By Thomas de Monchaux October 15, 2017 The fifty-nine-story Citicorp building, completed in 1977, is elevated by four monumental, squared columns.
Innsbruck, with its wide monumental squares and Hapsburg-era bombast, seemed less like a living city than it did a dreamscape of an unrecoverable past.
In an inspired act of urban planning he created a monumental central square to join Nancy's medieval quarter to its 16th-century "new town".
Samarkand, Uzbekistan - Samarkand is an ancient Silk Road city and the madrasas and mosaics of the monumental Registan square are among the world's most beautiful examples of Islamic architecture.
Just as Noah Cross in Chinatown said that politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough, so the Stalinist Ruritania of North Korea has hung on, to become increasingly regarded as an exotic or even tragicomic kind of despotism, with its vast squares, monumental architecture and fixed, poignant smiles.
The city had been surrounded by brick ramparts, with a monumental gate and several square towers.
In a particularly low blow, he accuses Richard Swinburne, a philosopher of religion and science at Oxford, of attempting to "justify the Holocaust," when Swinburne was struggling to square such monumental evils with the existence of a loving God.
Surrounding them, like the framing hedges of a formal garden clipped wafer thin, are lower but still monolithic apartment buildings and a vast square buttressed by four monumental arches.
But despite the four-story home's monumental footprint and nearly 9,700 square feet, the couple fell in love with its architectural details and spacious grounds, which offer a bit of the privacy they enjoyed in the countryside.
Toward the end of his life, Adam built the Register House (1772 92), Edinburgh, in which he realized the conception of a monumental domed hall within a square, envisaged at Syon some years earlier.
