Sentences with phrase «like every concrete building»

The museum itself was not open (it was a monday) but since the architect boyfriend really likes concrete buildings like this and the area in general is starting to develop real nice, we went anyway.

Not exact matches

«Instead of constructing immoveable concrete buildings, we'll create lightweight block - like structures which can be moved around easily as we invest in new product areas,» David Radcliffe, Google's vice president of real estate, said in a blog post Friday.

If you're in an industry that does not engage in social media, or tends to be self - focused like concrete, look at creatively overcoming objections as a way to build links.

Much emphasis was placed on the importance of building a strong foundation, which usually involved employing materials like the «concrete» of absolute truth, the «joists» of biblical inerrancy, and the «bearing walls» of Christian doctrine.

As for mission: it is relatively easy to rally a congregation around concrete goals, like a building program, or even paying off a note.

Guelzo writes that «Like [William] James, he began with concrete individual experience, but built up from it to a vision of a «Blessed Community» aligned with God.»

Like James, he began with concrete individual experience, but built up from it to a vision of a «Blessed Community» aligned with God.

The new church building, however, is not to be «a restoration but a modern edifice, a parabolic poured - concrete tent - shape peaked like a breaking wave» (p. 478).

In addition to recycled concrete and steel from the old Tappan Zee Bridge, the reefs will be built with vessels like tug boats and barges.

Since the volcano is still active, bunker - like concrete shelters are provided around the crater, built after a dozen people perished in a sudden eruption some 50 years ago.

Where else in the world are huge populations still at risk because they are living in cities where the primary building construction is unreinforced concrete and there is a likelihood of a major earthquake like this?

Some moments — like a ground - level shot of Bale taking a knee on the concrete as an earthquake shakes the buildings and people around him — are so exquisite you could cry.

Very long - running Matahari is, like much of Long Beach, slowly making a transition from cheap and rustic to more mid-market, best represented by a two - storey concrete building full of air - con and hot water rooms just off the beach.

The most consistent Colonial Revival elements found in these buildings are building symmetry; hipped roofs that often intersected one another; the use of a single, decorative fan or Palladian windows located high - up in the gabled or pedimented (triangular end) of the roof; double - hung windows with decorative features like thick concrete sills or curved, segmental arches overhead; thin columns or pilasters with simple capitals (tops); pronounced front porches.

The rooms at Villa Vang Vieng Riverside are bungalow style, but they are solidly built, made entirely out of wood and concrete and feel more like small traditional Lao houses, complete with terracotta roof and decorative trim.

Some moons can be spotted sitting atop tall buildings or dangling below out of reach ledges, giving players a concrete goal, while others are unlocked by seemly arbitrary actions like... sitting on a park bench.

The city itself is super eclectic, even walking around the city centre you can see the great contrast between some really wonderfully experimental new buildings, and their brutalist concrete counterparts, nestled in between areas like the Chinese Quarter, and also the remnants of Birmingham's more industrial past with tons of great old warehouse spaces, some of which have been repurposed into really interesting places.

The Highlights here are an array of Isa Genzken's miniature concrete building - like works from 1986 - 90 and exceptional translucent wire and metallic string works by Marisa Merz and Lygia Pape.

The floor exhibits comprise small foundational house - building structures like pillars with protruding beams, roughly cemented plaques, unfinished walls and corrosive metal and concrete tablets.

By focusing on the landscape, the Colorado plains east of Denver and the «awe and wonder» of basic elements like concrete, wood, and glass, Cloepfil created a building that utilizes one of Denver's defining characteristics — sunlight — to showcase our own beautiful light as revealed through the building while simultaneously giving Still's work its own reveal and perfect setting.

Situated next to them are several casts from concrete and cardboard, which look like fragments of a building and lumps of earth.

I love paint and I see it as a great building material, like a brick - if you add concrete you can build a wall.

Titled «Sekai» (Japanese for «world»), Akiba's sculptures feature mundane but environmentally impactful things like utility poles, concrete buildings and cars — all riding on the backs of bears, turtles and hippos — alluding to the spectre of endangered species and mutual extinction.

The challenge is looking for ways to make things like «alternative cement, concrete, and other building materials; chemicals used to manufacture a variety of industrial and consumer goods; low - carbon transportation fuels, and possibly new products altogether.»

Buildings like shopping malls and hospitals could also begin to utilize wood products to reduce steel, concrete, and aluminum use.

It seems like a sensible idea; In New Orleans, many of the new houses are built permanently on concrete stilts and look pretty clunky.

In so doing, they increase the span of time for which the carbon will be bound up in a solid form; by making the wood stronger (converting soft woods like pine into a form comparable to tropical hardwoods), they also allow wood to be used in a wider variety of applications, displacing more carbon - intensive building options like concrete, metal, and plastic:

Consider instead that the airport is like a mini-city — buildings and lots of concrete and bitumen tarmac.

A large cyclone in 1970 caused 500,000 deaths, but a similar cyclone in the same area in late 2007 (including a tsunami - like 2 - metre - high sea water intrusion) caused only 8000 deaths, though affecting the houses or livelihoods or 8 million people: most of the more exposed people received early warning, and took refuge in thousands of government - built cyclone shelters, chiefly schools and other public buildings, made of concrete and other hard materials, and built upon 12 - 15 feet high concrete pillars.

Building industry specific PCRs, like the concrete standard released today, as well as industry benchmarks are key to advancing the goals of the 2030 Challenge for Products.

Since common building materials like asphalt, steel, concrete, and brick retain more heat than vegetation, land development elevates surface and, to a lesser degree, air temperatures.

It requires energy - intensive building materials like concrete and fuel - burning construction equipment, all of which release carbon.

During construction, water is required for making the concrete needed for the footings of the towers, and for things like damping - down while road - building, but these require small amounts of water relative to those used for mining coal or uranium or cooling coal - fired, or nuclear, power stations.

You may not like big box buildings from an aesthetic perspective — I hate to say it but I'd prefer a whole city of Brutalist concrete architecture over a bunch of steel framed big boxes — but they sure do have a lot of roof surface area suitable for solar power.

As Shibata explains, this «Switch» design came about as a way to get around the inflexibility if the building's existing, box - like reinforced concrete structure, where walls are structural elements and therefore can not be taken down.

It often does not live up to this promise - many are built far away as second homes, founded on concrete and tethered to the grid like any other house.

Wood homes have higher rates than homes built of non-flammable materials like brick, stone or concrete.

The only thing missing has been a concrete indication of what Cortana on Windows 10 would look like, and thanks to the leaking of a new Windows 10 build to Winbeta, the world can now finally see that early Cortana version in action.

Example resumes in this field highlight responsibilities like developing consistent and scalable user interface solutions in order to deliver global web - based content and applications to clients and employees, developing applications using J2EE architecture while using concrete principles laid down by design patterns, and developing technical solutions to build a Java architectural framework.

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These groups, which are structured much like a class, meet weekly for 2 hours over the course of 26 weeks and are designed to provide clients with concrete strategies for building better lives.

Greensburg has a demonstration home made of concrete and another under way using a «wood block» system that's stronger than traditional building methods because the wood interlocks like Legos, he says.

Built - in pieces like the concrete sofa base, display ledge and bed frame also optimize the limiting layout while asserting the cutting - edge style Leah sought.

From your description, it sounds like your wood counters didn't take much more care than my laminate counters do (no cutting, no hot foods, etc.) My dream counter top material is soapstone, but if I ever remodel or build a kitchen, we'd probably go with concrete.

I had an aggragate concrete patio (concrete with rough texture and small pebbles, etc in the mix) and always wished we could have afforded brick like on our front porch, when we first built the house in 1997.