Sentences with phrase «of ugly buildings»

During that period, our rulers created cities whose essential workers can not afford to live in them, cities full of ugly buildings and drably uniform centres and angry frightened neighbourhoods where people do not know their neighbours.

Thanks to Ryan... & Bryce, I discovered Skimcoat whici I'm going to use on the walls of my ugly built in the early 40's bathroom, hopefully that treatment & a dew other improvements done to my co-op.

Not exact matches

Together, they form the ethos of a brand so effortlessly cool one wonders if it's even possible for Aston to build an ugly car.

That is probably true, though neither Mr. Herbert nor Pres. Lawrence seems to realize that it is the ugly, racist «bedrock» on which the edifices of their beloved affirmative action and multiculturalism are built as well.

Memorial Hall is the ugliest building on the campus of Harvard University, in my view.

At the center of the story is Renée, an ugly middle - aged woman of the working classes, the concierge of the building.

I don't like atheists because they bring pointless law suits against old lady's who work in government buildings that put fake little xmas tree's on their desk or hang up pictures of Santa, or who wear really ugly albeit festive sweaters during the holidays.

I am an eighty year old veteran that gave up a lot of my health for my country and if you want to build your ugly building, DO IT IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY.

It is possible to worship God anywhere; and even the ugliest building and the dullest sermon, the most sentimental or cheap music, the sheer boredom that may accompany the rest of the service, need not block our public approach to the throne of mercy.

I remember some of you posted pics of our midfield and praised ev some drew comparison with lucho, ev has a style that is very similar to the Barca way, but he loves defensive stability and because we lack the true Barca MF to do it we are like this, we all agree some players must go, but carefully looking at things you see that most of what ev does was done by pep (of course not as boldly) but his style looks ugly and boring, guys let us give him a chance it hurts but let us do it, let us see the big picture, he may not be capable of beautiful football but at least while we build we are confident of results which we need, when we rebuild then let us fire him, but if this is down to the players then we are making a mistake, I am not asking anyone to change but just stop insulting and criticising ev, patience is the key.

After a miraculous run to the finals in 1996, Florida missed the playoffs last year and, in keeping with an ugly trend in pro sports, put all its effort during the off - season into building an arena instead of a team.

But the industrial supply company he built enabled Raffa to invest in real estate, and when he died in 1988 Raffa left behind a $ 5 million estate — which set off an ugly fight involving his daughter Matilda, her four siblings, and her husband, Mario, the governor of New York.

In her long life, Calment met Vincent van Gogh in Arles when she was 14 (said he was ugly and smelled of drink) and saw the Eiffel Tower being built.

I am looking at buying a vacant lot for building but there is one of these ugly eye sores right near the edge of the road.

Our men's ugly Christmas sweaters are built tough and can stand their fair share of rough and tumble, while retaining their eye sore status.

A couple of months ago, my hubby and two of his friends built one to cover my SUPER ugly fireplace in our rental!

New Rose Hotel, perhaps his densest, most esoteric feature, builds that style of ugly beauty to its arguable peak.

Can't quite think of the word here, ugly just doesn't quite cut it... I'm sure it is luxury personified, I'm sure it is built like nothing else....

On top of that, their cars are ugly (the Model X looks like a bloated Prius) and cheaply / badly built.

It sure does look ugly to have a windscreen mounted GPS rather than a built in GPS into the car... if only Mercedes Benz Malaysia had included it as standard or optional equipment and with the RM22k price tag... even more so to have it as part of the kit list guess the NAVI button on the dashboard is useless!

Imagine building fake body panels specifically to resemble an uglier version of the car that's being tested, while keeping to the expected specs.

And the camera application, for instance, makes use of the built - in camera and slaps a number of ugly frames on top.

I hate cities where there are too many people crowded in ugly buildings, but love the hearts of old cities with Mediaeval buildings, ancient walls, tiny streets.

He was walking into the big granite building, ugly and flat - looking, with scores of windows that didn't look over much except if you were up high.

The original design on your blog might be the ugliest thing I've ever seen... Right next to the original design of every blog I've ever built.

If the shelter is one of the old - style, ugly, concrete - block buildings located near the landfill or the railroad tracks, in a bad part of town, with no thought given to disease control, then it will be harder to attract adopters and volunteers and harder to keep the animals healthy.

The homes stuck us as pretty ugly, but the fortress - like designs gave the impression that the buildings could withstand the Gulf Coast's yearly onslaught of storms, if not another Katrina.

Just when you have decided that New Jersey is too ugly for words, you are far enough north to change your mind: at some point, the buildings stop and there is a view of the Palissades, a park situated on high cliffs above the river.

Here at Noosa we have beautiful beaches, pristine waters and everything you need to enjoy an unforgettable holiday in a place that is free of ugly high - rise buildings.

When I was there last November they started building an ugly hotel building right in front of the beach.

Because I admit: Once in a while, you'll pass some ugly buildings and even uglier graffiti on walls, but most of the time, it is pretty stunning.

Hopefully, since this is an early build, some of the uglier graphics will be smoothed out by the time the game releases a little way down the road.

As per classic Crazy Taxi, there is quite a bit of pop up as buildings sometimes spring out of nowhere in the distance when players are traveling at high speeds and the game doesn't have the opportunity to load them fast enough; though sometimes ugly, don't fret, as this won't hinder the gameplay experience at all.

The advantages to a 3DS Seaman title would include the system's built - in microphone, its touch screen, and, assuming they go all out with this, you'd also of course get to see Seaman's ugly face in full 3D!

So let me get this straight: Your company is circling the drain, your latest console was a flop, your first - party software comes out way too infrequently and even when it does it's not nearly as good as it used to be, and all you've really got going for you is an awkward, no - one - ever - mentions - wanting - one hand - held gaming device that does 3D at the expense of having graphics one could even possibly call modern in 2013, and so you decide to spend your time building a new version of said hand - held system which does not do that unique 3D feature and instead is big, ugly, clunky and only $ 40 USD cheaper than the 3D version which is ugly too but less so?

I included [in Manifesta 10] two photographs of ugly new Orthodox churches, built by the government.

But seeing Bruce Nauman's latest effort, «Contrapposto Studies, i through vii,» brought me back to a scene in the film Chinatown in which John Huston's Noah Cross delivers a rather acerbic view of reputation and longevity: «Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.»

Architect's Newspaper: Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center For Visual Arts: Fifty Years Later Architectural Record: Fifty Years Later, Still Scandalizing the Neighbors Art New England: Looking Back: Inside the Carpenter Center Harvard Crimson: A Modern Moment Harvard Gazette: Getting to 50 - Deep experience informs Sekler's view of Carpenter Center Public Radio International: The ugliest building on Harvard's campus just might be its most beautiful

In most townhouses built with garages the bulk of the facade is lost to an ugly door, and the occupant gets no light from the front.

Scores of buildings are crowned with orchards, crop rows, and rice paddies, taking the place of hot, ugly roofs.

Driving climate science down to the level of trial lawyers or building contractors in an ugly process but it's nothing AGW activists have every avoided.

That's what happens when you build a big ugly pile of spaghetti code it becomes more and more difficult to untangle and make sense of what's going on as time goes on.

Putting aside the conflation of «bad» with «ugly,» I have to agree with Lloyd that there often is a causal link between a building's look and its sustainable credentials, if for no other reason than green architecture demands a certain set of materials, economy and form.

Here is the ugly reality: None of our efforts to preserve and retrofit vintage buildings will be sustainable if we don't find ways to stop working on an ad - hoc, building - by - building basis We need to move upscale and start focusing on blocks of homes, distinct districts, or even entire neighborhoods.

The National Trust has prepared a slideshow that gives some good tips on how to save what they call ugly buildings, that make a lot of sense.

Two years ago we wrote about Green Sandwich panels; then a year ago about BASF's spectacularly ugly Near Zero Energy Home, promoting their version of a green sandwich panel; now Studio RMA has taken the technology and built what one could truly call a new Case Study House, combining new technology with some classic California modernist design, and aiming for LEED Platinum.

Much of the resulting buildings were just plain ugly - boxy and dull low - and medium - rise apartment buildings that tried to realize utilitarian ideals of the Swedish «Folkhemmet» (loose translation: «the people's home») on a low budget.

But given that so much is being spent on this Olympic extravaganza and given how ugly some of the other buildings are (such as the Media Centre), it is a wonderful legacy for London and the country.

Tom Gresford of London - based Gresford Architects had bought a site — previously owned by Thames Water, and which housed an old and ugly water tower — with a view to designing and building a passive house as a commercial development to demonstrate the financial viability of building one - off homes to the passive house standard.

Every square foot of building in a 2030 District that is committed to meeting energy, water and GHG reduction targets; every planner and designer who participates in the AIA +2030 Series; and every student, professional, and policymaker who turns to the 2030 Palette, helps mitigate the ugly threat of devastation projected to result from unchecked climate change.