low-rise architecture
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The street has a very European feel with its early 20th century, low-rise architecture and restored facades.

This development is of a completely different nature to the fifty-year-old suburban low-rise architecture found in the northern area.

The neighborhood is noted for its low-rise architecture and its many brownstone rowhouses, most of them built prior to the Civil War.

If that number is correct, the district has a higher population density than Calcutta or Hong Kong, which demographers say is unlikely, given the low-rise architecture.

For all the early vicissitudes, it may be that the redesigned development will make its mark more as a model of innovative low-rise architecture than as a case history of what can go wrong in a project.

And why should Mr. Allen, who used to live in a Fifth Avenue penthouse towering over the neighborhood and Central Park, now get to impose his new taste for low-rise architecture on the East Side?

This included the construction of the Barclays Center, an arena to serve as a new home for the Brooklyn Nets basketball team, as well as housing and commercial space in a cluster of high-rise buildings much taller than the borough's existing low-rise architecture.

Plus, you’ll find a lot more to photograph than just Graceland and Beale Street: Shoot the arts district of South Main’s storefronts and trolleys amid low-rise architecture with a gritty, Elvis-era vibe; head to Elmwood cemetery for old tombs beneath crepe myrtles and ancient magnolias.

He argued that low-rise construction would not produce enough apartments.

Other possibilities, like in situ concrete, or encouraging individual low-rise construction, were discarded.

These applications can also include fire stations, airplane hangars, fitness centers, and other types of low-rise construction.

In low-rise construction it may support its own weight but self-weight and wind loading are normally transferred to the structural building frame.

Previous planning guidelines have ensured that they are surrounded only by low-rise construction which giving a clear sense of importance and theme setting in Civic.

Sanibel's development is a pattern of low-rise construction and large tracts of undeveloped land.

He is in favour of 'right-to-buy' schemes for buying homes, and wants to expand housing stock through low-density, low-rise construction.

No one apparently noticed that the 15-story tower was built, as Mr. Silva said, "in a manner common only to low-rise construction."

Ms. Appel argued that low-rise construction would be politically appealing because it would not cost much more than the renovations.

• limited applicability in the residential sector, especially in low-rise construction where piece-rate remuneration applies.

The MBMA continues to perform research into wind loads on metal buildings, roof systems, and other aspects of low-rise construction.

Chapter headings include the indoor and outdoor climate, the envelope, cavity wall systems, curtain walls, and "timber-framed" walls for low-rise construction.

Opponents of the planned seven-story hotel have warned against breaking with the island's gentle low-rise construction style and building so densely as to create unmanageable traffic jams.

Awarded to The Daniels Corporation of Mississauga (presented to Don Pugh, vice president of low-rise construction).

At current prices, the replacement cost of that much housing would be about $24 billion, figuring an average cost of $80,000 a unit in a mixture of high- and low-rise construction.

Because of their low-rise construction, the number of rooms which would fit on any given amount of land was low compared to the high-rise urban hotels which had grown around train stations.

Commissioned to build large-scale housing in a sprawling Madrid neighborhood already choked with monotonous low-rise construction, MVRDV designed a typical horizontal housing block with an interior courtyard.

Stretching from Yankee Stadium to Third Avenue, the 161st Street corridor is at once tended and neglected, a jumble of activity and abandonment, high-density and low-rise construction, landmarks and eyesores.

Its Functionalist Romantic styling with textured, complex facades, colourful brick, wood and plastic panels, attention to context and relatively low-rise construction represented a major break with the Brutalist high-rise architectural orthodoxy of the time.

In arguing to save the buildings, preservationists point to the human scale of the apartment complexes, whose pitched slate roofs, elegant brickwork and low-rise construction reflect a subtle understanding of the city's historical context without slavishly mimicking it.

In the 1880s, a French real estate developer signed a long-term lease with the Sheremetev family, cleared the trees, and leveled the area for cheap low-rise construction, creating the rectangular grid of streets and alleys that still exists today.

The developers, whose profits from the projects are limited, are eligible for city and state assistance of up to $25,000 per unit for renovation jobs or new low-rise construction and up to $35,000 per unit for high-rise projects.

In the cities of Focșani and Buzău, unreinforced masonry walls in low-rise construction collapsed partially or totally, and there were signs of movement between structural elements and adjacent masonry in-fill walls in recently constructed engineered buildings.

Now the New York City Partnership, a private, nonprofit group that sponsors construction of affordable housing on city-owned land, has produced an analysis of construction techniques, called "The Partnership Cost Study," that makes a case for low-rise construction on economic grounds.

MBMA Fire and Insurance Bulletins: These are a series of fire and insurance bulletins that the association created and updates to help building officials and builders understand the insurance and fire protection issues associated with metal buildings and low-rise construction.