Sentence examples for palatial scale from inspiring English sources
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.
He learned about landscape architecture while working with Wilbur D. Cook and got his first taste of designing on a palatial scale at the firm of Reginald D. Johnson.
This municipal leisure centre, built in the 1980s on a palatial scale, is one of many interiors in Pyongyang that feel as if they came straight from a Wes Anderson film set.
We can only guess what it was for, but at the moment we're working on the idea that it had something to do with a harbour on the river, although it does look uncannily like a residential villa building – if that's the case it was built on a palatial scale".
In Herculaneum, Piso built a seaside villa on a palatial scale - the width of its beach frontage alone exceeds 220m (7220m).
From the continent they derived baronial houses, filled with antiques and traditional finery, built on a palatial scale.
It is puzzling beyond belief: palatial and churchlike in scale, but absurdly kitsch in content.
On July 16 of that year the palace of the wool guild caught fire and everything from the ground floor up was destroyed, prompting the wool guild to reconstruct a new palatial residence on a larger scale and with stone vaults leading up to the roof.
(An angel watching God awaken Adam seems to be asking, "Does he know what he's doing?") Except for the majestic Isaac, the figures in "Jacob and Esau" dart about, varying in movement, scale and spatial depth, but the palatial structure keeps them separate and clear.
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.
