Sentence examples for memorable buildings from inspiring English sources

The bazaar was one of the few memorable buildings in the capital.

*** The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors by Edward Hollis (Portobello £9.99) Edward Hollis's ambitious book surveys the interiors of memorable buildings: from Rome's Palatine, to Westminster, to his grandmother's living room in her house on London's outer ring.

It might even suggest some of the reasons New York City has had so few memorable buildings constructed in the last generation, reasons that go beyond preservation, Mr. Muschamp's recent target of choice.

Postmodernism may have originated in architecture and design but as James Wines, an American architect whose "ruins" were among its most memorable buildings, suggests in the exhibition catalogue, its influence has been deeper and more enduring on other media like film, performance and literature.

Calatrava's other memorable buildings include a renovation of the Stadelhofen Railway station (1983 90) in Zürich, the BCE Place Gallery and Heritage Square (1987 92) in Toronto, Tenerife Opera House (1991 2003) in the Canary Islands, and several structures (including an opera house, an arboretum, and a planetarium) for the City of Arts and Sciences (1991 2004) in Valencia.

Cleverly, and unexpectedly, Koolhaas and his team of architects, historians and curators have chosen to tell this big story neither through a conventional presentation of models, photographs and drawings of famous, influential or otherwise memorable buildings, nor through the lives and works of celebrated Modern architects.

Boss Tweed may not have been the right person to trust with New York City cash, but he knew how to make a memorable building.

Photographing while driving is admittedly not the safest act (though probably safer than driving while arguing with a teenage daughter on a cellphone), so I often pull over to photograph a funny sign, a memorable building or the sight of golden light rushing across the prairie as it breaks through cobalt blue clouds.

The center, a mad work of architectural megalomania and historical recovery, is one of the strangest but most memorable museum buildings to open in ages.

A magazine article had told us that the best view of Cothelstone was from up in the hills, so we went higher, clambered up a bank and looked down through a gap in the straggling hedge at the memorable cluster of buildings that had grown up over the centuries.

They like to use mobile and elusive substances as much as the hard, fixed matter of building: electricity, light, air pressure in the case of the Hirshhorn, and with their memorable 2002 Blur Building – a structure that created a walk-through artificial cloud above Lake Neuchatel in Switzerland – water vapour.