Sentence examples for architectural compositions from inspiring English sources

At his retirement, Michael became a painter, concentrating on narrative forms and architectural compositions in oil.

The four-building ensemble, built over nearly a century, is one of the richest architectural compositions in the city.

The ensemble of the college and the National Maritime Museum has been described as one of the most finely balanced architectural compositions in the London area.

But the movie owes its power less to her performance than to her mere presence in Antonioni's grandly architectural compositions, with their passionate attention to line, form, and color.

Its fame lies in its harmonious proportions, particularly from the exterior where the massing of the various horizontal parts in contrast to the vertical of the spire make it one of the most famous architectural compositions of the Medieval period.

That their forms are closely locked to the architectural composition is clear.

Mr. Kahn made the ceiling an important piece of the architectural composition, like an expansive concrete sculpture.

Housing, the idea that several dwellings could form a single architectural composition, became popular in the 18th century, as in the terraces and squares of Edinburgh New Town and the circuses and crescents of Bath.

But at least we are beginning to see a real architectural composition emerge, one that for all its flaws, represents a serious effort to raise the level of conversation at ground zero.

Not since Luis Barragán, a comparably inspired minimalist, has any designer better understood how water can be integrated into an architectural composition, and Ando exploits the paradoxical opposition of solid and liquid with great emotional impact.

"We wanted to express each of the individual elements of the building and that each compartment functions independently," Mr. Metsky said, "and it gave us the opportunity to create a more interesting architectural composition".