Sentence examples for adventurous building from inspiring English sources

Damaged foundations made a renovation impractical; the couple, founders of the design firm Loom, envisioned replacing it with an architecturally adventurous building to house their home and studio, as well as two residential lofts they hoped to sell and a storefront they planned to rent out.

While Abu Dhabi, Shanghai, Beijing and even Paris have been pushing the boundaries, churning out one adventurous building after another, our city was wallowing in a swamp of pseudohistoricism and corporate mediocrity that — to skeptics like me, at least — threatened to transform it into a dull theme park for the superrich.

Its members – who included James Watt and Joseph Priestley as well as Darwin and Wedgwood – were astonishingly inventive and adventurous, building clocks and telescopes, flying in hot-air balloons, inventing machines that could speak, and coming up with recipes for disappearing ink.

"He used that technique to make more adventurous buildings.

In 1991 he was awarded the RIBA royal gold medal for creating some of the most successful and adventurous buildings in the country.

The firm has designed some of the world's most adventurous new buildings, notably the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Cairo, and Oslo's iceberg-like Opera House.

Ever since, cities have been vying to put up increasingly adventurous museum buildings and entire quarters to stake their claim as cultural centres (see article).Not all of what Gilman stood for has been swept away.

The extraordinary collection of art and sculpture at the Musée des Beaux-Arts (mba-lyon.fr) is second only to the Louvre, while architecture lovers will enjoy the adventurous new buildings springing up in the new Confluence district (lyon-confluence.fr).fr

An attractive building and adventurous pampering treatments are two obvious allures.

In addition, in many parts of the world including the United States of America, Europe, Asia, and recently, United Arab Emirates, there is a trend to build taller and more structurally complicated buildings with adventurous load paths.

The Roman Catholic church was a generous, adventurous patron, and its buildings were to be advertisements for the church's newfound modernity.