Sentences with phrase «of traditional building»

As this small house prototype shows, the modernist aesthetic does not have to spell the end of traditional building knowledge.

The last few decades have seen the abandonment of centuries of traditional building techniques, accumulated knowledge and locally adapted construction, replaced by industrialized, low performance materials.

Working with the local community on a remote island, a young architect is determined to ensure the survival of traditional building lore.

Post war reconstruction was limited by the shortage of experienced bricklayers and the slow nature of traditional building techniques, resulting in a shift towards modular prefabricated systems which became synonymous with social high rise housing in London and its new towns.

The uniqueness of the traditional building boosts more tourists to choose Coral View Villas as a proper place to stay or spend holiday in Amed.

Utilising both local wood and stone, the Garden of Eden is modern in style but also combines the beauty of traditional building designs associated with the Nessebar area of Bulgaria.

Britspace's bespoke approach to offsite manufacture gave the client a cost effective solution whilst retaining the look and feel of a traditional build project.

Your guide will point out the beautiful Balinese architectural design of the traditional buildings, now the center of Ubud's cultural life.

The Dolphin Hotel sits in a colourful row of traditional buildings which host shops and restaurants.

The Seascale Hotel sits in a colourful row of traditional buildings which host shops and restaurants.

A: «A fully glazed conservatory may not be to everyone's liking, so a careful combination of traditional build and glazing can be an interesting alternative,» says Jane Hindmarch, Marketing Manager, Vale Garden Houses.

Custom McAlpine side consoles, instead of traditional built - in bookshelves, flank a gallery wall with a series of modern abstracts.

Modern shepherd's huts capture all the rustic charm of the traditional buildings, but with the benefit of modern technology.

Not exact matches

And in the case of financial institution a relevant place to apply it would be where it's important for a particular product or service to have either more trust from third parties or to engage third parties in building a network without a traditional intermediary.

A space - faring rocket built by traditional manufacturing methods consists of about 100,000 parts.

No longer is startup success dependent upon the traditional linear model of writing a business plan, obtaining a bank loan, building a brand and then waiting for customers to show up.

«After getting the right talent into the organization,» wrote Gubman, «the second traditional challenge to human resources is to align the workforce with the business -; to constantly build the capacity of the workforce to execute the business plan.»

A subterranean tunnel (pictured at lower right) leads up the mountainside to a «Graubünder barn» (a traditional barn built in the traditional style of the region, pictured at lower left), should an undetected escape become necessary, or perhaps if the occupants need access to safely stowed cows to handcraft some Swiss cheese.

Not only does the technology — which builds up a tablet in layers — allow for more concentrated pills, it could also make it easier and more cost - efficient (an adjustment to software, instead of the traditional manufacturing process) to create pills precisely tailored for a patient's exact dosage.

As you build out your business, you'll be able to offer a wide range of payment options, including ecash and echecks, digital currency and traditional payments across a world of currencies, and credit and debit cards.

The traditional way of conducting market research for building a mobile startup just doesn't work.

Holiday recounts the early days of Evernote, when the young company decided to bypass traditional marketing and advertising and instead focused all its attention and resources on building a product that people would come to love.

Allyson Hugley, president of Measurement & Analytics for Weber Shandwick, notes that the data from the study could add another layer to the modes of evaluation that are already available to advertising and marketing agencies, building on traditional surveys and more recent technology such as beacons and RFID chips that are used during live events.

To build a team that is reflective of the time, you have to maybe look outside traditional models... Oftentimes we're looking for, obviously people with experience, but also people that are creative and passionate about culture.

That's especially true in the construction industry where, for commercial buildings, traditional methods could be millions of dollars cheaper.

One of my favorite examples is Easton LaChappelle, a teen who used 3D printing to not only build prosthetic arms that can be sold for a few hundred dollars, as opposed to traditional prosthetics that can cost upwards of $ 50,000, but also made his 3D design and engineering plans available as open source!

Despite all the benefits of building with concrete, however, ICF has barely made a dent in the domination of traditional wood - frame construction.

Since parts are built from the ground up, one of the big benefits is that it generates far less scrap metal than in traditional manufacturing.

And what's even more interesting for existing media companies, a traditional title like National Geographic has been able to build a relatively huge following with millennials through social media, using many of the same techniques BuzzFeed and Vice employ.

Accelerating expansion usually means marketing, and when your brand has been built on decades of authentic bona fides, as Canada Goose's has, traditional marketing can be a slippery slope.

Instead of following the curriculum of what might be a more traditional conference, ICON places emphasis on building a community among attendees.

Flat and bossless structures work by building, evolving and finessing a working configuration of the right people, process and technologies — relaxing certain traditional controls but making sure to harness that autonomy to useful effect.

Meanwhile, development projects such as marinas and residential buildings constructed in California's estuaries have pushed stingrays out of their traditional habitats and into coastal waters, where the rays provide easy food for baby white sharks.

Traditional structures are built around levels of people rather than around the work itself, often creating artificial divisions and departments as well as distance from really knowing what's going on.

While most social influencers aren't traditional businesspeople, they sure know how build trust and rapport with their audience — which is one of the reasons why social influencer marketing is delivering 11x the ROI as compared to other digital marketing strategies.

We're just slogging away in the traditional investment world,»» says Cordes, who built AssetMark Investment Services to about $ 9 billion in assets, sold it to Genworth Financial Inc. in 2006, and last year was part of an investment group that re-acquired the company.

Although they are usually considered unessential, even in a traditional wet shave, you may find that some brands of soap require a shaving bowl to build the best lather.

Because we do not rely on traditional advertising channels, such as print or television advertisements, if our grassroots marketing efforts are not successful, there may be no immediately available alternative marketing channel for us to build awareness of our products in a manner that we think will be successful.

«We believe that in spite of recent developments, Canadians believe passionately in the traditional values that guided this country in its post-war nation building.

When building the BlackRock Managed Index Portfolios, the investment team moves beyond traditional static asset allocation, incorporating asset allocation of equities, fixed income and non-traditional exposures.

In an effort to build its relevance to the world outside traditional «Davos man» — the slightly scornful phrase used by political scientist Samuel Huntington to describe attendees, this year's World Economic Forum meeting in Switzerland is pushing to be a little more touchy - feely, for want of a better word.

[01:30] Introduction [02:30] Tony welcomes Alexandra [03:40] Launching in 2007 — it came from a place of passion [04:25] Establishing clear roles among founders [05:40] Flexing her multilingual skills in business [06:25] Adjusting how you speak to someone based on their objectives [08:10] The secret to Gilt's growth [09:20] Building a business that would thrive during winter [10:20] Finding the capital to purchase inventory [10:40] Moving from venture to private equity funding [11:20] It's all about smart money [11:40] The future of traditional retail [12:20] The subscription model [12:40] Catering to the time - starved customer [12:55] Bringing services into the home [13:10] Leaving Gilt to lead Glamsquad [16:10] Glamsquad started as an app [17:10] Vetting employees [18:10] Building trust with customers [19:00] Taking massive action — now [20:20] Launching the first sale on Gilt — without a return policy [21:30] Fitz [22:00] The average person wears only 20 % of their wardrobe [23:00] Taking the time to understand your customer [23:20] Challenges as a woman in business [24:40] Advice to a female entrepreneur that's just getting started [25:25] The importance of networking [25:50] Knowing the milestones to hit along the way

After working on a number of traditional spacecraft programs at NASA, Chris co-created Phonesat, a spacecraft built solely out of a regular smart phone.

Pay - per - use services such as car - sharing and ride - hailing are starting to challenge traditional car ownership in some in some of China's most congested cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, while global automakers are starting to bill themselves as «mobility» companies that do more than just build and sell vehicles.

Credit Karma pulls in a large amount of information from traditional credit reports — account overviews, payment history, credit inquiries and public records — and builds a level of personalization on top of this to guide users and highlight items that require their attention.

So while we dream of cryptocurrency, we should actively recognize which elements of the ecosystem have been built and popularized within traditional infrastructures.

This patchwork approach to regulating the nature of foreign owned residential real estate allows subregions in Switzerland to create policies that respond to the particular pressures they face, whether it be foreign investors holding land but not building, or foreign investors purchasing large lots that when developed significantly impact the traditional esthetic of the area.

«We have prioritized building a presence in the traditional eSports space, and the response has been overwhelmingly positive... We have reached our alpha registration goal for the premier version of our platform.

Some say a technological shift at companies like HP and IBM away from traditional manufacturing, which requires large investments in buildings and equipment, and toward data - based products is also changing the calculation of how much investment is needed in innovation.

He is a turnaround architect of the highest order, a maverick marketer who delivers scalable campaigns, embraces traditional modes of customer engagement, and possesses a remarkable cachet of mentorship, corporate governance, and brand building.