Sentence examples for small-scale building from inspiring English sources

Across the Peninsula, a small-scale building boom is under way as developers and wealthy property owners buy million-dollar homes, tear them down and build larger ones.

When we turn our attention from our daily macroscopic world to small-scale building blocks of the body, we need a newly evolving nanomechanical view point.

A set of 1/10 reduced-scale prototype of the RNC isolator has been designed based on the maximum allowed horizontal displacement to be used in the experimental mechanical characterization of the RNC isolator, in addition to the subsequent experimental assessment of its efficiency through implementation into a small-scale building model and equipment isolation in the near future.

In 2008, the city rezoned the street with a goal of replacing the many small-scale buildings along it with office towers, residential high-rises and cultural institutions.

Once Brick Towers is gone, the authority will have largely fulfilled its pledge to bulldoze the bleak high-rise projects that once punctuated the city's skyline and replace them with small-scale buildings and market-rate units.

BUT small-scale buildings are also to be found, including a row of a dozen three-story Federal and Greek Revival-style town houses on Stone Street, built soon after a fire in 1835 leveled most of the area.

The pedestrian-friendly stretch of small-scale buildings starts at D Street, a short walk from the venerable Capitol Hill fixture Eastern Market, and runs south to M Street.

Working on hundreds of projects, many of them small-scale buildings that could be constructed quickly, without the rigmarole of public hearings, he remolded entire neighborhoods in his steely, angular, brash — some would say garish — style.

Two other small-scale buildings of great architectural and human interest are the Maggie's cancer care centres in Glasgow and Swansea, designed by Rem Koolhaas and Kisho Kurokawa, respectively.

The area had a critical mass of similar-looking small-scale buildings, a street grid, sidewalks and structures built right to the property line — the essential ingredients for a signature Goldman neighborhood.

The family's home was constructed of corrugated iron and set on top of stilts to keep out water and animals; the design of this house, and of other houses built by his father, would later inform many of Murcutt's own choices as an architect of houses and other small-scale buildings.