Sentence examples for extravagant architecture from inspiring English sources

They offer the ability to bar and restaurant hop while viewing extravagant architecture, historical sites and college life.

In 1822, he painted "The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum," and interestingly, did not use this theme as a pretext for depicting extravagant architecture.

The market occupies an ordinary room much like a large lift lobby, not designed by Mayer, that is cut off from his extravagant architecture.

"The I.O.C. has to be more in control," DeFrantz said yesterday, adding that all host cities need to be encouraged not to overbuild or aim for extravagant architecture in the Olympic sites.

"Through photographing the trendiest fashions and nightlife outside Moscow, extravagant architecture along with remnants of Communism, my ongoing project seeks to illuminate a city of raw and dilapidated beauty that exists in a liminal state at the gates of the East".

12 And we can recognize something artistic in such forms of competitive animal attention-getting as the dances of lekking birds, the songs of songbirds or whales, or the extravagant architecture of bowerbirds.

Unfortunately for anyone curious to see these extravagant works of architecture, they were eaten long ago.

So, in the case of the "Goldbergs," having constructed an extravagant and sturdy architecture, Bach provided room within it for players to make various decisions -- decisions that may include, these days, whether to play harpsichord, piano, clavichord or whatever.

How could it be that Modernism, whose "visionary architects and planners were, in their minds, leagued with the people against what they saw as archaic, overblown, extravagant and inefficient architecture and design, the taste of princes," finds itself losing a public argument... to a prince?

Thus the extravagant, almost whimsical architecture of Queluz, set apart from the capital city, exactly represents the politics and social events of Portugal during this era, and the carefree and flamboyant lives led by its occupants.

The exhibition content is, in the main, as vapid as the architecture is extravagant.