Sentence examples for was designed to echo from inspiring English sources

The building was designed to echo the Arc de Triomphe, but it instead resembles a pair of low-rise jeans.

The 252-unit building, Mr. Bass said, was designed to echo the historic flavor of the block, which is largely Beaux-Arts apartment buildings.

The sculpture, called "The Barnes Totem," was designed to echo the vertical forms of the red maple trees lining a path to the museum's entrance.

With its cast-iron lattice work, limestone facade, inset Juliet balconies and oversize apartments, the Laureate, a condominium building at 76th and Broadway, was designed to echo the grand prewar elegance of older, better-established neighbors like the nearby Apthorp.

With ambitions of becoming one of the nation's elite institutions, the newly formed Duke University was designed to echo the older, more well-known Northeast universities that featured gothic buildings of earthy, multi-hued stone.

The unusual curved facade of the ten-storey building was designed to echo the bridge shape of the Manchester Miller.

He says that One Hyde Park's reddish and off-white colours are designed to echo but not mimic its stone and brick neighbours.

A corner octagon-shaped tower of the same materials at one end of the building has been designed to "echo the shape of a nearby tavern on Garth Road," Mr. Currie said.

Like APT, which has a corduroy-upholstered bed for disco napping, and Townhouse, which has group-size waterbeds and exercise bikes in the hallways, Théo is designed to echo the experience of attending a dinner party at a friend's house -- though, to be sure, a well-to-do friend who travels so much that there's not a speck of clutter anywhere.

Rush is so frank in his signalling of his own themes that for a while the novel's lack of emotional maturity and authority – and indeed its dependency – seem to have been designed to echo the stuntedness of its actors, ageing men in the grip of college-era preoccupations.

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