As with the gigantic architecture of Egypt, the Greeks were impressed with the monumentality of Egyptian statuary, larger than life-size and executed in hard stone instead of the limestone, clay, or wood to which the Greeks had been accustomed.
With its publication earlier this week, Toronto Skyline Porn is a fascinating visual journey through the gigantic architecture of Emond's hometown.
The most nonsensical of it all is that our architecture is gigantic, that it is monumental -- and the reference was made to Nazi and Fascist architecture.
Now l'm lost, driving around an expansive parking lot, up and down a long access road that connects the west and east sides of this gigantic campus, searching for architecture that vaguely resembles macaroni.
They thus impart both a strong upward thrust and an equally strong horizontal rhythm as the direction of the wall continuously changes, producing an architecture of pulsing dynamism on a gigantic scale.
These enterprises which increasingly became resorts for the whole family as much as they were casinos lent Las Vegas the air of a gigantic theme park, a paragon of what the architecture critic Reyner Banham called the "fantasticating tendency" of the American West.
However, when I looked around the day after its glitzy opening party, it was undeniably spectacular, with a gigantic, largely open-air Botanicó spa, stylish clean-lined architecture and acres of green space.
The Studio don't describe their work as land art, but do see it as transcending categorical descriptions of sculpture, architecture, or art, overlapping those notions, much as their gigantic concrete shells come together precipitously over the landscape.
THE AIRPORT: International and many Shanghai flights land at Capital International's gigantic, Norman Foster-designed Terminal 3, which opened in early 2008 to raves from passengers and architecture critics alike.
Indo-Javanese architecture, produced from the 3rd to the 16th century, includes such monuments as the gigantic stupa of Borobudur (c.
Created by a colorful Miami developer and a world-renowned architecture firm, it appears to be an entirely new form: a piece of carchitecture that resembles a gigantic loft apartment, with exaggerated ceiling heights, wide-open 360-degree views and no exterior walls.
