Sentence examples for grid of concrete from inspiring English sources

The ceiling, a grid of concrete coffers (deep recesses), reads like a brutal take on classicism.

In Newcastle, the overriding geometry is a simple grid of concrete columns and beams, forming a nine-bay lattice across the site.

In 1922, when General Motors built a service building on the east side of 11th from 55th to 56th Street, it was just a grid of concrete horizontals and verticals around red brick infill.

The thickest layer contained a grid of concrete beams and was fastened to prefabricated concrete slabs, forming the hard shell of the island and acting as a protection against waves.

And he continues to design ambitious public projects like the Taichung opera house, whose porous exterior has been likened to a gigantic sponge, and the Tama Art University Library, an irregular grid of concrete arches.

SEATTLE — One of the most highly anticipated development projects in the Pacific Northwest is still little more than a grid of concrete and rebar at the edge of the Capitol Hill neighborhood here.

The building is formed from a simple grid of concrete-framed windows, held aloft above a row of shops on a steel frame, painted in Google's brand colours.

In the 1890's, manufacturers began using grids of concrete instead of metal.

To some, they may look like big grids of concrete, but Oyama likes to compare his apartment blocks to actresses or schoolgirls wearing lipstick.

Many of its problems were the fault of its 1960s design – a grid pattern of concrete blocks without communal spaces but with "rat runs" that are typically difficult to police.

The "place of miracles" turns out to be a nondescript grid of square concrete buildings under the high canyon walls.