Sentence examples for principal building material from inspiring English sources

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.

Most of the foundations, floor areas, pillars, and entrance units of the ancient constructions consist of stone materials, evidencing that stones were the principal building material in the ancient Kingdom of Anuradhapura.

The principal building material is the more than 450,000 clay bricks, each one handcrafted by the women that will be the users of the campus.

The house and detached tower are among the earliest uses of brick as the principal building material for an English house.

The French Navy's, laid down in 1873 and launched in 1876, was a central battery and barbette warship which became the first battleship in the world to use steel as the principal building material.

The innovative features of this building and the Manjakamiadana it inspired particularly the verandas supported by exterior columns became the new norm in highlands architecture, especially upon the adoption of brick as the principal building material.

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

As she explains, Homs is situated in a plane of rich volcanic soil, and over the centuries, its builders found in this landscape what would become one of the city's principal building materials: black basalt.

Woody material is the main building material in the region.

Cliff dwellings are the culmination of these architectural developments; the use of hand-hewn stone building blocks (the principal construction material) and adobe mortar was unsurpassed even in later buildings.

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