Sentence examples for renovating rather than from inspiring English sources

Since he is renovating rather than putting up a new lab, the building is larger than current zoning would allow.

With foreigners paying $3,000 to $12,000 a month in rent, a small but growing number of local owners are renovating, rather than selling out to developers from Hong Kong, who tend to build high-rises on the sites for the quickest return on their investment.

Lewis: In your book you describe Apple's introduction of the iPod as an example of renovating rather than innovating.

Avery Fisher Hall is likely to be renovated rather than rebuilt.

During the last decades of the 20th century, inner-city areas were increasingly renovated rather than replaced.

In the past decade, the authority has chosen to renovate rather than tear down its aging housing stock, often at great expense.

Though he was given a clean slate and a huge budget, Rampazzi has gone for the impression that rooms have been renovated rather than designed anew.

A new hybrid electric water heater will be manufactured in Louisville in a factory now being renovated, rather than in China, where G.E. makes its current model.

Mr. Sarkisyan and leading Moscow architects like Yevgeny Asse assert that the building, which is not officially a landmark, can be renovated rather than demolished.

Many of the bungalows and fishing houses in the downtown area are being renovated, rather than replaced, and residents like the fact that the town is not becoming too citified.

It was renovated rather than razed because of its historic nature and appeal to tourists.