The electronics, he said, serve essentially "as architectural pillars to help the audience, the orchestra and the ensemble know that, OK, we've just finished the main section, now we've moved on to the second, and now we've moved on to the third".
The ornamental imagery of the ketubah is often architectural, with pillars and columns and arches framing the text, as if a structure were being constructed, encompassing and embracing the couple mentioned in the Aramaic text.
On the Kraemer stand, a mahogany secrétaire — a cabinet with drop-leaf tablet — made by David Roentgen for the Russian court has the massive shape and architectural engaged pillars in favor at German and Russian courts from the late 18th century on.
The earliest of these clocks, made for a period after 1658, were of architectural design, sometimes with pillars at the sides and a pediment on top; in later versions the pillars were omitted, the pediment was replaced with a domed top, and a carrying handle was added.
With its mass of architectural accessories - domes, pillars, porticos, steps and statuary - the gallery is, in the kindest possible sense, a fat drag queen of a building.
New York is a city of boxes stacked upon boxes -- boxes of glass and steel, concrete and brick -- pyramids and pillars of architectural boxes piled up to the sky.
Architectural elements such as pillars, beams or platforms continued to be used to convey moods.
"The architectural forms are like marble pillars".
The researchers also admired some of the architectural details: rows of stone pillars, courtyards and terraces covered in mosaic tiles in geometric patterns, a 21-step staircase cut into bedrock.
But at the Outerbanks bar, a third-generation carpenter, Ricky Stephens, could already imagine the backhoes tearing into the delicate architectural details — spindles, lacy wood, pillars, posts and brackets, all cypress wood, much of it handmade.
In the 1980s, he created a series around Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick in 3D sculptural forms of cones, pillars, waves and architectural shapes with metal cutters and digital technology.
