Sentence examples for less a building from inspiring English sources

Tukwila is less a building than a machine for computing.

It is less a building than a sculpture in which you can buy lunch, and it turned Littlehampton into a site of architectural pilgrimage.

But do any of these people want to be burdened by what more than ever seems less a building than a behemoth?

Witness the revamped Museum of Modern Art: it is less a building than a life-size architectural maquette, in which you and I fill the roles of little figures stuck in to convey scale.

This is less a building than a concept, and you can imagine its being pitched to the developer, Tishman Realty & Construction, the way producers pitch a television show to network executives: Audiences now don't want plain towers that go straight up, and they're not going to be satisfied with just a fancy top, so we've come up with a way to make the whole building into a vibrant, dynamic object.

Moscow's Yuri Luzhkov, no less ambitious a building mayor than Livingstone, has some respect for his city's style and heritage.

"The less efficient a building, the greater the temperature difference between your skin and the temperatures of the walls, windows, doors, floors and ceilings.

Jones had less of a building job than Lancaster did in 2012, getting into minds rather than looking for new bodies.

It is only ten stories tall, but you can't drive down the West Side Highway without seeing it — a white glass palazzo that looks less like a building than like a computer-generated image of one.

"The negative impact to values is far less in a building with vacant units filled with tenants than a vacant building," said Jonathan Miller, the president of the appraisal firm Miller Samuel.

Still, few could pin down a medium so in flux that the devices used to create it have a life span of only about three years, much less describe a building that caters to it.