semi-subterranean

Their wants were few -- a pint of beer at the end of the day, sipped in the semi-subterranean kitchen, a weekly paper to pore over for seven nights hand-running, and conversation as meditative and vacant as the chewing of a heifer's cud.

THE SEA WIFE 2010

Such innovations as nature-based site planning, interior day lighting, radiant and passive solar heating, natural evaporative air cooling, interior plantscaping, lumber-saving “frameless” construction, earth-sheltered construction, “sun traps” to illuminate basements, and semi-subterranean designs for the Arizona desert are just some of his many solutions to problems that today are identified as “sustainable.”

A Call For Conference Papers 2008

This tiny Dunkin' Donuts is on a semi-subterranean level of the 50th Street subway stop on the 1 line.

Not Longer Seeing Red Brooks of Sheffield 2008

And here's an interesting snippet from the how-to section: “as the [express ring road] is semi-subterranean, lower storeys are less exposed to sound nuisances than higher storeys.”

Archive 2005-12-01 2005

And here's an interesting snippet from the how-to section: “as the [express ring road] is semi-subterranean, lower storeys are less exposed to sound nuisances than higher storeys.”

Decibel Landscape 2005

Besides the courts, there are installed under the same roof no less than three libraries: two of no mean order; confused and semi-subterranean, full of stairs and galleries; where you may see the most studious-looking wigs fishing out novels by lanthorn light, in the very place where the old Privy Council tortured

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

As hints of more and more semi-subterranean structures manifested themselves beside the decelerating aircar, the administrator was impressed in spite of himself.

Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

Our joss-sticks fumed on the still air, monks waved censers, and blasts of dissonant music woke the semi-subterranean echoes.

Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

We did not excavate the exterior, so we are not sure whether it was plastered on all four sides, but surface indications suggest it is roughly rectangular in shape, ca. 70x100 cm in dimensions, and as we eventually discovered, preserved to a height of 65 cm above the semi-subterranean base level of the structure's interior.

Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 3 2002

My work this season was geared toward confirming or disproving many of the celestial alignments attributed to Tiwanaku's monumental architecture, and I primarily focused on the semi-subterranean temple and the Kalasasaya.

Interactive Dig Tiwanaku - Field Notes 2004: Archaeoastronomy 2002