Although the county tends to build much smaller libraries, West Hollywood wanted a larger, more architecturally significant building that reflected the community's interests, said Margaret Donnellan Todd, the county librarian.
There may be better looking or more architecturally significant buildings, but the Adelphi is known throughout the world and loved throughout the city – and that makes it the most important.
These awards recognize more than a significant building; they honor a lifetime of work.
It added, "This is not considered one of the more significant Minoru Yamasaki buildings and is not characteristic of his style".
Boas argued that culture was more significant than race in building a nation.
But more significant than the public buildings, examples of which have been excavated at other sites, are the hundreds of private homes.
Two of the instrumented buildings were undamaged, whereas one building suffered only minor non-structural damage and the fourth building exhibited more significant structural damage such as column buckling and shear wall cracking.
Used for more important buildings and houses.
An even more significant alternative would be the construction of standard cooling towers in each building.
The degree of influence of aftershock characteristics on post-mainshock building collapse capacities becomes more significant as the structural damage level from the mainshock increases.
