Sentence examples for dead building from inspiring English sources

"Because if it remains as it is, it's a dead building".

Like everything that needs a soul to live, this dead building was making use of the cathedral's outer shell.

It also feels like a metaphor for the Whitney, which is making do with an essentially dead building while it moves forward with plans for a new one downtown.

But suddenly, young architects and preservationists, in particular, saw its defacement not as a strategy for resuscitating a dead building but as yet another assault on an increasingly vulnerable and admirable era in 20th century architecture.

I copy my 'sketch' onto a big sheet of pastel paper, leaving out anything I can't draw (which in a stroke takes care of most of it), and though the result resembles one of those murder-scene outlines from which the dead building has been removed, it's definitely an improvement.

They adopted new ways of burying their dead, building longbarrows on hilltops as a final resting place for bones.

"Ruins are dead buildings," Mr. Libeskind said.

Both are "drop dead" buildings in bulk and visual aspect.

Two weeks ago, giant generators re-energized the dead buildings, to a degree.

But there is a faint heartbeat in some of these dead buildings.

"We wanted to put life back into these dead buildings and dying community".