence and Emergency Management Act 2002, the Local Government Act 2002, and the Building Act 2004.
We use the rule-making approach to translate the Korean Building Act into an explicit code that focuses on building permit requirements.
The building acts as an enormous bridge thanks to its Vierendeel truss system.
The ground floor of this two-storied building acted as a foundation for the living rooms and storerooms above.
The long, low building acts as a dam for a ten-acre artificial lake, with a wildflower meadow on one side and water on the other.
Takahiro Sakaeda, the chef who prepared two of my meals, paced the evenings with the studied wickedness of a great D.J. or playwright, building acts into the meal, replete with turning points, subplots and rising action.
There is then major public intervention, in its own way unprecedented, such as the London Building Acts, the sewerage installed by Joseph Bazalgette, council housing, the green belt, the Clean Air Acts, the protection of heritage through conservation areas and listed buildings.
