Sentence examples for designed to be austere from inspiring English sources

These two environments were designed to be austere to minimize the impact of extraneous sensory inputs.

His concern for beauty and simplicity explains why the approaches to the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge were once lavishly landscaped while the bridge was designed to be as austere as possible, with no diagonal braces, although these were added later.

As I've seen myself, the road that passes by the camp is already lined by chilly, austere, totalitarian-seeming fences, topped with barbed wire and expertly designed to be unscaleable by the camp's residents.

Promise No.3: to be "austere and transparent".

But they also tend to be austere.

It feels decadent and vulgar to ask one's government, or oneself, not to be austere.

This month, the organisation is launching a project designed to celebrate the austere post-war architecture of Brutalism that could hardly be more removed from aristocratic mansions.

"It is designed to break the idea that the bank is austere and closed for the young," explains BNP Paribas.

While the austere gray and white interface can seem drab at first, it's designed to disappear so you can focus on the task at hand.

The austere and angular cathedral, conceived by the modernist Spanish architect José Rafael Moneo, is designed to withstand fire, flood and an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.

There were too few features designed to make the units feel less austere, said the report.