Sentence examples for architectural device from inspiring English sources

These slashes, inviting museumgoers to peer out and passers-by to peer in, are a clever architectural device that saves the maximum wall space for art display.

You feel strange at 4,554m even after several obligatory days of acclimatisation and you'll never be really comfortable up here, physically or mentally: it doesn't take an over-active imagination to start pondering the big metal cables stretched over the top of the building to hold it to the ridge, as well as the storms that must rage around this unusual architectural device.

At one time the retrospective emblem of a recharged western Marxism - in the wake of 1968, its silhouette provided the logo for New Left Books - it has more recently seemed a staple of modernist kitsch: an architectural device that summons too easily, for contemporary architects and artists, the mystique of the might-have-been.

Its upper parts are supported by hidden wooden hammer-beams, an architectural device unique to English Gothic.

The tourist attraction is one of its architectural devices.

Their task will be to examine architectural devices, finding sources of estrangement and ineloquence while becoming familiar with methods of close reading.

The objective is to use close reading in order to disinter the iconicity of site and to deploy architectural devices that challenge existing paradigms through disruption and dissonance.

They will be expected to present these drawings in class, articulate the definition of lateness they are working with, and identify the architectural devices that produce that reading.

The Palais Vieux (Old Palace; 1334 42), built by Benedict XII, is austere, while the Palais Nouveau (New Palace; 1342 52), erected under Clement VI, is rich with architectural devices and embellishment.

The firm will suggest to Scarsdale that besides regulating size, it adopt guidelines for employing such architectural devices as varying roof lines, using a variety of building materials and adding windows and shutters to reduce the appearance of mass in new houses.

On the morning of March 24, as French President François Hollande had done in February, Obama visited Buenos Aires' Parque de la Memoria, a quiet and windy edge of the city on the shore of the Rio de la Plata, turned by virtue of mesmerizing art works and architectural devices into an urban symbol of human rights.