Sentence examples for monumental features from inspiring English sources

He created the city's parks, many of its apartments, and such monumental features of the New York landscape as the Lincoln Center, the U.N. headquarters, Shea Stadium, and the NY Coliseum, along with many public works.

These were in some senses an extension of the cemetery designs of the 1920s, celebrating a natural German landscape, but included extensive modernist, monumental features, intending to highlight German artistic skill.

As popular as pedestrian islands are in urban settings these days -- usually constructed with the best of intentions to accommodate the foot traffic that forms the cornerstone of a healthy downtown -- the new construction tends to be a bit fancier, with more monumental features, clearly articulated crosswalks and stormwater management design in the form of bioswales or rain gardens.

It is the only openly monumental feature of the current design, which also includes is round wing containing two theaters.

"We don't understand what the purpose [of visible shrines], because the Nabateans didn't leave any written documents to tell us," he said, adding: "But I find it interesting that such a monumental feature doesn't have a visible relationship to the city".

Recent studies on the Mesolithic shellmiddens of the Muge valley (Central Portugal) indicate that these sites must have had, by their size, aspect and integration in an increasing socially complex cultural system, a major impact on the landscape as monumental anthropogenic features.

His monumental works feature prominently in the major cities of Scotland and in the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland.

The last bullfight in Spain's Catalan region was expected to draw 20,000 spectators to a bout, or corrida, on Sunday at Barcelona's Monumental bullring featuring the popular matador José Tomás, my colleague Raphael Minder reports.

The layout of the city resembles an airplane with a "monumental axis" (featuring most of the key buildings and attractions) running vertically down the center, flanked by two residential "wings".

And then there's the issue of crowd control in this monumental opera, which features three men's and two ladies' choruses – almost 100 people.

Kane's latest group, which combines elements of early Swans with Chatham's monumental guitar pieces, features long minimalist songs that build slowly over his precise and motoric drumming.