Overscaled

Word OVERSCALED
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We looked up at the massive museum, an exquisite neo-Romanesque exercise in pink brownstone and granite, with a sweeping stone staircase and an overscaled Beaux-Arts monument to Theodore Roosevelt. ❋ Gary Percesepe (2011)

No overscaled mega design is complete without creating a mass transit system. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Alan Silfan Timothy Corrigan Mr. Corrigan waxes poetic about the room's atmospheric lighting scheme, overscaled carpet and the softly padded walls. ❋ Jen Renzi (2011)

The exhibition ends with overscaled, elegantly modeled drawings of buxom women that propose yet another direction, a wholehearted neo-classicism that fuses Picasso's academic heritage with his rebellious modernism. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2011)

With Brasília, Niemeyer seemed to have embraced, or at least acceded to, the worst aspect of architectural modernism — its antiseptic urban theory — and in the post-Brasília period, when his work has too often been hokily sculptural or frighteningly overscaled (see his University of Constantine in Algeria, or his Maison de la Culture in Le Havre), he seems to have forsaken its best aspects: the grace and lucidity born of its restraint. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This has all the hallmarks of modern European architecture: aloof when not openly hostile, overscaled, cartoony, something you would see in the margins of a fever dream. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Standing on opposite sides of Lafayette Square, the New Executive Office Building and the National Courts Building are overscaled brick behemoths, with elongated rectangular windows and a timid effort at ornamentation along their cornice lines. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Biver has an electrifying personality, and in spite of the language barrier, the evening became very high-spirited, with many of the visitors — the majority of whom had never before heard of Hublot — spontaneously ordering Biver's signature overscaled sports watches. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For most people those words mean “a nice hot day walking around eating things and looking at overscaled pigs” but for me it means a week, at least, of hard-core life-and-breath work. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This shows the amount of change and destruction brought to the south end: block after block after block of urban, humanly-scaled buildings, replaced by massive superblocks such as the Convention Center that impede walkability, overscaled architecture, and seas of storage for cars. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Statement-making pendant lamps, box overheads, and overscaled pillar candles, below, offer a variety of illumination options in a sleek-meets-sophisticated kitchen. ❋ Thom Filicia (2008)

Mr. Vervoordt's designs look and feel traditional, but by being overscaled and covered in loose, plain linen, they appear modern. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What we got was an enormously overscaled memorial that overwhelms the site, surrounded by the architectural tokenism of equally enormous, name-brand, commercial buildings. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The overscaled, gas-guzzling vehicles of the past decade are relics of an era of self-absorption. ❋ Jack Canfield (2008)

Working near 3rd and Bryant Streets for the last six months, I've been confronted daily by One Rincon Hill, a new 62-story luxury condo complex that is grotesquely overscaled for its location. ❋ Sfmike (2008)

At another level, his already famous flapdoodle about his "parallel lives" — didn't we use to just call them public and private ones? — ends up as the most preposterously overscaled rationalization for getting some at the office that your eyes will ever glaze over at. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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