Sentence examples for river piers from inspiring English sources

River piers; top-floor restaurants in skyscrapers; tenement rooftops; the Brooklyn Bridge.

These visionaries have repurposed all manner of neglected buildings, turning river piers, churches, warehouses and factories into handsome dining spots.

A new bus service in London, Riverside 1 (RV 1), links more than 40 arts and tourist attractions, 5 Underground stations, 3 railway stations and 5 river piers.

Now Chelsea is home to more than 170 galleries, its development partly fueled by the renovation of several of its river piers into a recreation mecca, Chelsea Piers.

The piles support two river piers, two shore piers and two abutments.

Each line of beams consists of two cantilever spans 370 feet long suspended between the shore and river piers, a central suspended span 140 feet long between the two river piers, and two 110 feet spans suspended over roadways at either end.

Many of those were tourists who used the boats as a cheap sightseeing vehicle — there is a free bus that takes riders from 34th Street at Avenue of the Americas to the river pier — and families who saw the boats as a weekend pleasure cruise, one reason the service is deploying 399-passenger models for weekends.

The Talk Melissa Rivers; Piers Morgan; Gail Simmons.

Although Grebenets warns that as permafrost retreats from the river bank, piers and other structures there could be compromised, Novakov says he didn't "see any trend that piers have suddenly started to be destroyed".

At the same time there's a constant undercurrent of danger: a passing face looks murderous; police fish a corpse from the river; a pier explodes in billows of dark smoke.

But instead of going out to sea on boats, or even sitting on the edge of rivers or piers like their ancestors did, many Taiwanese city dwellers are now fishing for shrimp from indoor pools in restaurants that let them catch their own meal and cook it themselves.