Sentence examples for palatial architecture from inspiring English sources

The palace complex exemplifies traditional Chinese palatial architecture, and has influenced cultural and architectural developments in East Asia and elsewhere.

He moved back to being interested in building palatial architecture, essentially to his own glory.

However, the utilization of serpentinites is extremely limited in the Minoan palatial architecture.

It is just large enough, at forty-two feet long, to stand out in the palatial architecture, which humiliates it.

Palatial architecture aimed at effects never contemplated hitherto; even domestic architecture for the first time had palatial pretensions.

He wanted, above all, to disassociate himself from Nero, and from Domitian, who had favored palatial architecture, as you'll recall.

From historic hotels dripping in luxury to palatial Viennese architecture and museums galore here's a quick guide on how to take the most lavish escape in the City of Dreams.

The critic Montgomery Schuyler, writing in The Architectural Record in 1911, called the Bulkley house "one of the most successful examples in New York of domestic architecture of the palatial kind," praising Rogers for keeping the height down to a domestic scale.

"The Aranjuez cultural landscape is an entity of complex relationships: between nature and human activity, between sinuous watercourses and geometric landscape design, between the rural and the urban, between forest landscape and the delicately modulated architecture of its palatial buildings" (Merlos, [2012]).

020-7405 2107 This curved street of 30 houses, completed in 1774, is "architecture on a truly palatial scale", in the words of travel writer Jan Morris.

To ease the concerns of villagers, the government offered apartments in a modern complex called South Island Tower, complete with German-style architecture, high-speed internet and palatial entryways.