In October, Tempelhof Airport, a haunting example of colossal Nazi architecture in the middle of the city and a relic of the cold war Berlin airlift, will close forever, said Burkhard Kieker, the director for information and marketing for Berlin International Airports.
From there I enjoy the city atmosphere: the bustling amount of people, the sound of cars honking, and the colossal city architecture.
Using their 21st-century medical knowledge, De Campos and his collaborators can discern uncannily accurate renderings of the human uterus, ovaries and Fallopian tubes hidden in the shapes of curly-horned ram's skulls that Michelangelo included among the dizzying illusory architecture, colossal male nudes, and scenes from the Bible that he painted right along the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
With glaciers melting and snow packs shrinking, ski resorts in the Alps are trying to stay ahead of global warming, not only by installing more snowmaking guns, but also by transforming their resorts with colossal spas, sleek architecture and other off-slope attractions.
Richard Powers, who illustrated the cover of what seemed like every science fiction paperback published in the nineteen-sixties, was influenced by surrealists like Roberto Matta and Yves Tanguy, and painted landscapes where monumental amorphous forms stood like alien architecture or colossal carcasses on indistinct plains.
Inspiration for the music composed by Thomas for this project was found in both orchestral work, echoing the colossal size of the architecture, and electronic textures, evoking the action of time.
The Hellenistic Age produced more elaborate and richly decorated architecture, with often colossal buildings.
Perched in the San Simeon hills, the newspaper magnate's "modest" pad merges multiple European architecture styles into one colossal must-see landmark.
The three royal plotters are played by three British actors, and their colossal space kingdom is fitted with neo-medieval architecture — a mighty white cathedral, a dark and cavernous palace — and the ornate forged-metal paraphernalia to match.
Her reign was very successful, marked by an extended period of peace and wealth-building, trading expeditions to Punt, restoration of foreign trade networks, and great building projects, including an elegant mortuary temple that rivaled the Greek architecture of a thousand years later, a colossal pair of obelisks, and a chapel at Karnak.
