Sentence examples for unexecuted design from inspiring English sources

His unexecuted design for the Centennial Exhibition, held in Philadelphia in 1876, a breathtakingly scaled pavilion conceived in collaboration with the engineer George K. Radford, proposed to enclose 20 acres under pointed iron trusses forming 120-foot-high interior arches.

Cyril Mountfort was responsible for the church of St Luke's in the City, which was an unexecuted design of his father's.

His early, unexecuted design for House of Dun, a collaboration with the Earl of Mar, is interesting, as it appears to show a traditional tall Scottish tower house, complete with spiral stairs within the walls, but externally clad in neo-classical detailing; Adam clearly took some inspiration from the Scottish vernacular.

He also supported Dobbie's unexecuted plan for the construction of fixed defences in Southern Johore.

For the exterior, Burges re-used some of his earlier unexecuted plans, the overall design from the Crimea Memorial Church and St John's Cathedral, Brisbane, the elevations from Lille Cathedral.

For the brewer Matthew Vassar's estate near Poughkeepsie, for example, he designed in 1854 two unexecuted picturesque villas as well as a log-built hovel that, in the spirit of Marie Antoinette, Vassar cruelly called "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (Mrs. Stowe's novel appeared in 1852).

In many of Wright's later designs, such as the unexecuted group of funeral chapels in San Francisco, such a broad horizontal base serves both to bring together separate elements and to set the building apart from the immediate landscape, as was done in such Renaissance designs as the villas in Frascati.

Stein pursued his many-sided tasks with passionate determination, but much of his plan remained unexecuted.

Although Vaux (and Olmsted) conceived the park as, in Vaux's words, "Nature first and 2d and 3d -- Architecture after a while," he created the Terrace as the park's centerpiece, embellishing it with carved natural ornament designed by Mould and planning an unexecuted, overly ambitious sculptural program rich in Emersonian iconography.

His design for the completion of the palace went unexecuted, with the work eventually being carried out by Sir William Bruce in the 1670s.

Johnson turned explicitly to the 18th century for his design of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston (1983 85); it was based on unexecuted plans published by the French architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. Claude-Nicolas Ledoux