Then there is the case of Mr. Janousek, the businessman whose modern concrete villa is a stop on the Prague Crony Safari.
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Modern concrete buildings had also collapsed or showed signs of serious damage.
It is sometimes used in combination with modern materials like reinforced concrete or steel for building houses and bridges.
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Near a hospital for eye diseases, is an office building for the Ministry of Higher Education, a new modern building surrounded by concrete blast walls and checkpoints, it was thought to be guarded enough.
As environmental concerns become ever more prevalent, some architects are moving away from the glass, steel and concrete model of modern city building.
Still, Mr Cameron has promised that 2007 will be the year in which he will set out concrete, coherent and modern polices to answer all his critics.
The nano science facility that has the sleek, modern look of Silicon Valley compared to the concrete-and-steel of the University at Albany main campus is expanding again.
But until concrete measures are taken, all that the modern Russian Army will share with those who answered the call to arms in 1918, is its lack of up-to-date equipment.
Mr. Lichter, president of Industrial Realty Group LLC, is planning to convert the 1.7 million-square-foot hodgepodge of brick and concrete buildings into hotel rooms, housing, modern office space and other uses.
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In the living room, walls constructed from a modern version of tabby a 17th-century concrete studded with oyster shells surround a fireplace, while upstairs, glass walkways open up onto what would otherwise be cloistered hallways.
Modern driveways can typically be solid nondescript masses of asphalt or concrete, leading directly to the garage door, rather than providing a graceful arrival to the front door.
Modern architecture is notable above all for the use of steel and concrete, and to a lesser extent wood, as building materials.
Waterwood Estate, a modern marvel of architecture, was laid out on 160 acres by its late inventor owner using 20 concrete pods sporting pyramid-shaped slate roofs that connect by glass corridors.
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