But its distinctive linear network of small, square pilasters can also be read as something quite modern, like the grid of an International style building imposed on a Carpenter Gothic frame.
But a year after she bought the $350,000 studio, the building imposed a "one dog" rule.
Certain damages are difficult to be fixed, and difficulty is mainly due to number of restrictions that an already constructed building imposes.
The square building imposes a fortress of concrete in a natural setting.
Among the alleys and streets one building imposes itself: Passal.
As a building, Summerhall imposes its own choreography on the public, its intricate maze of rooms and corridors sending you into a variety of unexpected places and performances.
On that afternoon, Maqtari was standing in a crowd gathered around the city's General Security building — an imposing six-story edifice flanked by guards — when she heard cracking sounds.
Charles A. Reed, an architect from Minnesota, designed the passenger-station part of the terminal, with its ramps that more passengers by gravity(a first in the use of ramps throughout a building) and its imposing main concourse.
Gustafson, a Swede who moved to New York in 1980 (and who now lives in a 19th-century farmhouse in Sag Harbor), had kept a small apartment in this building — an imposing structure in Stockholm's Sodermalm neighborhood — since the 1970s, but when a two-bedroom apartment became available, he couldn't resist.
As day broke on Sunday, thick clouds of black smoke poured from the building, an imposing 1960s structure set on a hilltop and heavily protected like most public buildings in Kabul.
Both the Lamm building — an imposing brick and limestone edifice decorated with scrolls and Greek columns, and now sitting empty — and the Court Street property, whose building was demolished by a developer, are expected to become condos.
