In Zürich's boom industrial years in the first half of the 20th century, turbine manufacturer Escher Wyss owned this 17-hectare plot, and so daunting is the scale of its broad thoroughfares, colossal railway bridges and monumental factory shells that only in the last few years has the city been ready to mount a concerted effort to reclaim, reinvent and integrate the area.
What divides them these days are plans for a colossal, two-mile bridge whose ten reinforced concrete columns would stride across this bucolic valley where they and dozens of other winemakers produce elegant Riesling wines.
Ponte Colossus in Italy Near a little village between Milan and Turin, bungee fanatics pilgrimage to a colossal, eight-tiered bridge whose height lives up to its name.
HIS name adorns schools, streets, bridges and colossal biographies.
The celebration was not out of place in San Francisco, at least not in those parishes that have somehow bridged the colossal gap between their gay members' lives and church doctrine.
Programmes like this, but aimed at bridging the colossal gap in postgraduate widening participation, would address an urgent need to recognise and act on the fact that our postgraduates of the present are our academics of tomorrow.
Its beauty is not in its monuments, but in its immensity; the colossal character of its quays and bridge, to which ours are as toys.
Is the plaza in Long Island City at the foot of the Queensboro Bridge anything more than a colossal piece of asphalt?
There, behind the Queen Wilhelmina Foot Bridge, vendors dole out food from colossal pots.
