Its materials – roughly hewn boulders, raw flint nodules, crisply cut chalk blocks – exude an unusual sense of timeless magic, absent from so much flimsy contemporary architecture.
In his 1899 book, "The New Metropolis," E. Idell Zeisloft called the Arsenal "a flimsy structure of vulgarized Norman architecture," and it became a favorite target for replacement or demolition.
But as long as classrooms are decent not too dark, damp, noisy, airless, hot or cold further frills seem to make little difference.The post-war structures that now seem so flimsy were, in their day, cutting-edge architecture.
It was very distinctive for Tokyo and environs – a city where most of the architecture is best described as transient and flimsy, designed to have minimum impact when flattened by massive forces like earthquakes or bombers.
Her work often features the country's local carpets, while its pared-back appearance and flimsy materials echo the clean, definite forms of eastern-bloc architecture, belying a shaky political regime.
Many 1950's buildings were flimsy and forgettable, but Mr. Kahn found a way to give modern architecture gravitas.
Though the sequences of talk or stillness or against-the-music movement were flimsy effects, it seemed that they had been added to give the show an architecture it otherwise lacked.
The flimsy maquettes, barely held together with tape, conjure deep as well as farcical thoughts about architecture's history and its potential.
In the former scene, the figures have been so thinly painted that the architecture thrusts to the fore, the Queen of Sheba and her entourage barely registering as flimsy apparitions, hovering over the strongly painted steps and columns of the classical portico.
