Sentence examples for form of buildings from inspiring English sources

All working architects leave behind a string of monuments to themselves in the form of buildings they have designed.

Their tool is so-called contextual zoning, which controls the size and form of buildings in neighborhoods whose character the city believes is worth keeping.

Life, in the form of buildings -- Harmon Cove, the sports complex, the Donna Karan outlet, among others -- rose among the cattails, and wildlife returned.

Whatever the interpretation, the postmodern impulse is leaving material traces in the landscape in the form of buildings, developments, and entire cities.

The placement and form of buildings in relation to their sites, the distribution of spaces within buildings, and other planning devices discussed below are fundamental elements in the aesthetics of architecture.

In London, bigness looms in the form of buildings such as Robin Partington's so-called Cucumber, a 459ft residential tower destined for the shiny architectural hodge-podge known as Paddington Basin.

Canoe houses were another important form of building throughout Micronesia.

In barely 100 years, reinforced concrete has risen from an experimental material to the most widespread form of building construction.

The construction is of good quality and faithful to the architects' intentions, thanks to the use of an old-fashioned form of building contract.

Here, though, he has had to create an altogether smoother, less angular form of building, one that should appeal to bathers and patients of all ages.

"Our cooperation could take the form of building a nonstrategic missile defense system reliably covering all of Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals," Mr. Putin said on the second day of a three-day visit here.