But what works along vast expanses of shoreline is less suited to cities that are densely populated.
Seen from inside, those zigzags look like the keels of ships, moored above this vast expanse of pillar-less space that's home to trams, cars, locomotives, motorbikes, a tube train, a glider, ships, skateboards, prams, shoes and, well, pretty much anything that ever helped Glaswegians to move about.
Where the north half required great thicknesses of brick in the load-bearing walls, the addition employed only a thin facing of brick and terracotta trim, affording larger expanses of glass and faster, less expensive construction.
Expanses of white ice, however grand, are less alluring as the minutes go by.
True, in the meantime the desert has become less of a secret, with expanses of sand now all too familiar to both tourists and moviegoers.
With the addition of large expanses of intronic sequence, eukaryotic RNA thermometers could be considerably less conserved than those found in bacteria, confounding detection.
Although the magnitude of preferences differed somewhat, all groups preferred development that included more nature (particularly trees), was not "run down", was less visually bulky, and contrasted less with the environment (e.g., darker colors and without large expanses of windows).
— Stately historic sites and large expanses of meadow still pervade much of this old river town, but Hyde Park also has its less elegant corners, like a main business district along Route 9, which is, at best, an architectural jumble.
The carved stone windows now frame expanses of brick, while the students' bedroom windows look directly on to the blank back of the preserved wall less than a metre away.
In reality, it set the mould for the dreary expanses of carpet tiles and suspended ceilings that have proliferated ever since; research has also suggested that open offices "make people less productive and more hostile and anxious".
