The building was designed to echo the Arc de Triomphe, but it instead resembles a pair of low-rise jeans.
The sculpture, called "The Barnes Totem," was designed to echo the vertical forms of the red maple trees lining a path to the museum's entrance.
The 252-unit building, Mr. Bass said, was designed to echo the historic flavor of the block, which is largely Beaux-Arts apartment buildings.
With its cast-iron lattice work, limestone facade, inset Juliet balconies and oversize apartments, the Laureate, a condominium building at 76th and Broadway, was designed to echo the grand prewar elegance of older, better-established neighbors like the nearby Apthorp.
Like APT, which has a corduroy-upholstered bed for disco napping, and Townhouse, which has group-size waterbeds and exercise bikes in the hallways, Théo is designed to echo the experience of attending a dinner party at a friend's house -- though, to be sure, a well-to-do friend who travels so much that there's not a speck of clutter anywhere.
The unusual curved facade of the ten-storey building was designed to echo the bridge shape of the Manchester Miller.
The structure's rounded form is designed to echo Hiroshima's Atomic Bomb Dome, a landmark 1914 structure that survived the 1945 bombing.
Ask anyone about Little Rock, and they'll mention the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum, a stunning structure that cantilevers out over the Arkansas River and is designed to echo the campaign promise of "building a bridge to the 21st century".
He also deleted a topless scene for Moon Bloodgood because, "It was a soft moment between a man and a woman that was designed to echo the Kelly McGillis/Harrison Ford moment in Witness [but] in the end, it felt more like a gratuitous moment of a girl taking her top off in an action picture, and I didn't want that to convolute the story or the characters".
