piece of architecture

collocation in English

meaningsofpieceandarchitecture

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piece
noun[C]
uk
/piːs/us
/piːs/
a part ...
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architecture
noun[U]
uk
/ˈɑː.kɪ.tek.tʃər/us
/ˈɑːr.kə.tek.tʃɚ/
the art and practice of designing and ...
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(Definition ofpieceandarchitecturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This conveys the dry structural message, but quite fails as a description of apieceofarchitecture.
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This is professional naiveté, right, because you know at the end this will be apieceofarchitecture.
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As apieceofarchitectureit is great, not only huge, but really great.
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This is really important in the work process: that you leave these steps behind in order to make a whole, and the whole is something artificial, apieceofarchitecture.
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It will be a superbpieceofarchitectureand a focus for widening the access to the arts in the north-west.
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Is it envisaged, if the scheme goes through, that the condition of this finepieceofarchitecturewill be improved?
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Let us for a moment call it apieceofarchitectureand get away from construction, and so on.
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It was a complete newpieceofarchitecture.
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However, is not the present problem that of permanently preserving this uniquepieceofarchitecturefor future generations?
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I am reminded more and more how, whenever anypieceofarchitectureis designed, it is bound to create a considerable variation of opinion.
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That building was a ghastlypieceofarchitecturebut it was a teacher training college.
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The most beautiful view in the world can be spoilt by one unsuitable and glaring building, one uglypieceofarchitecture, one unsightly advertisement, one ugly industrial or private building.
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I understand that he is currently facing action in the courts for committing an act of vandalism to part of our heritage—another uniquepieceofarchitecture.
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It would be much more sensible if the station, or any similar construction, were to be regarded purely as apieceofarchitecture, and dealt with in one contractual package.
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George's hall, which is a marvellouspieceofarchitecture, but is now closed and serving no useful purpose.
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The crenellated arches of brick and perforated windows make this a notablepieceofarchitecture.
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The tower has no parapet and is a very finepieceofarchitecture, with its large bell openings.
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To me, a building as it stands, as apieceofarchitectureis nothing.
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This is probably because of the high durability of the materials used to build thispieceofarchitecture.
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Dominating a predominantly low-rise 18th-century town, it proved to be a conversationalpieceofarchitecture.
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