It's the kind of phenomenon — a caprice of nature that is absurd but also wondrous — designed to enchant adventurous children like Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland), two Arkansas boys who discover the boat on an overgrown island in the Mississippi River.
Besides being no more than fifty years old, all these institutions — along with the wondrous Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by Frank Gehry, which stands next door to the Broad — have in common histories of the patronage and the aggressive, sometimes resented, influence of the billionaire philanthropist and collector Eli Broad.
The pessimism of this architectural approach to safety-in-motoring seems to us wholly characteristic of our wondrous era of design, in which the inevitability of disaster is accepted.
The wondrous costumes he designed for the animals use everyday objects, which lend a wry, unsentimental touch to the staging.
Essay: Is Minneapolis America's Next Powder Keg for Art? 18 Different Artists Designed a Wondrous Mini-Golf Course in Minnesota.
And when you find a pair of gorgeous heels that are also, by a wondrous alignment of nature and design, actually comfortable – well, that is the joy of joys, the holy grail of shoe shopping, the ultimate sartorial triumph.
Notwithstanding the wondrous advances in computer aided design systems (CAD), dynamically modeling such highly complex systems reliably is often impractical because of the many variables and unknowns.
To rejuvenate Bilbao the city fathers have built a wondrous new public metro system designed by Sir Norman Foster (he did Frankfurt's Commerzbank Tower and Hong Kong's equally stunning Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank building).
For centuries man has designed and built wondrous, awe inspiring monuments which cast shadows over mediocrity and survive as testament to their hard work.
The magnificent costumes by the wondrous Milena Canonero, and superb production design by Adam Stockhausen, contributed to the magnificent sense of reality.
