Sentence examples for principal building from inspiring English sources

The two principal building materials used in ancient Egypt were unbaked mud brick and stone.

The principal building, by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, was erected 200 years later and still serves its original function.

Steel was chosen as the principal building material for two structures built for the Paris Exposition of 1889: the Eiffel Tower and the Gallery of Machines.

The Beck Building was designed by Rafael Moneo (Mies van der Rohe designed the principal building), the Pritzker Prize-winning Spanish architect.

More recent landmarks are the Palais de Rumine (1903), the principal building of the university, which also houses the cantonal museums, and the federal court of justice (1927), seat of the Swiss Supreme Court.

In the past, when buildings were often wholly constructed of timber framing, the carpenter played a considerable part in building construction; along with the mason he was the principal building worker.

In the eastern part of the ruins stood the principal building, rectangular and large (more than 100 feet on a side), with a massive tower of stone and brick in its northwestern corner.

The spacing from the principal building to upstream interfering buildings, i.e. S 1 = 200 mm (=0.4h).

The EPA has suggested three principal "building blocks" for formulating state compliance plans.

A more substantial increase in responses was evident when the interfering building was located directly upstream from the principal building.

These long-roofed houses exhibit the distinctive form and the principal building components which contribute to their architectural identity.