Sentence examples for gracious architecture from inspiring English sources
Early buildings of rudimentary design and rough construction gave way, during and after the days of Gov. Lachlan Macquarie, to gracious architecture, including that of Greenway.
For two decades now, the prevailing fashion in the Hamptons, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and everywhere else on the east coast where people with money build beach houses has been to replicate the rambling, gracious architecture of gables and porches that dates from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Beyond the home's gracious neo-Classical architecture, Tudor Place's considerable charm lies in the fact that it is not frozen in any one decade, but reveals the rich patina of history.
And by most accounts, said Paul Bamberg, a graduate architecture student, the "masonry guys are pretty gracious about all of our mistakes".
Tourists with a yen for gorgeous architecture flock to see the Painted Ladies, as San Francisco's gracious, turreted Victorians are called.
To our mind, however, it has no significance as serious design; and even if it is merely advertising architecture, we regret that Mr. Van Alen did not arrange a more subtle and gracious combination for his Pelion-on-Ossa parabolic curves.
The buildings themselves are most significant for their architecture which contributes to what the National Register of Historic Places nomination form in 1978 said conveyed "a gracious calm very close to the popular American image of an ideal small town".
