Sentence examples for grandest building from inspiring English sources

Inside the locked Officers' Club, the grandest building at the fort, paint curled off the walls and ceiling.

The town's grandest building is the Château d'Auvers (00 33 1 34 48 48 48; chateau-auvers.fr/en), which has been turned into a shrine to Impressionism.

"You can't take photographs here," insisted the guard in front of the sprawling mansion built by the president, by far the grandest building in the village.

It was in a bleak, poor village in East Anglia, where the red brick rectory was the grandest building after the church.

Clare's stay at home lasted five months, before he was committed again, this time to the public asylum in Northampton, "much the grandest building Clare ever lived in," as Bate notes.

Commissioners' offices are like a five-star IKEA design: all pale wood floors, tasteful sofas and modern art.The biggest and grandest building is the European Parliament, where MEPs talk a lot about foreign policy but have little clout.

They built or acquired some of the grandest buildings along the city's main thoroughfare.

Now in its fifth year, the fair is ensconced in new, expanded quarters in one of Chelsea's grandest buildings.

Lee hired the firm of McKim, Mead & White, which designed many of New York's grandest buildings, ranging from the Metropolitan Club at 60th and Fifth to the old Penn Station.

In modern times, some of the grandest buildings for entertainment have brought fame to their cities as well as their designers.

Cut to a grand building.