Sentence examples for buildings functions from inspiring English sources

Koolhaas says he hopes that the plan will gain in complexity as the buildings' functions are worked out; he says he was thrilled to learn that the government wanted both a courthouse and a mosque on the island.

Several times, during the history of architecture, the suggestions and oddities of orientation and rotation perceptions have been deliberatively used by master architects as structural elements of buildings functions.

As with most super-tall buildings, function is hardly the point of the Burj Khalifa.

The people who actually live in the buildings function purely to keep squatters out.

For more than a century, the campus and its 111 buildings functioned with minimal need for the outside world, and many patients spent nearly their entire lives there.

"Board members can come together to learn how their buildings function and how to make them congenial, affordable homes where everyone is willing to take a turn as a board member," said Mary Ann Rothman, executive director.

The task for the museum's architects is to bring out these qualities – which much of the time means leaving them to speak for themselves – while making the market buildings function as a museum.

In contrast, some traditional materials used in historic stone buildings function well for thousands of years.

Primarily, though, buildings function symbolically through exemplification (literal or explicit denotation) or expression (metaphorical exemplification) of properties of ideas, sentiments, or objects in the world.

A fourth building functions as servants' quarters.

In its current incarnation, part of the cavernous building functions as a restaurant.