Mr. Jasperse structured last year's "California" (seen by New Yorkers at the Brooklyn Academy of Music) around a monumental architectural element.
Chipperfield's strategy is to restore those parts of the building that are substantially intact, but in the main hall to clean up the raw brick walls and leave them visible, as the backdrop to a simple new stairway rising as a monumental new element up the building.
Our ultimate goal, therefore, was the composite but inseparable work of art, the great building, in which the old dividing-line between monumental and decorative elements would have disappeared for ever.
This ideal of the fusion between good proportions and "auxiliary brightness" was expressed by Walter Gropius in The New Architecture and the Bauhaus when he wrote in 1935: Our ultimate goal, therefore, was the composite but inseparable work of art, the great building, in which the old dividing-line between monumental and decorative elements would have disappeared for ever.
His best-known works are monumental fountains that combine elements of spacious design, subtle water effects, and inventive figure types (such as the fusion of classical triton or faun with Nordic goblin or troll).
Unfinished concrete, with windows sheltered by enormous concrete sunshades, the sculptural facades, swooping rooflines, and monumental ramps are principal elements of his architecture, which immediately influenced architects all over the world.
Using the text of the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead and poetry by Wilfred Owen, a British soldier killed in World War I, the "War Requiem" mingles elements of monumental public statement with more intimate utterances, those typically being relegated to the tenor and baritone soloists and a small, separate chamber orchestra.
Behind Every Leader combines all of these key elements during monumental two day events attracting assistants from all over the world.
Monumental Moneymakers Monuments are also economic assets.
The original station's arcade may be forever lost to us with the site now occupied by an office building, but New Yorkers once more deserve to experience elements of the monumental gateway that was taken from us more than 40 years ago.
The operatic elements of this monumental sacred work were emphasized on this occasion by performing the piece at the Metropolitan Opera House, with the large orchestra Verdi called for stationed in the pit.
