Sentence examples for building preservation from inspiring English sources

It is run by the building preservation charity the Vivat Trust which rents out more than 20 properties across Britain.

The building preservation charity hopes that the tower's maintenance will be paid for by rental income from holidaymakers.

Three floors up, I knocked on a door that announced that it was home to the historic building preservation department.

With its apricot-colored walls and carved windows, the haveli is remarkable; it received a Unesco award for building preservation in 2000.

The rest goes to the Caviar Grant Program, which donates to a variety of nonprofits in 15 rural counties for purposes ranging from playground construction to building preservation.

As in so many other things, Hull came late to building preservation, and even now concentrates its efforts around particular conservation areas and landmark buildings.

The previous owner had died in 1997, and when a developer sought to raze it and put up an apartment building, preservation-minded local residents convinced the city to declare the house — which once belonged to James P. Farrell, a prominent Tammany politician — a landmark.

An official of the conservancy, Alex Herrera, whose 16-building preservation list includes many that are also on the Municipal Art Society's list, said, "The conservancy believes that these structures are not obsolete, low-ceilinged disposable construction, but rather represent some of the best architecture in the area, designed by distinguished architects".

The city's 50-year-old buildings preservation law has inspired "Interior Landmarks: Treasures of New York" (The New York School of Interior Design, the Monacelli Press; $60), by Judith Gura and Kate Wood, a spectacular celebration of protected spaces, public and private.

Members of Parks' family had in past years repeatedly failed to raise funds for the building's preservation.

Unesco has warned that for Bamiyan to retain its status as a World Heritage site there must be no new building, only preservation.