Sentences with phrase «stately architecture»

However, his trained eye saw not only the stately architecture buried beneath the wood panelling and old - fashioned wallpaper, but also a way to marry the old with the new.

If Barlow's installation draws the eye upwards, Bradford transforms the US Pavilion's Palladian elegance into a kind of cave, reminding us of the dark underpinnings — historically and in the present — of the systems of power that such stately architecture embodies.

On Monday, as crowds from across the country gather on the National Mall for Inauguration Day, they'll find themselves surrounded by stately architecture, symbols of power, and places of solemn remembrance.

From the outside, the hotel's stately architecture belies its cozy...

With an opulent design aesthetic that calls to mind the stately architecture in London's exclusive Knightsbridge area, the property features a generous total of 157 apartments.

Paris is a winter wonderland when trees lose their foliage, revealing the stately architecture that is otherwise obscured from view.

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The building's elegantly restrained colonial architecture, the gray sky, the stately camera movement and music all convey an austere gravity, which, together with Schrader's use of Academy ratio (inspired, he has said, by Pawel Pawlikowski's «Ida»), point us back not only to an earlier era of American religion but also to such European cinema models as Bergman's «Winter Light» and Bresson's «Diary of a Country Priest.»

The schools» transition from stately, which was characteristic of the early 20th century, to sterile has several explanations: the spread of modernism generally, the devaluation of public architecture in particular (city halls have been victims too), the physical growth of schools through both district consolidation and population increase, and fiscal pressures in the public sector.

The same lightweight rear - wheel - drive architecture used for the CT6 underpins the Escala, although the stately show car is 6.5 inches longer, 2.7 inches wider, and features a wheelbase that's 4.7 inches longer.

HOTEL SCHLOSS GABELHOFEN Hotel Schloss Gabelhofen combines the historical architecture of a stately moated castle with the warmth of a modern hotel whose interior has been designed with a love of detail.

Here, jewel - tone upholstery, graphic tile floors, and lacquered moldings add a boutique feel to stately, French - colonial - inspired architecture.

There was so much to see, beautiful architecture in every city visited, stately churches and unique shopping along the way.

With its numerous canals and bridges and stately lost - in - time architecture, Amsterdam gives Venice a run for its money as a Valentine's Day location....

All of these buildings are stately examples of architecture during the French colonial period of Vietnam.

This hub of culture and architecture is famous for it's Castle, that stands imperiously over the city from its perch atop an extinct volcano, as well as it's stately «Royal Mile».

From pretty Mykonos with its famous windmills, the voyage takes in the dramatic volcanic cliffs of Santorini, Katakolon (for Olympia) and Corfu, characterised by stately Venetian architecture and graceful cypress trees.

Transfer to the airport via Trogir, (time permitting) another coastal gem with a wealth of stately Romanesque and Renaissance architecture.

Inspired by 15th to early 17th century Renaissance architecture and the urban planning of the city of Venice, the hotel is located at the waterfront and consists of ten stately buildings arranged in a crescent formation.»

Inspired by the 15th to early 17th century Renaissance architecture and the urban planning of the city of Venice, the waterfront property consists of ten stately buildings arranged in a crescent formation, completed with artfully designed water features and manicured gardens.

It features ten «stately buildings arranged in a crescent formation» and architecture inspired by the Renaissance.

Sourcing fragments of marble — taken from the once stately but long deteriorating edifices of Havana — as his canvasses, Novoa renders the grand, anachronistic architectures of future regimes with layered references to those past.

The architecture of Pilate's home, with its mathematical recession of floor and ceiling, is no more stately than Eggleston's vacant refreshment booth.

«The delegates were impressed with London's stately homes and diverse commercial architecture,» says Rick Odegaard, past - president of LSTREB and one of the commercial Realtors who helped organize the forum.