The phrase "astonishing building" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a building that is remarkable or impressive in some way, often evoking a sense of wonder or admiration.
Example: "The city is known for its astonishing building that attracts tourists from around the world."
Alternatives: "amazing structure" or "incredible edifice".
It's an astonishing building.
Just about everyone who has ever struggled up the slippery marble steps of the Acropolis and gazed at this astonishing building seems to have wanted to lay claim to it.
Seen on a summer morning, with sun filtering through to enrich the reds and golds of the highly decorated art nouveau interior, this astonishing building is a blaze of glory, affirmation of Watts' own sense of "how tremendous are the issues of life and death".
The astonishing building, described as "a cathedral on the marsh", was the first of its kind in the world, designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, chief engineer of the Metropolitan board of works, to awe and inspire visitors from across the UK and Europe.
Arad, who also designed the museum's astonishing building, located Tel Aviv, has been working with metal for three decades, and these crushed cars are part of a recent project in which he explores, "through physical experiments and digital simulations, the way in which automobile bodies, specifically the Fiat 500, behave under compression".
It is an astonishing building carved completely out of stone and built possibly as early as 315 B.C. We toured the numerous temples and a coliseum and then began a lengthy negotiation for a donkey ride to the Monastery, another one of Petra's iconic structures.
The unmissable sites in this city are the astonishing buildings of the Norman kings who conquered Sicily in 1072.
Faced with so many astonishing buildings – not to mention the glamorous and frequently eccentric types who lived in them – his approach is to devote each chapter to a different aspect of their life or creation.
Beginning at Angkor Wat, I'll take in the big-hitters of Angkor Thom, Ta Prohm, Bayon and Banteay Kdei, as well as some of the more minor but equally astonishing buildings of Baphoun, the Terrace of the Leper King and the Terrace of the Elephants, before returning to Angkor Wat.
As year-end reports on 2011 emerge from companies and organizations around the world, an astonishing picture is building of extravagant, high-end Chinese spending that offers a glaring contrast to the hardscrabble, high-saving image of most Chinese.
On the positive side, such entities are capable of accomplishing astonishing things – from building a new city, road or rail network, to indexing the world wide web, connecting 2.24 billion people, scanning all the world's books, launching heavy rockets into space (and bringing them back safely), etc.
