常に取り壊される危険にさらされているのは、それほど重要かどうか決定しがたい場合である。つまり、実際、芸術的価値や歴史的価値はないかもしれないが、心情的に人々が愛着を持ち、愛するようになった堂々とした昔の建物の場合である。の英語

It is the border-line cases that are always in danger: the dignified buildings of the past which may possess no real artistic or historic value, but which people have become sentimentally attached to and have grown to love.

If the demolition of buildings is uncontrolled, a fine city is in danger of becoming nothing more than a concrete jungle.

Even the most graceful and imposing existing buildings may now be so sadly diminished as to seem slightly ridiculous beside the monster.

But during an archaeological survey prior to construction, stone walls, a great number of pillars, roof tiles, and other castle materials were found.

Suddenly, I remembered my deceased grandfather had studied architecture in his youth and had left many architecture books and drafting tools at our house.

A building with high ceilings and huge rooms may be less practical than the colorless block of offices that takes its place, but it often fits in well with its surroundings.

From time to time, a proposal to pull down a much-loved old building to make room for a new block of flats, raises a storm of angry protest.

From time to time, a proposal to pull down a much-loved old building to make room for a new block of flats raises a storm of angry protest.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, many of the city’s Romanesque and Gothic buildings were remodeled in the baroque style, the popular style at the time.

And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

However, a 33-year-old man who walked by the house said, “Some people may not like the design, but I think it’s cute. Personally, I like it.”

For example, the courtyard represents a bamboo grove and natural materials like wood and stone are used throughout the building.

The buildings and the daily life of the people there retain the atmosphere of the Middle Ages.

Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien

The word "house" evokes the mental image of a rectangular building with a roof and smoking chimney, which may be surrounded by grass and trees and inhabited by a happy family.

No animal builds beautiful churches, plays tennis, tells jokes, writes songs or visits the moon.

Visitors, including foreign tourists, have been fascinated by the splendid palace and the dolls in their colorful clothes.

It houses many sculptures, paintings and altars made by famous artists including Michelangelo and Bernini.

the art book has art to sell, insinuatingly, and for a purpose, like the American muse, which has in fact a tradition to sell, and one which doesn't exist, in painting

Iron is very strong and inexpensive, so it is widely used for such things as buildings and machines and is essential to our life.

a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered

Old homes, especially traditional Japanese ones, can be damp and unfriendly to modern life.

But some fear a large number of Iraq's lost antiquities are already in the hands of collectors and museums around the world.

A construction company has proposed houses with rooftop or balcony gardens, so people can grow their own vegetables and learn the importance of food.

Rows of houses, each of them different and pleasing with their spacious gardens, are replaced by purely functional blocks of flats which have nothing more to commend them than over-praised 'modern conveniences'.

in your 1850 church you not infrequently find a dramatic contrast between the sumptuous appointments of the building itself and the inhuman barrack-like living conditions in the church room

Nothing can change the look of a city so dramatically as the sudden appearance of a block of offices which towers above all the surrounding buildings.

How is it that otherwise reasonable people come to believe that this same roof, that practically vanishing commodity, is freely obtainable just by packing up and going to another country?

Goods are the great travelers over the earth's surface, far more than humans, which means that hardly an inhabited spot on the globe is untouched by trade.

They cover nearly 700 years and a variety of subjects important to old samurai families, such as political, foreign, economic and social affairs.