Sentence examples for pavilions from inspiring English sources

But cricket pavilions vary as much as cricket does, each a monument to the players and spectators who made the matches they hosted, from the humblest, friendliest of clubs up to the venues that provide the canvases for the grandest heroes of the game.

Its pavilions at clubs such as Sefton Park, Bootle and Northern were rooted in Victorian confidence, but were adjusting to Thatcherite astringency with varying degrees of success.

But the first building that really turned my head and sparked a lifelong love affair with the cricket's vast variety of pavilions was Old Trafford's hulking red-brick monster, humanised only a little by the famous hanging baskets that celebrate Lancashire's floral emblem.

Think of postcards made around 1900 of the engineering marvel of the Eiffel Tower, or the fantasy pavilions at Coney Island, and the famous photo of the Flatiron Building by Alfred Steiglitz.

Since live cricket rights were sold to Sky in 2006 many pavilions have received funding and been re-developed to improve facilities for spectators (and, lest we forget, the media).

A quarter of a century later, the man who was that teenager does not take pavilions for granted.

From Yongmen all the way to the Jing and Wei rivers, there were replica palaces, passages, and walled pavilions".

1,001 Nights will require the construction of a 1.1-mile (1.8km) circuit around pavilions showcasing each of the six countries, made with 9,000 tonnes of sand.

Half a century later, the Japanese quietly took this name and fashioned out of it a Japanese one for their virgin isles: Senkaku, or "Pinnacled Pavilions".The islands were filled with the deafening cries of breeding boobies, terns and the "Gigantic petrel", by which Belcher presumably meant the short-tailed albatross.

In Shanghai's case, another 100 hotels will reportedly open during the expo, including several at the luxury end, to capitalise on a hoped-for 70m visitors before October, when the fair closes and most of the pavilions will be trashed.Local hoteliers will be keen to avoid a post-expo funk of Beijing proportions.

A spectacular, wavelike steel and glass canopy, 1,300 metres long and 32 metres wide, ripples between eight pavilions that provide 530,000 square metres of floor space.Mr Fuksas's masterpiece is the latest of many regeneration projects that have improved Europe's face as governments, architects and developers have tackled some of industrialisation's ugly legacies.