"In a hundred years, there will be great folk festivals devoted to my symphonies, in gigantic halls seating twenty to thirty thousand people," Gustav Mahler once told the soprano Lilli Lehmann.
Museums seem to afford increasingly larger buildings, their visitor numbers must increase annually, the collections are expanded and the size of the artworks is often fit only for gigantic halls.
The site is famous for the remains of a gigantic vaulted hall, the Ṭāq Kisrā, which is traditionally regarded as the palace of the Sāsānian king Khosrow I (reigned ad 531 579), although Shāpūr I (reigned ad 241 272) also undertook work on the site.
But either way, it is likely that at some point they will attend a meeting, tradeshow or conference in this desert fantasyland of gargantuan hotels, gigantic convention halls, cavernous casinos, huge meals and massive hangovers.
It was staged in one of the four theaters carved out of the gigantic Jahrhunderthalle (Century Hall) here in Bochum.
LONDON — Creditors of Lehman Brothers' international business, arriving at London's gigantic O2 concert hall on Friday, had no illusions about getting their money back any time soon.
A neighbouring hall houses a gigantic band saw, with crane and elaborate cooling system, big enough to slice an elephant or a giraffe in half.
Museums at night have a certain romance and none more so than London's Natural History Museum, though romance may not be the most appropriate word when you are standing next to the gigantic dinosaur in the main hall.
It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project, with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
The gigantic banner outside the main hall kind of told us that.
