Steel truss domes, particularly the Schwedler triangulated dome, have been the choice for several large covered stadiums, with the greatest span being 204.2 metres (669 feet).
One of the most imposing, which also boasts the greatest span for a wooden trussed roof in the ancient world, was the Odeon of Agrippa, named after the emperor Augustus' civil administrator.
His duet with Amy Winehouse on "Body and Soul"—reportedly the last recording she made before her death —charted on the lower reaches of the Billboard Hot 100, making Bennett the oldest living artist to appear there, as well as the artist with the greatest span of appearances.
In the great span of time during which the Roman Republic and Empire existed, there were many phases of legalistic development.
Here to the south, especially on a blustery day, the Hudson still feels like a wild place, even though New York City is only a few miles away and the great span of the Tappan Zee Bridge dominates the horizon.
When Baba can no longer visit (menace is implied, but the precise reasons are mercifully unstated), each resolves to fly his kite alone, as a signal sent across the great span of distance that separates them.
If Winston Churchill's maxim about architecture — we shape our buildings, and thereafter our buildings shape us — is true, the great span and the forever futuristic-looking needle gave each of these young West Coast cities a common civic narrative.
"Brookland" itself is a kind of bridge, not just in its great span, from 1772 to 1823, and in its lattice of solid little parts — what the Winships eat for dinner (sweet-potato stew), how many dresses Prue has (one, brown) — but in its balance of opposing forces, above all, the forces within Prue's personality.
Gradually the music will build in scale until you reach the colossal, slow, full-orchestral grandeur of the Sugarplum adagio in Act II: no ballet score has a greater span, and this shows how passionately Tchaikovsky was depicting the inner life of a child.
"And like a miniaturist on canvas who has to work to distil a world into a few square inches, the writer who can suggest a great span in a story that has to be kept in check is a true servant of the craft".
It was to be, he said, a kind of "mystical synthesis of America and its structural identity", in which engineering and the architecture of the Brooklyn Bridge itself, whose great span he could glimpse outside his apartment window, would be used as metaphors for the Machine Age.
