Sentence examples for a peculiar building from inspiring English sources
The conspiracy against Fun Time took a peculiar building and turned it into a larger-than-life legend, much like shadows on a wall appear large and scary, and take on an entirely different shape than the objects they come from.
On June 13 , 1990 Virginia House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, due to it being considered "a noteworthy representative of a peculiar residential building type prevalent in the late-nineteenth and early- twentieth-century period of American architecture".
The visual appearance of the monument complex, which covers 16 hectares, starts with broken chains, continues with a crypt and a colorful mosaic of ceramic material, and ends with the peculiar building.
Their particular — and, frankly, peculiar — building method is called cordwood masonry.
The story of this peculiar building on Madison at 76th Street — 200 feet long but only six stories high — starts with the Carlyle, whose romantic tower crashed through the Madison Avenue skyline in 1931 like a movie cowboy thrown through a stage-glass saloon window.
Anyone who has spent time living in, or simply road tripping through, Southern California has noticed some of its peculiar buildings—eccentric styles that defy the common laws of architecture, and sometimes seemingly the laws of physics.
A peculiar aspect of glass buildings is that they almost always look better when they are surrounded by something else.
The big, boxy 24-story building is a peculiar presence on West 57th Street, within hailing distance of tenements and old industrial buildings.
Fountains were a peculiar feature of the communal building activities of the late Middle Ages, often commissioned by guilds.
A peculiar origin of such aggregates is that of demolitions of pre-existing concrete buildings.
