Sentence examples for seductive architecture from inspiring English sources

Wrapped inside a faceted shell of concrete, it is seductive architecture with a social conscience.

It has some of Britain's best art museums – including the splendid Ashmolean Museum and the small but masterpiece-laden Christchurch Picture Gallery – and most seductive architecture.

All the record-setting buildings seem to have been equally useless, no matter how seductive their architecture.

I had spent the day looking at some of the city's colonial architecture -- seductive, sensitive wooden structures from an age when the British were overlords -- and was anguished by the state of slovenly disrepair into which many had fallen.

They use these seductive skins to lure us into their architecture, but they don't leave their imaginations at the door.

From the seductive Hindu temples of Uluwatu and roadside architecture, to the small inviting byways and richly turned fabrics, the back roads of Bali are enticing.

In his 1998 essay, "Imperial Bedroom," Jonathan Franzen recognized that "the right to be let alone" exists as a seductive but ultimately vacuous concept in the architecture of American values.

The perception that design and architecture have fallen under fashion's seductive spell surfaced last month at the Milan furniture fair, but this seems to overstate fashion's power.

Unique for its 16th-century architecture, fort, and upscale hotels (particularly seductive are the renovated former merchants' houses in the hills), Galle is the best example of a city built by Europeans in Southeast Asia.

Their principle for the reorganization of cities was simple and seductive: let the citizens themselves decide what spaces and architecture they want to live in and how they wish to live in them.

With a handsome driveway lined by sizeable date palms, and organically curved whitewashed architecture, Quinta's appearance is both startling and seductive.