Sentence examples for floating planes from inspiring English sources

Rietveld's 1924 Schroeder House is typically discussed as an abstract series of floating planes, with balconies sliding over walls, walls sliding past windows, and a radically open plan.

It has a kind of sumptuous, self-assured grandeur that plays on the floating planes and transparent volumes of Mies without ever directly imitating him.

In drawings, the memorial seems boxy and blunt, but the mockup makes it feel more subtle, a composition of floating planes playing against light, standing water, and waterfalls.

Unlike Yoshio Taniguchi's recently expanded Museum of Modern Art, conceived as a series of abstract floating planes, Mr. Piano's building is made of flesh and bones.

But his approach to the loft also recalls the way 20th-century designers like Charles and Ray Eames used color as floating planes.

A taut composition of floating planes and elegant lines, the education wing has a cool, self-confident air like that of the museum's 2004 gallery building, which was also designed by Yoshio Taniguchi.

When the US Airways flight crashed-landed into the Hudson the other week, one of the rescue workers posted a "tweet" and pictures on the boat en-route to the floating plane.

When the fog ceiling lifts, we count float planes buzzing in the distance.

For trips in which scrub brush and rocks prevent touchdown, Mr. Alsworth uses float planes with banana-shaped buoys to land in the teal water.

We note signs of human activity like visitors to a far-off planet: the scarce fishing boats, float planes and jets above, the trash where land meets sea.

In a study of the 200 largest lakes in the Adirondacks, Protect the Adirondacks determined that only a dozen were off-limits to motorboats and float planes.