Sentence examples for wave of buildings from inspiring English sources

Great St Helens is being transformed into an outdoor sculpture gallery that will complement the new wave of buildings that have shot up around Norman Foster's Gherkin over the past decade.

"Singapore must be one of the few places in the world where a statutory board satisfactorily completed everything it set out to do in its first five-year plan," says the narrator of a triumphant 1965 Singapore Ministry of Culture-produced newsreel on the HDB's first wave of buildings.

The first great wave of buildings came with the Romanesque period (800-1200), examples of which include Trier Cathedral, the churches of Cologne and the chapel of Charlemagne's palace in Aachen.

"A wave of building is coming," Mr. Verbij said, when the government releases its latest round of subsidies.

Construction of new subway routes into the neighborhood in the late 1890's set off a new wave of building.

One school of thought says the current wave of building coal plants will be the end of the line in Europe.

MUMBAI, India — A RECENT wave of building collapses has brought attention to this city's large number of poorly built structures.

Another wave of building by the rich, eager to be close to a royal project, endowed the Marais with 200 more private palaces.

When the city, in 1999, made it easier to convert historic buildings to lofts or apartments, a wave of building followed.

This treatment of 84th as a backyard retarded elite development on the block, but by 1900 the shortage of land near Central Park brought a wave of building.

But with the success, it has had to wrestle with issues of gentrification, affordable housing and zoning while facing a wave of building and rising real estate prices.