Sentence examples for monumental axis from inspiring English sources

There is no crushing monumental axis leading into the stadium as there was in Berlin.

Brasília's Monumental Axis is not simply a relic from a discounted age or an emblem of a failed utopia.

Until a few years ago visitors could drive up a gently sloping hill before arriving at the crest, where the entire Monumental Axis unfolded in front of them.

Perhaps most damaging, however, was the completion last year of Mr. Niemeyer's National Museum and National Library along the Monumental Axis.

Many of the most important government buildings along the city's wide central avenue, Eixo Monumental (Monumental Axis), have been remodelled and updated to cope with the city's heat.

A decade later, on his 99th birthday, he celebrated the opening of his National Museum and National Library along the Monumental Axis in Brasília, near his cathedral.

Between the federal and civic buildings on the Monumental Axis is the city's cathedral, considered by many to be Niemeyer's finest achievement.

An allée between cypress trees leads up to La Pietra's monumental doors, and the axis bisects the house and continues into the back gardens.

In an interview with a newspaper in Bermuda, Mr. Charman called his ouster from Axis Capital "an act of monumental betrayal".

This work continued until 1857 and included, to the south and on axis with the house, the monumental fountain of Saint George and the Dragon dated c. 1849 57 sculpted by Charles Raymond Smith.

The publicist is a sober technician; he motivates the man into a scenery of order, he approaches with interpretive amplitude the idea of architecture, monumental, civic, architectural and cultural heritage, the traditional identity axis.