Sentence examples for a colossal building from inspiring English sources

Dresden seems to have missed out; its main station resembles nothing so much as a colossal building site.

Dating from 1502, the castle is a colossal building, comprising more than 20 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, nine kitchens and 14 acres of gardens.

With its breathtaking sky bridges, huge car parking system and multi-level shopping areas, the King Abdullah Financial District Metro Station above-ground entrance will be a colossal building built in the futuristic, gently curving, glass-dominated design for which Hadid has become famous.

Anyone searching for what Christopher Isherwood called "the flash of that hysteria which flickers always in Berlin" need look no further than the new federal Chancellery, a colossal building now near completion that sits on the banks of the Spree like a marooned ocean liner.

The ruins of the Copper Age consists of two sections of the fortification wall surrounding streets and houses, and a colossal building on the edge of the moat of the Portuguese fort in the centre.

If you want to talk about bigger is better, or biggest is best, this is a truly colossal building, as any of you who have been there know.

Think of the Egyptian pyramids, St Peter's Basilica or the Taj Mahal: all colossal buildings that put us a little bit closer to the heavens.

The world's dictators have a naughty habit of commemorating their absolute power in monuments, statues, colossal building projects, and extravagantly tacky homes.

On the terrace are the ruins of a number of colossal buildings, all constructed of a dark gray stone (often polished to a marble-like surface) from the adjacent mountain.

The firm, a massive construction and masonry firm based in Connecticut is best known for re-facing colossal building projects, like Yale University.

It was only a hotel, a 22-story dwarf tucked under colossal buildings, but in its final 102 minutes, the Marriott Hotel at 3 World Trade Center served as the mouth of a tunnel, a runway in and out of the burning towers for perhaps a thousand people or more.