The murals, in the soaring, Walker Art Building's rotunda, are "designed to inspire," as Bowdoin considered "art a high point of Western Civilization".
The unfolding monologues are designed to feel improvised, but they develop by well-plotted accretion and changes of pace, sometimes circling, sometimes soaring with unstoppable momentum, towards catharsis.
Set amid grazing gazelles and under soaring falcons, the posh resort is designed to resemble a Bedouin encampment.
This sprawling, soaring, couch-filled area spills out onto the mezzanine in a way that is designed to instantly make people from the West Coast feel at home.
Demand for natural gas has soared in the last 12 months, with nearly every electricity plant built in the last five years having been designed to be fired mainly by gas.
With respect to this analysis, to say that an eagle's wings are designed for soaring is to claim, first, that the ability to soar (as opposed to other kinds of flying) explains why some ancestral eagles had higher reproductive fitness than others and, second, that eagles' wings are better adapted for soaring than were ancestral versions of the wings.
ArcelorMittal has embarked on a huge growth strategy, which is partly designed to offset the soaring cost of raw materials caused by surging demand in emerging markets such as China and India.
It had been designed for beauty, with soaring, rounded 16-foot ceilings and walls that reached only partway to the ceiling.
The grids have been designed at different scales to create a transition from the street to the gigantic geometrical forms that soar above.
The space in the soaring, glass-roofed Grand Palais has been designed by Karl Lagerfeld.
