Sentence examples for English building from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, he brought to it many innovations and a unique use of English building materials.

The building is a synthesis of Dutch and English building styles.

On Thursday the lightbox outside Cornerhouse 1, the first English building designed by architect David Chipperfield, announced its final film.

Cambridge University's stand, made of faux white brick in a vague imitation of an ancient English building, was packed with students buying grammar books.

It's reasonable to assume that the very best artists available were hired to decorate London's Palace of Westminster, yet paintings that survive from this royal medieval English building are cheerily crude rather than aesthetically refined.

Norman and Early English building styles are well represented, but, architecturally, the chief feature of the county is the large number of mansions and country houses, from 13th-century Barnwell Castle to Tudor Rockingham Castle, Castle Ashby, and Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral home of the family of George Washington, the first president of the United States.

By contrast, Scandinavian architects seem to have been influenced, to begin with, by English buildings.

He had already written impressive works on modernist architecture, English buildings and rococo design.

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) began to imbibe Italy in his youth through English buildings influenced by Italian architecture.

I will write poems about the country, the countryside, English buildings and towns and villages, and people in relation to them".

But George could hardly have missed the summons to imperial greatness singing from the stones of the Scarsdale house, Kedleston, one of the first English buildings that the great eighteenth-century Scottish architect Robert Adam worked on.