Sentence examples for granite design from inspiring English sources

In Boston he was surrounded by buildings of plain granite design that affected the best of his own later work, but for formal training he had to go abroad, for there were no schools of architecture in the United States before the Civil War.

At the memorial's center is the starkly ponderous $5 million monument of black granite designed by Mr. Leon.

It was given a home in Stuyvesant Square Park on a pedestal of green granite designed by Mr. Pokorny, an amateur classical pianist.

But neighborhood opposition has foiled the society's planned expansions in the past, including a 1984 proposal for a much broader 23-story apartment tower of limestone and granite, designed by the architect Hugh Hardy.

Development continued in areas in Old City and South Street, and large modern skyscrapers of glass and granite, designed by nationally known architects, were constructed in Center City.

Solid stone and granite tower designed to last 500 years, according to Holden.

Why did Maya Lin use reflective black granite in designing the Vietnam Memorial?

A more permanent and cutting-edge attraction is the Sackler crossing, a bronze and granite bridge designed by John Pawson.

Sheathed in local granite and designed with straight lines and right angles, it rises about 70 feet above street level.

This was replaced in 1985 with the present impassive granite facade designed by Giorgio Cavaglieri, built all the way out to the building line.

Spreading out over the block from Park to Lexington, from 66th to 67th, the fortress in red brick and granite was designed by Charles W. Clinton.