Sentence examples for audacious building from inspiring English sources

"People were shocked, and they're still shocked" by the audacious building and store, says the mustachioed and tattooed Mr. Simachev, joining the Friday regulars in the restaurant.

Jan Kaplický, one of the most radical architects of the last 40 years, has died while in pursuit of his vision for his most audacious building yet.

Now the audacious building, at 41 Cooper Square, completed in 2009, has become the most visible symbol of a debate about the future of Cooper Union on the eve of what could be the most important decision in its history.

Now that it does, Dubai would like to see its audacious building as a metaphor for its role in the vanguard of globalisation, as a technocracy capable of yoking Islam and modernity.

In the final hours, the city fathers of Karslruhe backed off from their audacious building, which, years in advance of the new Times Square, featured a facade that was a projection screen.

Niemeyer first made a splash designing audacious buildings in Pampulha, a suburb of Belo Horizonte, in 1940 for the city's mayor, Juscelino Kubitschek.

Friends, Iraq is the most audacious nation-building project America has ever engaged in.

Murdoch, 77, has embarked on perhaps the final act of his audacious, empire-building career.

The building, audacious with its swooping curves, was set to dominate downtown Los Angeles and to do for the city what the Opera House did for Sydney, Australia, and what Mr. Gehry's own Guggenheim museum was about to do for Bilbao, Spain.

The fledgling federal government used the audacious promise of building a rail line across the empty western prairies to entice the faraway province of British Columbia to enter confederation in 1871.

The building's audacious design stunned the sceptical municipal authorities.