Organised as lines of capsule-like boxes, with similar proportions to shipping containers, these luxury dwellings give the impression of housing-by-numbers, airlifted in from a prefab production line.
Relying on first impressions of housing or descriptions from online listings, they can be easy prey for unscrupulous landlords.
The overall impression of the house was of unrelenting solidity, with white, blue and red granite piled up in layers like toy blocks.
He noted that, whilst the first impression of the houses was Elizabethan with the air of a courtyard garden, "closer inspection reveals a contemporary design sensibility"; there was, he wrote, "the impression of an order that comes from making the construction explicit whils combining sensitivity to function and use".
An impression of Hab's housing scheme for Kings Worthy near Winchester.
For one, there is enough time for them to get their house in order – or more cynically, give the impression of having their house in order – with nine months left until the next Games.
Over the 20 years they have been running their unsubsidised summer opera festival, the theatre has grown from barn to a respectable impression of an opera house.
At 61, Robinson gives the impression of a soul housed uncomfortably in the architecture of its body.
Mr. Payton explored the theme with measured phrases, exhausting one idea before adopting the next; his solo gave the impression of searching a house, room by room.
He installed a U-shaped staircase on the other side of the great room, now open to a state-of-the-art kitchen, to create the impression of a bigger house and bring in more light.
He stomped on the floorboards where his people had walked, pored over an artist's impression of how the house had once looked, and then relayed what he had learned to the First Lady when she walked in.
