Sentence examples for sensitive renovation from inspiring English sources
The Met Breuer, as it's called, opens to the public on 18 March, after a modest but sensitive renovation that has restored some original architectural detailing to the Brutalist bunker on Madison Avenue.
As a developer, Mr. Tamarkin was well aware of how easily a sensitive renovation can go wrong -- from the McMansionate use of high-hat lighting (there is none in the house) to off-the-rack moldings to nervous neo-Classical-style introductions like indoor columns.
Around the world, from Panama to Shanghai, buyers are seeking historic or period houses, and are willing to pay high prices for them, spurring owners to spend time and money on sensitive renovations that often include modern improvements, brokers say.
Building E52 (Morris and Sophie Chang Building) sensitive modernization: The complete renovation of the former headquarters of the Lever Brothers Company and later MIT's original Sloan School of Management building features a glass-enclosed seventh-floor addition.
We find that the cost-effectiveness of the energy renovation measures is sensitive to real discount rates and energy price increases.
All of this came up because the hotel, on Seventh Avenue at 55th Street, has undergone a top-to-bottom renovation that he said was sensitive to the hotel's long life.
Most recently an architectural company was commissioned to supply over a thousand new windows "sensitive to the historic value" of the building, but its total renovation is estimated to cost anywhere from $80m to $300m.
At No. 122, the Earth Pledge Foundation, a group involved with environmentally sensitive architecture, is finishing what Leslie Hoffman, its executive director, called a "green" renovation, with energy-efficient lighting, low-water-consuming fixtures and natural-fiber rugs.
Renovation delay followed renovation delay.
The renovation cost $1.8 million.
