Sentence examples for roof built from inspiring English sources

Among his better known accomplishments: He re-designed Ford Motor 's River Rouge factory with a 10-acre green roof, built a grassy-roofed building near San Francisco for retailer Gap, and created furniture-maker Herman Miller 's GreenHouse offices.

INDOORS: The barn — a long, barrel-shaped building with a gambrel roof, built in the early 1960s — was converted in 2002 into a two-story loft-like residence.

He then looked up to the heavens, where all he could see was a battered and leaky roof built nearly 125 years ago.

What if the mammoth retractable roof, built at great expense by the All England Club, never actually came in handy in its inaugural year?

Poe Park contains two other interesting structures: a slate-sided, butterfly-roofed visitors center designed by the architect Toshiko Mori, and a classical rotunda-like bandstand with a green patinated roof, built in 1925.

While the standing seam roof over most of our house is steeply angled, allowing the snow to slide off, the shingled shed roof built over a kitchen addition has a lesser pitch that sometimes lets the snow build up.

TNS also agreed to repair the church's roof, build an adjacent community center and name the co-op for the Rev. Magdalen Shelton, the former pastor.

Both Musk and Rive signalled they see a huge market opportunity in new roof builds.

Guests will stay in cottages with turf roofs built around a former hunting lodge.

It was civil disobedience in architecture, with roofs built in a state of near collapse — stabilized that way for effect.

Even the architecture here is distinct: thick-walled stone homes with steep slate roofs built to brave the long Pyrenean winters.