Sentences with phrase «like drawbridges»

Unusual even for Koolhaas, two opposite walls of the cinema are mirrored on the outside and open like drawbridges to form stages for concerts and other live performances on the outdoor plazas.

This unique hotel retains and highlights some of the original defensive strategies, like a drawbridge, bunkers and trenches.

Not exact matches

Rice's new drawbridge method for color switching incorporates metal nanoparticles that absorb light energy and convert it into plasmons, waves of electrons that flow like a fluid across a particle's surface.

Like Mr. Cruise, Fairbanks performed many of his own white - knuckle stunts, as when he climbs up the chain of a closing drawbridge in «Robin Hood.»

It feels like pulling up the drawbridge after me.

At other times there are simply ways to circumnavigate the objective, like leaping off a drawbridge in an early mission, killing an irritating nobleman on a hunt or getting rid of a potential problem later.

Separated from the street by a moat - like sunken terrace, and accessed across a chunky concrete drawbridge, it could sometimes feel standoffish.

In Pont transbordeur (Drawbridge) of 1946 — 47, threatening storm clouds hover above a central architectural structure and a smaller, radar - like tower, which, according to the artist, provides a means to watch for danger.

I didn't realize then that it had a moat like thing around it (you could have a full moat with green crocodiles, sharks and a drop - down drawbridge).