Each entry, however short, is a masterpiece of construction.
This is how it is with the home of Isabro Ortega, which he calls his "Casa de Las Nubes," or "House of the Clouds": part masterpiece, part construction site, and very, very long in the making.
In a match full of worthy contenders – Root, Cook, Williamson, whose first-innings hundred was a masterpiece of construction, Trent Boult with five wickets including four for nine to finish the second England innings – there was only ever going to be one winner of the man-of-the-match award.
New York is lucky in that since 1954 it has had an annual season of George Balanchine's "Nutcracker," a masterpiece of construction that repays endless viewings (I once watched it 13 times in two weeks, with increasing admiration) and in which such basic matters as the rise of the Christmas tree and the fall of snow are given their full due.
Beijing old city is a masterpiece during construction of ancient cities, and the most important urban space with special significance in Beijing.
The first independent act of Nikita Khrushchev after becoming General Secretary on Stalin's death was to force through a decree "On Architectural Excess", demanding industrialised construction rather than bespoke masterpieces as a means of solving the crisis.
Despite the play's brevity, it is a masterpiece of artful construction.
"But his masterpiece is a construction manual for illiterate people," Cassin said.
The eco-efficient library will be "masterpiece of timber construction", according to ALA Architects in charge of the project.
It's been heralded as a masterpiece of the construction and management simulation (CMS) genre, which extends back to 1981's real-time strategy game Utopia and includes classics such as SimCity (1989) and Civilization (1991).
On August 21, 1911, a construction worker removed Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece from the Louvre, with the stated intention of returning the painting to Italy (presumably, the thief did not know that da Vinci himself had brought the painting to France while under the patronage of Francis I).
