Sentence examples for extraordinary structures from inspiring English sources

"These extraordinary structures really can be only feathers," Dr. Olson said.

Faced with the contrast between these two extraordinary structures, people were tempted to ask, why should architecture restrict itself to rationality?

Over the past decade, a frenzied building schedule has produced extraordinary structures by architects such as Santiago Calatrava (the local hero now feted for his City of Arts and Sciences) and Sir Norman Foster.

Of the six extraordinary structures suspended above the forest floor, the UFO, reached by a retractable staircase, is most outlandish, while the Bird's Nest and Mirror Cube blend ingeniously with their surroundings.

There are darker elements if you want them – zombies and dragons – but my children would spend hours (if I let them) just building the most extraordinary structures, and looking after fields of horses and sheep, or (unusual this one) watching each other doing so.

In a telling passage in a book accompanying the new show Alsop says: "These [new building forms] would and should be extraordinary structures that litter the landscape as objects of curiosity and wonder, in the manner of the castle of the Welsh marches".

Ms. Boyd is tuned in to its musical demands, lyrical beauty and intricacy; trusting and admiring of its extraordinary structure.

Their nest — empty at the time of my visit — was an extraordinary structure, made out of sticks and nearly the size of an armchair.

This extraordinary structure has long been both a test for taste as well as an exhilarating case study in the grosser realities of civic architecture.

The prospects are gloomy: the department has just confirmed its refusal to list Preston bus station, another 1970s building with an extraordinary structure.

As with every generalisation, there are possible exceptions: Damanhur, the extraordinary structure currently being built in northern Italy, might function as an instance of a cult, with commensurate accusations surrounding it of brainwashing and tax evasion.