Sentence examples for ordinary architecture from inspiring English sources

Three cheers for excellent ordinary architecture.

But its quality also sets an important target for another kind of design, which I think of as "Excellent Ordinary" architecture.

Peabody affordable housing, Darbishire Place, London Peabody affordable housing is virtuous ordinary architecture for those who earn something like the London pre-tax average of £34,000 (PA) Most people would find Niall McLaughlin's design unremarkable.

But compared to the premium-value apartment blocks mushrooming across London this is virtuous ordinary architecture for those who earn something like the London pre-tax average of £34,000.

In 1910 the six municipalities were united to form the city of Stoke-on-Trent (population 252,509), a manufacturing center of rather ordinary architecture that is chiefly of interest to the visitor for its central industry: potting.

But it's also an encouragement for Excellent Ordinary architecture, such as the brilliant, low-cost housing schemes by Peter Barber; the Akerman Health Centre in Lambeth, designed by Simon Henley; Sandal Magna School, by Sarah Wigglesworth; and at the smallest scale, ultra-humane buildings like the new Maggies Cancer Care centre at Oxford, designed by Wilkinson Eyre.

There's always been plenty of facile historicism in ordinary roadside architecture, but never has architecture with serious ambitions been so close in spirit to it.

Ordinary modern architecture, scorned even by its creators, was about making things quick and cheap.

Venturi called for an eclectic approach to design and an openness to the multiple influences of historical tradition, ordinary commercial architecture, and Pop art.

"Out of the Ordinary: The Architecture and Design of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates," an exhibition of 250 drawings, models, photographs, furniture and film excerpts examining the work of the Philadelphia firm, opens on Sunday and runs through Aug. 5.

In the design of L'Unité d'Habitation, Le Corbusier offered ordinary families architecture of the highest and most inventive order and even what may yet become, and confounding his critics, a World Heritage Site.