Sentence examples for glamorous buildings from inspiring English sources

Those architects didn't want to start a revolution; they wanted to make glamorous buildings.

While walk-ups have never been the most glamorous buildings in the city, demand for and sales of these buildings have reached new highs recently.

With a sea change (partly generational, mostly philosophical) overtaking architecture, and attention turning from glamorous buildings and celebrated designers to broader issues like urbanism, public space, social responsibility and collaboration, "Common Ground" is well intended but, alas, a missed opportunity.

Certainly, the problem of architecture is not in glamorous buildings like the World Trade Centre; the real issue is the living city, low-cost housing, parks and so on".

Thirty years after the Columbus project was begun, the dean of the college of art and architecture at the University of Cincinnati also had an idea about using glamorous buildings to attract attention, and the school hired Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Michael Graves, and Henry Cobb.

Dr Compton agreed: "St Pancras Station was considered ugly by the Victorians but it was saved and is now one of the most glamorous buildings in England, becoming the scene in recent years of the Harry Potter books and films".

I wanted to put a glamorous building on the plinth.

"You think of penthouses as being glamorous elevator buildings," Ms. Stevens said.

Its less glamorous rear buildings were replaced by a superstore that still stands.

Even as attention fell on the Tate's glamorous new buildings the work was always what mattered.

While designed to be glamorous, the buildings are far from Mr. Meier's biggest commission: he has done courthouses and museums.