Sentence examples for ugly office from inspiring English sources

Don't be put off by its location (in an ugly office building) or the décor (a vain attempt to import some glam L.A. style).

In 1967, as the heyday of Times Square passed, the Astor Hotel was demolished to make way for a singularly ugly office building.

But then rectangular towers began appearing, and even the front view of the cathedral was interrupted by an ugly office building.

Then, in the '60s, this splendorous paradise was decapitated by its floundering original owner, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and surrounded by ugly office buildings that were a last, desperate gasp for profitability.

Reaction to renderings of the town houses so far has been polarized, with some online commenters calling them "gorgeous" and others spurning the project as reminiscent of an "ugly office building from the '70s".

For Ricky Gervais' seminal 2001 sitcom The Office has ruined Slough more than John Betjeman's poem ("come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough") ever could, with the Berkshire town now immortalised as a post-industrial wasteland of ugly office blocks and banal, dead-end jobs.

Cold and ugly offices are the perfect backdrop to the cultural narrative that austerity politics bombards us with every day.

6. Hutton Hotel An ugly 1960s office building near the bustling West End has been transformed into a slick boutique hotel catering to music execs and fashion types.

But capitalism has proved perhaps their deadliest enemy yet, as property developers many of whom, ironically, are Israeli knock down large swathes of the area and build ugly modernist office blocks and parking lots.Yet the twists of Hungarian politics, and the recession, may prove the Jewish quarter's greatest allies.

HE can't wait to get that beloved Buffettism tacked up alongside his James Dean poster on the bare wall of his ugly duckling office at 1 West Street -- he hates it so much he has paid out of his own pocket for renovations.

What connects a Victorian house in Leamington Spa with an ugly 1970s office block off London's Old Street roundabout?