City officials describe the objections as exaggerated, saying the big buildings would be on the outskirts of Hollywood's famous historic district.
The property boasts a dazzlingly minimalist design by Germán del Sol: long, low buildings with exaggerated roof overhangs that shade the terraces.
The drawings use heightened perspective and exaggerated angles, and they make the building look futuristic and imposing, even today.
Both blame the cycles of the building industry, which follow in exaggerated form the booms and busts of the economy as a whole.
There is a long tradition of producers building tracks around wet smacks and exaggerated moans, and the lurid results range from the ecstatic to the cringeworthy.
The two buildings share many design elements, such as an exaggerated entranceway and extensive ornamentation, but the Yonkers station is built of brick rather than stone, to make it feel more suburban, Mr. Ehmann said.
Although his claim that he found the city brick and left it marble is exaggerated, Augustus and his colleagues did provide it with many fine public buildings, baths, theatres, temples, and warehouses.
Instead, the characters, with their frozen, emphatic expressions and exaggerated voices, take on an appealing eccentricity, and by the time those buildings start dancing, you will be sorry to see them go.
One of Mr. Alsop's first drawings for the College of Art and Design put three brightly colored brush strokes on top of a photomontage of the existing building -- a striking distillation of the final plan's exaggerated legs.
Saudi Arabia disputed the Yemen Data Project figures, describing them as "vastly exaggerated", and challenged the accuracy of the methodology, saying somewhere such as a school building might have been a school a year ago, but was now being used by rebel fighters.
