Sentence examples for mere building from inspiring English sources

The mere building of a room does not build it for the camera, and this should be the aim of all construction.

Such an action by Muslims would make a more profound statement than any mere building could.

The logs are not mere building materials, it is said, they are about mood.

The squinch served its purpose well enough and continued in use for many centuries, but it had certain weaknesses; the pendentive was one of the great architectural inventions of all time, transforming what had been mere building, where stress was counteracted by mass, into organic architecture, where thrust was compensated by thrust and strength depended on balance.

The distinction between architecture and "mere building" was stated by Nikolaus Pevsner in the opening paragraph of his Outline of European Architecture (1942): "a bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture... the term architecture applies only to buildings designed with a view to aesthetic appeal".

The centrepiece, the new 63,000-seater Olympiyskiy Stadium, was a mere building site on the route into the centre from Borispol airport, an unsightly reminder of Kiev's lack of progress cast into stark relief by the stunningly futuristic Donbass Arena, the new home of Dynamo's domestic rivals Shakhtar Donetsk, which had opened in August 2009 to a gala ceremony which included a concert by Beyoncé.

In a statement, Abraham said: "Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall are more than mere buildings of concrete and glass.

No longer mere buildings, these are "new residential typologies".Just as the English language has taken a pounding, so have people's wallets.

The moment that the consecrated Eucharist, called the Blessed Sacrament, was removed from the premises, these churches effectively became mere buildings, albeit ones in which generations had been baptized, married and eulogized.

Hello Boca Raton, Goodbye Palm Beach LOUISE SUNSHINE is an innovative marketer who all but invented the superluxury Manhattan condominium, turning mere buildings of glass and aluminum into status symbols of celebrity and elegance that millionaires yearned to buy.

Indeed, BellSouth estimates that it has spent a mere $3 billion building its Latin American business.