I keep remembering Hopkins' marvelous letter to Bridges about the idea of a "gentleman" being the highest thing ever conceived — higher than a "Christian" even, certainly than a poet.
The original high-rise, conceived to create housing for their staff, was a project that interested the socially conscious Lubetkin, a Russian-born, Paris-trained architect and engineer whose aesthetic had its roots in both Soviet constructivism and European classicism.
No restoration can avoid this entirely, but Ferragamo, for one, was not likely to make such obvious errors: The style at Castiglion is modern, elegant and high-tech, conceived by Teresa Bürgisser Sancristoforo and Massimo's wife Chiara.
The adjective high is primarily a locative term: a High God is conceived as being utterly transcendent, removed from the world that he created.
Or maybe, they say, they are a golfing version of Dick Fosbury, the high jumper who conceived the back-first style that transformed how all high jumpers performed in the event.
A rare bronze leg, standing more than seven feet high, which Giacometti conceived in 1947 and cast a year later, was bought by Andrew Fabricant, a New York dealer, for $10 million, or $11.2 million including fees.
The architects explain, "Given the site's great views but its sometimes inhospitable conditions (wind, dust, high temperatures), we conceived the hotel as a succession of protected and comfortable interior spaces from which to contemplate the exterior".
Season of conception was strongly associated with air pollution levels, with pregnancy-averaged PM2.5 levels being highest for newborns conceived between April and September, and pregnancy-averaged PM2.5 absorbance being highest for conceptions occurring between July and December.
Not long afterward, the company developed an especially high-grip shoe, conceived as a boat shoe, that would hold the wearer firmly to a pitching deck.
