Sentences with phrase «many urban buildings»

The stories exposed self - dealing at the Nature Conservancy; sham deductions taken for protecting facades on urban buildings; and jaw - dropping write - offs for golf resorts, whose chemical - doused fairways and private membership seemed at odds with the goals of protecting natural habitat and providing «significant public benefit.»

We want to penetrate the old neighborhoods, and have created potential for 34,000 housing units, 10,000 of which are in approved urban building plans.

He knows we need to address climate change with alternative, renewable energy solutions while reinvesting in our urban buildings and infrastructure.

It can also produce high resolution and accurate wind and thermal distribution predictions to an actual urban built - up district, using realistic weather conditions.

Requiring energy efficiency in new urban buildings To minimize these problems, Chinese policymakers in recent years ordered real estate developers to comply with new codes.

«Self - cleaning» surfaces coated with titanium dioxide can break down chemical grime that will otherwise adhere to urban buildings.

You will get a solid and professional foundation in subjects, methods, theories and disciplines spanning from urban building design and technologies to knowledge about modeling and user involvement.

Thurgood Marshall Elementary School is a shining example of transforming an existing, urban building into a healthy, green school for students, teachers, and staff.

I see the house on the right and keep going, confused at first only by the fact that such an obviously urban building is standing there in the middle of the countryside.

Yes, it's hard to find a useless urban building.

Not all real estate is an urban building, though.

Did you mean urban buildings?

But it is studded with good, urban buildings, a heartening number of them from the past 15 years.

In fact, the bridge from Cancun «s airport and the hotel zone was plagued with annoying construction mishaps until the workers built an alux house underneath the overpass to show the alux they can remain in the area despite all the urban build - up.

Later works, such as the cityscape View from the Window, March, Men's Shelter # 3, 1968, were unequivocally about perceived reality, bolstered by an acute awareness of the geometry of urban buildings.

In these recent paintings, Sandy Litchfield investigates the formal and conceptual relationship between the urban built environment, the countryside, and the forest.

The New School's University Center, designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), is the first commissioned building for The New School since its landmark Joseph Urban building was erected in 1931 at 66 West 12th Street.

In this collection of angular images, the Russian photographer ambitiously challenges both the literal and figurative boundaries that urban buildings inflict on society in order to, as the Facebook event puts it, «break the walls which we come up against and to push the limits of perception.»

Using characteristics of human internal organs and artwork incorporating urban buildings and home appliances, the artist develops a unique representation of human body structure in relation to rapid urbanization.

The works themselves index architectural barriers between outside and inside — a monumental new series of aluminum - cast windows, a large - scale brick - wall painting and a new series of concrete sculptures cast from the corners of urban buildings — collectively comprising the space of an inner world.

AWARDS 2013 Aesthetica Art Prize, selected, York St. Mary's, York 2010 Berwick Gymnasium Arts Fellowship, Berwick - upon - Tweed, Northumberland 2010 Painting Prize, shortlisted, Fringe MK, Milton Keynes 2008 CUBE Prize, shortlisted, CUBE Centre for the Urban Built Environment, Manchester 2006 Celeste Art Prize, shortlisted, Old Truman Brewery, London 2003 Annual Studio Residency, Florence Trust, St Saviour's, London 2003 Lexmark European Art Prize, finalist, Eyestorm Gallery, London 2003 Hunting Art Prizes, Young Artist of the Year, Royal College of Art, London 2003 Jerwood Artist Platform, shortlisted, Jerwood Foundation, London

Untitled: crushed shape is one of a number of drawings that explores process and the behaviour of materials, and in Untitled: basel structure, Barlow gathers inspiration from the structures and materials of the urban built environment.

«And I was fascinated to hear the artist's own description of his work as walking a tightrope between the hard textures of the urban built environment and something which leans towards the more poetic.»

Focusing on the physical fabric of the urban built environment and the hyper - city, her lens - based practice meticulously captures and transcribes its viral quality and alienating sense of the spectacular, while always maintaining an objective distance.

The simple answer is that large companies are major consumers of energy; they are vehicle fleet owners and bulk purchasers; and they are landlords and owners of much of the urban built environment.

Our mission is to advance the sustainability of urban buildings through education, advocacy and research.

Cities are in the frontline for cutting carbon emissions, new IEA report finds Energy Technology Perspectives 2016 shows that decarbonising urban buildings and transport is key to attain Paris climate goals, but slow progress will test governments» commitment 1 June 2016

Adding living greenery to our urban buildings in the form of vertical gardens not only helps to make cities more beautiful, but also serves the practical purpose of producing extra oxygen and cleaning the air.

Already we can see urban building and street designs that use natural air flows to cool the city.

It shows that we can design urban buildings that are off - grid but also off - pipe.

According to Graham, urban building codes are the primary obstruction to tiny house communities ever gaining ground in cities: «[These communities are] not going to happen inside the corporate city limits of virtually any city in the United States of America.

Standards and policies for very high energy efficiency in the urban building sector towards reaching the 1.5 °C target

«The real estate industry is heavily weighted to delivering single - family homes or bigger urban buildings,» Parolek says, adding that demand for the missing middle far outpaces supply, an assertion backed up by studies from Urban Land Institute, strategic real estate advisor group RCLCO, and others.

Canadian housing starts dipped to 225,213 units in March compared with 231,026 in February, as construction of urban buildings like apartments and condominiums decreased, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Tuesday.

But don't despair — many urban buildings have flat roofs that can be converted to a party - perfect rooftop terrace.

Not exact matches

Ali belongs to a new generation of urban planners taping into the rising demand for the services of a profession whose fortunes are tied to surging property development markets as well as the growth in city - building activity across Canada.

Rather than building more big box stores to sell grocery, health, and beauty products under one roof, Loblaw will be able to use urban - friendly Shoppers locations to offer its President's Choice brand items while the drug stores continue to sell pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.

Those buildings now house 12,000 employees from across Gilbert's Rock Ventures business portfolio of roughly 110 affiliated companies, including Rock Gaming, the developer and owner of urban casinos in the Cleveland, Cincinnati and Baltimore markets.

Getting more third - party sellers to offer same - day delivery could help Amazon offset the high costs of offering fast shipping and building warehouses near large urban markets, says Jarrett Streebin, CEO of shipping startup EasyPost.

«There is some truth to that, because [in] Toronto for example, there is limitation as to where you can build low rise construction,» he said, referring to green belt policies aimed at limiting urban sprawl.

Not content with designing iconic buildings in his homeland of Denmark, his firm, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), has crossed the Atlantic in a bid to revolutionize the way architects and planners think about high - density urban housing.

While some entrepreneurs are building up the Detroit urban farming industry, others are hard at work using the materials of abandoned homes to create an industry of craft products.

Opt for a team - building activity at this Dubai - based establishment that calls itself a «spring - loaded urban playground.»

The program will debut in Toronto, and is built around the chain's urban concept restaurants, which are typically located in downtown areas with high foot - traffic.

For decades, urban governments have built information systems that trafficked in huge amounts of data in - house — everything from GIS mapping systems to huge amounts of hoarded traffic stats.

Waymo and Uber are part of a crowded and hotly competitive field of automakers and technology companies aiming to build fleets of self - driving cars that could transform urban transportation systems.

What's your take: Is what's being built in Toronto a dystopia of corporate surveillance for private gain or a giant step closer to a more sustainable, enjoyable urban future?

The biggest difference [with the Urban Franchise Associate program] is that A&W builds the restaurant — the franchisee investment is for the equipment package and some of the other startup costs.

The Guidices rolled out NGAtops in partnership with TownWizard, a software provider in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla., that supplies web and mobile app templates that let small - town entrepreneurs build guide services previously limited to major urban areas.

The widows of the Vanderbilt tycoons who had built the New York Central Railroad sold their ponderous mansions on Fifth Avenue — urban châteaus that lined «Vanderbilt Alley» from 42nd Street to Central Park — to real estate speculators like Benjamin Winter and Frederick Brown.