Sentence examples for useless building from inspiring English sources

China is littered with extravagant and often useless building projects with no purpose except to impress superiors.

The idea came to nothing, but it did result in the invention of pykrete, an almost entirely useless building material made of ice and wood pulp that has fascinated generations of nerds ever since.

This question, as framed by one commentator, does come to mind: "What if instead of all these flashy useless buildings, the countries would build useful public works?

3.5 into consideration, in addition to avoiding investment in useless buildings and roads, the key to improving environmental efficiency of production activities at the regional level is to shift to an industrial structure with a greater share of tertiary industries while achieving greater value-added in tertiary industries (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry 2014).

The country is also fairly useless at building things.

The sun beats relentlessly on huge granite columns left at the margins of the Mons Claudianus quarries; these ones cracked and were useless for building.

Buying this kind of land is essentially useless as building restrictions are so high.

This can be expensive and for most members who don't go, useless in building muscle.

He also claims he can solve the power problem that rendered Iridium phones useless inside buildings.

He also claims that he can solve the power problem that rendered Iridium phones useless inside buildings.

The huge amount of prestigious and sometimes directly useless public buildings that have been erected all over Europe, has been a very powerful argument for those that discredited architecture as a whole.