Sentence examples for extravagant buildings from inspiring English sources

Fraser analyses the bank's  extraordinary largesse under Goodwin, whom, he claims, squandered billions of pounds on overpriced acquisitions, fleets of Mercedes and extravagant buildings and decor.

In the late 1970s and '80s Jahn made his mark, designing extravagant buildings that combined historical and contextual references the central tenets of postmodern architecture with high-tech engineering solutions.

Adorned with an array of extravagant buildings – including a glass pyramid, a Disney version of the White House and a finance ministry shaped as a dollar bill – Astana can be a bizarre pace to visit.

Six prominent American universities, each an acknowledged leader in a particular field, offer programs in extravagant buildings at Education City.

In Nantes, they took an apartment in an extravagant building called Le Temple du Goût.

There would be no extravagant building, "we will just go back to normal life.

Kublai's continuing wars produced a heavy and useless burden, as did his showy and extravagant building operations at Dadu.

Tajikistan is a state dependent on foreign aid, but that doesn't stop president Emomali Rahmon from undertaking extravagant building projects.

As other cultural organizations around the country embarked on extravagant building projects in the late '90s and the early '00s, the center's various institutions bickered about how to compete, given their aging campus.

He brought his territories into the newly founded German Empire (1871) but concerned himself only intermittently with affairs of state, preferring a life of increasingly morbid seclusion and developing a mania for extravagant building projects.

I had the good fortune of attending a recent game at the Cowboys' stadium, and can report that it is not only the most extravagant stadium I've ever encountered but also the most extravagant building of any kind.