Sentence examples for makeshift architecture from inspiring English sources

That market, at Surf Avenue and Eighth Street, has always stood out, even in a neighborhood rich in makeshift architecture.

"We have found ourselves," is how Omer Kanipak, a 41-year-old Turkish architect, put it to me, about the diverse gathering at Gezi Park on the north end of Taksim, where the crowds are concentrated in tent encampments and other makeshift architecture after Mr. Erdogan's government ordered bulldozers to make way for the mall.

Forget building permits and regulations, Hoffman has created sustainable living quarters for himself, using incredible feats of makeshift architecture in the process.

The next day, the fifty-five-year old architecture and design journalist turned his Armani sofa into a makeshift bed, laid some mattresses on the parquet floor, and called up an actress friend who was coördinating emergency housing for refugees.

In the sprawling city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where contemporary architecture tends toward the straight and angular -- blue glass high-rises, narrow makeshift shops constructed from repurposed shipping containers -- the house that Elias Sime has spent the past decade hand-building from mud and straw is an anachronism.

"I grew up in a neighborhood where the architecture felt oppressive, and I was inspired by people in their backyards who made makeshift spaces, and the architect Peter Cook who proposed landscapes that heal you emotionally," says Halsey.

A group of artists recently decided to protest the rise of defensive architecture features in London by transforming a row of anti-homeless spikes in Shoreditch into a makeshift bedroom, complete with foam mattress and a bookcase acting as a public library (full of books on architecture and urban planning).

The lineup remains makeshift.

Thousands live in makeshift tents.

They fished with makeshift rods.

Assistants sat at makeshift desks.