Like Elbaz, Lanvin sought to design fashion that could be worn by women throughout their lives.
Jazz at Lincoln Center first sought to design a theater that could accommodate both opera and jazz.
Like Elbaz, Lanvin sought to design fashion that transcended seasonal fads and could be worn by women throughout their lives.
When its architects, Peddle Thorp, were sought to design a headquarters for Custom Credit on St Kilda Road, the commission specifically referred to "a dignified building … not a flimsy glass box … something to reflect the stability of the credit system".
The idea of Chandigarh was astounding in its ambition and high hopes, but bound to fail, like all the other modernist utopias that sought to design human life by numbers.
On Saturday in India, Dr. ElBaradei was quoted as saying that "a major question" about the authenticity of the evidence kept his agency from "making any judgment at all" on whether Iran had ever sought to design a nuclear warhead.
Rather than compromise in any area, it sought to design the definitive S.U.V., one that could lap racetracks at sports car speeds, scramble up mountains like a billy goat and cruise comfortably to the spa.
The problem lies with a systemic failure in the way regulatory agencies have sought to design an effective model; at times the motivation seems to have been the organisational needs of individual inspectorates, not a common purpose.
Inspired by Émile Zola's 1901 novel "Travail," about a young industrialist who builds a utopian city, the architect Tony Garnier sought to design an ideal industrial town, with comfortable housing for the lower classes, medical facilities, trees, a train station, libraries, museums, schools, theaters and sports fields — but no church or police station.
Working from her Berlin studio with two designers, Edith van Berkel and Arian Brekfeld, who collaborated with her on the textiles and seat-bed respectively, Ms. Jongerius sought to design an environment that would feel less impersonal and more comfortable than conventional ones.
We also sought to design a reliable measure of bullying for use with an adult sample.
