Sentence examples for austere building from inspiring English sources

The brothers have an office in a stately, austere building by the river in central Liège.

Completed in 1811, this austere building served as the county's penal institution (maximum sentence was 12 months) for 154 years.

The austere building, whose height was meant to give it outsize authority, was never finished, because Allied troops arrived in midconstruction in 1941.

The reconstruction is meant to transform the Art Gallery of Ontario from an austere building into a much more striking and transparent one.

"There is a very important emotional dimension to the war memorial, which is probably Saarinen's most austere building," Mr. Calatrava said.

And then there are the staircases, white and seamless, open oval spirals that make movement around a generally austere building celebratory.

The ornate buildings were demolished to enable the line to be four-tracked, and were replaced by more austere buildings on two island platforms between the tracks, including two waiting rooms, ticket and parcel offices.

The structure too has an apparently basic logic, with its austere lines building intensity through repetition.

Standing in his favorite classroom in the austere main building, sharp-witted students looming above him, Mr. Obama refined his public speaking style, his debating abilities, his beliefs.

Few tourists wander by, and not many people know much yet about the austere $17 million building designed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando.

The movie begins by showing the school – an austere modernist building of glass and concrete called the Lycée Gustave Flaubert, an invocation of the writer dedicated to making the perfect fiction that has the force and form of life itself.