Vancouver's derelict and decayed industrial edifices have often served as a source of inspiration for local artists. |
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Present-day government buildings are often old brick edifices left over from the Soviet period. |
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This era produced hulking concrete edifices built in the form of conch shells, rocket ships, sail boats, origami figures, and circus tents. |
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Magnificent edifices such as the Liver building were erected with the proceeds of the slave and spice trades. |
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Residential buildings and public edifices were built on a far larger scale than in previous years. |
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We have opted to build strong relationships with players instead of building billion-dollar edifices. |
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Prominent edifices such as historic structures, public buildings, churches, synagogues, and high rises get special treatment. |
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These old edifices camouflage well-stocked shops that carry crafts, jewellery, trinkets, carrots, clocks, wants and necessities. |
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Forget your monuments, buildings and other such edifices, this city has trees. |
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Golden light peaked out around the edges of the stone edifices, causing the building to appear black in hue. |
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Note that restrictions on the building of religious edifices by minorities are common in Eurasia. |
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Justice theorists have constructed impressive edifices by refining traditional notions of fairness and responsibility. |
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Building these three, giant, rolling, temple-like edifices new every twelve months is no small task. |
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The Celts and their predecessors had put up edifices such as stone circles, calms and assorted burial constructions near sacred wells. |
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Residents would even pray to some of the edifices to exorcise evil spirits and bring good weather for crops. |
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These yet, universally unhonoured edifices, could well have played their part in building up a stage to set the brilliance to those selected few. |
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Meanwhile,they're cleaning the edifices of the filthy rich, the overnight billionaires and millionaires. |
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Sometimes there would be a large pyramid of tins of spaghetti, baked beans or Palm corned beef and I would marvel at the symmetry and apparent stability of these tin edifices. |
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The white band is the campaign's symbol, worn on the wrist, the arm, the head, or on July 1, international White Band Day, entire buildings and edifices. |
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Amidst the debilitating incapacities of humanism, what vision of sweetness and light is emerging from these converted edifices? |
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A handful of entrants had the idea of building two palatial edifices along this new avenue: these are now the Grand and Petit Palais. |
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In the 80s, the edifices of the second world war seemed as legible to me as the promise of a European future. |
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Al least, this would bring some life back to a few of those edifices that are pining away in disused land. |
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You will find absolutely magnificent sites, picturesque villages, beautiful religious edifices, and vineyards that produce the mellowest wines. |
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The square edifices ranged from tiny chapels to tower-like temples encircled by a columned hall. |
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Rolling in wealth, the Church built great edifices and fielded its own armies and sank deeper and deeper into immorality, materialism, and decadence. |
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Each tries to outdo the other and some of them are towering edifices. |
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The city was no mongrel conglomeration of edifices built independently of one another, but a single, flowing ocean of architecture that stretched on to the horizon. |
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Mr. King regards these edifices as the rudimental forms of Gothic castles. |
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The hospitals in Merthyr, Newport, and Pontypridd where I served my student attachments and house jobs are now gone, replaced by sparkling new edifices. |
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Beijing in particular experienced waves of change, each of which required the destruction of earlier thought patterns, organizational structures, and edifices. |
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What we have witnessed more recently has been the collapse of some financial edifices which have shown the worst aspects of pure, undiluted greed. |
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There were strange protuberances on some of the buildings and it was to one of the larger of the edifices that I found myself directed. |
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The Qatari and Chinese edifices about to rise along the banks of the Thames are pastiches of the Gulf economy. |
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These do not, however, resemble the community edifices that one finds in more established neighbourhoods. |
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A thousand years ago, the Khmer empire built the largest religious edifices in the world. |
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Architects who need to create innovative designs for new public edifices will study the activities that will go on in the buildings. |
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Moving along, Mr. Chair, it was stated that the Human Rights Commission has had no complaints about our edifices to date. |
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Conservation does not only aim at the protection of architectural edifices or sites but also at the achievement of socio-economic objectives. |
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Information is the source of knowledge from which are built all the great and creative edifices of human society. |
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The models were the West's great expositions, whose iconic edifices, such as the Eiffel Tower and Crystal Palace, had inspired visitors with the industrial world's swelling might. |
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Weathering leads to increased particulate matter in streams draining the edifices and higher concentration of elements easily leached by percolating groundwater. |
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If you look you can find one on almost every block, from the great stone edifices downtown to simple clapboard or fibro constructions in the suburbs. |
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These edifices of sound – though disturbingly dissonant for an audience in 1913 – are chosen with impeccable refinement, and they underpin the score's complete arc with a structural surety on an almost Beethovenian level. |
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The central part is graced with Catharinian and Soviet edifices, bridges, and embankments. |
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In Paris, the municipality has installed contraceptive pigeon houses in order to control births and legalized the possibility to include in buildings devices preventing pigeons from nesting and therefore soiling the edifices. |
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In Iloilo, a lot of the colonial edifices constructed during the American occupation in the country can still be seen. |
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We have volunteers or sons and daughters of the legionnaires who are still with us trying to preserve these edifices that stand as a testament to them. |
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Some critics of the project, including the German Bundesbank, argued that the single currency would not work without it. But Maastricht, like many edifices, did not end up quite as the architects had wanted. |
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These commercial edifices containing several floors promoted consumption through the attractiveness of their storefronts and the new emphasis on windows displaying elegant and quality merchandise. |
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Artificial ruins, built to resemble remnants of historic edifices, were also a hallmark of the period. |
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The height prescribed for handrails and railings on stairs and balconies is currently set at 110cm, although in most existing edifices it is 90cm. |
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In reality, it is often the unsatisfied, the depressed, the downtrodden and the lost who provide mortar for the edifices of violent, totalistic ideologies. |
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