But swagger cannot be checked for long -- especially for buildings conceived during a period of economic prosperity like the Roaring 20's.
The living church is constantly frustrated by the severe restrictions to worship and welcome imposed by church buildings conceived in a bygone age, and by a heritage lobby with little understanding of what a church is actually for.
This type of avant-garde art continued for a brief period after the Russian Revolution of 1917, during which time Tatlin created his most famous work the "Monument to the Third International," which was one of the first buildings conceived entirely in abstract terms.
Throughout his work, Hoyos explores the redundancies of today's buildings, conceived with their own mortality in mind.
Of Sicily's own form of Baroque, post 1693, it has been said, "The buildings conceived in the wake of this disaster expressed a light-hearted freedom of decoration whose incongruous gaiety was intended, perhaps, to assuage the horror".
Brasilia is the urban equivalent of the building conceived on a paper napkin.
In short, this is a building conceived in opposition to our contemporary culture, with its constant visual noise and unforgiving pace.
His triumphant 1986 Hong Kong and Shanghai bank building, conceived as a kit-of-parts plugged into a towering steel frame, was capitalism's answer to the populist Pompidou Center in Paris.
We have one building conceived to look like a large single residence with a mansard, and inside there are seven apartments.
The 1930's building, conceived by Arne Jacobsen, the godfather of Danish design, contains Jacobsen chairs, tables, bar stools and lamps, as well as some 200 international periodicals.
