Buildings in sentence

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And then the broader ideas of city-making start having direct influences on architecture, on the elements that make up the broader scheme, the buildings themselves, and start guiding us.

If you look at most buildings, what you look at is the building, the facade, and it is the building.

And a project that was realized in Austria, the Hooper Bank, which again used this idea of connecting typology, the traditional buildings, and morphology, or the relationship of the development of land as an idea, into a complex, which is a piece of a city where we can see part of it is literally just this augmenting, this movement of the land that's a very simple idea of just lifting it up and occupying it, and other parts are much more energetic and intense.

An explosion like this would create a fireball capable of decimating a few city blocks and a shockwave damaging buildings several kilometers away.

Sturdy buildings within that range should be able to withstand the shockwave, and staying in the centers and basements of these buildings also helps provide protection from heat and flying objects.

Thankfully, the same buildings that offer protection from the blast are even better at guarding against fallout.

Since the most hazardous fallout particles are the heaviest, they sink through the air and collect on streets and rooftops, making ideal shelters underground or in the middle of high-rise buildings.

It could dramatically reduce demand for food, transportation, electricity, buildings, goods and all the rest, thereby reducing emissions.

At the point where you can weaponize your buildings, you have to suddenly think about architecture in a very different way.

This one, this is going to be the new World Trade Center: a giant hole in the ground with big buildings falling into it.

The computer revolution, the technocratic, technological revolution, has allowed us to jettison normal-shaped buildings, traditionally shaped buildings, in favor of non-orthogonal buildings such as this.

A brand-new way to put buildings together, something called mass customization.

But somehow the finished products that industry made available for us as architects to use in our buildings seemed to have lost their soul.

But today, bigger and bigger buildings are going up around the world.

This principle has long dictated the shape of our buildings, leading ancient architects to favor pyramids with wide foundations that support lighter upper levels.

Without a foundation, buildings this heavy would sink, fall, or lean over.

But quickly traveling through buildings this large is a challenge in itself.

Not just flooded cities, tens of thousands of dead people, and whole nations leveled to piles of torn down buildings.

An enormous hurricane-like wind, and destruction of buildings almost totally, within this yellow circle here.

You know, if you're out there and you see buildings horribly destroyed and down in that direction, less destroyed here, then you know that it was over there, the blast, and you're going this way, as long as you're going crosswise to the wind.

But we did go into all the surrounding buildings that had been evacuated, and searched for possible survivors in the buildings that were too dangerous to go into.

And we asked ourselves, why couldn't it be exhibitionistic, like the Met, or like some of the other buildings at Lincoln Center?

He meant back beyond that mountain of trash, back in the legal city, of legal buildings, with legal leases and legal rights.

The buildings here are multi-story.

All of these buildings are made out of reinforced concrete and brick.

And that of all the technologies that were exploited to make that carnage come into being, probably the single group of technologies that cost the most lives were those that enable 50,000 people to live in two buildings 110 stories above the ground.

Or take relatively simple things like the drag on buildings and cars.

But these are short-range signals: they get absorbed by moisture in the air, or blocked by tall buildings.

So, whether it’s this microbus meeting room that we have in one our buildings at IDEO; or at Pixar, where the animators work in wooden huts and decorated caves; or at the Googleplex, where it’s famous for its [beach] volleyball courts, and even this massive dinosaur skeleton with pink flamingos on it.

And of course, they used experimentation in all aspects of their work, from films to buildings, from games to graphics.

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