(n.) The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.
(n.) The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.
(n.) That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(2) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(3) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
(4) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(5) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(6) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(7) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(8) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
(9) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(10) "Speed is not the main reason for building the new railway.
(11) The building block of cytokeratin IFs is a heterotypic tetramer, consisting of two type I and two type II polypeptides arranged in pairs of laterally aligned coiled coils.
(12) The fire at Glasgow School of Art's Charles Rennie Mackintosh building was reported at about 12.30pm.
(13) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(14) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
(15) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
(16) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
(17) ... and the #housingstrategy on Twitter: Robin Macfarlane, a retired businessman: @MacfarlaneRobin House building should have been on the agenda from day one.
(18) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
(19) Mortality rates naturally vary considerably, but in earthquakes, for example, the number of deaths per 100 houses destroyed can give an indication of the adequacy of building techniques.
(20) The aim of the trial was to determine the effectiveness of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular problems in people with asymptomatic atherosclerosis – the undetected build-up of waxy plaque deposits on the inside of blood vessels.
Portico
Definition:
(n.) A colonnade or covered ambulatory, especially in classical styles of architecture; usually, a colonnade at the entrance of a building.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another officer posted on the portico outside the wooden White House doors mistakenly assumed the doors were locked.
(2) In a letter to a corporation official, Cottam wrote: "Desecration: graffiti have been scratched and painted on to the great west doors of the cathedral, the chapter house door and most notably a sacrilegious message painted on to the restored pillars of the west portico.
(3) In its current state there is some confusion: what the architecture strongly suggests is the front door, beneath a boldly overhanging portico, is not in fact the front door, and visitors have to seek out a more obscure entrance around the side.
(4) The Opera and Ballet Theatre – a staggering work of architecture whose irregular, angled forms flowing down to the river could have been built yesterday – is now screened from view by structures that try (with impressive ineptitude) to look like they were built 2,000 years ago, with mock-19th century candelabras and a Roman portico with allegorical figures in what looks like gold lame.
(5) The Rotunda, with its famous Dome Room and outside porticos, continues to receive critical acclaim for its architectural design.
(6) There are also three nods for jazz artists, namely Polar Bear’s In Each And Every One, GoGo Penguin’s v2.0 and First Mind by Nick Mulvey, who was formerly a member of previous nominees Portico Quartet.
(7) Aside from rock duo Royal Blood and indie band Bombay Bicycle Club – whose So Long, See You Tomorrow is a rather more inventive and interesting album than their nondescript image suggests – the rest of the list concentrates largely on albums by artists who have yet to really gain mass attention: poet Kate Tempest's debut for independent hip-hop label Big Dada; Nick Mulvey, a former member of Mercury-nominated jazz collective Portico Quartet turned singer-songwriter; electronic auteur East India Youth; idiosyncratic Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers; FKA Twigs, whose avant-garde take on R'n'B might have been conceived with the express intention of getting on the Mercury shortlist.
(8) The influence of Italian colonists may still be seen in the dilapidated stone porticos of Asmara’s central market and the disused railway line running down to the Red Sea coast.
(9) The beige modern building overlooks a playground; its entrance is a grand remnant from an older structure, with columns and a portico; the ground floor is home to classrooms and 326 pupils.
(10) Yes, he and the RIBA might agree on matters of sustainability, and will work together on these in the future, yet at heart there remains as gap as wide as the portico of the west front of St Paul's Cathedral.
(11) Like other Britons in failing health who choose to depart through the modernist portico leading to the Dignitas organisation in a Zurich apartment, their deaths last Friday triggered a police inquiry.
(12) Railway locomotives of the 1830s were often decked out in neoclassical or gothic ornament designed to disguise their rude mechanical parts, while Britain's first mainline trunk railway, the London to Birmingham, concealed its terminus at Euston behind a giant Greek Doric portico.
(13) While the restaurant stretches over a bright, modern two-floor dining room, the place to be is sitting beneath the vaulted portico at one of the tables set between each of the marble columns, looking out over the garden and the palace’s ornate dome.
(14) The public greetings were measured and diplomatically warm – Melania Trump handing over a blue Tiffany gift box under the North Portico.
(15) Mark Knoller (@markknoller) In pouring rain, GOP Senators boarding their buses parked in front of the North Portico.
(16) Her noodle stall is sheltered from the rain by the vast portico of a government bank, built in the 1930s by the British when Burma was part of the empire.
(17) The breach set off security alarms but Gonzalez outran pursuing officers, ignoring their commands that he stop, and entered the North Portico doors.
(18) But now, in a moment of jaw-dropping trickery, the architecture is joining in the fun: the Victorian market portico appears to have been ripped away from its colonnade, and left hanging in thin air.
(19) Yet standing on the West Portico of the Capitol, on the spot where John F Kennedy spoke 56 years ago, he unfurled the slogan of Lindbergh and Buchanan as the mission of his presidency.
(20) The account differed starkly from a press release issued by the secret service theday after the incident, which merely said Gonzalez was “physically apprehended after entering the White House North Portico doors”.