In December 2004, the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation, after ignoring the 2000 illustrative master plan for Brooklyn Bridge Park that was developed over 15 years of community planning, released a new park plan, which is basically a mammoth high rise real estate development with walks and plantings to make the 1,200 new luxury apartments more saleable.
Gary Enright, the Unison Caerphilly branch secretary, told the protest gathering: "Today we have clearly demonstrated our anger about the chief executive's mammoth pay rise and that we are not prepared to simply accept the situation.
Afternoons can be spent snorkelling or, when the tide is out, exploring a desolate beach past the caves to the west where delicate arches of stone have been etched by the waves and mammoth boulders rise out of the water like whales.
The overall impression of the architect's rendering of these slightly bowed, glass-sheathed towers and central mast is that of a mammoth sailboat rising above the Moskva River.
A few more miles, another checkpoint, and Doug Dederer, a stringer for The New York Times, and I approach the Vehicle Assembly Building, a mammoth presence rising above the flat terrain of sand, palmetto and lagoons stretching to the Atlantic.
The mammoth edifice rose nine stories and featured an elegant motor court domed in stained glass.
Unlike "Exodus," "Nation Estate" takes place on planet Earth, in a mammoth high-rise that houses the entirety of the Palestinian people in one easy-to-navigate complex.
Before a final question-and-answer session, we arrive at the stage (actually four stages), where 52 trapdoors, 7 elevators, hundreds of lights and metal bars that support scenery and a spaghetti-like tangle of wires make it possible for mammoth sets to rise, glide or be lowered onto the stage.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Most of the checkerboard walls on the mammoth shopping mall rising in the Meadowlands that Gov. Chris Christie once called "the ugliest damn building in New Jersey and maybe America" have been replaced with muted white panels.
Clouds funnel through the pass, and dump snow with a vengeance, particularly on the volcanic Mammoth Mountain, which rises to 11,059 feet.
