Sentence examples similar to Monumental scheme from inspiring English sources
Most importantly, Pedersen embarked on the monumental schemes which culminated 25 years later in the decorations at Ribe Cathedral.
A monumental city-planning scheme is to fill in a vast portion of Tokyo Bay & erect a twin city to Tokyo.
It begins with an account of the establishment and development of rock mechanics as an identifiable engineering discipline in Australia, placing particular emphasis on the pioneering work carried out on the monumental Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme in the period 1949 1969.
Cesari was responsible for a number of monumental altarpieces and decorative schemes but employed Caravaggio merely to paint decorative borders or embellishments to his work: pictures of "flowers and fruit".
Monumental buildings are by definition unique buildings that cannot be reduced to any standard structural scheme: this makes it difficult to evaluate their seismic reliability, because in addition to the many uncertainties that are common to all existing (and in particular "old") buildings—no statistics on the behaviour of similar buildings can be available.
For example, Ceausescu was carrying out a campaign of systematically destroying village life, where the church was usually at its centre and, even in Bucharest itself, historic churches were being pulled down to make way for Ceausescu's grandiose construction schemes, including the monumental folly of his own palace.
The scheme also got into a monumental twist in order to accommodate the UK's land border with Ireland.
If their design has a weakness, it may be that it lacks the mix of monumental and intimate spaces that humanize Mr. Nouvel's scheme.
Her massive building schemes would have transformed western Paris, as seen from the river, into a monumental complex.
