Sentence examples for of the existing building from inspiring English sources

He explained that since the law generally allows adjoining property-owners to build right up to their side property lines, it is possible that an apartment with windows that now overlook an empty lot or the roof of an adjacent building could lose its view if the adjoining owner decides to build or increase the height of the existing building.

"But it wouldn't have had a sense of being part of the existing building," he said.

So recently we've started on the trickier business of upgrading the fabric of the existing building.

"We reinforced the top floor of the existing building," Mr. Casini said.

When you do that, it changes the load-bearing capacity of the existing building".

Four floors will be added, set back 30 feet from the 64th and 65th Street sides of the existing building.

It is enclosed on three sides by "buildings" formed from the upper floors of the existing building.

But Monbiot is right – hand-in-hand with building, we need to intensify the use of the existing building stock.

He eventually discovered that Scarano's survey of the existing building made a key misstatement about its dimensions.

Some of the more humble parts of the existing building, the things that give it its everydayness, tend to be scrubbed away.

A master plan by the architects Harley Ellis Devereaux calls for construction of a second 185,000-square-foot building within 20 yards of the existing building.