Sentence examples for a monumental complex from inspiring English sources

Smederevo Fortress is a monumental complex built in the Byzantine tradition and modeled after Constantinople fortress.

Her massive building schemes would have transformed western Paris, as seen from the river, into a monumental complex.

In October of 1860, the British diplomat James Bruce, the 8th Earl of Elgin, ordered the complete destruction of the Yuan Ming Yuan (Old Summer Palace) a monumental complex of gardens and palaces northwest of Beijing.

As a result, many architects are intellectually unprepared to think about how to create a captivating, monumental complex of buildings that will also create successful urban spaces.

The archaeological site comprises a monumental temple complex with a surrounding settlement that was occupied contemporaneously.

The second takes a monumental and complex subject which is woven into every part of our lives and makes it both gripping and accessible.

At Heliopolis the Roman emperors, particularly the Severans, constructed a monumental temple complex, the most spectacular elements of which were the Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus and the Temple of Bacchus.

But a few blocks from Revolución is the Centro Cultural Tijuana, a monumental arts complex with a planetarium centerpiece, a recently opened a native-plants and pre-Columbian sculpture garden, and a new gallery and performance space under construction.

Her recent work in the Çukurbağ neighborhood of the modern city of İzmit has brought to light one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the last 25 years in Turkey: a monumental imperial complex with brightly painted reliefs from Nikomedia, Diocletian's capital of the Roman Empire.

A monumental museum complex on the east side of the square is the National Museum of China, created in 2003 by combining into one institution the former Museum of the Chinese Revolution (opened 1950; dedicated to Chinese history since about 1840) and National Museum of Chinese History (established 1912; dedicated to Chinese history from its earliest beginnings until the Chinese Revolution).

Whichever candidate does win, however will find themselves with a monumental, and complex set of issues to deal with.