That room I remember as almost empty, but for a pair of monumental dark sofas of a kind I had never seen before, all angles and curves, sinister and dexterous, which I thrilled to deduce to be Hadid prototypes.
The terminal's design might have been impressive – a monumental dark glass box crowning a concrete undercroft – with the shortest possible walks for passengers from check-in to waiting planes, but the sheer size of the building has defeated even the most plausible plans.
Batman: Year One (1987) Frank Miller, author of the equally monumental Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986), joins forces with master stylist David Mazzucchelli to present an innovative revision of Batman's origin.
The "Rings" trilogy, much of which was written during World War II, is a dark, monumental epic of Good and Evil in conflict, whereas "The Hobbit," first published in 1937 (and later revised), is a more lighthearted book, an adventure story whose comical and fairy-tale elements are very much in the foreground.
Credited with triggering the examination of femininity in art, Nevelson challenged the vision of what type of art women would be creating with her dark, monumental, masculine and totem-like artworks.
Monumental Moneymakers Monuments are also economic assets.
Everything's got a history, the narrative never ends".Ms Parker likes to play with ideas about the monumental, to dig into the dark areas people think they know and to resurrect them into something new and strange and often beautiful:"I'm trying to find uncharted territory in the most visited spot or idea, trying to find space where things are the most crowded.
On loan from the Clark Museum in Massachusetts, this large work features a monumental Virgin draped in a dark-blue cloak over a carmine dress and holding a flower.
But the compensation is the spare, elegant rooftop garden from which you can see the centro, a vista dominated by the dark stone of the monumental cathedral.
Dark gray metal and monumental (about 12 by 20 by 10 feet), this hand-cranked kitchen shredder with three disc blades is an absurd blend of the erotic, the ominous and the anthropomorphic.
"Far ahead in the dark I saw the monumental bridge," he writes, "and closer, high above the shoreline, the Palisades, their revolutionary agony lost in the riotous lights of roller coasters".
