Sentence examples for auditorium shaped from inspiring English sources

He was giving a hardhat tour of the congress building the other afternoon, pointing out where an auditorium shaped like twisted taffy will float atop the roof overlooking what's now a city more populous than Paris.

The tower almost tripled in height, while a magnificent auditorium shaped like a closed lily-bud was also added, and mirrored by an open flower form at the top of the tower containing a revolving restaurant.

He recalls that in the mid-20th century architects felt emboldened to experiment with auditorium shapes, which was followed by a reaction where acousticians ruled and architecture was relegated.

The old playhouse was one of their few remaining resources, but they could not use it in situ because the lease had expired, so they dismantled it, took the timbers (illegally) to make the skeleton of their new amphitheatre, and kept the basic auditorium shape of The Theatre for the new building.

From the start, the design was determined by acoustical needs, which required a fairly conventionally shaped auditorium, and by the tightness of the budget.

From the inside, it resembles an ancient auditorium, its four walls shaped like short bleachers around a central altar that looks like a stage.

If you have visited Mr. Portzamparc's organ recital hall at the City of Music, you will expect the Zankel auditorium to be elliptically shaped also.

Its chief characteristics are refinement in detail of the proscenium stage and of the Renaissance horseshoe-shaped auditorium and seating plan.

The Baroque horseshoe-shaped auditorium, with its deep stage and orchestra pit, was generally in favour all over western Europe, fixing the design and style of opera houses in particular.

Last fall, Goldenvoice celebrated 30 years with a string of concerts at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, recognizing the bands that shaped the company's brand — punk outfits such as Social Distortion and Gurewitz's Bad Religion.

Completed in 1960, it was in harmony with the ethic of the '50s: a long, industrial-style wing of glass block set back on 49th, connected to a romantic undulating auditorium wing of cool gray brick shaped like a guitar.