Sentence examples for ceremonial space from inspiring English sources

Tweed Courthouse will also serve as a ceremonial space for functions that now crowd City Hall.

It is uncertain whether this formation originated as a prehistoric ceremonial space or as an early mediaeval pound for livestock.

The bride-to-be thought it would be beautiful to stand under such a canopy to "set off the ceremonial space," she said.

Colonnades on either side brought you into an enormous, columned central hall, a ceremonial space that seemed suited more to signing treaties than to viewing art.

To acoustical engineers, the challenge of the Winter Garden is the cavernous glass-domed atrium that is the public ceremonial space of the World Financial Center.

The plaza originally was landscaped, but its sense of ceremonial space was destroyed by the later construction of elevated subway lines, which now completely dominate the area.

These rings, some 1,300 of which survive, may have been ceremonial spaces, astronomical tools, healing sites or necropolises.

The major axis, which runs perpendicular to the main facade, contains three ceremonial spaces of imposing gravity.

The buildings and the ceremonial spaces between them are arranged to convey an impression of great imperial power while reinforcing the insignificance of the individual.

Many of modern Washington's most striking features are his: the broad, radial avenues; the hublike traffic circles; the sweeping public lawns and ceremonial spaces.

But it is also an archaeological wonder, and more than three decades after a chance discovery set off a systematic exploration of the Aztecs' ceremonial spaces, surprises are still being uncovered in the city's superimposed layers.