"It is a breathtaking structure and I wouldn't want to see it turned into a subway station".
In a poignant postscript, the photographer, architect and patrons are shown reunited, much aged but ever gallant, at that still breathtaking structure last year.
All that remains today are ruins of a once breathtaking structure.
On the opposite shore, glass-and-steel structures of breathtaking design were cantilevered over the water, all aglow.
Yet hidden within Ravenna's ancient structures are breathtaking mosaics, the most impressive of which can be found in the Basilica of San Vitale.
In this respect it prefigures the paintings of Mr. Held's last three decades: enormous, breathtaking pictures of impossibly complicated structures made from straight and curved, richly colorful girders that implicitly expand into cosmic distances.
One of the world's most imposing jazz musicians — being 80 has not dimmed his agility or his imagination — he interpreted each passing moment of the songs as a provocation: spinning out a quick cycle of chords from just one, or interrupting the shape of a melody to add on a whole new structure, invented at breathtaking speed.
Not only are the views from high-rises often breathtaking, but the amenities that accompany the structures are usually equally as extravagant.
In the Alaskan tradition of heading north and figuring out how to live in a breathtaking but inhospitable land, they devised a structure that has -- albeit sometimes precariously -- sheltered their work for almost 30 years.
ft. of space, they created an off-the-grid, solar-powered, mountainside structure with a side office, bathroom, and a breathtaking view.
