Sentence examples for skinny building from inspiring English sources

With his advice, the developers decided to build a tall, skinny building.

"Everybody likes to say that a tall, skinny building is going to have the worst shadow.

In fact, counter to instinct, a tall, skinny building can create fewer overshadowing problems than a low, wide building.

Kwartler stopped across the street from the construction site: at the outset of the project, the developers had asked him to compare the shadow cast by a low, squat building with that cast by a tall, skinny building that had the same square footage.

Designed by the New York firm of Tod Williams Billie Tsien, the skinny building's lobby and four gallery floors are dominated by service facilities.

But such racy, fashion-y photos do seem to miss the objectives of physical fitness, which include getting healthy (not unhealthily skinny), building muscle definition (which the male models have but the women, not so much) and feeling good about one's physique (which we're guessing is not best accomplished by showing average women pictures of size 2 models).

High-rise living is the order of the day in New York, which is awaiting the completion of 111 West 57th Street, a weirdly skinny apartment building on West 57th Street in Manhattan, just 13m wide, but taller than the Empire State Building.

The arena: Mogadishu's fish market, a long, skinny, seaside building where many thousands of dollars' worth of fish are sold every day.

Mr. Schretzman now lives with his 43-year-old sister, sleeping on a living room futon in her tiny, $700-a-month apartment in a skinny tenement building in SoHo.

In the formal garden behind the main building, skinny lizards flashed away from every footfall.

But today the Knightsbridge of the North is only interested in building skinny skyscrapers.