The building was dwarfed by the scene outside.

Once the door was open, they crowded him inside the dark building.

All seven recognized that independence was but the first step toward building a nation.

While this was under consideration, dauntless as ever Wright set about the building of Taliesin 3.

She designed and supervised the building of the Harbert, Michigan, house, most of which was constructed by one local carpenter who carried the heavy beams singly upon his shoulder.

This was the largest house he had ever been in, almost the largest building, except for a hotel.

An open field was better than a building, that was for sure, so he dismounted, turned off the horse, and plunged through the grass.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

This was an enormously long building whose walls were made of rocks, some of them brought home from every continent during his six years as an oil geologist.

In fiscal year 1959, the Medical Museum was moved to Chase Hall, a temporary building on Independence Avenue at Ninth Street, Southwest, and continued to display to the public the achievements of the Armed Forces Medical Services.

Coaching had declined considerably by 1905, but the sign was still there, near the old Wells Fargo building in San Francisco, creaking in the fog as it had for thirty years.

Our building time was slightly over 400 hours -- but the total cost for the hull with Fiberglas bottom, sink, head and hardware was under $800.

Its building was first proposed in 1791, when a group of citizens, mostly Newburyport men, petitioned the General Court for an act of incorporation.

Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.

It was indeed a remarkable feat that a man who had had no experience of bridge building should have applied the principle of the arch, which appears in his famous bridges at Portsmouth, Haverhill, and Philadelphia.

A big mechanical ditcher was running the trenches, and the town building inspector was paying a friendly, if curious, visit.

He didn't seem to think that attaching a pegboard to a stone wall was much of a problem and he tossed off the building of the worktable equally lightly.

A rough attempt was made to characterize the vertical profile of the cloud by taking samples from outside the windows on the first, ninth, and fifteenth floors of a Government office building.

The regiment was dug in on the east side of the river and the North Koreans were steadily building up a concentration of crack troops on the other side.

Captain Chandler saw that it was building up strength.

One of Mrs. Kennedy's initial concerns as First Lady was the sad state of the furnishings in a building which is supposed to be a national shrine.

The quality of a president's leadership is measured first by his success in building up the faculty.

Due to the fact that building codes and regulations vary so much throughout the country, the first thing to do is to find out what, if any, they are.

To be sure, in tool-and-die work and in the building trades, the first job must be often on an apprentice basis, but two years of half-time vocational training enables the young man thus to anticipate one year of apprentice status.

Indeed, from the moment the reports of the coming issue first started circulating in Dallas last January, the inquiries and demand for the stock started building up.

Hitler did just that 23 years ago, building up tensions that first led to a Munich and then to a world war.

In 1869, building upon earlier discoveries by such scientists as Lavoisier, Dmitri Mendeleev published the first functional periodic table.

Henry also proposed building a demonstration version of the full engine, with a smaller storage capacity: " perhaps for a first machine ten ( columns ) would do, with fifteen wheels in each ".

* Virtual reconstruction of Gaudí's first project for the building

The coronation hall is on the first floor of the building.

What is typical for his entire career, however, is a concern for design as a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art ; whereby he-together with his first wife Aino Aalto-would design not just the building, but give special treatments to the interior surfaces and design furniture, lamps, and furnishings and glassware.

During this period he also completed his first public buildings, the Jyväskylä Workers ' Club in 1925, the Jyväskylä Defence Corps building in 1926 and the Seinajoki Defence Corp building in 1924-29.

This building was the first building of Aalto's redbrick period.

Von Neumann wrote the first array-sorting program ( merge sort ) in 1945, during the building of the first stored-program computer .< sup > p.

* William Hope Hodgson's 1912 novel The Night Land features the first example of what we now would call an arcology, though the future Earthlings depicted — millions of years into the future, in fact — have different reasons for building their metallic pyramid.

* Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first leader of free modern Greece ( 1776 – 1831 ), had a large building erected ; intended as a barracks, it was subsequently used as a museum, a library and a school.

It is mainly notable for being perhaps the first purpose built office building in Great Britain.

From 1902 to 1904, in addition to the building of the Shrine of the Báb that ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was directing, he started to put into execution two different projects ; the restoration of the House of the Báb in Shiraz, Iran and the construction of the first Bahá ' í House of Worship in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

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As the superintendent of the municipal buildings Altdorfer had overseen the construction of several commercial structures, such as a slaughterhouse and a building for wine storage, possibly even designing them.

1990s architects such as William McDonough and Ken Yeang applied environmentally responsible building design to large commercial buildings, such as office buildings, making them largely self-sufficient in energy production.

Other artifacts were discovered in the 1950s in the downtown area during remodeling of a commercial building, near the upper course of the creek.

Canal building was revived in this age because of commercial expansion from the 12th century.

The Met Éireann building too was built in a somewhat pyramidal shape and is recognised as one of the most significant, smaller commercial buildings, to be erected in Dublin in the 1970s.

In the USA, Mathias Baldwin started building stationary steam engines for commercial use and by 1830, opened his own workshop producing steam locomotives.

The lake became a hub of commercial activity following the War of 1812 with canal building on both sides of the border and heavy travel by lake steamers.

Its sources include building exterior and interior lighting, advertising, commercial properties, offices, factories, streetlights, and illuminated sporting venues.

An alternative calculation starts with the fact that commercial building lighting consumes in excess of 81. 68 terawatts ( 1999 data ) of electricity, according to the U. S. DOE.

The bilateral relations between the Republic of India and the Federal Republic of Nigeria have considerably expanded in recent years with both nations building strategic and commercial ties.

When it becomes possible for a people to describe as ‘ postmodern ’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘ scratch ’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘ intertextual ’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘ metaphysics of presence ’, a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘ predicament ’ of reflexivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and / or crisis, the ‘ de-centring ’ of the subject, an ‘ incredulity towards metanarratives ’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power / discourse formations, the ‘ implosion of meaning ’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘ media ’, ‘ consumer ’ or ‘ multinational ’ phase, a sense ( depending on who you read ) of ‘ placelessness ’ or the abandonment of placelessness (‘ critical regionalism ’) or ( even ) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates-when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘ Postmodern ’ ( or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘ post ’ or ‘ very post ’) then it ’ s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.

The CBD has recently been the centre of a mining-induced boom, with several commercial and residential projects due for completion, including a office building for Australian / British mining company BHP Billiton.

A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many storeys, usually designed for office and commercial use.

After World War II, Tatra continued its pre-war business of building passenger cars in addition to commercial ( and military ) vehicles.

From 1867 to 1890 the fledgling church, known as the Free Protestant Church, rented premises in a commercial building in Cape Town, and in 1890 a warehouse in the city was purchased and converted into the present church.

In building its maritime commercial empire, the Republic dominated the trade in salt, acquired control of most of the islands in the Aegean, including Cyprus and Crete, and became a major power-broker in the Near East.

He entrusted engineer Stanley with the building of a device for commercial use.

Domain names are often seen in analogy to real estate in that ( 1 ) domain names are foundations on which a website ( like a house or commercial building ) can be built and ( 2 ) the highest " quality " domain names, like sought-after real estate, tend to carry significant value, usually due to their online brand-building potential, use in advertising, search engine optimization, and many other criteria.

* Warehouse, a commercial building for storage of goods

David Morecraft pioneered a resurgence in the building of authentic steam calliopes of the Thomas J. Nichol style beginning in 1985 in Peru, Indiana and is still in business today, the last commercial authentic steam calliope builder in the world.

It should be mentioned that unlike within commercial buildings smart building technologies within peoples homes have been less than an overwhelming success.

The best known smart building technologies for the home environment are X10 and CEBus and for the commercial Lonworks, DyNet, DSI, DALI and analog systems.

Kauniainen's commercial centre, where the old building from the 1960s to the right will be demolished

On many large commercial buildings, water towers are completely hidden behind an extension of the facade of the building.

* The commercial activity involved in constructing buildings ; " their main business is home construction "; " workers in the building trades "