The seaside village had been chosen for its vertiginous streetscape ("blind people above all hate flatness, they have no way of understanding it"), its startling white buildings and the sharp contrasts of light and shade that Mann could still just about decipher.
Unlike Wright's design, to which it bears a startling resemblance, this building is very real — all one hundred and sixty stories (or two thousand seven hundred and seventeen feet) of it.
Unlike Wright's design, to which it bears a startling resemblance, this building is very real all one hundred and sixty stories (or two thousand seven hundred and seventeen feet) of it.
It is the last surviving smokehouse in the East End of London, now housed in a startling pale pink building overlooking the Olympic Park that was designed to look like a cross-section – or darne – of salmon.
One startling truth about building your own company is, more often than not, it will take much longer than you think to turn a profit.
The maps show towns and cities in startling detail with buildings classified as military coloured green, industrial rendered black, administrative purple, and other premises brown.
"He is the perfect client," said Willem Jan Neutelings, whose startling Minnaert is a building that anchors the northwest cluster of older concrete slab buildings.
The contrast of the plush interior of the office with the squalor of the rest of the building was startling.
They in turn oversee an underclass of millions of temporary migrants primarily from India, Pakistan Sri Lanka and the Philippines, the ones actually building the startling new skyline that so awed George W. Bush.
