Sentence examples for courtyard idea from inspiring English sources

The courtyard idea started as a drive-through passage, Rafael Pelli said, and kept getting bigger.

But if the kingdom of France ended then, followed by endless architectural revisions up to I.M. Pei's glass pyramid and the new Islamic art courtyard, the idea of the Louvre as the single greatest repository of Western power and civilization remains intact.

Reservations a good idea; courtyard seating assigned on arrival.

While that project was in a new building surrounded by old shikumen, or traditional Shanghai courtyard houses, the idea had stayed with him ever since.

I have worked within a block or two of this restaurant most of my adult life, but until I first visited, I had no idea this courtyard even existed.

Architectural historian David Thomson suggests that the oval halls within du Cerceau's courtyards were Catherine de Medicii's idea.

She may have gotten the idea from the courtyard in the model, which is outfitted with a round wrought iron table and chairs, a platter of muffins and settings for three.

"Southern California architecture from 1900 to 1970 was based on the hacienda idea -- with a courtyard that brought the outdoors indoors and the indoors outdoors.

Additionally, the key conclusion is that the rural land use policy, the limitations of the sunken courtyard itself, the change in residents' ideas and the lack of proper management are the major reasons for this heritage change phenomenon.

What Mr. Mather chose to do was develop an unexecuted idea by Soane for a courtyard in front of the gallery.

Foreign Cinema The best looking of this group of restaurants, Foreign Cinema is not just a good idea -- in its inner courtyard, old movies are projected onto a neighboring building -- but a good restaurant.