In his design for the Chapel, Hardenbergh attempted a "restrained approach to Gothic architecture" that refrained from the excesses ("fripperies") of typical examples of Victorian Gothic.
Mutual trust was clearly at work, not least because Norton's original taste in architecture was relatively restrained: "I love Jean Prouvé.
After that peak, theatre decor gradually grew more restrained again as theatres, and architecture more broadly, moved into the age of the Classical revival in the last quarter of the 18th century.
Performances I've heard, live and recorded, of these symphonies tend to emphasize the unity of Brahms's musical architecture and the restrained musical palette with which he realizes it — the severity and compression with which he converts unruly emotion into abstract drama.
The Spanish style, a more restrained version of French renaissance architecture, is particularly evident in eastern Sicily, where — owing to minor insurrections — the Spanish maintained a stronger military presence.
The design of the building suggests that ground zero is a singular location, demanding unusually restrained, well-wrought and public-minded architecture and a commitment to something more important than the bottom line.
The examples vary from the radical (a series of buildings occupying strips of Wilshire, developed by Kulapat Yantrasast and the team at wHY Architecture) to the more restrained (a proposal by LA-Más that would pump up the density on granny apartments).
The examples vary from the radical (a series of buildings occupying strips of Wilshire, developed by Kulapat Yantrasast and the team at wHY Architecture) to the more restrained (a proposal by LA-Más that would pump up the density on granny apartments).
Indeed, in recent years some of the biggest egos in architecture have begun to do some of the most restrained work.
