Sentence examples for sinuous design from inspiring English sources

Still, Hadid's firm has had to make compromises — overhauling the sinuous design because local officials thought it looked like a snake, which is considered bad luck.

All but unveiled in April at the Beijing motor show as the Asian-market Sylphy, the Sentra trades the notchy, stunted look of its predecessor for a more sinuous design.

Intimations of Toyota's return to hegemonic form, after two years mired by recalls and a federal inquiry into reports of unintended acceleration, came at the 2012 Detroit show, when it debuted a rakish Camry concept and, from its Lexus luxury subsidiary, the LF-Lc hybrid sports car concept: a sinuous design statement that earned the prestigious EyesOn Design award for 2012.

Its sinuous designs and rich colors evoke a fusion of Surrealism, Art Nouveau and Japanese kimonos.

The limestone window surrounds on the second floor show the peculiarities of the style: delicate, sinuous vine designs are carved in low relief, but they are interrupted by a horizontal slab of bare limestone.

The stark modernity is surprising, given that the tone for new buildings in the Uluru National Park had been set by the 1995 Visitor Centre, an extraordinary, sinuous building designed in collaboration with the Aboriginal population.

Here, alongside each other, lie an Iraqi ceramic model of a river boat from around 2900 BC; a model of a covered wagon from Syria from about 2300 BC, collected by Lawrence of Arabia; Cretan jars wreathed with sinuous, octopus designs from about a millennium later; and a sixth-century BC Attic vase from Sicily, decorated with an image of a chariot.

His earliest works, for Paris townhouses, reveal the mastery of craft, sinuous anatomy, and design that characterize his entire oeuvre.

And so it was no surprise that when Zaha Hadid produced her sinuous steel-clad design for the new £11m library and archive building for the Middle East Centre at St Antony's College, it was attacked.

Her sinuous, high-tech designs eroticize the apocalyptic landscape, much as advertisements romanticize cars.

But on the island, Frieze has enough space for a sinuous white tent, designed by the young Brooklyn architectural duo SO-IL, which curves along the waterfront.