Sentence examples for fanciful buildings from inspiring English sources

Bernd Dams, an architect, and Andrew Zega, an artist and writer, live in Paris and collaborate on erudite but popular books on fanciful buildings of the ancien regime.

The grounds contain many fish ponds, cascades, bridges and fanciful buildings, including the Temple of Harmony, which stands in Mill Wood and has now been fully restored.

Four drawings of fanciful modern buildings.

By Saul Steinberg The New Yorker, April 4 , 1983P. 38 Four drawings of fanciful modern buildings.

The New Yorker, April 4 , 1983P. 38 Four drawings of fanciful modern buildings.

The Scene Norfolk's blend of high culture and the great outdoors, coupled with enough fanciful old buildings to earn it 24 entries in the National Register of Historic Places, has bred a fierce loyalty among weekenders.

From the cafe I could see at one end of the avenue a fanciful turreted building with Scottish Baronial Revival elements that once housed the storied Scottish Café.

Not only did they offer magical strolls across the shimmering sea, some boasted fanciful, full-bodied buildings, their generous curves and swirls ­contrasting with the rigid, skeletal structures beneath them.

To the north, elevated Cimiez shows off fanciful-yet-faded buildings and an ornate 16th-century Franciscan monastery (6) that makes the walk up the hill worthwhile.

Erected in the 1930s, about a decade after the subways reached the area, some of these six-story Art Deco buildings have fanciful roofline details like half-turrets and notched parapets.

New York is jam-packed with these visual grace notes: chromatic terra cotta inlays, ornate second-story grilles, fanciful water towers, staid buildings that end in grandiloquent Mayan or Babylonian crowns, cast-iron fronts with elegant patterns.