Sentence examples for architectural remnants from inspiring English sources

Why these three are better equipped to unearth suspiciously lost architectural remnants than, let's say, a candy striper, a bassoonist and a trout fisherman is never made entirely clear.

The town in medieval times was a stronghold and preserves several architectural remnants of those times, including a 12th-century donjon, the tower of Guinette, several churches (Saint-Basile, Notre-Dame du Fort, Saint-Gil, and Saint-Martin), a town hall, and private houses.

Because the City Transportation Department hopes to remove one of the few architectural remnants of the once-sprawling trolley system: an elegant but battered kiosk on Second Avenue through which passengers boarded Queensboro Bridge Railway Company cars until April 7 , 1957 when the final trolley in New York City rattled across from Queens Plaza.

Photographing another project for the league on Martha's Vineyard in the late 1930's, a Methodist summer retreat, he was more intrigued by the crude, funky buildings, architectural remnants and the shadow play they generated than he was by the lives of the inhabitants.

These architectural remnants now quietly rot in an otherwise timeless landscape.

The 120-year-old three-storey building, called Medina House, is believed by local historians to be the last architectural remnant of Brighton and Hove's past as a renowned medicinal saltwater-bathing destination.

Every element of the scene is independently familiar – the parade of vertical trunks, the low-hanging moon, the architectural remnant of some aristocratic parkland – but all are made extraordinary and oneiric.

Construction of that substructure will require tearing out the largest architectural remnant of the original complex: the ruined six-level parking garage -- its columns still color-coded blue, yellow and red -- that was under the United States Custom House at 6 World Trade Center.

Built in 1967, and inspired by Le Corbusier, the estate is an architectural remnant of another time: a time not just of grand social experiments but when large amounts of public money were spent building decent homes to house the poor.

Dipole-dipole resistivity tomographies were planned in three areas suspected of containing buried archaeo-architectural remnants.

Although it wasn't widely known or acknowledged, the Lower East Side's cheap rents and ravaged remnants of architectural glory had begun to draw many students like me and my roommates, as well as graduates starting their first jobs in publishing and advertising -- yuppies you'd call them now -- some paying as little as $9 a month for bathtub-in-the-kitchen, toilet-outside-in-the-hallway walk-ups.