Sentences with phrase «landmark buildings»

«For years, a developer at the South Street Seaport in Manhattan has been planning a $ 1.5 billion redevelopment that it said would rehabilitate crumbling piers, preserve landmark buildings and bring new vitality to the 400 - year - old historic district on the East River.

She has partnered with some of New York's most accomplished developers and assembled renowned design teams to change the landscape of the city while maintaining the integrity of cherished landmark buildings.

Even if they don't, there may be other perks; for example, Chicago waives building permit fees for landmark buildings.

Whether it's through art, or landmark buildings which improve the city for all those who live it in, we will continue to work hand in hand to make sure the project is successful in achieving its goals,» Hulme concludes.

The development of nearby oil fields in the 1920s and the age of automobile travel created a major real estate boom during which many designated landmark buildings were constructed.

In 1928, they made one of the first major landmark buildings in Birmingham its new home, and by the end of the decade brought the amount of insurance in force to almost $ 6 million, a substantial sum in 1928.

I would firmly expect to see a temporary correction, with a lot of influx of foreign investment capital into the UK, and I would not be surprised if some of the landmark buildings around town and some prized companies and infrastructure assets were changing hands.

It's always fun to compare landmark buildings to the original architectural impressions, the often outrageous display of ambition put down on paper before ground is broken.

The organization is located in three landmark buildings, designed by McKim, Mead & White, Cass Gilbert, and Charles Pratt Huntington, on Audubon Terrace at 155 Street and Broadway.

The Renzo Piano design integrates the three landmark buildings with three intimately scaled new pavilions constructed of steel - and - glass panels to create an accessible, inviting setting.

The preeminent architectural photographer of the 20th century, Shulman chronicled the Modernist landmark buildings of Southern California and elsewhere over five decades.

Already established as a painter, over the course of the 1990s Marrinon began to make diminutive terracotta sculptures of landmark buildings, figures and squat busts incised with cartoon - like simplifications.

The developers made sure to include faithfully recreate topography of each town (including landmark buildings like the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw or the Buda Castle in Budapest), as well as realistically depicted, dense network of national roads between them.

In New York, one of Manhattan's older landmark buildings — the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, also known as the Clocktower — is becoming Marriott's New York EDITION this month.

Beyond Sydney Harbour's landmark buildings, Sydney Harbour National Park shelters secluded beaches, picturesque islands and rare pockets of native bush.

Chino Portuguese architectrue is evident in the landmark buildings as you walk down Thalang Rd towards the center of town.

Day 2 Zagreb, Croatia's capital has a wonderful balance of landmark buildings and churches from earlier centuries in its upper town and interesting art museums and fine examples of 19th and 20th century architecture in its lower town.

She was the designer of many landmark buildings and spaces for the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railroad, notably in Grand Canyon National Park.

It would receive its highest application in the city 15 years later with the opening of Philip Livingston Junior High School at the city's northern entrance, one of its few landmark buildings outside downtown.

The Grace Hotel is one of Sydney's landmark buildings.

The Cawdor, one of Carmarthenshire's landmark buildings is now one of Wales» leading boutique hotels.

Victorian both inside and out, this stately five - room inn — originally designed in 1891 by Walter T. Downing, one of Atlanta's premier architects — is one of the city's designated landmark buildings.

As is usual for the brand, both hotels are located in landmark buildings in the city centre, and combine careful attention to detail, exceptional services, unique spaces, the latest technologies and an excellent gastronomic offering.

He is engaged in several philanthropic projects as well as the restoration and preservation of landmark buildings.

The Madeleine, the Arc de Triomphe, the Pantheon, and other landmark buildings were no longer gray and charcoal but beige and buff, and this month cold - water sprays were going to remove seven hundred years of grime from Notre Dame Cathedral.

In downtown San Francisco, the map rendered a few landmark buildings in 3D, although it didn't show the full downtown landscape, as we saw in the 550i Gran Turismo.

The maps themselves look good, and show a few landmark buildings as representative icons, but there is no satellite imagery, as found in Audi and BMW models.

And while the maps show some landmark buildings, there is no perspective view, merely a 2D, top - down view.

The navigation system is standard Nissan issue, showing 2D or 3D maps in good resolution, and rendering some landmark buildings in urban areas.

It renders some landmark buildings in urban areas and overlays traffic data on major roads.

These maps were bright and clear, showing traffic and few landmark buildings.

The message from the government is that ethos is more important than landmark buildings.

One of SF's most beloved landmark buildings, this refurbished 118 - year - old ferry transportation terminal is the site of what is arguably the city's most legendary farmers market three days a week.

While each participant was shown a large number of images of celebrities, animals, objects and landmark buildings, electrodes recorded the brain cells» firings.

All of our work, from the engineering of landmark buildings and critical infrastructure to the spatial planning and economic evidence in support of development, is evidence - based and informed by a deep understanding of what it takes to deliver construction.

City Hall, Peace Bridge and landmark buildings are often lit up for triumph, remembrance or recognition.

Designed by William J. Dodd, whose portfolio included such landmark buildings as the Los Angeles Herald - Examiner and The Pacific Center, this once private home sheltered famed New York attorney Samuel Untermyer as well as silent screen star Marion Davies, remembered as much for her 30 year affair with William Randolph Hearst as her movie roles and business savvy.

Armoyan says he'll hold public consultations before deciding what to do with the landmark building.

We're sitting in his 10th - floor office in the Phelan Building, a San Francisco landmark built at the turn of the century by James D. Phelan, an American industrialist and senator, who also happened to be the son of an Irish immigrant.

The big challenge for a new owner will be figuring out how to balance growth efforts between residential sales (say, a $ 1,000 skylight for a bedroom) and lofty projects (like a $ 385,000 contract to install a huge 10,000 - square - foot skylight in the roof of a landmark building).

One of our most notable completed projects is the conversion of 5 Beekman Street, a historic 19th - century landmark building and mixed - use facility with 287 hotel rooms, 67 residential condos and adjacent 51 - story tower overlooking City Hall Park.

The company had considered building its own tower or leasing space elsewhere before settling on the landmark building at 111 Monument Circle.

Landmarking a building for its historic or cultural value stretches the police power beyond its traditional limits of protecting public health and safety, and then stretches it still further.

The 40 - story landmark building, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, includes 100 private residences rising 19 levels above the 260 - room St. Regis Hotel.

The landmark building is designed with glass façade and a three - storey brew tower.

Her signature restaurant Jardinière is housed in a beautiful landmark building in San Francisco's civic center area, and features her award winning French - California cuisine.

But many cases for objection are based on very subjective grounds - one person's landmark building is another's eyesore - and developers, and for that matter supporters of schemes, also have the right and the responsibility to make their voices heard.

The controversial Chelsea Market expansion will add roughly 300,000 square feet with two office towers to the landmarked building, which occupies a full block at 95 Ninth Avenue.

The city has struck a deal with a developer to resurrect a handful of decaying landmarked buildings on a property abandoned nearly four decades ago.

The councilman also said this project eliminates high - density housing and the possibility of all of the landmarked buildings being destroyed.