Sentence examples for concrete style from inspiring English sources

Most architects would argue that Brutalism – the heavy concrete style of so many postwar estates – was merely misunderstood.

I have found that the habits necessary for writing for a general audience – putting issues in larger perspective, spelling out background assumptions, writing in a direct, concrete style – are just as useful in academic writing as in popular writing.

Pripyat, built in 1970, was hailed as a triumph of Soviet urban planning: the austere concrete style favoured by USSR architects tempered by colourful murals and Communist slogans exhorting residents to study, work or remember the revolution.

Although the climate could hardly be more different, the roughcast concrete style of Le Corbusier's ecclesiastical buildings of the 1950s could be seen, in MacMillan and Metzstein's imaginations, as complementary to the rugged forms and materials of Scottish tower houses and castles.

Every year, it seemed, Kabul erected yet another ministry building in the brutalist concrete style that was supposed to signify enlightened modernity.

In this way, CNT was extended from hypothetical events to personal memories, thereby encouraging participants to use the concrete style when contemplating self-experience.

The plain modern and brutalist concrete styles of that period however were contrasted in the late 1990s to 2000s that brought in more prominent residential towers to the skyline with varying colors and architecture themes.

It was, however, the first major arts complex in the country, architectural historians say, and a new expression of the modern glass-and-concrete style, and it brought together some of the country's most important architects.

We were interested in following in that tradition but in a more blunt and literal manner". The concrete, minimalist style of the number sculptures takes inspiration from Brutalist architecture.

Studies about learning styles of nurses found that (student) nurses have a mix of all learning styles [ 39, 40], but that more than half have a predominantly concrete learning style and almost half a reflective learning style [ 42].

By the time the city authorities had decided to demolish the 1960s library, its concrete brutalist style had become trendy again.