Sentence examples for most influential building from inspiring English sources

It was applied, most famously, by the architects of the Parthenon, the most influential building in European history.

In England the most influential building in the new fashion was the choir of Canterbury Cathedral (1175 84), which has many of the features of Laon Cathedral.

The history of architecture is concerned more with religious buildings than with any other type, because in most past cultures the universal and exalted appeal of religion made the church or temple the most expressive, the most permanent, and the most influential building in any community.

Based on 1900 daylight simulations of an office building located in Montreal Canadaa), a sensitivity analysis was performed to identify the most influential building design variables among a list of 15.

But one of the most influential buildings was Chartres Cathedral (present church mainly built after 1194).

But that was just the beginning of a marathon courtship befitting one of the country's most influential buildings and one of its trend-setting media empires, which went far beyond the typical landlord-tenant transaction.

We also dropped by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and wandered around the great city of Boston, where many of our professors had designed and built some of the most influential buildings of the day.

Many of the best and most influential buildings from the last century are constructed with concrete, from Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, perhaps the quintessential modernist structure, to Frank Lloyd Wright's spellbinding Fallingwater, and from Oscar Niemeyer's nation defining Brasília, to Tadao Ando's exhilarating Church of Light.

In 1725 he designed his villa at Chiswick (now in the outer London borough of Hounslow), one of the most influential Palladian buildings in England (completed 1729).

Mies van der Rohe's German Pavilion in Barcelona is one of the most influential modernist buildings of the 20th Century, argues Jonathan Glancey.

One of architecture's apparent paradoxes is that some of its most influential thinkers build very few buildings.