Sentence examples for building its height from inspiring English sources

The intelligent person (al-'âqil)—here simply meaning a person with full rational capacity realizes that all the features of the building, its height, its length, its form, etc., are actualized possibilities and could be different.

Nowadays we know the summer is building to its height when photographs of puppies wearing sunglasses appear in the papers accompanied by "hot dog -style captions.

As for the Burj Dubai, now the world's tallest building, its design, height and ambition reminded me of the Tower of Babel (as well as the minaret at Samarra; the structure nods at its shape).

Carol Willis, an architectural historian and founder of the Skyscraper Museum in Manhattan, said there were various ways to measure the size of a building beyond its height.

"We thought that 15 Penn Plaza was too close to the 1,250-foot-tall Empire State Building for its height and design," Mr. Malkin said.

In the early 1970s — way after the deaths of the founding partners — Shreve, Lamb & Harmon proposed recladding the Empire State Building to increase its height, an idea received with general alarm and soon dropped.

The steam locomotive had not yet been invented, and canal-building was at its height, particularly for the transportation of coal.

The tower has the advantage of being free from the influence of the neighbouring buildings due to its height.

Mr. Vendome, for example, who is seeking a zoning variance for the Johnson building, recently scaled down its height to 11 stories.

Arguably, the present building should have been given landmark status; failing that, a determined effort by Lincoln Center and the city might have found a role for the center in the new building -- and curtailed its height.

Mr. Robertson, at that time known for chunky Romanesque-style structures like the old Y.W.C.A. at 7 East 15th Street, loosened up with the McIntyre Building, perhaps because of its height.